Dayna is a Professor of Responsible Operations and Supply Chain Management. She conducts research mainly with business around improving social or environmental value from operations. This includes operations such as procurement, supply chain-scale labor governance, building flexible or hybrid work opportunities into labour processes, and increased supplier diversity.

Current projects include:

Modern slavery risk:

Various projects around how buyers effectively identify risks from labor exploitation by suppliers, and approaches to both developing supplier understanding of these risks or directly remedying risk.

Gig-workers in business operations:

Funded by an ARC-Discovery grant (2025-2027), this work explores the implications of gig-worker involvement in business processes and informing business of the risks and opportunities of gig-workers in their supply chain.   

Building flexibility / hybrid options into labour processes: 

This project identifies opportunities for business to effectively and productively enable more flexible working within their operations, increasing the variety of options for how we work, and how we define productivity. The research engages with business and workers to help design core tasks and processes to be accommodate flexible working.

If your organization would like to participate in one of these projects, please contact [email protected].