Jane Parker (management academic)
Jane Parker is a New Zealand employment relations academic. She is currently a full professor at Massey University. Academic career. After completing a BA/BCom and Masters at the University of Auckland, Parker wrote a 2000 PhD titled" 'Women's equality in British unions : the roles and impacts of women's group organising' " at the University of Warwick. While teaching and researching at Warwick Business School, she worked as the UK contributing editor for the European Working Conditions Observatory (EWCO) of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound). She returned to  New Zealand in 2008 to first work at Auckland University of Technology and after that at Massey University, where she rose to full professor in 2013. Parker has also worked with the International Labour Organization (ILO), Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS) and the New Zealand Living Wage movement. Jane is co-editor in chief of Labour and Industry: A journal of the Social and Economic Relations of Work; editorial board member of Human Relations; editorial advisory board member of Employee Relations; and the co-director of the Massey University People, Organisation, Work and Employment Research (MPOWER) Group. She is also  an Associate Fellow of the Industrial Relations Research Unit at the University of Warwick (UK). In June 2021, she was elected at the International Labour and Employment Relations Association (ILERA) World Congress as a member of the ILERA Executive Committee.