Janis Bailey has lectured in the Department of Employment Relations and Human Resources at Griffith University. Her research interests include union strategy and culture, vulnerable workers, and teaching and learning in industrial relations. Before moving to Queensland in 2002, she taught at the University of Western Australia and Edith Cowan University in Perth, and was on the committee of the Perth branch of the ASSLH. She worked as an industrial officer in the 1980s and 1990s for various blue- and white-collar unions in Perth, and has been a delegate for the National Tertiary Education Union.
