Staff Information

Dr. Hutchens has 5 years experience in researching and writing on the fair trade industry. Awarded her PhD, ‘Entrepreneurship, Power and Defiance: The Globalisation of the Fair Trade Movement’ in 2007, Dr. Hutchens’ recent research on Fair Trade will be published by Edward Elgar in her book Changing Big Business: The Globalisation of the Fair Trade Movement later this year.

Dr. Hutchens’ research interests include fair trade value-chains and ‘mainstreaming’, Fair Trade labelling and brand companies; Fair Trade market development in the Asia Pacific region; and gender issues in private sector development in the Asia Pacific region. She was a participant in the Australian Government’s 2020 Summit in April 2008, and is currently a consultant to AusAID on ‘Pacific Women in Private Sector Development’, a joint AusAID-World Bank study on the barriers women entrepreneurs face in doing business in the Pacific. In her spare time, Dr. Hutchens is a freelance journalist on fair trade issues, and has been interviewed about fair trade on a number of local, regional and national radio programs.

Selected Publications

Articles

'Fair Trade Magic: Women profit from new ways of doing business', New Internationalist, Issue 417, Nov 2008
<http://www.newint.org/columns/currents/2008/11/01/vanuatu>.

Books

(2009) Changing Big Business: The Globalisation of the Fair Trade Movement. Edward Elgar Publishing, UK: London.

Chapters

‘Mainstreaming Fair Trade: Fair Trade Brands and the Problem of Producer Ownership’ (book chapter) in MacDonald, K. & Marshall, S. (eds.) Fair Trade, Corporate Accountability & Beyond: Experiments in Globalising Justice. Ashgate: London.
[PDF available]

Reports

(Oct-Nov 2008) 'Women in Business in Papua New Guinea, Pacific Women in Private Sector Development initiative, Pacific Growth Section, AusAID.
[PDF available]

(August, 2008) 'Women in Business in Samoa', Pacific Women in Private Sector Development (PWPSD) initiative, Pacific Section, AusAID.
[PDF available]

(April-May 2008) 'Women in Business in the Solomon Islands', Pacific Women in Private Sector Development initiative, Pacific Growth Section, AusAID.
[PDF available]

Working Papers

‘Outflanking’ corporatisation and the future of fair trade
Mainstreaming the Mission: the story of Asia Fair Trade Forum, the Sustainable Fair Trade Management System and a Fair Trade label for handicrafts
New Frontiers, Old Models: Challenges for Fairtrade in the Pacific

Newspaper Feature

Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) Good Living Guide (Feature Story), ‘Divine Intervention’ (April 29, 2008)

Interview

ABC Radio National, 'Free trade vs fair trade' (July 13, 2008)
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