Have you found yourself shunning tight-fitting clothing since the pandemic? Are you spending your entire working life in ‘athleisure’ wear? For many people, particularly remote workers, the pandemic was a time when the home became a place of online work, virtual education, and tech-mediated socialisation. And our wardrobes adapted to the lockdown era with comfort favouring formality. In this episode, we explore the complexities of fashion and grooming during the pandemic and into COVID normal. With my guests, we discuss the legacy effects of the pandemic on workwear and the increasing trend toward casualisation. We also do a deep dive into the gendered dimension of virtual work and question the extent to which the workwear casualisation movement has had an emancipatory effect for women. 

Host: Dr Peter Ghin

Guests

Dr Briony Lipton: Visiting Research Fellow, ANZSOG (ANU Crawford School); Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Sydney Business School

Sulagna Basu: PhD Candidate, University of Sydney

Dr Sophie Lea: Lecturer in Counselling, Monash University, Co-Founder/Director of Kind Schools

Dr Harriette Richards: Lecturer Fashion Enterprise, RMIT. 

Mentioned:

Covid Casual: Refashioning professional attire in the age of remote working:

The Beauty Salon Project

Fashioning founders: Dress and gender in the entrepreneurial ecosystem

Critical Fashion Studies Podcast

Subscribe to Work.Work.Work.

Work Futures Hallmark Research Initiative

If you would like to suggest ideas for future episodes or reach out to us, please email work-futures@unimelb.edu.au

Have you found yourself shunning tight-fitting clothing since the pandemic? Are you spending your entire working life in ‘athleisure’ wear? For many people, particularly remote workers, the pandemic was a time when the home became a place of online work, virtual education, and tech-mediated socialisation. And our wardrobes adapted to the lockdown era with comfort favouring formality. In this episode, we explore the complexities of fashion and grooming during the pandemic and into COVID normal. With my guests, we discuss the legacy effects of the pandemic on workwear and the increasing trend toward casualisation. We also do a deep dive into the gendered dimension of virtual work and question the extent to which the workwear casualisation movement has had an emancipatory effect for women. 
Host: Dr Peter Ghin
Guests
Dr Briony Lipton: Visiting Research Fellow, ANZSOG (ANU Crawford School); Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Sydney Business School
Sulagna Basu: PhD Candidate, University of Sydney
Dr Sophie Lea: Lecturer in Counselling, Monash University, Co-Founder/Director of Kind Schools
Dr Harriette Richards: Lecturer Fashion Enterprise, RMIT. 
Mentioned:
<a href="https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/27461">Covid Casual: Refashioning professional attire in the age of remote working:</a>
<a href="https://www.beautysalonproject.com/">The Beauty Salon Project</a>
<a href="about:blank">Fashioning founders: Dress and gender in the entrepreneurial ecosystem</a>
<a href="https://arts.unimelb.edu.au/school-of-culture-and-communication/our-research/groups-and-resource-centre/critical-fashion-studies">Critical Fashion Studies Podcast</a>
<a href="https://pod.link/1689135799">Subscribe to Work.Work.Work</a>.
<a href="http://www.work-futures.org/">Work Futures Hallmark Research Initiative</a>
If you would like to suggest ideas for future episodes or reach out to us, please email <a href="mailto:work-futures@unimelb.edu.au">work-futures@unimelb.edu.au</a>

Hosted by Dr Peter Ghin, Work.Work.Work. expertly guides you through people's lived experience of the modern workplace. We explore the way work is changing, and more importantly, how people are experiencing those changes. And we're not just talking about major technological shifts, but the nitty gritty, day to day stuff that can make our work a labor of love, and sometimes not so much with the love. 

Our research collective represents disciplines as diverse as law, computer sciences, human geography, sociology, indigenous leadership and organization studies. We’re an eclectic bunch, and we hope that our diversity of thinking will bring you a different take on not only what the future of work looks like, but what it feels like to be a worker in an employment landscape that has never felt more filled with possibilities and so terrifyingly dystopian at the same time. 

In our first season, we'll be looking at the legacy effects of the pandemic on the way we work. We’ll be talking to people about how the pandemic changed the way we dressed for work, what the post pandemic landscape looks like for young people, and how COVID-19 and specifically long-COVID has shone a spotlight on a previously overlooked category of workers, that is people living and working with long term health conditions. 

For more information visit https://www.work-futures.org/podcasts

Hosted by Dr Peter Ghin, Work.Work.Work. expertly guides you through people's lived experience of the modern workplace. We explore the way work is changing, and more importantly, how people are experiencing those changes. And we're not just talking about major technological shifts, but the nitty gritty, day to day stuff that can make our work a labor of love, and sometimes not so much with the love. 
Our research collective represents disciplines as diverse as law, computer sciences, human geography, sociology, indigenous leadership and organization studies. We’re an eclectic bunch, and we hope that our diversity of thinking will bring you a different take on not only what the future of work looks like, but what it feels like to be a worker in an employment landscape that has never felt more filled with possibilities and so terrifyingly dystopian at the same time. 
In our first season, we'll be looking at the legacy effects of the pandemic on the way we work. We’ll be talking to people about how the pandemic changed the way we dressed for work, what the post pandemic landscape looks like for young people, and how COVID-19 and specifically long-COVID has shone a spotlight on a previously overlooked category of workers, that is people living and working with long term health conditions. 
For more information visit <a href="https://www.work-futures.org/podcasts">https://www.work-futures.org/podcasts</a>

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