Dr Amanda Kennedy
Lecturer, Faculty of The Professions, School of Law
Qualifications
BCom / LLB (Hons), Grad. Dip. Legal Practice, Grad. Cert. Law Teaching (Monash), PhD (UNE), Legal Practitioner (NSW)
Contact
| Email: | amanda.kennedy@une.edu.au |
| Room: | W37 13 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 6493 (or +61 2 6773 6493 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 3602 |
Prior to commencing as a full time staff member, Dr Kennedy taught law at UNE on a casual basis for 4 years whilst completing her PhD. She was also appointed as an Adjunct Research Associate of the Ag Law Centre, where she provided research support to the Ag Law Centre in a number of its research projects. She completed her PhD in 2006, entitled ‘Exploring Individualism and Collectivism within Australian Universities: Procedural, Substantive and Process Elements of the Academic Employment Relationship’. Her research explored individualism and collectivism within the academic employment relationship, focusing specifically on the influences upon decisions made by universities as employers to contract in an individual or collective manner. Dr Kennedy’s work was multi-disciplinary, fusing legal analysis with qualitative evidence of management practice and industrial relations procedures.
Dr Kennedy’s current research interests are in the area of industrial law, and include the use of individual contracts of employment, and occupational health and safety. She is also currently conducting research into employee liability for private out-of-hours conduct, assessing recent case law which has re-ignited the debate concerning the blurred boundaries between work life and private life. Dr Kennedy is also a member of the cross-disciplinary Rural Professions Research Network, established within the Faculty of the Professions, whose main interest is investigating ways in which the availability of rural professional services can be improved. She is currently coordinating a research initiative to establish a suite of rural professions research projects within the Faculty. She is also working on a collaborative project with the Ag Law Centre regarding usufructuary rights.
Dr Kennedy’s teaching interests include Industrial Law, Contract Law and Professional Conduct.
Dr Kennedy is a member of the Mary White College Senior Common Room.
Publications
(note: nee Williamson)
Refereed Journal Articles
- Kennedy, A., ‘“More Sinned against than sinning”: Telstra Corporation Ltd v Streeter’ (2008) 21(1) Australian Journal of Labour Law 59.
- Williamson, A., ‘An Examination of Cultural and Religious Divorce in Australia’ (2004) 11 James Cook University Law Review 168.
- Werren, J., and Williamson, A., ‘Advocate’s Immunity: What Makes Lawyers So Special?’ (2006) 9 Yearbook of New Zealand Jurisprudence 302.
Non-refereed Journal Articles
- Werren, J., and Williamson, A., ‘Casenote: D’Orta-Ekenaike v Victorian Legal Aid and Another (2005) 214 ALR 92’ (2005) 2 University of New England Law Journal 103.
Refereed Conference Papers
- Williamson, A., ‘Individualism versus collectivism within academia: implications for managing the employment relationship’, paper presented at the Australian Centre for Research in Work and Employment (ACREW) Conference, Melbourne, June 22-24 2005.
- Williamson, A., ‘Individualism and collectivism within the academic employment relationship: a changing Australian higher education employment relations agenda’, paper presented at the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australia (HERDSA) 2005 Conference, University of Sydney, July 3-6 2005. Published in ‘Research and Development in Higher Education: Higher Education in a Changing World’ Volume 28, Proceedings of the Annual Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australia (HERDSA) 2005 Conference.
Non-refereed Conference Papers and Seminars
- Colbran, S., and Kennedy, A., ‘Australian Law Postgraduate Network’, seminar presented at the Collaborating to Offer Small Courses / Subjects Forum, Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, hosted by UNE, Armidale NSW, May 17-18 2007.
- Kennedy, A., ‘Flexibility and choice for whom? The Higher Education Workplace Relations Requirements and the individualisation of the Australian academic employment relationship’, paper presented at the International Graduate Legal Research Conference, King’s College, London, United Kingdom, April 12-13 2007.
- Williamson, A., ‘Supple, Sassier and Commercially Minded: Assessing the current drive to individualise the academic employment relationship’, paper presented at the Asia-Pacific Postgraduate Forum, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, October 24-26 2005.
- Werren, J., and Williamson, A., ‘Advocate’s Immunity: What Makes Lawyers So Special?’, paper presented at the Australian Law Teacher’s Association (ALTA) Conference, Hamilton, New Zealand, July 4-8 2005.