Our people
Researchers across the University of Melbourne are working together to advance our understanding of gender in the workplace. Gathering and analysing data, and consulting with organisations and industry bodies, our academics provide insights and thought leadership around issues such as; diversity and inclusion, talent management, discrimination and harassment, and workplace culture. Their work is advancing workplace practice and informing government policy and has been widely published in academic journals.
Find out more about their current research by clicking on the relevant profile.
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Sir Douglas Copland Chair of Commerce
Director, Melbourne Centre for Corporate Governance and RegulationManagement Accounting
- Corporate governance: Board quality, CEO succession
- Executive compensation
- Performance measurement
- Management control system design
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- Organisational discourse analysis and identity
- Age and gender in employment and organisations
- Identity and public policy
- Human resource management and ethics
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- Development
- Behavioural Economics
- Health Economics
- Psychology and Economics
- Applied Microeconomics
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- Early childhood development
- Intergenerational disadvantage
- Household finance
- Labour supply issues tied to sub-populations (e.g. women, Indigenous Australians, medial workforce)
- Social and tax policy as it relates to work incentives,
- Workforce participation and dynamics
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- Criminalisation of sex-work
- Gender inequality in labour markets
- Health services access
- Impact of cash transfers on child development
- Sanitation impacts on child health
- Wellbeing of people living with a disability
- Early childhood development
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Professor of Economics
Economics
Centre for Market Design
Economic Theory and Experiments Unit
Experimental Economics Laboratory
Trade and Development Research Unit- Experimental Economics
- Industrial Organization
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- Labour supply with a focus on female labour force participation
- Impact of social policy on labour supply
- Impact of tax and transfer policies on labour supply
- Parental leave and family policies
- Impact of childcare and early childhood development
- Effects of disadvantage on child development
- Individual health outcomes
- Healthcare workforce and the labour market
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- Experimental Economics
- Behavioral Economics
- Public Economics
- Development
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- Organisational diversity management
- Gender equality
- Workplace discrimination
- Occupational health and wellbeing
- Leadership