Associate ProfessorStephen Clibborn

Dip Law LPAB; MLLR Syd; PhD Syd

Dr Stephen Clibborn is an Associate Professor in the Discipline of Work and Organisational Studies at the University of Sydney Business School. He is Co-Director of the Sydney Employment Relations Research Group (SERRG).

Stephen is a leading researcher in the field of employment relations, law and migration with particular interest in employer compliance and non-compliance with employment laws. This focuses on regulation of low-waged work, including the working experiences of migrants and the roles of government, employers, unions, NGOs and civil society in the application and enforcement of employment laws.

He is the author of many scholarly articles and is also a key research-based contributor to public debates about regulation of work. He is regularly invited to speak to policy audiences on his research. He has made influential submissions to government inquiries and is a regular commentator in the media.

Stephen has extensive industry experience including in Australia as a senior associate in a national commercial law firm, and in the United States as both a legal manager in the headquarters of a multinational corporation in the fast moving consumer goods sector and in a not-for-profit organisation representing the interests of low-waged and unemployed workers.

Stephen teaches in both the undergraduate and postgraduate programs of the Business School.