Professor EmeritusRussell Lansbury

AO; MA Melbourne; DipEd Melbourne; PhD LSE; Hon DLitt Macquarie; Hon DTech Lulea; FASSA

Russell has worked with British Airways in the UK and has held a number of academic positions in universities within Australia and elsewhere. He was a Senior Lecturer at Monash University before becoming an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Management at Macquarie University. He was the foundation Director of the Australian Centre for Industrial Relations Research and Training (an ARC Key Centre) at the University of Sydney. He was Professor of industrial relations at the University of Sydney from 1987-2009 and was appointed Professor Emeritus in 2009. He holds a PhD from the London School of Economics and has been awarded honorary doctorates by Macquarie University in Australia and Lulea University of Technology in Sweden.

He was awarded a Senior Fulbright Fellowship at Harvard University and the Sloan School of Management at MIT, has been a Visiting Research Fellow at the Swedish Centre for Worklife Research in Stockholm and was a Visiting Fellow at the International Institute for Labour Studies at the International Labour Organisation in Geneva. He has also been a Shaw Foundation Professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He has received fellowships from the French, German, Danish, Finnish and Swedish governments in recent decades. He was made a General Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2009 and an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in the General Division in 2018.

Russell was joint editor of the Journal of Industrial Relations from 1999-2009, and serves on the editorial boards of leading academic journals in North America, Europe and Asia. His major research contributions have been in the areas of international and comparative employment and industrial relations. His current research includes studies of the effects of management strategies of multinational enterprises on employment relations and labour practices. Recent publications include: Retiring in a New Age: Life After Full Time Work (Routledge, 2025) with Marian Baird, Crossing Boundaries: Work and Industrial Relations in Perspective (Routledge, 2021), Trade Unions and Labour Movements in the Asia-Pacific Region (Routledge, 2020) with Byoung-Hoon Lee and Ng Sek-Hong, Contemporary Issues in Work and Organisations: Actors and Institutions (Routledge, 2020) with Anya Johnson and Diane van den Broek, International and Comparative Employment Relations (Sage Books, 2016, 6^th edition) with Greg Bamber, Nick Wailes and Chris Wright.

He has served on numerous government, industry and professional bodies. He has been a consultant to the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). He was President of the International Industrial Relations Association (IIRA) which is based at the ILO in Geneva, from 2006-2009.