Brendan Churchill
@brenchurchill.bsky.social
| ARC DECRA Senior Research Fellow in #Sociology
| Co-chair, Work Futures Hallmark Research Initiative
+ Tasmanian export at The University of Melbourne
| Researching #Youth #underemployment #gigeconomy #FutureofWork + #care #Gender| ❤️ 🎾 🏳️🌈
| Researching #Youth #underemployment #gigeconomy #FutureofWork + #care #Gender| ❤️ 🎾 🏳️🌈
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🚨New article in New Technology, Work + Employment about the gender pay gap in the Australian gig economy. The gap increased by 5 percentage points during COVID-19. Why? Gender platform segregation. Read more here - open access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #sociology #gender #gigeconomy
Good thread on peer review
About to kick off a peer review workshop with our brilliant @sriucl.bsky.social PhD students right now. Thanks to my colleague Alina Pelikh for hosting and I wish something like this was available when I started out.
November 27, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Good thread on peer review
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“The EU’s highest court has ruled that same-sex marriages must be respected throughout the bloc and rebuked Poland for refusing to recognise a marriage between two of its citizens that took place in Germany.”
Some welcome news today. 🇪🇺🏳️🌈
Some welcome news today. 🇪🇺🏳️🌈
EU court rules entire bloc must respect same-sex marriages in rebuke to Poland
Couple who married in Germany had their right to a ‘normal family life’ impeded, court of justice finds
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
“The EU’s highest court has ruled that same-sex marriages must be respected throughout the bloc and rebuked Poland for refusing to recognise a marriage between two of its citizens that took place in Germany.”
Some welcome news today. 🇪🇺🏳️🌈
Some welcome news today. 🇪🇺🏳️🌈
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Scientists have a point!
November 25, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Scientists have a point!
@barrieshannon.com well done you bloody star <3
November 25, 2025 at 1:05 AM
@barrieshannon.com well done you bloody star <3
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My amazing friend and MetaMelb co-director @simine.com has won the 2025 Einstein Foundation Award! @unimelb.bsky.social @psychunimelb.bsky.social and @replicats.bsky.social are so lucky to have you
November 24, 2025 at 10:05 AM
My amazing friend and MetaMelb co-director @simine.com has won the 2025 Einstein Foundation Award! @unimelb.bsky.social @psychunimelb.bsky.social and @replicats.bsky.social are so lucky to have you
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I will never let them take the em dash from me—they’ll have to pry it from my cold, dead hands
November 20, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I will never let them take the em dash from me—they’ll have to pry it from my cold, dead hands
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The fact that no one in the room stood up for her says a lot about how we got here bsky.app/profile/pale...
"Quiet! Quiet, Piggy."
November 18, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The fact that no one in the room stood up for her says a lot about how we got here bsky.app/profile/pale...
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BREAKING: economist discovers “second shift,” a concept coined by sociologists almost 50 years ago; gives it new, stupider, and less explicitly labor-oriented name
October 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
BREAKING: economist discovers “second shift,” a concept coined by sociologists almost 50 years ago; gives it new, stupider, and less explicitly labor-oriented name
🚨New paper: Australians want governments to help them adapt to AI — through training, support, and fairness. New Policy Studies paper with @ariadnevromen.bsky.social & @leahruppanner.bsky.social. 📄 doi.org/10.1080/0144...
Policy interventions for the future of work: do Australians want government compensation, guidance, or investment to manage technological change?
This paper examines how Australian attitudes toward the future of work shape support for policy interventions, drawing on nationally representative survey data (n = 1,035). We focus on three dimens...
doi.org
October 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
🚨New paper: Australians want governments to help them adapt to AI — through training, support, and fairness. New Policy Studies paper with @ariadnevromen.bsky.social & @leahruppanner.bsky.social. 📄 doi.org/10.1080/0144...
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"fear has already done its job, warping public memory of Kirk unrecognizably, to the point where nearly all liberal elites have chosen to beatify a person with awful values." www.offmessage.net/p/charlie-ki...
Charlie Kirk Did Not Practice Politics The Right Way
We don't have to lose our humanity to bear faithful witness, but we do have to keep our nerve.
www.offmessage.net
September 12, 2025 at 7:13 PM
"fear has already done its job, warping public memory of Kirk unrecognizably, to the point where nearly all liberal elites have chosen to beatify a person with awful values." www.offmessage.net/p/charlie-ki...
Have people / institutions lost their minds?!!?! European Parliament having a silent minute for Kirk?!?!?
September 12, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Have people / institutions lost their minds?!!?! European Parliament having a silent minute for Kirk?!?!?
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Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.
The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.
The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.
September 10, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.
The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.
The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.
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So happy to have our paper with Jan Mueller published in Gender Work & Organisations. It theorises the multidimensionality of the ideal worker culture to ask the question, do we see a move away from it. The results in Switerland says yes - but only certain aspects. www.kcl.ac.uk/news/job-adv...
Job adverts reveal early signs of a shift away from the 'ideal worker' norm | King's College London
Machine learning analysis of job adverts in Switzerland found how employer expectations are evolving across occupations
www.kcl.ac.uk
September 8, 2025 at 2:22 PM
So happy to have our paper with Jan Mueller published in Gender Work & Organisations. It theorises the multidimensionality of the ideal worker culture to ask the question, do we see a move away from it. The results in Switerland says yes - but only certain aspects. www.kcl.ac.uk/news/job-adv...
🚨New paper out! In Social Science & Medicine, we show it’s not just hours of housework 🧹 or childcare 👶 that affect mental health. It's whether the split feels fair and satisfying. Unfair or unhappy = worse mental health 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Sociology #Demography #PublicHealth
Unpaid labour and mental health–the role of perceived fairness and satisfaction in division amongst working-age adults; a longitudinal analysis using 18 waves of panel data
Across the globe, the division of unpaid labour remains highly gendered and unequally shared. This has consequences for women's economic security and …
www.sciencedirect.com
September 11, 2025 at 6:15 AM
🚨New paper out! In Social Science & Medicine, we show it’s not just hours of housework 🧹 or childcare 👶 that affect mental health. It's whether the split feels fair and satisfying. Unfair or unhappy = worse mental health 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Sociology #Demography #PublicHealth
This afternoon at #WES @wesjnl.bsky.social conference, Kim Allen and I will be presenting work on our longitudinal mixed methods side hustles project, focussing on the gendered dimensions.
September 9, 2025 at 11:04 AM
This afternoon at #WES @wesjnl.bsky.social conference, Kim Allen and I will be presenting work on our longitudinal mixed methods side hustles project, focussing on the gendered dimensions.
This jetlag is something else.....
September 9, 2025 at 6:15 AM
This jetlag is something else.....
Left without comment
September 9, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Left without comment
Heading to Manchester next week for the Work, Employment and Society conference, followed by some time at King's College in London and then onto Paris. Holler, if you're about :D
September 1, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Heading to Manchester next week for the Work, Employment and Society conference, followed by some time at King's College in London and then onto Paris. Holler, if you're about :D
This is abhorrent and governments and universities want us adopting technology like this?
ChatGPT essentially advised a sixteen year old on how to take his life—including by telling him how to make a noose and to avoid talking to his parents, even when he wanted to.
And then he did.
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
And then he did.
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
August 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
This is abhorrent and governments and universities want us adopting technology like this?
The endless discourse around Serena William’s use of a GLP-1 is just another form of policing Black women’s bodies. Same as Oprah. When the white reality tv housewives do it no one cares. She can do what she wants.
August 26, 2025 at 11:32 AM
The endless discourse around Serena William’s use of a GLP-1 is just another form of policing Black women’s bodies. Same as Oprah. When the white reality tv housewives do it no one cares. She can do what she wants.
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Solidarity with UTS colleagues
I love this woman. 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Something is rotten in Australia’s tertiary education. And UTS’s suspension of teaching courses is one of its biggest disgraces | Isobel Crealy
If preparing teachers for NSW during an ongoing teacher shortage isn’t a public good, what is?
www.theguardian.com
August 21, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Solidarity with UTS colleagues
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PhD opportunity at the University of Melbourne exploring reskilling for work futures in regional Australia with @leahruppanner.bsky.social, @brenchurchill.bsky.social @lillicrovara.bsky.social and me! 🙌✨ We hope this will be of interest to honsand masters students in Aus 👉 go.unimelb.edu.au/eo9p
go.unimelb.edu.au
August 20, 2025 at 2:11 AM
PhD opportunity at the University of Melbourne exploring reskilling for work futures in regional Australia with @leahruppanner.bsky.social, @brenchurchill.bsky.social @lillicrovara.bsky.social and me! 🙌✨ We hope this will be of interest to honsand masters students in Aus 👉 go.unimelb.edu.au/eo9p
This post comes from the frustration of higher ed profs on LinkedIn trying to lecture me/us about students falling behind if they’re not exposed to it and administrators encouraging AI embedded assessments because “everyone is using it”. What malarkey.
This video by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social on AI, the PE of hope and the doctrine of access explains why we’re being pushed to use AI in the classroom. If like me you’re baffled why we went from trying to stop AI to now embedding it in our subjects this is for you! www.instagram.com/tressiemcphd...
Tressie McMillan Cottom on Instagram: "Some quick thoughts after class on AI solutions for the university’s political problems."
3,104 likes, 128 comments - tressiemcphd on October 15, 2024: "Some quick thoughts after class on AI solutions for the university’s political problems.".
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August 19, 2025 at 12:05 PM
This post comes from the frustration of higher ed profs on LinkedIn trying to lecture me/us about students falling behind if they’re not exposed to it and administrators encouraging AI embedded assessments because “everyone is using it”. What malarkey.
This video by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social on AI, the PE of hope and the doctrine of access explains why we’re being pushed to use AI in the classroom. If like me you’re baffled why we went from trying to stop AI to now embedding it in our subjects this is for you! www.instagram.com/tressiemcphd...
Tressie McMillan Cottom on Instagram: "Some quick thoughts after class on AI solutions for the university’s political problems."
3,104 likes, 128 comments - tressiemcphd on October 15, 2024: "Some quick thoughts after class on AI solutions for the university’s political problems.".
www.instagram.com
August 19, 2025 at 12:03 PM
This video by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social on AI, the PE of hope and the doctrine of access explains why we’re being pushed to use AI in the classroom. If like me you’re baffled why we went from trying to stop AI to now embedding it in our subjects this is for you! www.instagram.com/tressiemcphd...
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