Daniel Nicholson

Daniel Nicholson is a Lecturer in the Department of Management and Organisations at the UWA Business School, University of Western Australia. He holds a PhD in Employment Relations from Cardiff University (2023), focusing on the shopfloor politics of technology change in the Canadian aerospace sector. His research expertise includes employment relations, industrial relations, trade unionism, and work organisation, contributing to UN Sustainable Development Goals related to education and labor rights.

His research interests center on labor markets, automation, gig economy dynamics, and collective bargaining structures. Notable work includes analyses of Australia's union landscape in 2016–2017 and critical reviews of automation's societal impacts.

His publications explore themes such as regulatory challenges in the gig economy, the decline of traditional collective bargaining, and the sociopolitical dimensions of workplace technology. Nicholson's work bridges labor law, industrial policy, and organizational behavior, with a focus on contemporary labor market transformations.