Making work, work... for everyone!
- Start: 1:00pm
- End: 2:00pm
- Duration: 1 Hours
- Category: Regional Events
- Region: Nationwide
- Online
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Join us for a thought-provoking panel discussion featuring three expert speakers who will share current research and insights on how to design jobs and workspaces that better serve employees, organisations, and the wider community.
Panelists and Perspectives:
• Sara Wilkinson offers a societal viewpoint, highlighting innovative and sustainable approaches to building and facilities management that create broader community benefits.
• Kusal Nanayakkara / Dulani Halvitigala brings the organisational lens, examining how job design and physical workspace arrangements shape organisational culture, with a focus on aligning work structures, tasks, and environments to employee needs.
• Rachel Morrison explores the individual perspective, focusing on hybrid working and how to support diverse employee needs to enhance both performance and well-being.
This session is ideal for HR professionals, workplace designers, academics, and anyone interested in the future of work.
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Presenter Details
Professor Sara J. Wilkinson, University of Technology Sydney
Professor Sara J. Wilkinson is a chartered building surveyor, who first came across green buildings in 1988 as a practitioner in London. Her professional work included retrofitting and adaptive reuse of existing commercial and residential buildings. Her work on green building prompted her to start a research journey, which continues today, exploring sustainability in the built environment. She started teaching ‘environmental building practice’ in 1992 in Sheffield has taught and researched sustainability ever since. Sara is Australia’s first female professor of property and Australia’s most cited property academic with highest ORCID, H and i10 scores, overall. Sara developed STAR (Sustainable Temporary Adaptive Reuse) Toolkit - a series of tools for reuse of underused/vacant offices.
Associate Professor Rachel Morrison, Auckland University of Technology
Associate Professor Rachel Morrison teaches undergraduate and post graduate Organisational Behaviour / Work Psychology within Faculty of Business Economics and Law at the Auckland University of Technology (AUT), New Zealand. Rachel has an interest in the way the physical work environment impacts employees’ well-being and productivity, with a particular focus on interpersonal relationships in the workplace. She looks at both the positive (friendly / supportive) and negative (distracting / hostile) aspects of co-worker interactions. In addition to contributing to the Organisational Behaviour textbook used by AUT, Rachel has published articles in a variety of academic Management and Psychology journals including Applied Ergonomics, Sex Roles, and the Journal of Management and Organisation, and has edited two research volumes on organisational relationships with international collaborators; Friends and Enemies in Organizations: A work Psychology Perspective and Relationships in Organizations: A work Psychology Perspective.
Dr. Kusal Nanayakkara, RMIT University, Australia
Dr Kusal Nanayakkara is a lecturer at RMIT University, Australia, and he gained his PhD in Built Environment. Kusal’s PhD research focused on how organisational culture would be influenced by changing office layouts and designs. It examined the issue from the perspectives of the management, employees and workplace specialist consultancy and design firms. Kusal’s research interests are in the areas of new ways of working and their impact on workplaces and organisational culture, corporate real estate-related issues such as work practices and office layouts, regional property issues, disaster resilience housing, adoptive reuse and property markets in different countries. Prior to becoming an academic, he had worked in the property industry for about seven years.
Associate Professor Dulani Halvitigala, RMIT University, Australia
Dulani specialises in commercial property valuation and is the Program Manager for RMIT's Property Development, Investment and Valuation undergraduate program. She is the Co-Editor of the Pacific Rim Property Research Journal (PRPRJ) and an Editorial Board Member for the Property Management journal, and a peer reviewer for several property journals. Her research primarily focuses on property valuation and related issues, new working practices and their impact on the built environment, crisis and risk management in strata-titled properties, climate-resilient housing, and adaptive reuse strategies in commercial buildings. She has conducted various research projects relating to workplace strategies, such as the nature and evolution of flexible office layouts, the impact of changing office layouts on organisational culture, coworking and its impact on employee satisfaction and productivity, and flexible property lease models for flexible workspaces. She has received funding for her research through competitive research grants from the Australian Property Institute (API), Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI), National Hazards Research Australia (NHRA), Strata Community Association of Victoria (SCAV), as well as various internal RMIT grants.
Sponsor Details
Transdisciplinary Workplace Research (TWR) Network
HRNZ Academic Network in collaboration with Transdisciplinary Workplace Research (TWR) Network
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