Elizabeth takes a multidisciplinary approach, also drawing on sociology and history, to seek ways to make work safer and more equitable. Her recent projects have investigated: climate change and workers’ health and safety; the impact of neoliberalism on labour; experiences of disabled professional workers; and the 1970 West Gate Bridge disaster.

Elizabeth’s first book, How Labour Built Neoliberalism, was described in the Sydney Review of Books as a ‘tremendously important’ contribution to understanding economic change in Australia’s recent past. She is an Editor of the journal Social Movement Studies, and an Associate Editor of Economic & Labour Relations Review.