Research interests

Philip's research primarily focuses on the ageing of the workforce. Within this broad theme, he is particularly interested in developments in public policies targeting longer working lives, older workers' orientations to work and retirement and employer attitudes and practices towards older workers. His research takes place in an international context.

He was awarded competitive grants from: ARC (Australia), SSHRCC (Canada), and the ESRC (UK) and substantial consultancy funding from various Australian, European Union and Singaporean agencies, among others. Numerous small industry consultancies.

Recent research projects have included:

• Evidence review: Essential capabilities for managing an aged care workforce, Australian Association of Gerontology. (2022)
• Factors affecting labour force participation in the Latrobe Valley, Latrobe Valley Authority (2021).
• Eng-Age: Supporting at risk mature age jobseekers to become work ready, Department of Education, Skills and Employment. (2020)
• Georgia State University International Partnership Engagement Grant for the project Reframing Aging in the Global Economy. (2018)
• Older Entrepreneurship in Queensland, Queensland Department of Communities, Child Safety and Disability Services. (2016)
• Evaluation of the Corporate Champions program, Department of Employment. (2016)
• Extending working lives - health and well being implications and facilitators, Economic and Social Research Council. (2013)

Academic profile

Philip has a background in Psychology and joined IER in September 2023. Previously he has held roles at the University of Cambridge, University of Sheffield, Policy Studies Institute, Open University, Monash University and University of Melbourne, amongst others.

Selected current projects

• Working with Dementia Network Plus; Funder: ESRC; Project Duration: April 2024 - March 2029

• Making better work and retirement transitions for older people from disadvantaged groups; with Beate Baldauf; Funded by The Phoenix Group; Project duration: April 2024 - December 2024
• The management of the social care workforce
• Using big data to examine age stereotyping in job advertisements

All projects

Selected publications

Journal articles

Taylor, P., & Earl, C. (2023). The enduring myth of endemic age discrimination in the Australian labour market. Ageing & Society, 43(5), 993-1002. doi:10.1017/S0144686X21001112\

Taylor, P., & Earl, C. (2023). Age management for the common good, The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 34(1), 179-188. doi:10.1017/elr.2023.2

Taylor, P., Gringart, E., & Adams, C. (2022). Psychological effects of unemployment across the lifespan: A synthesis of relevant literature, Journal of Aging & Social Policy, 35(2), 154-178, DOI: 10.1080/08959420.2022.2136918.

Taylor, P., Drake, D., Gringart, E., Oppert, M., Carnemolla, P., Webb, E. & Harvey, R. (2022) Drivers and patterns of early retirement in the neoliberal university, The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 33(4), 715-736,https://doi.org/10.1177/10353046221125512.

Carnemolla, P., Taylor, P., Gringart, E. & Adams, C. (2022). Indicators of job quality in the Australian aged care workforce: A scoping review, Australasian Journal on Ageing, 41(2), e94-e102, https://doi.org/10.1111/ajag.13030.

Taylor, P. (2019). Working longer may be good public policy, but it is not necessarily good for older people, Journal of Aging & Social Policy, 31(2), 99-105, DOI: 10.1080/08959420.2019.1576487

Books/Major reports

Earl, C. and Taylor, P. (2024). Research Handbook of Inequalities in Later Life. Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham.

Taylor, P. (2024). Essential capabilities for managing an aged care workforce. Australian Association of Gerontology Melbourne.

Taylor, P., Carter, C., & O’Loughlin, A. (2022). Gippsland regional labour force participation report, Morwell, Latrobe Valley Authority.

Taylor, P., Earl. C., Brooke, E., & McLoughlin, C. (2021). Retiring women. Work and post work transitions, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar.

 Book chapters

Taylor, P., Baldauf, B., Halvorsen, C. & Pearman, G. (2024). Self-employment and older workers in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic: seniorpreneurs, senior precarious or somewhere in between?, In Conen, W. & Reuter, E. (eds), Handbook on self-employment and public policy, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.

Taylor, P., Carnemolla, P. & Bringolf, J. (forthcoming). Going to work at home. Aging successfully in a changing labor market, In Handbook of ageing and place, Cutchin, M. & Rowles, G. (eds), Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.

Taylor, P., Halvorsen, C., & Gringart, E. (forthcoming). Self-employment and older workers: Seniorpreneurs or senior precarious?, In Conen, W. & Reuter, E. (ed), Handbook on self-employment and public policy, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.

Taylor, P., Riaz, S. & Earl, C. (forthcoming). Supporting at risk older jobseekers to become work ready, In Saar, E. and Róbert, P. (eds) Handbook on education and the labour Market, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.

Current doctoral supervision

• James Carino, Young Onset Dementia (EOD) in the Workplace.

Honours and awards

• Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America
• Australian Association of Gerontology 2018 Glenda Powell Travelling Fellow
• Awardee, Education Department of Hunan Province China, Overseas Expert Programme.

Professional memberships

• Gerontological Society of America

Journal roles

• Associate Editor, Ageing & Society