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Rebekah Russell-BennettProfessor, QUT Business School Queensland University of Technology SUMMARYRebekah holds a PhD in brand loyalty for the services sector, is the co editor for the Journal of Services Marketing and has published over 155 peer reviewed articles with more than 40 articles in international journals. Rebekah research is in the field of Social Marketing (using commercial marketing to address social problems such as alcohol consumption, chronic disease, water usage, electricity use, public transport and diet), and she is responsible for the development of the award winning QUTopia role play simulation at QUT. KEY WORDS (POLICY AREAS AND METHODOLOGY EXPERTISE)Behavioural Change Consumer Behaviour Customer Loyalty Health Services Social Marketing
ADDITIONAL INFORMATIONrebekah.bennett@qut.edu.au More information on Rebekah Russell-Bennett is available on the QUT website. Dr David SavageLecturer, University of Newcastle and Visiting Fellow Queensland University of Technology SUMMARYDavid is a behavioral economics researcher, with primary research interest in the behavioral analysis of disasters and extreme environments. This includes man made and natural disasters (from floods to terrorism) and high stress work or play environments (from elite athletes to police officers). David strives to marry the behavioral work of the social sciences to the empirical rigor of economics, and generating new and important insights into the disaster and behavioral literatures, covering the empirical analysis of decision making, emotions, health and stress in these non normal environments. KEY WORDS (POLICY AREAS AND METHODOLOGY EXPERTISE)Behavioural Economics Decision Making Extreme Economics Life and Death Economics Microeconomics
ADDITIONAL INFORMATIONDavid.Savage@newacastle.edu.au More information on Dr David Savage is available on the University of Newcastle website. Dr Markus SchaffnerQUT Business School, Economics and Finance Queensland University of Technology SUMMARYDr Schaffner researchers issues around tax compliance and tax morale – trying to understand the factors which underlie why people pay tax in the first place. His work uses an experimental economics methodology to explore these issues, but also uses psychological and physiological factors to support his research. KEY WORDS (POLICY AREAS AND METHODOLOGY EXPERTISE)Tax Compliance ADDITIONAL INFORMATIONm.schaffner@qut.edu.au More information on Dr Markus Schaffner is available on the QUT website. Dr Rita SeethalerDIRECTOR, THE URBAN TRANSPORT INSTITUTE DIRECTOR, GREEN AND GOLD TREE FARMS Queensland University of Technology SUMMARYDr Rita Seethaler is the Director of the The Urban Transport Institute. She has many years experience in transport planning, having worked in government in Switzerland for the Federal Statistics Office and the Bureau of Transport Studies. Before coming to Australia, she took a lead role in a trilateral project between France, Austria and Switzerland on the health effects of air pollution from road traffic. Since coming to Australia, Rita has continued her investigations into the environmental impacts of transport and done research into the application of the Principles of Persuasion to encourage sustainable transport behaviour. KEY WORDS (POLICY AREAS AND METHODOLOGY EXPERTISE)Field Experiments Surveys
Sustainable Travel ADDITIONAL INFORMATIONrita.seethaler@tuti.com.au More information on Dr Rita Seethaler is available on the TUTI website. Dr Hugh SiblyTasmanian School of Economics and Business University of Tasmania SUMMARYDr Hugh Sibly’s research interst is in price determination, particularly in the areas of experimental/behavioural economics, urban water markets, macroeconomics and industrial organisation. His research on urban water pricing investigates how to most efficiently allocate available urban water over the climate cycle. His work in the areas of behavioural and experimental economics looks at how social comparisons and cooperative preferences shape economic interactions. KEY WORDS (POLICY AREAS AND METHODOLOGY EXPERTISE)Lab Experiments Industrial Organisation Urban Water Markets
ADDITIONAL INFORMATIONHugh.sibly@utas.edu.au More information on Dr Hugh Sibly is available on the University of Tasmania website. Mathias SinningAssociate Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy Australian National University SUMMARYMathias is interested in the application of econometric methods to issues related to labour economics and public economics. He is currently working on a project that aims to improve the Australian tax system by designing and evaluating new approaches to tax payment through applying behavioural insights in empirical trials in collaboration with the Australian Taxation Office. KEY WORDS (POLICY AREAS AND METHODOLOGY EXPERTISE)Applied Econometrics Higher Education Inequality Labour Economics Public Economics Public Policy Evaluation ADDITIONAL INFORMATIONmathias.sinning@anu.edu.au More information on Mathias Sinning's personal website. Robert SlonimProfessor, School of Economics University of Sydney SUMMARYProfessor Slonim is Professor of Economics at the University of Sydney. He holds a PhD from Duke University and MBA and BA degrees from the University of California Berkeley. Professor Slonim is best recognized as a pioneer in the area of experimental economics and has written extensively on learning, trust and the economics of charitable behaviour and blood donations. Professor Slonim is innovative in his use of experimental methods that have theoretical importance and also represent important findings for matters of public policy.
KEY WORDS (POLICY AREAS AND METHODOLOGY EXPERTISE)Blood Donor Motivation Charitable Behaviour Economics of Education Experimental Economics Learning Trust
ADDITIONAL INFORMATIONrobert.slonim@sydney.edu.au More information on Robert Slonim is available on the University of Sydney website. Liam SmithAssociate Professor, Director, BehaviourWorks SUMMARYAssociate Professor Liam Smith is the Director of BehaviourWorks Australia (BWA) at Monash University. Since establishing BWA in 2011, the research unit has grown to 18 staff who work in partnership with government and the private sector to design, deliver and evaluate research informed behaviour change programs to address a raft of social issues including health, workplace safety, biosecurity, education, family violence, social inclusion, digital inclusion, retirement savings and environment. He has published widely on behaviour and behaviour change including, in 2016, in the Journal of Environmental Psychology, Environmental Science and Policy and Science Communication.
KEY WORDS (POLICY AREAS AND METHODOLOGY EXPERTISE)Applied Behavioural Methods Behavioural Spillover Conservation Energy
Emotion and Behaviour Water
ADDITIONAL INFORMATIONLiam.smith@monash.edu.au More information on Liam Smith is available on the Monash University website. Susan ThorpProfessor, The University of Sydney Business School University of Sydney SUMMARYSusan Thorp researches financial decision making over the life cycle. She works in cross disciplinary teams, often using experimental and survey methods. Professor Thorp has published over forty academic papers in leading finance journals including Management Science, the Economic Journal and the Review of Finance. She is also a regular contributor to pension policy discussions and is a member of the OECD/INFE Research Committee. Before joining the University of Sydney, she held positions as Professor of Finance and Superannuation at the University of Technology Sydney, and the Reserve Bank of Australia.
KEY WORDS (POLICY AREAS AND METHODOLOGY EXPERTISE)Behavioural Finance Consumer Financial Decision Making Financial Econometrics Superannuation and Pensions ADDITIONAL INFORMATIONsusan.thorp@sydney.edu.au More information on Susan Thorp is available on the University of Sydney website. Dr Barry TolchardSenior Lecturer, School of Health University of New England SUMMARYBarry is a Registered Nurse, specialising in Mental Health. Barry has worked in the UK and South Australia and works as a consultant nurse psychotherapist. In nursing, Barry teaches mental health, learning disability, chronic disease management and more widely teaches clinical psychology, psychiatry and other allied health at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Barry is an active researcher with interests in gambling/addictions, mental health, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, public health, chronic disease and health education. Barry’s research interests span clinical, epidemiological and experimental approaches at both qualitative and quantitative levels. His current research studies the processes that produce gambling stigma at an individual (self stigma), communal (public stigma) and social (structural stigma) level. KEY WORDS (POLICY AREAS AND METHODOLOGY EXPERTISE)Addictions Chronic Disease Management Gambling Learning Disability Mental Health Research Productivity ADDITIONAL INFORMATIONbtolchar@une.edu.au More information on Dr Barry Tolchard is available on the UNE website. Benno TorglerProfessor, QUT Business School Queensland University of Technology SUMMARYProfessor Benno Torgler has worked on understanding the norms underlying pro social behaviours of littering and tax compliance. His more recent work has studied behaviour in life or death situations, including drawing on historical work from the sinking of the Titanic. This stream of work could have policy implications to designing responses to natural disasters. In this research, he finds that social norms, such as ‘women and children first’, are still present even in these extreme situations. KEY WORDS (POLICY AREAS AND METHODOLOGY EXPERTISE)Econometrics Environment Surveys Tax
ADDITIONAL INFORMATIONBenno.torgler@qut.edu.au More information on Benno Torgler is available on the QUT website. Dr Agnieszka TymulaSenior Lecturer, School of Economics University of Sydney SUMMARYAgnieszka Tymula is a decision scientist who uses experimental and traditional theoretical economic tools in her research. While studying behavioural/experimental economics and choice theory as a graduate student at Bocconi University and a visiting scholar at Northwestern University, Agnieszka became convinced that understanding the biological constraints of human decision making will be an effective way to constrain economic theory and experiments. In order to further explore this, Agnieszka joined the Society for Neuroeconomics and became a post doctoral researcher in Prof Paul Glimcher’s lab at the Center for Neuroeconomics at New York University. She joined the University of Sydney in July 2013.
KEY WORDS (POLICY AREAS AND METHODOLOGY EXPERTISE)Behavioural Economics Experimental Economics Neuroeconomics
ADDITIONAL INFORMATIONagnieszka.tymula@sydney.edu.au More information on Dr Agnieszka Tymula is available on the University of Sydney website. Dr Eva VivaltLecturer, Research School of Economics Australian National University SUMMARYEva has extensive experience with international development, including field experience, through work with the UN Development Program, Oxford Development Abroad, and numerous other charity groups. Much of her research focuses on how governments, non profit agencies, and other large institutions use evidence from research, and how impact evaluations can be used to design better policies. KEY WORDS (POLICY AREAS AND METHODOLOGY EXPERTISE)Impact Evaluations International Development Public Policy
ADDITIONAL INFORMATIONeva.vivalt@anu.edu.au More information on Dr Eva Vivalt is available on the ANU website. Melanie WakefieldAdjunct Professor, School of Public Health University of Sydney SUMMARYProfessor Melanie Wakefield is Director of our Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer (CBRC). She is also a Principal Research Fellow of the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council, with honorary professorial appointments at three Australian universities. She has training in psychology and public health. Her centre conducts applied behavioural research to guide the development and evaluation of population focused cancer prevention programs, including mass media campaigns in tobacco control, skin cancer prevention, obesity prevention and to promote cancer screening. Her research centre is closely integrated with Cancer Council Victoria programs that develop and deliver mass media campaigns, including the well known Australian Quit and SunSmart campaigns, and it provides advice and input into cancer prevention policies and media campaigns to governments at state, national and international levels.
KEY WORDS (POLICY AREAS AND METHODOLOGY EXPERTISE)Behavioural Sciences Cancer
Communication Health Psychology Tobacco and Tobacco Control
ADDITIONAL INFORMATIONmelanie.wakefield@sydney.edu.au More information on Melanie Wakefield is available on the University of Sydney website. Li Ming WenClinical Associate Professor School of Public Health University of Sydney SUMMARYA/Prof Li Ming Wen, MD, MMed, PhD, has extensive research experience in the fields of medicine, social science and public health with over 100 peer reviewed publications in high impact journals including BMJ and JAMA Paediatrics. He holds a position as Adjunct Professor in both the School of Public Health, Fudan University, and the Faculty of Medicine, Tongji University, China. He is also a Research and Evaluation Manager at Health Promotion Service, Sydney Local Health District. His current research interests are in childhood obesity, physical activity, active transport, sexual health and tobacco control with specific expertise in the evaluation of health promotion initiatives.
KEY WORDS (POLICY AREAS AND METHODOLOGY EXPERTISE)Cardiovascular Disease Diabetes
Evidence Based Medicine Healthy Ageing Lifespan Obesity
ADDITIONAL INFORMATIONliming.wen@sydney.edu.au More information on Li Ming Wen is available on the University of Sydney website. Michael WenzelAssociate Professor, School of Psychology Flinders University SUMMARYDr Wenzel’s main research interests in social psychology relate to issues of justice and fairness, intergroup relations, and compliance with laws and regulations. In the area of justice, his focus has recently been on justice motives after transgressions and victimization, and the role that punishment, revenge, apologies and forgiveness play in the restoration of a sense of justice. In the area of compliance, he is interested in the role of fairness perceptions, social identity, attributions of legitimacy to regulators and law enforcement agencies, and the interaction between norms and law. His research may have applications for how courts and legal systems treat the perpetrators and victims of crime. KEY WORDS (POLICY AREAS AND METHODOLOGY EXPERTISE)Compliance Crime
Forgiveness ADDITIONAL INFORMATIONmichael.wenzel@flinders.edu.au More information on Michael Wenzel is available on the Flinders University website. Dr Olaf WerderLecturer, Department of Media and Communications University of Sydney SUMMARYA graduate in marketing/management from the Universität Dortmund, Germany, in advertising from the University of Illinois, and in Mass Communication from the University of Florida, Olaf Werder holds a lectureship in strategic and health communication at the Media and Communications Department of the University of Sydney after having held positions at the University of Florida and the University of New Mexico. Prior to his academic appointment, he has worked in the communication industry on the media and agency side in two countries for about ten years. KEY WORDS (POLICY AREAS AND METHODOLOGY EXPERTISECommunity Based Participatory Research Health Communication Health Policy Health Promotion Obesity Prevention Campaigns Quantitative Social Marketing
ADDITIONAL INFORMATIONolaf.werder@sydney.edu.au More information on Dr Olaf Werder is available on the University of Sydney website. Stephen WhelanAssociate Professor, School of Economics University of Sydney SUMMARYStephen Whelan received his PhD from the University of British Columbia in 2003. His PhD thesis examined the use of social welfare programs in Canada and their impact on labour market outcomes. Stephen’s main areas of interest are social policy and their impact on labour market outcomes. Presently, Stephen is examining the effect of housing assistance measures on labour market behaviour in Australia with the support of a grant from the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute. Collaborative research with Anu Rammohan is considering the effect of child care assistance on the employment decisions of women and their implications for retirement income. KEY WORDS (POLICY AREAS AND METHODOLOGY EXPERTISE)Applied Econometrics Applied Economics Labour Economics Public Policy ADDITIONAL INFORMATIONstephen.whelan@sydney.edu.au More information on Stephen Whelan is available on the University of Sydney website. Katherine WhiteProfessor, School of Psychology and Counselling Queensland University of Technology SUMMARYProfessor Katherine White is a professor of psychology at the Queensland University of Technology. Her research interests lie in both correlational and experimental paradigms and social psychology, in particular, attitude behaviour relations, group norms, prediction of health care behaviours, social identity and altruism/helping behaviours. KEY WORDS (POLICY AREAS AND METHODOLOGY EXPERTISE)Altruism Attitude Behaviour Relations Health Social Identity Theory Social Psychology ADDITIONAL INFORMATIONkm.white@qut.edu.au More information on Katherine White is available on the QUT website. Dr Stuart WhittenGroup Leader, Economics and Future Pathways CSIRO
SUMMARYDr Stuart Whitten is an environmental and institutional economist with CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences. His particular speicalisation is the design and delivery of markets for ecosystem services including auctions and tenders, biodiversity offsets and cap and trade approaches. Stuart’s current research focus is on understanding institution and policy needs to support landscape scale biodiversity and on land management and Great Barrier Reef water quality. KEY WORDS (POLICY AREAS AND METHODOLOGY EXPERTISE)Environment Incentives and Institutions Market Based Instruments (including auctions and tenders, offsets and cap and trade markets) Non Market Valuation Resource Economics
ADDITIONAL INFORMATIONStuart.whitten@csiro.au More information on Dr Stuart Whitten is available on the CSIRO website. Dr Breanna WrightResearch Fellow, BehaviourWorks Monash University SUMMARYDr Breanna Wright is a Research Fellow at BehaviourWorks Australia, Monash University. Her research has focused on health behaviours and health systems, including longitudinal behavioural patterns and health policy implications. With a particular focus on unpacking problems and behavioural drivers, Breanna has worked on projects from healthy dining, reducing inappropriate calls to Triple Zero, young people’s experiences at work and livestock biosecurity on farms. Breanna also has experience in synthesising research evidence, both in the traditional systematic review format and the emerging format of rapid reviews, getting timely high quality evidence in front of policy makers.
KEY WORDS (POLICY AREAS AND METHODOLOGY EXPERTISE)Health Behaviours Health Systems Rapid Review Systematic Review ADDITIONAL INFORMATIONbreanna.wright@monash.edu More information on Dr Breanna Wright is available on the Monash University website. Erte XiaoAssociate Professor, Department of Economics Monash University SUMMARYErte Xiao is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics. Her research applies experimental methods to understand how incentives and social norms influence economic behavior. Before joining Monash University, she was an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University and a post doctoral fellow at University of Pennsylvania. KEY WORDS (POLICY AREAS AND METHODOLOGY EXPERTISE)Behavioural Economics Experimental Economics Incentives Social Norms ADDITIONAL INFORMATIONErte.Xiaomonash.edu More information on Erte Xiao is available on the Monash University website. Yüklə 11,29 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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