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Professor Alysia Blackham is a leading academic at the Melbourne Law School, specialising in age discrimination law, employment law, and equality law. Her research employs empirical methods to address systemic issues in workplace equality, with a focus on older workers and intersectional discrimination. She holds dual degrees from the University of Melbourne (BA/Bachelor of Laws) and a PhD from the University of Cambridge.
- Recipient of the UK Society of Legal Scholars’ Peter Birks Prize (2017 and 2023) for groundbreaking legal scholarship.
- Former Turpin-Lipstein Fellow and College Lecturer at Clare College, Cambridge.
- Former employment law solicitor at Herbert Smith Freehills and Executive Officer at the University of Technology Sydney.
Her research has been funded by an Australian Research Council Discovery grant (DE170100228), investigating barriers to enforcing age discrimination laws in Australia and the UK. Key outputs include the AgeWorks Project and influential books such as *Reforming Age Discrimination Law: Beyond Individual Enforcement* (2022).
Teaching focuses on Equality and Discrimination at Work in the Melbourne Law Masters program. She actively participates in academic governance roles, including Director of Teaching at MLS and membership in University of Melbourne’s UniSuper Consultative Committee.
Her work intersects with interdisciplinary research networks such as the Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law and the Empirical Research Network. Recent projects explore algorithmic discrimination, workplace surveillance, and global anti-discrimination frameworks.
