Academic Work & Publications⬩Brendan Churchill

Brendan has been at The University of Melbourne since 2017, most recently as a Research Fellow and the Program Manager of the Life Patterns Research Program at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education (MGSE) and before that as a Research Fellow in Sociology in the School of Social and Political Sciences (2017-2021). Before joining Melbourne, he was a Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Change and a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Tasmania.

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The Conversation

The ‘great resignation’ didn’t happen in Australia, but the ‘great burnout’ did.

You’ve probably heard about the “great resignation” which saw large numbers of people resigning from their jobs in the US in 2021 and 2022.

Victorian Public Sector

Caring and workplace gender equality in the Public Sector in Victoria: Final project report

Caregiving has a significant impact on workplace inequality. With over 63% of primary carers in Victoria participating in the workforce, and as the largest employer in the state, the Victorian Public Sector (VPS) has a responsibility to adequately account for these inequities in their organisational policies.

New Technology, Work and Employment

Journal Article

The gender pay platform gap during the COVID‐19 pandemic and the role of platform gender segregation in Australia

Progress towards pay equity between men and women in the Australian economy stalled during the COVID‐19 pandemic, highlighting once again the gendered impact of the pandemic. However, little is known about the impact of the pandemic on the gender pay gap in the platform economy.

Journal of Gender Studies

Journal Article

The social life of data: strategies for categorizing fluid and multiple genders

Accurate data collection from LGBTIQ+ communities is crucial for public health research and the provision of equitable services. Emergent fluid, multiple, trans and non-binary gender identities complicate data collection in ways that make an excellent case-study for rethinking the categorization of such data.

Culture Health and Sexuality

Journal Article

Social media use among bisexuals and pansexuals: connection, harassment and mental health

Analysing survey data from 1,304 LGBTQ + young people in Australia collected in 2016, this paper considers key distinctions between the experiences of bisexual and pansexual participants, and lesbian and gay participants in relation to social media use and aspects of connection, harassment and mental health.

The Sociological Review

Journal Article

What matters in the queer archive? Technologies of memory and Queering the Map

Queering the Map (queeringthemap.com) is a novel digital platform: a storymap, an anonymous collaborative record, an archive of queer experiences. To contribute to the platform, visitors make their own mark by clicking on an empty space on the map. As to what visitors contribute, the platform’s About section suggests, simply, ‘If it counts for you, then it counts for Queering the Map’.

Social Science Research

Journal Article

Children of the Revolution: The continued unevenness of the gender revolution in housework, childcare and work time across birth cohorts

This study investigates whether parents spend different amounts of time in housework, childcare, and employment across birth cohorts.

Work Futures Hallmark Research Initiative

2023 State of the Future of Work

The 2023 State of the Future of Work Report is the first report from the Work Futures Hallmark Research Initiative (WFHRI), a team of interdisciplinary researchers from The University of Melbourne.

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Journal Article

Gender identity and sexual orientation: A glossary

Gender and sexually diverse populations remain understudied and under-represented in research. This is attributable not only to significant and ongoing data collection limitations, where large population-based studies fail to ask adequate questions around gender and sexuality, but also due to continuously evolving terminology in this space.

The Conversation

‘Disappointment and disbelief’ after Morrison government vetoes research into student climate activism’.

Between 2019 and early 2021, we developed a research proposal asking for funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC). The project was to investigate the mass student climate action movement and its relationship to democracy.