Beta academic Directory

Lata Gangadharan

Professor, Department of Economics

University of Queensland

SUMMARY

Lata is an experimental economist. She has conducted experiments to understand: attitudes towards peer sanctioning, incentives in environmental markets, propensity for dishonesty, corruption and charitable giving, behavioural biases towards leaders and gender differences in leadership. She is Editor of the journal, Experimental Economics.

KEY WORDS (POLICY AREAS AND METHODOLOGY EXPERTISE)

Economic Institutions

Environmental Economics

Experimental Economics

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

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More information on Lata Gangadharan is available on the Monash University website.

More information on Lata Gangadharan is available on the MERIT website.

Ellen Garbarino

Professor, The University of Sydney Business School

CSIRO

SUMMARY

Ellen Garbarino is a Professor of marketing. Her research addresses the intersection of psychology and economics interact in human decision making. Her recent research focuses on pro social behaviour, especially in the context of blood donations.

Earlier research has looked into issues such as donations to charity, credit card use, internet retailing and arts marketing. It has explored such issue as risk taking, commitment, trust, dishonesty, and perceptions of fairness.

She has worked with for profit and non profit and large and small organisations. Her research typically employs surveys and lab and field experiments.

KEY WORDS (POLICY AREAS AND METHODOLOGY EXPERTISE)

Consumer Psychology

Internet Retailing

Marketing

Survey and Experimental Design

Volunteerism

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

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More information on Ellen Garbarino is available on the University of Sydney website.

Dr Eraj Ghafoori

Research Fellow, BehaviourWorks

Monash University

SUMMARY

Dr Eraj Ghafoori is a researcher at BehaviourWorks Australia, Monash University. His research activities are focused on policies and regulations concerned with energy consumption, environmental pollution prevention and retirement. Currently, Eraj is actively involved in research aiming to understand public’s behaviour and attitude towards retirement and impacts on relevant policies and regulations.

KEY WORDS (POLICY AREAS AND METHODOLOGY EXPERTISE)

Ageing Population

Energy

Measurement Development

Pollution

Research Design

Retirement

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

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More information on Dr Eraj Ghafoori is available on the Monash University website.

Dr Denise Goodwin

Professor, Research Fellow, BehaviourWorks

Monash University

SUMMARY

Dr Denise Goodwin is a Research Fellow at BehaviourWorks Australia, Monash University. She has a particular interest in the application of systems thinking for tackling complex social problems. Recently this has been applied to organisational and employee behaviour change to support wider societal change. Her research spans across a wide range of policy areas including clinical and preventative health, sport, sustainability, childhood poverty and workers compensation.

KEY WORDS (POLICY AREAS AND METHODOLOGY EXPERTISE)

Consumer Psychology

Internet Retailing

Marketing

Survey and Experimental Design

Volunteerism

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

[e-mail]

More information on Dr Denise Goodwin is available on the Monash University website.

Ross Gordon

Associate Professor, Department of Marketing
and Management

Macquarie University

SUMMARY

Ross is an Associate Professor in Marketing at Macquarie University in Sydney. His work focuses on social issues and social change, through a critical, reflexive and multi perspective lens. His particular expertise lies in social marketing, consumer cultures, and critical marketing teaching and research. He has been a principal or named investigator on projects attracting over $6.5m in research funds in Australia, UK, Europe and India.

Ross has extensive experience managing and conducting research using multiple methodologies including longitudinal quantitative surveys, systematic reviews and meta analyses, focus groups, depth interviews, observation research, content and narrative discourse analysis, and cognitive neuroscience.

KEY WORDS (POLICY AREAS AND METHODOLOGY EXPERTISE)

Consumer Behaviour

Consumer Research

Critical Marketing

Social Marketing

Well Being

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

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More information on Ross Gordon is available on the Macquarie University website.

Quentin Grafton

Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy

Australian National University

SUMMARY

Professor Grafton is an expert in water economics, including behaviours related to water consumption. He also has significant interest in both renewable and non renewable resources, and the economics of energy. He has previously worked in the public service as the Chief Economist and Executive Director of the Australian Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics.

KEY WORDS (POLICY AREAS AND METHODOLOGY EXPERTISE)

Agriculture

Energy

Environment

Fisheries

Water

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

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More information on Quentin Grafton is available on the ANU website.

Simon Grant

Professor, School of Economics

Australian National University

SUMMARY

Professor Simon is the John C. Harsanyi Chair of Economics at the Research School of Economics in the ANU. He is an Elected Fellow of: the Econometric Society, the Australian Academy of Social Sciences and The Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory.

Professor Grant’s research interests include modelling boundedly rational decision makers with limited awareness in the presence of uncertainty, and applying these models to economic settings involving strategic interactions and social choice.

KEY WORDS (POLICY AREAS AND METHODOLOGY EXPERTISE)

Decision Theory

Microeconomics

Game Theory

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

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More information on Simon Grant is available on the ANU website.