Risk-shifting in the time of COVID-19: the Australian federal government response and support for family day care providers

COVID-19 raised questions about the efficacy of a neo-liberal approach to policy and regulation. In Australia, the pandemic revealed that a neo-liberal approach to early childhood care policy can exacerbate economic and health risks faced by childcare providers. There has been little research into how family day care (FDC) providers, who are registered carers providing care in their family home, balanced compliance with safety measures and the health and economic risks of COVID-19. I use the concept of 'risk-shifting' to consider the impact on FDC providers of the Australian federal governments' childcare response to the initial wave of COVID-19.

Senior Executive Attitudes to Risk: the role of  senior executive incentive schemes in corporate governance and organisational safety performance

Safety in the construction sector is an important part of organisational performance. Workplace injuries and large-scale accidents bring personal and organisational costs and expose construction companies to commercial, reputational, and legal risks. Despite research into accident causation and strategies to improve safety, little is known about the interactions of different corporate governance processes and any impact on organisational safety performance in the construction sector. This research will contribute towards addressing this gap by investigating relationships between senior executive incentive schemes and safety performance.

Legitimating the fight? Questions about Cross-cultural perspectives on anti-doping strategies in the Pacific

The fight against doping in sport requires support from governments, sporting organizations, athletes, athlete support personnel and the public. Crucial to this support is the perception that the anti-doping fight is a ‘good thing’ to do and that anti-doping polices are perceived to be legitimate. Problematically for the fight against doping there is a growing crisis of legitimacy. Doping rules and processes are continually challenged, sporting organizations, athletes and even some countries only partially buy into the anti-doping message, resources are sparse and cultural differences ignored. Further, criticisms of the value of anti-doping regulations take aim at the manner in which the anti-doping fight is undertaken. This World Anti-Doping Agency funded research project investigates cross-cultural perceptions of the legitimacy of anti-doping regulation. This research empirically examines how various actors perceive the anti-doping framework with the aim of understanding factors that build positive (or negative) perceptions of the legitimacy of anti-doping policies or procedures.