Naomi Segal, Councillor:

Naomi is a Lecturer in the UWA Business School. Since completing her PhD in 2006, which investigated labour relations in the early WA gold mining industry, based on archival records in Western Australia libraries, she has spent the last three years in academia, tutoring, lecturing and researching.  Naomi’s work experience includes work in many sectors, including tourism, botanical and conservation work, translating and reference librarianship. Her voluntary work includes having served on the executives of environmental, health and labour history organisations. She has published and presented at national and international conferences on topics such as occupational health in the early Western Australian mines, industrial relations in

the historical mining industry and early mining patent history.  Naomi is currently lecturing in and co-ordinating two undergraduate units in the UWA Business School.

Naomi was nominated to the Committee of the History Council of Western Australia by the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History (WA Branch) in 2009.