Jock Collins

Jock Collins is Professor of Social Economics in the Management Discipline Group at the UTS Business School, Sydney, Australia. He has been teaching and conducting research at UTS since 1977. He is Co-Director of the Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Research Centre at UTS. His research interests centre on an interdisciplinary study of immigration and cultural diversity in the economy and society. His recent research has been on Australian immigration, ethnic crime, immigrant and Indigenous entrepreneurship, immigrant youth, ethnic precincts and tourism, multiculturalism, the Cronulla Beach Riots, global teachers, immigrants and the built environment and immigrants in regional and rural Australia and the social use of ethnic heritage and the built environment.

He is the author or co-author of ten books, the most recent of which is Global Teachers, Australian Perspectives: Goodbye Mr. Chips Hello Ms. Banerjee (with Carol Reid and Michael Singh) to be published by Springer Press later this year. He is also the author of over 100 articles in international and national academic journals and book chapters. His work has been translated in Swedish, French, Japanese, Arabic, Dutch, Chinese, Portuguese, German, Turkish and Italian. Jock Collins has had visiting academic appointments in the UK, Canada, Sweden and the United States and has consulted to the ILO and OECD.

He was Co-Director of the Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Research Centre and his research interests centre on an interdisciplinary study of immigration and cultural diversity in the economy and society.

"Comrades! Lives of Australian Communists"

To mark the centenary of the Communist Party of Australia in 2020, the SEARCH Foundation, in association with the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, compiled 100 short biographies of Australian communists, to produce a book "Comrades! Lives of Australian Communists".

Contributors included Jock Collins.

Australian Left Renewal Conference, 2013

The SEARCH Foundation's Australian Left Renewal Conference, 2013, was held, the weekend of April 6-7, 2013,University of Technology Sydney.

Workshop 4 Equality, Race and Refugees in Australia

Panel:

• Jock Collins (UTS)
• Dianne Hiles (ChilOut)
• Ian Rintoul (RAC)

Politics in the Pub

August 10, 1990

Franca Arena, Jock Collins, Jan Jaber.

Political Economy Group

In 1975 Sydney University introduced the Economics 1 (P) course, taught by the "disident Political Economy Group" Ted Wheelwright, Geelum Simpson-Lee, Margaret Power, Gavan Butler, Frank Stilwell, Evan Jones, Debesh Bhattachrya, Louis Haddad and tutor Jock Collins.