Jane Parker (management academic)


Jane Parker is a New Zealand employment relations academic. She is currently a full professor at Massey University.

Academic career

After completing a BA/BCom and Masters at the University of Auckland, Parker wrote a 2000 PhD titled 'Women's equality in British unions : the roles and impacts of women's group organising' at the University of Warwick. While teaching and researching at Warwick Business School, she worked as the UK contributing editor for the European Working Conditions Observatory of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions. She returned to New Zealand in 2008 to first work at Auckland University of Technology and after that at Massey University, where she rose to full professor in 2013.
Parker has also worked with the International Labour Organization, Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat and the New Zealand Living Wage movement.

Selected works