Dr Fiona Macdonald is Acting Director of The Australia Institute’s Centre for Future Work, which conducts progressive economic research on work, employment and labour markets.
Fiona has worked in the community sector and as an academic researching work and employment for many years and has written and published extensively on care and support work, working arrangements and on the political economy of care and support work organisation.
Her research has explored workforce skills and capabilities, drawing on her experience as work value expert practitioner. In 2021, her book Individualising Risk: Paid Care Work in the New Gig Economy was published by Palgrave Macmillan.