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Professor SANTINA BERTONE

Associate Dean (Research) and Professor of Diversity Management
PhD (Syd) MA (Melb) BA (Hons) (Monash) Grad Dip (Erg) (Lincoln) Grad Cert (Tert Ed) (VU)

Ph +61 3 9214 5312
Mobile +61 404 260 283
Room AGSE 324
sbertone@swin.edu.au

 

 

 

Santina has been researching in the area of immigration and work since the 1990s.  She led the Workplace Studies Centre for over a decade, winning grants and publishing on immigrant women, industrial restructuring, immigrants and trade unions and managing diversity (92 publications and 50 research grants).  Santina was also a longstanding executive member of the Ethnic Communities Council of Victoria, and has had other community and government board roles. She was awarded the Centenary of Federation Medal in 2008, and participated in the Australia 2020 Summit.  Santina held various leadership positions at Victoria University before joining Swinburne University of Technology.

Research Profile

Research Interests

Santina’s research interests focus on the intersection of gender, ethnicity/culture and the labour market, with particular attention to industrial relations, managing diversity and economic reform. Santina is an Australian Research Council international research reader in these areas. Her current research is investigating employment barriers and success factors for skilled immigrants in the Victorian public sector.

Professional Membership:

  • Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand
  • Industrial Relations Society of Victoria
  • Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management
  • Beta Gamma Sigma Society (alumnus of AACSB – Association of Americah Colleges and Schools of Business)
  • Mobility and Migration Research Network, Victoria
  • BARDSNET (Business Academic Research Directors Network)

Teaching Areas and Responsibility:

  • Currently supervising a DBA student and a PhD scholarship student.
  • Also supervising a postdoctoral research fellow and taught in Macro Economic Principles, Applied Economics Research Project, Economic policy and industrial relations.

Selected Publications

Books

  • S. Bertone, A. Esposto & R. Turner (1998) Diversity and Dollars: Productive Diversity in Australian Business and Industry, CEDA Information Paper No. 58, Melbourne, pp. 1-118.
  • S. Bertone, C. Keating & J. Mullaly (2000) The Taxi Driver, the Cook and the Greengrocer: The Representation Of Non English Speaking Background People in Theatre, Film And Television, Australia Council, NSW, pp. 1-82.
  • S. Bertone & H. Casey (eds.) (2000) Migrants in the New Economy: Problems, perspectives and policy, Workplace Studies Centre, Melbourne, pp. 1-260.
  • S. Bertone (2008) From Factory Fodder to Multicultural Mediators: a new typology of immigrant work experiences in Australia, VDM Verlag, Saarbrucken, Germany (distributed through Amazon books), ISBN: 978-3-639-02877-5; 1-.308.

Book chapters

  • S. Bertone & M. Leahy ‘Globalisation and Diversity Management: Empirical Evidence from Australia' in Y. Debrah & I. Smith (eds.) (2002) Globalisation, Employment and the Workplace: Diverse Impacts,Routledge, UK, pp. 201-238 (blind refereed by two anonymous overseas academics).
  • S. Bertone & C. Sonn ‘Social Capital and the Economics of Racism in Regional Australia’, IN H. Babacan & N. GopalKrishnan (eds.) (2007) Racisms in the New World Order, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle, UK, pp. 131-141, ISBN 978-1847-182234.
  • S. Bertone, ‘Unions, the Workplace and Social Cohesion’ in J. Jupp & J. Nieuwenhuysen (eds.) (2007) Social Cohesion in Australia, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, pp. 124-135, ISBN 978-0521-70943-9.
  • S. Bertone (2009) ‘Immigration and the Labour Market’ in Freeman, G., Jupp, J., Higley, J. & Nieuwenhuysen, J. Nations of Immigrants: Australia and the USA Compared, Edward Elgar publishing, Cheltenham, UK:109-130 ISBN 84844636 6: 86-99
  • S. Bertone & D. Monani (in press) ‘Diversity and Disadvantaged Workers’ in J. Teicher, P. Holland & R. Gough (eds.) Employee Relations Management, third edition.

Journal Articles

  • S. Bertone, G. Griffin & R. Iverson ‘Immigrant Workers and Australian Trade Unions: Participation and Attitudes’ International Migration Review, Vol. 29, No. 3, Summer, 1995, pp. 722-744. (draft ERA journal quality rank:  A* )
  • S. Bertone & G. Griffin ‘Immigrant Female Workers and Trade Unions’, Revue Relations Industrielles, Vol. 50-1, Winter, 1995, pp. 117-146.   (draft ERA journal quality rank: A)
  • S. Bertone & M. Leahy ‘Multiculturalism as a conservative ideology: impacts on workforce diversity’, Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, 41 (1), April 2003: 101-115. (ERA journal quality rank: B) 
  • S. West, J. Wiseman & S. Bertone ‘Mainstreaming Change: Learning from Community Strengthening in Victoria’, Just Policy, Vol. 41, September 2006, edition 41: 34-41.
  • J. Pyke, S. Bertone, M. Grace & R. Broadbent ‘Two Birds with One Social Policy Stone: Youth Employment and Regional Skills Shortages in Australia’, International Journal of Training Research, Vol. 5, No. 2, December 2007, pp. 15-40 (ERA journal quality rank: B)

 

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