Robyn Mayes is a Professor in the Faculty of Business and Law. Her research is informed by a social justice agenda and critical feminist approaches. Robyn’s work draws on the multi-stranded disciplines of Human Geography and Gender Studies. Core, interrelated research themes span corporate social responsibility and global production, gender in organisations, work and working in the gig economy, and labour migration and mobility. She has led substantial ethnographic research in rural communities; and qualitative organisational case studies.
Her most recent work explores gender in STEMM research careers (ARC LP 190100216); paid work in the digital economy (ARC DP 180101191); labour mobilities including temporary transnational migration and FIFO work; and geographies of resource extraction (e.g. recent work funded by CRC ORE).