Ray Broomhill is Adjunct Associate Professor of Labour Studies within the School of Social Sciences and the Centre for Labour Research. He has broad research interests in the fields of global and Australian political economy, gender studies and public policy (see below). Ray supervises a number of postgraduate students associated with the Australian Institute of Social Research (AISR) and currently is Chief Researcher on two Australian Research Council (ARC) funded projects located within the AISR. He was formerly Director of the Centre for Labour Research at the University of Adelaide and was one of the founding staff of the undergraduate Labour Studies program at the University. He is author of numerous publications including several books on political economy and labour issues including Short Changed: Women and Economic Policies (with Rhonda Sharp); Altered States: The Impact of Free Market Policies on the Australian States ; The Banana Republic: Australia's Current Economic Problems ; and Unemployed Workers: A Social History of the Great Depression . Ray has extensive links with researchers in several different countries.

Ray Broomhill's research interests cover a range of topics in the areas of political economy, gender and labour studies, and public policy issues. They include specific interests in researching:

* the impact of neoliberal globalism on the role of the Australian state at federal and local levels

* the impact of global and national restructuring on households, gender relations and the Australian 'male breadwinner' model

* feminist political economy critiques of Australian public policy issues

* the application of a 'regulation' approach to Australian political economic issues

* techniques for combining qualitative and quantitative methodologies within a feminist political economy approach

Ray is currently engaged in researching the uneven impact of global restructuring on working experiences and gender relations in Adelaide . He is also involved in an international collaborative research project which is studying the comparative impact of neoliberal globalism on political, economic and socio-cultural sustainability in four 'semi-peripheral' countries - Canada , Australia , Norway and Mexico .

2005 - 'Envisaging gender: Towards gender responsive policies and budgets in South Australia ' (with R Sharp) in The State of South Australia . John Spoehr ed Adelaide : Wakefield Press.

2005 - 'A new gender (dis)order? Neoliberal restructuring in Australia ' in Not for Sale : Decommodifying Public Life. edited by Gordon Laxer and Dennis Soron. Ontario : Broadview Press (forthcoming)

2004 - 'The changing male breadwinner model in Australia A new gender order?' (co-author with R Sharp) Labour & Industry VoI15(2): pp 1-24.

2004 - 'Australia : Neoliberal globalism and the local state' in States Under Siege: Semi-peripheral Countries Under Globalism: edited by Stephen Clarkson and Marjorie Cohen. London : Zed Books pp 132-152.

2002 - 'Budgeting for equality: the Australian experience' (with Rhonda Sharp) Feminist Economics. Vol. 8(1): 25-47.

2001 - 'Neoliberal globalism and the local state: a regulation approach' Journal of Australian Political Economy. No. 48 (December): 115-140.

Ray is a member of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) – an organisation with a pproximately 600 members in 43 countries that seeks to advance feminist inquiry of economic issues . ( http://www.iaffe.org )

He is also currently involved in an international collaborative research project (the Globalism Project) funded and supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and 5 participating Canadian Universities. The Globalism Project is administered through the Parkland Institute, University of Alberta , whose Director, Prof Gordon Laxer, is coordinator of the research team. The Project team comprises 21 senior academics and 12 graduate students from twelve universities in the four countries. ( http:// www.ualberta.ca/GLOBALISM )

He is also a member of the ARC funded Research Network in Spatially Integrated Social Science, 2004-05 to 2008-09. ( http:// www.uq.edu.au/cr-surf/arcsiss )