The Skills, Training, and Industry Research Network (STIRN) is a multidisciplinary group of researchers dedicated to better understanding the current and future direction of work, employment and changing industry skills demand.
With the current rate and scale of change in workplace technologies following advancements in artificial intelligence, advanced digitalisation, and smart robotics, large scale industrial and occupational transformation is underway. STIRN’s research examines these developments and the potential implications for work and employment to inform the development of effective policies and strategies for socio-economic resilience.
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The following themes reflect areas of expertise across the network. Members may work in several of these areas.
Explores employer responses to new technologies and the implications for work and workforce skills needs.
Examines the role and capacity of the existing training system to respond to changing industry skills needs.
Considers the disruption of established employment arrangements, including disappearing and emerging forms of work and employment.
Focuses on the challenges of the ageing workforce across a range of countries and industries and how governments and industries are responding.
Explores the role of skilling in enhancing labour market and workplace inclusion.
Professor Victor Gekara
School of Accounting, Information Systems and Supply Chain
Associate Professor Darryn Snell
School of Management
STIRN provides a platform for robust debate on the changing nature of work and the necessary responses to associated industry and workforce skills needs. Academics and industry practitioners with an interest in this space are welcome to share their work, discuss ideas and deliberate on innovative methodologies. To join email victor.gekara@rmit.edu.au.
STIRN is supported by the following Enabling Impact Platforms:
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| Global Business Innovation | Working with researchers around the world to unlock the value and impact of innovation. |
| Information in Society | Helping society to understand, shape, and adapt to the disruptions caused by new data sources and information technologies. |
| Social Change | Focuses on transformative research in the areas of digital society, quality of life, global mobility and research practice for social change. |
EIPs enable economic, environmental, societal, health and cultural impact with government, business and the community through research and innovation.
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RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Luwaytini' by Mark Cleaver, Palawa.
Acknowledgement of Country
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business.
