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Elizabeth Humphrys

@lizhumphrys.bsky.social
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UTS Political Economist & labour historian. Editor Social Movement Studies & Associate at The Centre Future Work. Cats. Electroclash. Carlton AFL tragic 🌈

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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
away from the NDIS doom, come along to the Heat and Disability Symposium with @swelteringcities.bsky.social @lizhumphrys.bsky.social, me and many more. Free, online, 26 May events.humanitix.com/heat-and-dis...
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Heat and Disability Symposium [online]
Heat is a disability justice issue. Join Sweltering Cities and expert advocates for a vital conversation on a cooler & more just future.
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Elizabeth Humphrys @lizhumphrys.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Academic work is challenging & relentless, but how is it experienced by disabled scholars? How does structural ableism impact working lives? In this collaborative autoethnography, we (a group of disabled academics) share our experiences of working in higher education. doi.org/10.1080/0309...
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Disabled and academic: a collaborative autoethnography on ableism and cruel optimism within Australian higher education
Universities are celebrated as bastions of teaching, knowledge and research excellence, but they can pose risks to staff psychosocial safety and wellbeing. In Australia and elsewhere, we are increa...
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Social & Political Sciences, UTS @uts-sps.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Liz Humphrys @lizhumphrys.bsky.social on ABC Listen, talking about what protections workers need during these unprecedented heatwaves and high temperatures. She leads the Too Hot Too Work project in the UTS Climate, Society and Environment Research Centre (C-SERC). www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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Heatwave poses threat to workers - ABC listen
Australians have been finding different ways to cope with the extreme heat this week.
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Elizabeth Humphrys @lizhumphrys.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
You can hear the ACTU and myself talk about the impact of heatwaves and high temperatures on workers on ABC AM this morning. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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Heatwave poses threat to workers - ABC listen
Australians have been finding different ways to cope with the extreme heat this week.
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Elizabeth Humphrys @lizhumphrys.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Will be of interest to some of you I’m sure!
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Elizabeth Humphrys @lizhumphrys.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
I also have something really nice to share, the first article from our hi vis workwear and workers project is out — a collaboration with Jesse Adams Stein and Bettina Frankham, all from the Faculty of Design & Society at @utsengage.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Elizabeth Humphrys @lizhumphrys.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
If anyone here has ever used my research (book, chapters, articles) in their teaching could you send me the details of where and how so I can document 'research impact' better for my institution. Could be on neoliberalism, unions, heat and climate change, anything. Many thanks!
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Social & Political Sciences, UTS @uts-sps.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
In this podcast, SPS's Elizabth Humphrys engages in a wide ranging conversation on politics, populism and neoliberalism with finance experts from the UTS Finance Department in the Business School www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-q_... For those who prefer a written format, a full transcript is available.
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Circle the Square Episode 2: The Devolution of Neoliberalism
YouTube video by University of Technology Sydney
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Social & Political Sciences, UTS @uts-sps.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
UTS podcast: Frank Bongiorno imagines a fantasy Labor leader Analyses from economist Ben Spies-Butcher and political economist Dr Elizabeth Humphrys to help you understand the forces shaping current politics, and our current 'democratic' culture. Hosted by Emily Foley. pod.link/1760672339/e...
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Elizabeth Humphrys @lizhumphrys.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Second podcast! It was a delight to talk politics, populism and neoliberalism with experts connected to the UTS Finance Department in the Business School, the UTS Anchor Fund, and the team at i3. Circle the Square podcast on You tube: youtube.com/watch?v=i-q_zQQTsI8&feature=youtu.be
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Circle the Square Episode 2: The Devolution of Neoliberalism
YouTube video by University of Technology Sydney
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Elizabeth Humphrys @lizhumphrys.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Two podcasts that were released this week (involving me!) for those keen for some content for your ears 🎧 First up, a podcast from our "A New Australian Politics – Rupture or Realignment" event in September, funded by @auspsa.bsky.social and @uts-sps.bsky.social. pod.link/1760672339/e...
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Elizabeth Humphrys @lizhumphrys.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Little shout out to my PhD student Joseph Alhassan, who is doing important research on climate impacts on farmers in Northern Ghana!
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Elizabeth Humphrys @lizhumphrys.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
This event is going to be wonderful! A chance to discuss the past and future of political economy in Sydney 👏💖🎈
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Elizabeth Humphrys @lizhumphrys.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
In Sydney Tuesday night? Join us to talk about the future of Australian politics and social democracy. 5.30pm for 6pm start at @utsengage.bsky.social. RSVP below. Centrally located and fully accessible venue. With thanks to @auspsa.bsky.social and @uts-sps.bsky.social for resourcing this event 👏
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Jon Piccini @jonpiccini.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
"Readers will no doubt see the irony in a cash-strapped organisation paying an independent consultant for three months to provide strategies for financial viability, only to ignore the findings on the grounds of financial viability."
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Who killed Meanjin?
And why won’t Melbourne University Publishing engage with efforts to save it?
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Elizabeth Humphrys @lizhumphrys.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Pleased to see the widespread outcry - Meanjin is an important publication. I was so happy they published my piece about the West Gate Bridge disaster and the workers who were killed, based on my research with Sarah Gregson. Read it here or DM me for access: meanjin.com.au/essays/mud/
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Mud
My collaborator Sarah and I arrive early at the Public Records Office in North Melbourne. No pens allowed, no water, no bags, put everything in the lockers over there, security tells us firmly. We …
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Elizabeth Humphrys @lizhumphrys.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
I'm just about to go to our working class environmentalism reading group, and on the agenda today is @nhold.bsky.social! Nate Holdren, ‘Social Murder: Capitalism’s Systemic and State Organised Killing’ in Marxism and the Capitalist State.
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Elizabeth Humphrys @lizhumphrys.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Great read from @evansmithhist.bsky.social
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Elizabeth Humphrys @lizhumphrys.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
What happens when climate change collides with labor law & workplace safety? Eugene Schofield-Georgeson and I discuss our recent articles from @jirjournal.bsky.social on how frameworks are adapting—or failing to adapt—to the realities of climate disruption youtu.be/-Vh17Whrygs?...
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Climate, Law & Labor: A Conversation on Work Health and Safety in a Warming World #videoabstract
YouTube video by Journal of Industrial Relations
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Elizabeth Humphrys @lizhumphrys.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Very much looking forward to this event we’re putting on at UTS, with @uts-sps.bsky.social’s own @archiethomas.bsky.social 🏳️‍⚧️👏
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Elizabeth Humphrys @lizhumphrys.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Thanks for this collective little bit of joy people, that was fun #hottest100
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Elizabeth Humphrys @lizhumphrys.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Never Tear us Apart is my fav and was my pick for number 1. No notes, it’s such a brilliant piece. The video was gorgeous too #hottest100
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Elizabeth Humphrys @lizhumphrys.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Yay for the Veronicas, I like a surprise like this #hottest100
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Elizabeth Humphrys @lizhumphrys.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Back to back. What perfection!
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Elizabeth Humphrys @lizhumphrys.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
I love this song. Love it. No particular memory attached just obsessed with it. And I have Doechii’s Anxiety rework coming on vinyl this month from @suffragetterecords.bsky.social in Hobart (such an awesome store btw everyone) #hottest100
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Elizabeth Humphrys @lizhumphrys.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Update on @lizgiuffre.bsky.social’s Mr 5 and how his #hottest100 & AC/DC obsession is going: “Now in his souths gear for the game - he might implode”
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Elizabeth Humphrys @lizhumphrys.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
This song is so great! Also it was the chosen anthem to the s11 protests on the blockades against the World Economic Forum in 2000 and I can can remember singing / shouting it with people on the protests. Awesome times #hottest100
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Elizabeth Humphrys @lizhumphrys.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
What even is this and how is this the highest electronica we’ve heard 😑😑😑 #hottest100
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Elizabeth Humphrys @lizhumphrys.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Beds are Burning is THE BEST! I was at the Diesel and Dust tour concert in 1987 with a friend when I was 14 (row 3 tickets thanks Dad 🙏). My first concert and the first time I did something in the city (mostly*) with friends #hottest100
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Elizabeth Humphrys @lizhumphrys.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
The only thing related to Tame Impala I really like is the Wiggles cover song. I don’t get them #hottest100
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Elizabeth Humphrys @lizhumphrys.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
This is such fun, I can’t help but love all these ridiculous nationalist songs (which yes is a confusing political thing for me friends, I admit) #hottest100 #menatwork
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Elizabeth Humphrys @lizhumphrys.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
When I DJ my favourite thing to play is a white label mashup I have of this song by Kylie and Eminem’s Slim Shady, it’s genius #hottest100
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Elizabeth Humphrys @lizhumphrys.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Look I don’t hate Horses, but I would have very much hated if it was in the top 20. I’m a complicated person #hottest100
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Elizabeth Humphrys @lizhumphrys.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
The rules of what is allowed are confusing, Torn is a cover, but Peter Allen’s Tenterfield Saddler was not even on the original list #hottest100
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Elizabeth Humphrys @lizhumphrys.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
My friend @lizgiuffre.bsky.social’s kid of 5 is rocking out to AC/DC (god music academics raise their kids right). #hottest100
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Elizabeth Humphrys @lizhumphrys.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
On the evening of Tue 23rd Sep join George Megalogenis, @frankbongiorno.bsky.social, @bspiesbutcher.bsky.social, @emilyrosefoley.bsky.social & I for our public event at UTS. Registration is free & we'd love to see you there! events.humanitix.com/a-new-austra...
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A New Australian Politics: Rupture or Realignment
We explore the outcomes of the 2025 Australian federal election and consider whether it signals a fundamental rupture or realignment in the political landscape
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emilyrosefoley.bsky.social @emilyrosefoley.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Hello Sydneysiders! On Tuesday 23rd Sep join Frank Bongiorno, George Megalogenis, @bspiesbutcher.bsky.social, @lizhumphrys.bsky.social & me for our public event A New Australian Politics: Rupture or Realignment. Registration is free & we'd love to see you there! events.humanitix.com/a-new-austra...
A New Australian Politics: Rupture or Realignment
Please join us on at the University of Technology Sydney on Tuesday 23 September 2025, for a public event on the future of Australian democracy.  

Is Australia entering a new political era? With a record majority off a near record low primary vote, the new parliament continues the rise of new electoral coalitions, unsettling our assumptions about class, gender, race, and power.
Our stellar panellists George Megalogenis, Frank Bongiorno, Elizabeth Humphrys, Ben Spies-Butcher, and Emily Foley will be engaged in a wide-ranging discussion exploring whether we’re witnessing a rupture or a realignment in Australian politics, and what it means for political life today. The conversation will explore how the traditional party duopoly is being eroded under pressure from shifting demographics, growing economic inequality, and increasing political disillusionment. What happens when the working class no longer feels represented, and when younger, more diverse voters no longer see themselves in the major parties?
Tuesday 23 September — UTS Green Lecture Theatre

Building 7 — Room 025 (full location details below)
Register here: https://events.humanitix.com/a-new-australian-politics-rupture-or-realignment
Speakers
George Megalogenis is an author and journalist with over thirty years’ experience in the media, including over a decade in the federal parliamentary press gallery. His latest Quarterly Essay, Minority Report, explores the strategies and secret understandings of a political culture under pressure.
Frank Bongiorno is based at the Australian National University and author of several works of Australian history, including The Eighties: The Decade That Transformed Australia (2015) and Dreamers and Schemers: A Political History of Australia (2022). He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and the Australian Academy of Humanities.
Elizabeth Humphrys is the Head of Discipline of Social and Political Scie…
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Elizabeth Humphrys @lizhumphrys.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Winter coat floofiness as a treat for you all 🦁💖🦁
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Elizabeth Humphrys @lizhumphrys.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Literally no idea what to make of this book despite being four weeks into it in our reading group with @morton.bsky.social and others 🤷‍♀️ will take thoughts if you have them. Not at all what I expected it to be.
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Elizabeth Humphrys @lizhumphrys.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Most academics come here to brag about their million dollar ARC grants or latest Q1 journal publication, but get a load of this people! Winners and grinners!
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Elizabeth Humphrys @lizhumphrys.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
I was once at the Kings Cross Saturday markets with a friend and while buying veggies Lee Lin Chin looked both our outfits up and down and said ‘very nice’, I will live off the good vibes of that interaction forever.
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Elizabeth Humphrys @lizhumphrys.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Just a floof and her bff (the heater, not me)
A fluffy longhair kitty stretched out in front of a heater, in a very cold 100+ year old flat
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Elizabeth Humphrys @lizhumphrys.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
From the Accord to this! Someone should write a book on that…
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Elizabeth Humphrys @lizhumphrys.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Article just out on the incredible leadership and successes of @bluntshovels.bsky.social of late, a wonderful @utsengage.bsky.social Alum we can't stop singing the praises of 😇👏 www.uts.edu.au/news/2025/04...
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UTS alumna El Gibbs Co-Chairs NDIS Reform Committee
Prominent disability advocate and UTS Communication alumna El Gibbs has been appointed Co-Chair of the newly established National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Reform Advisory Committee.
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Elizabeth Humphrys @lizhumphrys.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Lauren is excellent!
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Elizabeth Humphrys @lizhumphrys.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Friends, wonks and fans of hi vis! The Illuminating Hi- Vis Research Team (Elizabeth Humphrys, Jesse Adams Stein and Bettina Frankham) at the University of Technology Sydney is collecting 2025 Federal Election campaign materials.
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Elizabeth Humphrys @lizhumphrys.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
I’m working on a research project about the history of hi vis in Australia and as its social and political context, with Jesse Adam’s Stein and Bettina Frankham — and in partnership with The Powerhouse. Elections are research gold of course, for our theme on hi vis, politicians and protest!
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Elizabeth Humphrys @lizhumphrys.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
For @ellybaxter.bsky.social and @crazybrave.bsky.social and every other woman that powerlifting has bought a little joy too www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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Deadlifting in Your Nineties, in “Strong Grandma”
An elderly powerlifter trains for competition, in Cecilia Brown and Winslow Crane-Murdoch’s short documentary.
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Elizabeth Humphrys @lizhumphrys.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Marking is a mixed bag & labour intensive but once I get started there are always GEMS. I'm teaching a new history & cultural studies subject, Becoming Australia, and for A1 students have to make a digital timeline of a place and discuss themes in the subject using primary and scholarly sources.
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Elizabeth Humphrys @lizhumphrys.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Anyone who has ever been to / haunted Five Elephants cafe in Berlin and eaten their cheesecake reds to make this immediately www.thevividkitchen.com/blog/classic...
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CLASSIC CHEESECAKE W/ SOUR CREAM TOPPING — The Vivid Kitchen
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