Home A five-year research program exploring the impacts of industry restructuring. About the program Future In partnership with major industry and a leading group of international researchers, and funded by the Australian Research Council, the Future Work Future Communities research team aims to shed light on how Australia’s workforce and communities will engage with the world of work in a future shaped by new business models and disruptive technologies. Using the closure of the automotive industry as a lens into this topic, our research provides new insights into how displaced workers find work, use services, relate to others, and reshape their futures. It explores the community-wide impacts of restructuring, providing new perspectives on how local resources and public policies best support the process of adjustment. This research helps governments and major employers create the jobs of the future. Analysis of how individual workers and communities respond to restructuring provides a firm foundation for future policies and action by governments as well as large and small enterprises. It reduces the costs associated with industry restructuring and assists in delivering a higher quality workforce, resulting in more effective public and private sector programs, and better futures for affected workers. Read More Have you been invited to complete one of our surveys for former auto-workers or would like to find out more about the benefits of participation? Click on the link below! Participate SPOTLIGHT Newsletter Summer | 19/20 FWFC NEWS November 2019 Conference paper presented in Bath Research Streams Stream One Five-year longitudinal study of workers affected by closures across the automotive industry. Stream Two A series of qualitative interviews designed to add depth to our understanding. Stream Three Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE). Stream Four Household survey in affected regions. Project Partners Partner Organisations