Prof Philip Taylor - Researcher Profile

Professor Philip Taylor

Address

Monash University
Building 4W, Gippsland Campus

Contact Details

Tel: +61 3 990 26610

Email: Philip.Taylor@monash.edu


Biography

Philip joined Monash in March 2010 as Director of Research and Graduate Studies at its Gippsland campus. Prior to this he was Professor of Employment Policy at Swinburne University of Technology where he directed the Business, Work and Ageing Centre for Research. Before this he was Executive Director of the Cambridge Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Ageing, University of Cambridge. He has researched and written in the field of age and the labour market for more than 20 years. He leads a major program of research on ageing workforces. Interests include the management of labour supply, individual orientations to work and retirement, employers’ attitudes and practices towards older workers and international developments in public policies aimed at combating age barriers in the labour market and prolonging working life.

He has a strong national and international reputation as a leading figure in the field of age and the labour market. His high professional standing stems from his strong publication record, the influence of his work on national and international public policy, frequent invited addresses to major national and international conferences and symposia, membership of national and international committees concerned with the implications of workforce ageing, his leading role in Australian and international research groups, and work with public bodies both in Australia and overseas.

He has worked on and been successful in obtaining substantial funding for several major multi-disciplinary and international programs of research on ageing and the labour market. Notable of these have been: Workforce Aging in the New Economy (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Can$3.5 million, 2002-2006); Employer Initiatives for an Ageing Workforce (European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, €604,000, 2005-2006); SMEs and Older Workers (European Social Fund, 2003-2006, £156,000) and Redesigning Work for an Ageing Society, Australian Research Council, 2005-2009, $750,000). He currently leads the ARC projects Working Late ($500,000) and Retiring Women ($500,000). He is also currently leading on large grants from the New South Wales Office for Ageing, Safe Work Australia and the Singapore Ministry of Manpower.

He has addressed the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee on Aspects of the Economics of an Ageing Population, and the Employment Committee of the European Union. In November 2007 he was invited to organise and lead a Presidential Symposium for the 60th Annual Scientific meeting of the Gerontological Society of America. Until October 2007, when his four-year term ended, he was a member of the Advisory Board of experts for the World Ageing and Generations Congress. In 2011 he organised the international conference Older Workers and Work Ability which was held in Melbourne, Australia. In 2002 he organised an international symposium on public policy, age and the labour market, which attracted representatives of government, business groups, groups representing older people and leading academics from six countries to the University of Cambridge.

His work links empirical research to public policy and employment practices. Such relationships exist at both the national and international level e.g. British Government's Advisory Committee on Older Workers in 1997, and European policy makers when in 2000 he was a member of a delegation of UK Government officials and experts in the field of age and employment who attended a  symposium with counterparts in Toledo, Spain. In 2001 he was a member of a delegation of European Commission officials and experts in the field of age and employment who attended a symposium with counterparts in Tokyo. In 2003, he was a member of the European Commission Peer Review group for the Finnish National Programme for Ageing Workers.

In recent years he has been commissioned by the British and Australian governments and others to carry out research to support the development of public policy on age and the labour market. His work also brings him into regular contact with the business community in terms of consultancy and as a partner on a range of projects.

 

Research & Supervision Interests

    The relationship between age and the labour market. Individual orientations to work and retirement. Employer attitudes and practices regarding older workers. Public policy concerning the prolongation of workers lives.

Keywords

Older workers, labour supply, older workers employment organisations age-stereotypes age-group mix and relations

Qualifications

APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
Institution: Cranfield Institute of Technology
Year awarded: 1989
APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
Institution: Cranfield Institute of Technology
Year awarded: 1987
PSYCHOLOGY
Institution: Bolton Institute
Year awarded: 1985

Publications

Books

Taylor, P. (ed), 2008, Ageing Labour Forces: Promises and Prospects, Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, Cheltenham UK.

Frerichs, F., Taylor, P., 2005, The Greying of the Labour Market: What can Britain and Germany Learn from Each Other?, Anglo-German Foundation for the Study of Industrial Society, London UK.

Book Chapters

Taylor, P., 2011, Is early retirement history?, in Older Workers in a Sustainable Society, eds Richard Ennals and Robert H. Salomon, Peter Lang, Switzerland, pp. 225-232.

McLoughlin, C., Taylor, P., Bohle, P., 2011, Promoting worker resilience over the lifecourse, in Resilience in Aging: Concepts, Research, and Outcomes, eds Barbara Resnick, Lisa P. Gwyther and Karen A. Roberto, Springer, New York USA, pp. 121-132.

Taylor, P., 2010, Cross-national trends in work and retirement, in The SAGE Handbook of Social Gerontology, eds Dale Dannefer and Chris Phillipson, Sage, California USA, pp. 540-550.

Taylor, P., Brooke, L., Biase, T., 2010, European employer policies concerning career management and learning from a life-span perspective, in Soziale Lebenslaufpolitik, eds Gerhard Naegele, VS Verlag fur Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden Germany, pp. 474-497.

Frerichs, F., Taylor, P., 2009, Ageing and the labour market - A comparison of policy approaches, in Social Policy in Ageing Societies: Britian and Germany Compared, eds Alan Walker and Gerhard Naegele, Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills UK, pp. 46-81.

Brooke, L., Healy, P., Jiang, J., Taylor, P., 2009, The place of age in organisational policymaking: Evidence from an Australian qualitative survey, in Promotion of Work Ability Towards Productive Aging, eds Masaharu Kumashiro, CRC Press (Taylor & Francis Group), Leiden The Netherlands, pp. 27-31.

Taylor, P., 2008, Conclusions: The prospects for ageing labour forces, in Ageing Labour Forces: Promises and Prospects, eds Philip Taylor, Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, Cheltenham UK, pp. 204-218.

Taylor, P., 2008, European Union policy for older workers, in Ageing, Intergenerational Solidarity and Age-Specific Vulnerabilities, eds Joop de Beer, Pearl Dykstra and Frans van Poppel, KNAW Press and Aksant Academic Publishers, Amsterdam The Netherlands, pp. 45-67.

Taylor, P., 2008, Introduction: The promise of ageing labour forces, in Ageing Labour Forces: Promises and Prospects, eds Philip Taylor, Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, Cheltenham UK, pp. 1-21.

Taylor, P., 2008, Sing if you're glad to be grey. Working towards a happier older age in the United Kingdom, in Ageing Labour Forces: Promises and Prospects, eds Philip Taylor, Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, Cheltenham UK, pp. 84-110.

Platman, K., Taylor, P., 2006, Training and learning in the workplace: Can we legislate against age discriminatory practices, in Social Policy Review 18: Analysis and Debate in Social Policy, 2006, eds Linda Bauld, Karen Clarke and Tony Maltby, The Policy Press, Bristol UK, pp. 269-291.

Taylor, P., 2005, Ageing and learning in the European Union, in Lifelong Learning, eds Nick Dimopoulos, Committee for Economic Development of Australia, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 72-77.

Taylor, P., 2005, Early exit from the labour market, social exclusion and marginalisation in the UK, in The Changing Face of Welfare: Consequences and Outcomes from a Citizenship Perspective, eds Jorgen Goul Andersen, Anne-Marie Guillemard, Per H Jensen and Birgit Pfau-Effinger, The Policy Press, Bristol UK, pp. 223-239.

Marshall, V., Taylor, P., 2005, Restructuring the lifecourse: Work and retirement, in The Cambridge Handbook of Age and Ageing, eds Malcolm L. Johnson, Cambridge University Press, New York USA, pp. 572-582.

Taylor, P., 2004, A 'new deal' for older workers in the United Kingdom?, in Ageing and the Transition to Retirement: A Comparative Analysis of European Welfare States, eds Tony Maltby, Bert de Vroom, Maria Luisa Mirabile and Einar Overbye, Ashgate Publishing Limited, Aldershot UK, pp. 186-204.

Journal Articles

Taylor, P.E., McLoughlin, C., Brooke, E., Di Biase, T., STEINBERG, M., 2013, Managing older workers during a period of tight labour supply, Ageing & Society [P], vol 33, issue 01, pp. 16-43.

Taylor, P.E., McLoughlin, C., Meyer, D., Brooke, E., 2012, Everyday discrimination in the workplace, job satisfaction and psychological wellbeing: age differences and moderating variables, Ageing & Society [P], vol epub, Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom, pp. 1-34.

Brooke, E., Taylor, P.E., McLoughlin, C., Di Biase, T., 2012, Managing the working body: active ageing and limits to the 'flexible' firm, Ageing & Society [P], vol epub, Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom, pp. 1-20.

Mackey, M., Bohle, P., Taylor, P., Biase, T., McLoughlin, C., Purnell, K., 2011, Walking to wellness in an ageing sedentary university community: design, method and protocol, Contemporary Clinical Trials [P], vol 32, issue 2, Elsevier Inc., United States, pp. 273-279.

Taylor, P., Brooke, L., McLoughlin, C., Biase, T., 2010, Older workers and organizational change: corporate memory versus potentiality, International Journal of Manpower [P], vol 31, issue 3, Emerald Group Publishing Ltd, Bingley UK, pp. 374-386.

Taylor, P., Jorgensen, B., Watson, E., 2010, Population ageing in a globalizing labour market: Implications for older workers, China Journal of Social Work [P], vol 3, issue 2-3, Routledge, UK, pp. 259-272.

Jorgensen, B., Taylor, P., 2008, Employees, employers and the institutions of work: The global competition for terrain in the ageing workforce agenda, Foresight :The Journal for Future Studies, Srategic Thinking and Policy, vol 10, issue 1, Emerald Group Publishing Ltd, United Kingdom, pp. 22-36.

Jorgensen, B., Taylor, P., 2008, Older workers, government and business: Implications for ageing populations of a globalising economy, Economic Affairs [P], vol 28, issue 1, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd, United Kingdom, pp. 17-22.

Taylor, P., 2007, Older workers and the labor market: Lessons from abroad, Generations [P], vol 31, issue 1, American Society on Aging, United States, pp. 96-101.

Brooke, L., Taylor, P., 2005, Older workers and employment: Managing age relations, Ageing & Society [P], vol 25, issue 3, Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom, pp. 415-429.

Conference Proceedings

Taylor, P., 2011, Planning for an ageing workforce, Age Management during the Life Course: Proceedings of the 4th Symposium on Work Ability, 6 June 2010 to 9 June 2010, Tampere University Press, Finland, pp. 23-33.

Other

Taylor, P., 2011, Ageism and age discrimination in the labour market and employer responses, National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), Adelaide SA Australia, pp. 46-63.

Taylor, P., 2010, Age equality in education and training, International Encyclopedia of Education, vol encyclopedia, Oxford : Elsevier Science, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/referenceworks/9780080448947, pp. 262-268.

Taylor, P., 2007, Work and employment: Society, Encyclopaedia of Gerontology, vol encyclopedia, Eslevier, Amsterdam The Netherlands, pp. 694-705.

Taylor, P., 2006, Employment Initiatives for an Ageing Workforce in the EU15, European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, Dublin Ireland, pp. 1-95.