Rate My Professor John Hopkins

John Hopkins served as an Associate Professor at Swinburne University of Technology in the Swinburne Business School. He holds a PhD awarded in 2005 by the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom. His academic work focused on supply chain management and logistics, as well as flexible work arrangements and the future of work. Hopkins was an Innovation Fellow at Swinburne Business School and founded WorkFLEX, a Melbourne-based company offering online courses and resources on workplace flexibility. He led research projects including reports on key working from home trends emerging from COVID-19 and emerging four-day work week trends in Australia, drawing on interviews with firms that adopted such arrangements. In 2013, he received recognition through a Learning and Teaching award for Programs that Enhance Learning. Hopkins has contributed to peer-reviewed publications on topics such as digital technologies enabling supply chain sustainability in emerging economies and systems thinking in supply chain management. His research has informed discussions on workplace practices and has been featured in university reports and public analyses of employment trends under awards such as the Clerks Award.