Dr Bill Cope
Director, Centre for Workplace Communication and Culture

 

Bill Cope is Director of the Centre for Workplace Communication and Culture, a research and training centre affiliated with RMIT University in Melbourne. He was First Assistant Secretary in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and Director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs in 1995-1996. Born in Manly, Sydney and of Anglo and Irish extraction, he is an Australian historian by training. His research and writing crosses a number of disciplines, including history, education and sociology; and examines themes as varied as Australian immigration, workplace change and literacy learning.