Trajce Cvetkovski is Senior Lecturer and Discipline Leader at the Peter Faber Business School, Faculty of Law and Business. He has practised as a lawyer since 1996 and was an OHS/WHS prosecutor, and Principal Legal Officer for Queensland's Office of Industrial Relations for 13 years. He also taught law, policy and governance units at the The University of Queensland (2002-18). He has published three books in the fields of political economy and popular culture, and copyright regulation and governance. Trajce specialises in OHSE compliance and work health and safety regulation and has prosecuted several complex health and safety matters including heat exhaustion, bullying, electrical safety, and reckless conduct. His research interests currently include sentencing disparities under harmonised legislation and costs associated with achieving OHS regulation and compliance. He is an A Class member of the Bar Association Queensland.
Qualifications
2005 PhD The Political Economy of the Music Industry, University of Queensland (UQ)
1999 Qualified Lawyers Transfer Graduate Certificate, College of Law (London)
1996 Bar Practice Graduate Certificate Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
1995 Bachelor of Laws QUT 
1993 Bachelor of Arts Honours Australian Immigration Policy and the Labour Market UQ
1990 Bachelor of Arts majoring in Government, Russian studies and journalism
 
Books
Cvetkovski, Trajce (2015). The pop music idol and the spirit of charisma: reality television talent shows in the digital economy of hope. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan
Cvetkovski, Trajce (2013). Copyright and popular media: liberal villains and technological change. Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan
Cvetkovski, Trajce (2007/2012) The political economy of the music industry: technological change, consumer disorientation and market disorganisation in popular music. English ed., (German e-book (2012) Saarsbruck, Germany : VDM Verlag Dr. Muller E. K. Und Lizenzgerber
 
Invited Book Chapters
Cvetkovski. T (2020, forthcoming) &ldquoIndependence and charismatic authority in popular music: just do it yourself (DIY), In The Routledge International Handbook of Charisma
Articles
Cvetkovski, T (2014) The farcical side to the war on media piracy: A popular case of Divine Comedy?&rdquo Media, Culture and Society 36(2): 246-257(ABDC A)
 
Research Interests
OHSEM
Popular Culture Commodification
Academic Appointments
2018 - current Discipline Leader, OHSEM Course Co-ordinator and Senior Lecturer, Peter Faber Business School, Australian Catholic University
2002-2018      Lecturer (p/t) in Law, Policy and Governance, School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland
2001-2010      Moot Court Instructor (sessional), Legal Practice course Queensland University of Technology 
 
Academic Committees
2018 - present  Work Health Safety Committee (WHSMC)
 
Industry Appointments and Practical Experience
2006-2018          Principal Legal Officer and WHS Prosecutor Office of Industrial Relations
2003-2005          Legal Officer Queensland Guardianship and Adminsitration Tribunal Department of Justice    and the Attorney-General
1999-2002          Commercial Lawyer, Tiny Computers, UK
 
Professional Memberships