CWF - Macquarie Members

CWF - Macquarie Members

Dr Christine Bilsland

Macquarie Business School

Christine Bilsland

Area of Expertise:
  • Work integrated learning
  • Authentic and experiential higher education
  • International students — particularly employability and social capital development
  • Transnational higher education
  • Social networking for employability
  • Virtual internships

Dr Jessica (Jinhua) Chen

Jessica Chen

Department of Accounting and Corporate Governance, Faculty of Business and Economics
Areas of Expertise:
  • Stakeholders and Accountability in the Australian Not-for-Profit Sector
  • Risk management
  • Performance management

Dr Jinhyun (Jean) Cho

Jinhyun Cho

Department of Linguistics
Areas of Expertise:
  • English language ideologies
  • Gender and language
  • English and neoliberalism
  • intercultural communication

Dr Henry Cutler

Henry Cutler

Director, Centre for the Health Economy at Macquarie University (MUCHE)
Areas of Expertise:
  • Health economics
  • Quantitative Analysis
  • Health and aged care policy evaluation

Professor Judith Dawes

Department of Physics and Astronomy, ARC Centre for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), MQ Photonics Research Centre, Chair Faculty of Science Women in STEM committee

Judith Dawes

Area of Expertise (pertinent to CWF):
  • Gender equity in STEM

A/Prof Tanya Evans

Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations, Arts Faculty

Tanya Evans

Areas of Expertise:
  • History of the family
  • History of women’s invisible labour
  • History of poverty and welfare
  • Public history

Dr Tobia Fattore

Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts

Tobia Fattore

Areas of Expertise:
  • Labour standards in human services
  • Social Research Methods
  • Sociology of Childhood

Professor Bridget Griffen-Foley

Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies, Faculty of Arts

Bridget Griffen-Foley

Areas of Expertise:
  • history of the media, including ownership, radio listening and television viewing in Australia
  • social Movement and the Media

Professor Debbie Haski-Leventhal

Department of Management, Macquarie Business School

Debbie Haski-Leventhal

Areas of Expertise:
  • People & Organisations
  • Organisational Behaviour
  • Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Social Entrepreneurship

Dr Mark Hearn

Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations, Arts Faculty

Mark Hearn

Areas of Expertise:
  • the history of ideas and governance in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Australia
  • Australian history, particularly late nineteenth and early twentieth century Australia
  • biography
  • labour history

Dr Christopher Heaton

Department of Economics, Macquarie Business School

Christopher Heaton

Areas of Expertise:
  • Econometrics
  • Unemployment and the relationship between education and labour market outcomes
  • Education, immigration and labour markets

Dr Timothy Kyng

Department of Actuarial Studies and Data Science, Macquarie Business School

Timothy Kyng

Areas of Expertise:
  • Financial decision making
  • Valuation of complex financial contracts
  • Finance education
  • Executive share option valuation
  • Application of mathematics and statistics to finance
  • Insurance and actuarial science

Professor Emeritus John A. Mathews

Professor Emeritus John A. Mathews

Faculty of Business & Economics
Areas of Expertise:
  • Greening of the planet
  • Industrial dynamics of China’s greening strategies
  • Energy costs and renewables’ learning curve
  • Circular economy as alternative to western linear economy
  • China’s influence on greening in Africa

Professor Gabrielle Meagher

Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts

Gabrielle Meagher

Areas of Expertise:
  • Care work
  • marketization and privatization of social services
  • Australian and comparative social policy

Professor Kathryn Millard

Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies, Faculty of Arts

Kathryn Millard

Areas of Expertise:
  • Creativity and collaboration
  • creative practices
  • creative entrepreneurship
  • women in the creative arts
  • critical documentary and post-war social psychology (Milgram's 'Obedience to Authority', the 'Bystander Effect' etc.)
  • screen production
  • narrative studies
  • creative entrepreneurship

Dr Daehoon Nahm

Department of Economics, Macquarie Business School

Daehoon Nahm

Areas of Expertise:
  • Productivity and efficiency
  • Determinants of wage
  • Migration and labour market
  • Econometrics

Associate Professor Shawn Ross

Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations, Faculty of Arts & Director, Data Science and eResearch, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) — Office

Shawn Ross

Areas of Expertise:
  • Big History
  • archaeological methods
  • digital archaeology

Associate Professor Kristian Ruming

Department of Geography and Planning

Kristian Ruming

Areas of Expertise:
  • urban regeneration and renewal (public and private sector)
  • urban governance
  • the financialisation of housing
  • community participation in and opposition to the planning system

Professor Deborah Schofield

Director, GenIMPACT: Centre for Economic Impacts of Genomic Medicine and Professor and Chair of Health Economics

Deborah Schofield

Areas of Expertise:
  • Development of economic models that measure the impact of illness both within and beyond the health system
  • Cost-effectiveness analysis of interventions, particularly genomic medicine and interventions with an impact of labour for participation (eg. pain, arthritis, mental health)
  • Impact of health on labour force participation, income, savings/superannuation, income in retirement, poverty, welfare, income tax and GDP

Dr Ben Spies-Butcher

Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts

Ben Spies-Butcher

Areas of Expertise:
  • Social policy
  • Fiscal policy
  • Interactions of work and welfare
  • Interactions of paid and unpaid work
  • Economic inequality
  • Generational inequality

Dr Hanna Torsh

Research Fellow, Department of Linguistics

Hanna Torsh

Areas of Expertise:
  • Multilingualism in families
  • Bilingual education
  • Second language learning and teaching
  • Language in migration
  • Intercultural communication

Associate Professor Yue Wang

Department of Management, Faculty of Business and Economics

Yue Wang

Areas of Expertise:
  • Transaction cost-contracting theory
  • Institutional theories
  • Evolutionary economics and dynamic capabilities in international business and management
  • Joint ventures
  • East Asian business systems (China, Japan, Korea)
  • Returnee entrepreneurship and innovation in emerging markets
  • Knowledge transfer

Professor Johanna Westbrook

Director of the Centre for Health Systems and Safety Research (CHSSR), Australian Institute of Health Innovation [AIHI] Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences

Johanna Westbrook

Areas of Expertise:
  • effects of information and communication technology (ICT) in health care and on organisational efficiency;
  • observational studies of health professionals' work and communication patterns
  • identification of contextual work factors which may disrupt effective and safe work.
  • role and impact of ICT in the community and aged care sector

Associate Professor Shaun Wilson

Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts

Shaun Wilson

Areas of Expertise:
  • Political Sociology
  • Welfare States and Employment
  • Social Policy
  • Political Economy

Professor Amanda Wise

Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts

Amanda Wise

Areas of Expertise:
  • global cities and diversity
  • multiculturalism and 'lived diversity' in Australia and Singapore
  • race and interethnic relations
  • cultural attachments to and formations of place
  • national and cultural identities
  • diasporic, transnational and migrant communities
  • labour mobility in and from Asia
  • experiences of low wage migrant labourers in Australia and Asia
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