
Centre for the New Workforce
The Centre for the New Workforce (CNeW) here at Swinburne investigates how to empower people and organisations as digital technologies transform work.
The Centre for the New Workforce works with leaders to transform their business by building sustainable workforces for their organisations and meaningful careers for their workers.
Learning and workplace wellbeing is fundamental to these objectives, even more so in these times of uncertainty. CNeW drives innovation in, and across, learning and workplace wellbeing with evidence-based approaches to enable organisations to thrive.
2021 Report: Peak Human Workplace
The 2021 CNeW report is a must read for any employer. We are living and working in the ‘unprecedented era’, where the scale and gravity of the challenges that face us – from climate change to a global pandemic – is paired with a profound transformation wrought by rapidly advancing digital technologies. Using survey data from 1,000 everyday Australian workers, our Peak Human Workplace report shows how collaboration diversity and worker-driven learning can help turn complex disruption into competitive advantage across multiple industries.
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Our people
The Centre for the New Workforce aims to bring together creative minds, visionary researchers, and industry leaders to build a strong team and advisory committee. Meet our people.
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Our research
Discover how the Centre for the New Workforce is developing learning and workplace wellbeing solutions that empower people and organisations in the exponential era through its research and findings.
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Study a micro unit at Swinburne
The Understanding the Future of World of Work micro unit will highlight the changing patterns of the modern workforce and what leaders can do to improve workforce engagement and productivity at a time when the nature of work is shifting and changing at a rapid pace.
As technology changes the way we live and work at an unprecedented pace, Swinburne’s Centre for the New Workforce (CNeW) seeks to answer one question above all others: how do we ensure everyone can succeed in the future of work?
Through rigorous enquiry, industry collaboration and think tank analysis, CNeW focuses in understanding how work and workplaces are transforming. We work to conceive new approaches to learning, to empower people and organisations for the new workforce.
Insights from our engaged research will help people and organisations with their real-world challenges, both locally and around the world.
Innovation in the Unprecedented Era | Live streamed event
Thursday 15 April 2021 | ACMI Swinburne Studio
Launch of Peak Human Workplace, the latest report from the Centre for the New Workforce. The report uses data since COVID-19 to investigate the influence of learning and collaboration on enabling innovation in Australian workplaces.

The Centre for the New Workforce opens to prepare Australians for the future of work
Swinburne University of Technology launched the Centre for the New Workforce in December 2019. The Centre is a new research initiative designed to support Australian businesses, organisations and their employees by developing new approaches to learning.
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"Thriving in the future of work is to understand and exploit what makes us unique as humans.
Learning has to be re-imagined for the emerging futures of work."
Dr Sean Gallagher , Director, Centre for the New Workforce
Centre news
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Industry leaders to boost Centre for the New Workforce
Two of Australia’s leading experts in digital experience and industrial relations have joined Swinburne’s Centre for the New Workforce (CNeW) to lead projects on the rapidly changing future of work.
Thursday 24 February 2022 -
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Hybrid or the highway for Australian workers: Swinburne research
Centre for the New Workforce research shows that almost every worker wants to work flexibly post-COVID, but that hybrid working is already impacting workplace connection and wellbeing.
Wednesday 20 October 2021 -
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Work experience on digital platforms the way of the future
Dr Sean Gallagher discusses how the coronavirus crisis is showing that experience in digital platforms will shape the future workforceMonday 30 March 2020 -
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Swinburne launches Adobe Creative Campus partnership in Australian first for digital literacy
Swinburne has officially launched as Australia’s first Adobe Creative Campus, demonstrating its commitment to digital literacy.Thursday 28 November 2019 -
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Swinburne’s oldest PhD student says you’re never too old to learn
An 85-year-old grandmother is Swinburne’s oldest PhD student, studying how humans and smart machines can work together with equal status in the workforce.Tuesday 24 September 2019
Find more news articles by visiting the Centre for the New Workforce newsroom.
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Contact the Centre for the New Workforce
Contact us to discuss how we can work together to determine new approaches to learning and knowledge creation.
Call +61 3 9214 3398 or email new-workforce@swinburne.edu.au.