Professor Hager is a member of the Changing Practices research cluster of the Centre for Research in Learning and Change, a designated Key University Research Strength. His main research interests centre on informal workplace learning, professional practice and the role of generic skills in work. He has led multidisciplinary research teams investigating these topics for a range of professions and skilled occupations. Professor Hager's own discipline is philosophy. This underlies his ongoing scholarly interest in the emerging field of philosophy of adult and vocational education.Professor Hager is also an authority on Bertrand Russell's philosophy. His 1994 book Continuity and Change in the Development of Russell's Philosophy (Nijhoff International Philosophy Series. Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer Academic Publishers) won the 1996 Bertrand Russell Society Book Award.Current projectsFollowing recently published books on informal learning as it relates to lifelong learning (Hager and Halliday 2006) and on graduate attributes and lifelong learning (Hager and Holland eds. 2006), Paul Hager is working on a new book (with David Beckett, University of Melbourne) on practice and agency in the workplace. He is currently completing a three-year ARC Discovery research project on judgement and learning in the workplace. He is also initiating new research projects on continuing professional learning.