AUT - Felicity Lamm

Felicity Lamm

Associate Professor of Employment Relations Co-Director of the Occupational Health and Safety Research Centre

Phone: +64 9 921-9999

Email: felicity.lamm@aut.ac.nz

Qualifications:

• PhD New South Wales
• MPhil Auckland
  
• BA Auckland
  

Biography:

Dr Felicity Lamm has been teaching and researching in the area of employment relations and occupational health and safety (OHS) for over 20 years.  She has written extensively on OHS, including compiling research reports for New Zealand and overseas public and private sector organisations in areas such as regulating and complying with employment and OHS law, employment relations in the small business sector, aviation and farm safety, work-related stress, and OHS interventions.

Dr Lamm and Dr Mark Boocock recently established a multidisciplinary OHS research centre.

Dr Lamm is also co-editor of the New Zealand Journal of Employment Relations and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Industrial Relations and the Journal of Safety Science. She is past-president of the Small Enterprise Association of Australia and New Zealand and the Australian and New Zealand Occupational Health and Safety Research Association. She has been a committee member of the International Commission on Occupational Health and Safety and the Institute of Occupational Health & Safety (UK). She has also been invited to present keynote addresses on her research at national and international conferences.

Teaching Areas:

Expertise in Degree and Postgraduate Teaching

• Employment Relations
• Occupational Health Safety
• HRM
• SMEs

Research areas:

Interests in Research Supervision

• Child labour in New Zealand
• OHS amongst Kuwait construction workers
• OHS & precarious employment
• Employment relations and Occupational stress and fatigue

Research Summary:

Areas of Research Expertise

• Employment Relations
•  Occupational Health and Safety
•  SMEs
•  Regulatory Compliance

Current Research Projects:

• Employment Relations & OHS practices and outcomes in culturally diverse settings
• OHS of migrant and/or precarious and child labour
• OHS & Productivity
• OHS interventions aimed at SMEs

Publications:

1. Bohle, P., Lamm, F., & Quinlan, M. (2009) Managing Occupational Health and Safety (3rd ed). Managing Occupational Health and Safety: A Multidisciplinary Approach. Sydney, Macmillan, forthcoming.
2. Ang, H. B., Lamm, F., Tipples, R. (2008) The Impact of Stressors on Psychological Well-being of New Zealand Farmers & the Development of a Conceptual Model, Policy and Practice in Health and Safety,6(1): 79-96.
3. Legg, S., Harris, L.A., Laird, I., Lamm, F., Massey, C. (2008) Technical Report on OHS in Small Businesses, NOHSAC Technical Report, 210 pages.
4. Anderson, D. & Lamm, F. (2008) Child Labour in New Zealand: A Literature Review for the UN Periodic Review, Human Rights Commission, 54 pages.
5. Lamm, F., Pio, E., McDonnell, N. & Parker, J. (2008) Review on Cultural Diversity, Communication and Workplace Health and Safety: A Literature, Department of Labour, 84 pages.
6. Ang, H.B. & Lamm, F. (2008) The impact of stressors on psychological well-being among NZ farmers: The development of a conceptual model. The American Psychosocial Association’s Work, Stress, and Health Conference, Washington DC, March 3-5.
7. Lamm, F., Massey, C., and Perry, M. (2007) Is there a link between Workplace Health and Safety and Firm Performance and Productivity? New Zealand Journal of Employment Relations Vol 32(1): 72-86.
8. Rasmussen, R., Hunt, V. & Lamm, F. (2006) New Zealand Employment Relations: Between Individualism and Social Democracy, Labour & Industry.
9. Hannif, Z. & Lamm, F. (2005) When Non-Standard Work Becomes Precarious: Insights from the New Zealand Call Centre Industry, Management Review 16(3): 324-350.
10. Lo, K. & Lamm, F. (2005) Occupational Stress in the Hospitality Industry: an employment relations perspective, New Zealand Journal of Employment Relations Vol 30(1):  23-48.