Specialisations

• Mining women
• Miners’ wellbeing
• Lawyers
• Networks of power
• Financial elites and transnational business

Georgina Murray is associate professor in Humanities at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia, in the Centre for Work, Organization and Wellbeing.  She lectures in political economy.  She is the author of many articles and papers as well as ‘Capitalist Networks and Social Power in Australia and New Zealand’ (Ashgate, 2006), co-author of ‘Women of the Coal Rushes’ (UNSW Press, 2010), and co-editor of ‘Financial Elites and Transnational Business: Who Rules the World?’ (Edward Elgar, 2012).  Her research has focused on several areas of sociology including networks of power, gender, work and sustainability. Her current projects include an Australia-wide survey on mineworker wellbeing, research on the top one per cent, and a study of finance capital and sustainability.