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Sir Roland Wilson alumna Jennifer Chang
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Jennifer Chang

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

The Australian National University

PhD title: Labour Supply in China

Since starting as a graduate at the Treasury in 2004, Jennifer’s work experience has involved rigorous analysis of Asian economies, a deep understanding of the Australian economy and an appreciation of the importance of effective international economic engagement. In 2021 Jenny moved to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

Jennifer’s study examines the dynamics of the Chinese labour market and links to an analysis of China’s broader economic growth prospects.  A deeper understanding of the Chinese economy is of critical policy relevance, with China’s overall growth trajectory of particular importance to Australia’s prosperity.

Supervisor:
Associate Professor Jane Golley
Sir Roland Wilson alumna Katy Jones
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Katy Jones

The Australian National University

PhD title: School attendance and primary school-aged Indigenous children

Katy joined the public service in 2006 at what is now the Department of Social Services. An interest in the well-being of Indigenous people, particularly in remote areas, led her to take on work for the Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health in Sydney, and also with the Indigenous Coordination Centre in Darwin. Since 2012, Katy’s work has been on the evaluation and policy development of income management.

Katy’s research will explore the historical, political, social and economic context of the non-attendance of Indigenous primary school-age children in remote Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory. It will take a multi-method approach, investigating attendance trends through use of school attendance data, and will use qualitative data to explore, on individual and community levels, the reasons why some policies may, or may not, support or improve school attendance.

Supervisor:
Professor Nicholas Biddle
Peter J Bligh
SRW Pat Turner Scholarship Graduated 2020

Peter J Bligh

National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation

Australian National University

Graduate Diploma of Economics

Peter joined the APS in 2012. He has provided advice on program design, program management, strategic policy and regulatory administration for the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment. While doing this, Peter has embedded strategies to enhance Indigenous outcomes across the breadth of his work.

Peter is using his postgraduate study to continue to enhance Indigenous outcomes by applying economics to policy formulation and evaluation. He is also hoping to develop embedded understanding of issues involved in the coordination of economic policies, and better analyse the economic effects of policy changes and communicate them to a public, business or government audience.

Lee-Anne Daffy
SRW Pat Turner Scholarship 2020

Lee-Anne Daffy

Services Australia

Charles Darwin University

Research title: Hearing the whispers of many: truth telling journeys of Aboriginal Australian women employed by the Australian Public Service through entry level programs

After completing her Masters of Business Management thesis, Lee-Anne returned to the Department of Human Services through the graduate program in 2011. In her current social work role, Lee-Anne contributes to the provision of compassionate and holistic support to Services Australia customers who present with complex life circumstances.

Lee-Anne’s doctoral research will inform governments, the Australian Public Service, various departments and academia of the significance entry-level programs have in changing the lives of Indigenous Australian women. Using predominantly qualitative analysis, this study has implications for fundamental shifts in employment outcomes in a way that directly influences levels of self-determination for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and, in turn, future generations.

Supervisor:
Professor Ruth Wallace

Daffy L (2011) Hearing the Journeys: The Factors that Impact Female Indigenous Entrepreneurship in Victoria [Master Thesis], RMIT University, Melbourne.

Conway L, Daffy L, Faulkner S, Lahn J, Munns S and Richardson G (2024) 'First nations First: First Nations public servants, the future of the Australian public service' Policy Quarterly 20(1): 30-29.

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Sir Roland Wilson Scholarship 2020

Anna Fieldhouse

Department of Social Services

Australian National University

PhD title: Welfare service consumers as regulators: Case studies of welfare service regulation and consumer influence in commodified welfare markets.

Through her research, Anna Fieldhouse considers the regulatory governance of welfare services and the role of civil society as intermediaries representing marginalised welfare service users. Her PhD thesis looks at regulatory governance eco-systems as a way of understanding how actors come together to drive or impede reform, how discourses move across governance spaces. Her thesis raises normative questions about whether the democratic ideals of representation and participation embedded governance sites are realised in the regulatory welfare state.

Anna's research focuses on two regulatory communities – disability and aged care in Australia. It draws evidence from civil society submissions to recent Australian Royal Commissions into the abuse and neglect to identify governance narratives and networks. Interviews with civil society leaders adds to the empirical study examining the mechanisms and processes of representation used to bring the voice of marginalised welfare service users into the regulation of critical social services. Her research takes a normative case study approach to shed light on the democratic ideals that are little challenged in non-majoritarian governance environments.

Anna has extensive experience in social policy design, including in the development of responsive regulatory systems. She holds a position as Policy Director in the Australian Government Department of Social Services (DSS). Her career has included policy and operational leadership roles in government and non-government organisations in the homelessness, domestic violence, mental health and disability sectors. Anna’s more recent focus has been on designing regulatory systems for welfare services, including developing the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Quality and Safeguards Commission, established in 2018.

Supervisor:
Associate Professor Ashley Schram
Owen Freestone
Sir Roland Wilson Scholarship Graduated 2020

Dr

Owen Freestone

The Treasury

Australian National University

PhD title: Economic inequality over the life cycle in Australia.

Owen has worked in the APS since 2004. Since 2010, he has managed various teams within the Macroeconomic Group at Treasury, responsible for providing advice on the Australian and Chinese economies.

Owen’s PhD research explores the life-cycle dimension of income and consumption among Australian households, and how this is shaped by government policy. He looked to answer questions, such as the relative importance of individual differences versus other factors in explaining wage inequality in Australia, and the role that the tax-transfer system plays in cushioning workers from unexpected income changes. Owen has also published a number of research publications on economic topics like Australian household saving behaviour and structural change in the Chinese economy.

Supervisor:
Professor Robert Breunig
  • Freestone O, Daudry A, Obeyesekere A and Sedgwick M (2011) ‘The Rise in Household Saving and its Implications for the Australian Economy’. Economic Round-up, 2011, 2, The Treasury, Canberra.
  • Zhang D and Freestone, O (2013), ‘China’s unfinished state-owned enterprise reforms’. Economic Round-up, 2013, 2, The Treasury, Canberra.
  • Freestone O (2018) ‘The Drivers of Life-Cycle Wage Inequality in Australia’. Economic Record, 94( 307):424-444.
  • Freestone O (2020), Economic inequality over the life cycle in Australia [PhD Thesis], The Australian National University, Canberra.
Emma Graham
Sir Roland Wilson Scholarship 2020

Emma Graham

Attorney-General’s Department

Australian National University

PhD title: Encumbered Workers: A Socio-Legal Study of Motherhood, Discrimination and Job Loss

Emma joined the Attorney-General’s Department in 2011 and has worked in a variety of legal policy roles across native title, constitutional law and human rights. In that time, Emma has provided advice to government on the implications of native title litigation, including a number of complex appellate matters. Emma prepared and was a member of the Australian delegation that appeared before the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in 2017. She also prepared the delegation for its appearance before the Committee on the Rights of the Child in 2019.

Emma’s research will explore women’s experiences of discriminatory job loss, including its contributing causes and the effectiveness of current prevention and redress schemes. The research will analyse mechanisms that hold potential for addressing discriminatory job loss, including measures implemented in comparable jurisdictions and any barriers or enablers to their effective implementation in the Australian context.

Supervisor:
Emerita Professor Margaret Thornton FASSA, FAAL
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Sir Roland Wilson Scholarship 2020

Michelle Lyons

The Australian National University

PhD title: Banking on Paris: The roles of public green banks in the transition to net zero emissions

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Chell’s doctoral research examines the role of public financial institutions which leverage private finance in the transition to net zero emissions, with a particular focus on public green banks. She was formerly a Climate Change Research Fellow in the Lowy Institute’s Indo Pacific Development Centre where her research focused on the intersections between climate finance, geoeconomics and climate justice.

Prior to commencing her Sir Roland Wilson scholarship, Chell was seconded to the ANU as the inaugural JW Land Research Fellow on the Grand Challenge on Zero Carbon Energy in the Asia Pacific, examining multilateral efforts to accelerate cross-border electricity trade within ASEAN. She has previously worked on international climate change negotiations, (including for the UNFCCC, G20 and IMO), Australia’s emissions projections, and carbon price development.

In 2017 she was selected as an Emerging Leader in the EU-Australia Leadership dialogue. In 2015, she was part of the winning team in the cross-cultural business accelerator CAMP and was invited to participate in the Beijing government’s OTEC accelerator and the Australian Government’s CSIRO:On business incubator. Chell has a Masters degree in Public Policy and an Honours degree in Media and Communications, both from the University of New South Wales.

From public service to climate scholar: Michelle Lyons on Green Banks and Net Zero

Supervisor:
Professor Frank Jotzo

Beck F J, Gourlay D, Lyons C and Venkataraman M B (2021) ‘The Hydrogen Economy’ in Baldwin K, Howden M, Smith M, Hussey K, and Dawson P (eds) Transitioning to a Prosperous, Resilient and Carbon-Free Economy: A Guide for Decision-Makers. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. doi:10.1017/9781316389553

White L V, Hughes L, Lyons C and Peng Y (2021) ‘Iterating localisation policies in support of energy transition: The case of the Australian Capital Territory’ Energy Policy 158, 112568. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421521004389?via%3Dihub

Lyons M (2023) ‘Setting the standard: An important step on the path to net zero emissions’, The Interpreter, Lowy Institute, https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/setting-standard-important-step-path-net-zero-emissions

Lyons C (21 July 2023) ‘International shipping: a missed opportunity to reduce emissions’, Devpolicy Blog, https://devpolicy.org/international-shipping-a-missed-opportunity-to-reduce-emissions-20230721/

Lyons M (2023) ‘Climate justice: friendshoring, China’s supremacy and America’s IR Act’, The Interpreter, Lowy Institute, https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/climate-justice-friendshoring-china-s-supremacy-america-s-ir-act

Jotzo F and Lyons M (2023) ‘Global Stocktake: Unlocking trillions for climate action’, The Interpreter, Lowy Institute, https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/global-stocktake-unlocking-trillions-climate-action

Lyons M and Neelam R (2023) ‘Down or out: The future of fossil fuels at COP28’, The Interpreter (Lowy Institute), https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/down-or-out-future-fossil-fuels-cop28

Alexandra C , Lyons M and Waters K (2023) Caring for Carers – a student-led investigation to better support ANU HDR carers, ANU Gender Institute, https://genderinstitute.anu.edu.au/news/report-caring-carers-student-led-investigation-better-support-anu-hdr-carers

Lyons M and White L V (2023) ‘How Green Banks can create multiple types of value in the transition to net zero emissions’ Australian Journal of Public Administration, December 2023, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8500.12623

Neelam R and Lyons M (20 December 2023) ‘Is this the end of fossil fuels’ age?’ The Canberra Times, https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8465331/cop28-agreement-major-shift-in-climate-change-fight/

Neelam R and Lyons M (26 December 2023) ‘Australia and Japan must recast their energy relationship’ Nikkei Asia, https://asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/Australia-and-Japan-must-recast-their-energy-relationship

Lyons M, Rajah R and Stanhope G (2024) ‘Go big or go home: Australia should invest at scale in Southeast Asia’s energy transition’, The Interpreter, Lowy Institute, https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/go-big-or-go-home-australia-should-invest-scale-southeast-asia-s-energy-transition

Lyons M, Rajah R and Stanhope G (2024) ‘A multilateral bank for the Indo-Pacific?’ The Interpreter, Lowy Institute, https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/multilateral-bank-indo-pacific

Lyons M (2024) Lowy Institute Data Snapshot, Trump 2.0 would not derail the global energy transition, Lowy Institute, https://interactives.lowyinstitute.org/features/2024-us-presidential-election/donald-trump/article/trump-and-climate-policy/

Lyons M, Rajah R and Stanhope G (2024) ‘A new multilateral bank, not an American “Marshall Plan” alone, is the key to a clean energy future’, The Interpreter, Lowy Institute, https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/new-multilateral-bank-not-american-marshall-plan-alone-key-clean-energy-future

Lyons M, Rajah R and Stanhope G (2024) The case for an Indo-Pacific Economic Resilience Bank Lowy Institute, https://www.lowyinstitute.org/publications/case-indo-pacific-economic-resilience-bank

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Andrew Morgan
Sir Roland Wilson Scholarship 2020

Andrew Morgan

Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts

Australian National University

PhD title: Developing Australian policy stewardship: delivering policy in thin markets

Andrew is from the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications. He is a 2015 Churchill Fellow and has worked in safety, health and environmental policy development, governance, planning and evaluation.

Andrew’s thesis seeks to describe the role of the public service in stewarding policy outcomes. His research examines the tension between linear accountability and multi-dimensional accounts of policy that engage with uncertainty and contradictory evidence in thinning markets. This is the location of ‘policy crafting’, which was heightened during the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic. Andrew is examining the problem across regional thin market challenges to understand how policy analysis supports delivery of outcomes through uncertainty.  

Supervisor:
Professor Ariadne Vromen Professor John Wanna. Dr Michael Di Francesco.

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Katrina Howe
Sir Roland Wilson Scholarship 2020

Katrina Perkin

Department of Health and Aged Care

Australian National University

PhD title: Encouraging the regulatory evaluation of off-patent repositioned medicines in Australia

Prior to joining the Department of Health in 2010, Katrina worked on clinical trials for pharmaceutical companies both nationally and internationally. Whilst working for government, she has helped patients with rare, life-threatening conditions to access effective treatments; improve the sustainability of future PBS drug supply via pricing reviews; increase patient access to new and expanded pharmacy programs and protect public health through the scheduling of medicines and poisons.

Katrina’s research aims to evaluate the impacts of current medicines policy, regulatory processes, prescriber behaviour and clinical guideline content on ‘off-label’ prescribing and the potential repurposing of medicines. Australian and international policy perspectives will be studied. Katrina will use a mixed-methods approach to investigate factors that influence decision making in order to inform future policy development.

Supervisor:
Associate Professor Anna Olsen

Howe K, Bourke S, Sansom L (2021) 'The extent to which off-patent registered prescription medicines are used for off-label indications in Australia: A scoping review', PLoS ONE, 16(12): e0261022. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0261022

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Dr Talia Avrahamzon
Sir Roland Wilson Scholarship Graduated 2019

Dr

Talia Avrahamzon

Research Australia (formerly Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet)

The Australian National University

PhD title: Everyday reconciliation at school: new celebrations and ongoing silences

Talia’s PhD explores how the education system engages in reconciliation at the policy, school and classroom levels as well as through the perspectives of children. Through a multi-disciplinary ethnographic inquiry into the everyday policies and practices in two urban primary schools on Ngunnawal Country, in the ACT education jurisdiction, the study responded to a gap in understanding how, why and for whom reconciliation is (re)constructed. The findings have implications for how individuals, organisations and the nation understand and engage with reconciliation beyond the education system.  They have been adapted to professional development for educators and Commonwealth and State/Territory public policy makers; university courses; and individual and organisational change evaluation frameworks on addressing intersectionality, anti-racism, and reconciliation.

Talia has been employed by the Department of Social Services (DSS) and then the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet since 2002 in various policy, implementation (including community engagement) and organisational culture (learning and development) roles. Talia is currently the National Strategic Partnership and Research Manager at First Peoples Disability Network, a human rights organisation. Previous to this she was the DSS Executive Director First Nations disability policy, where she established a national policy, research and data agenda in partnership with peak organisations, community and research partners. Since completing her PhD, she has also held research fellowships and teaching positions in the ANU College of Arts and Social Science, has been a Chief Investigator on intercultural understanding research and evaluation projects, and has co-designed and delivered Indigenous Affairs, Policy and intercultural capability professional development and training packages within the APS. During her scholarship, Talia was a visiting scholar at Queens University, Belfast (2015) and Victoria University, Wellington (2019) where she maintains strong research and policy collaborations.

Supervisor:
Associate Professor Jerry Schwab
  • Bar-Tal D, Avrahamzon T (2016) ‘Development of delegitimization and animosity in the context of intractable conflict’. In Sibley C and Barlow F (eds), Cambridge Handbook of the Psychology of Prejudice. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
  • Avrahamzon T and Gorringe S (24-28 July 2017) ‘Reconciliation in Australian primary schools’ [conference presentation], World Indigenous Policy Conference on Education, Toronto, Canada.
  • Avrahamzon T (24-25 August 2017) ‘“We don’t focus on reconciliation as we do it all the time, it’s embedded in everything we do”: how two primary schools deliver messages about Indigenous peoples and cultures, Australian history and reconciliation’ [conference presentation], Oceanic Ethnography and Education Conference, Deakin University, Deakin, Australia.
  • Avrahamzon T (11-13 September 2017) ‘Reconciling the Contradictions of Reconciliation – Primary School Children’s Perspectives’ [conference presentation], Oxford Ethnography and Education Conference, Oxford, England.
  • Avrahamzon T and Herron M (3 November 2017) ‘Celebrating Reconciliation or Racism in Celebration: Institutional racism towards Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and cultures in primary and secondary schools’ [conference presentation], 50 Years of Institutional Racism Conference, Deakin University, Deakin, Australia.
  • Avrahamzon T (2019) Everyday Reconciliation at School: New Celebrations and Ongoing Silences [PhD Thesis], The Australian National University, Canberra.
  • Avrahamzon T (1-3 July 2019) ‘Settled Reconciliation: ‘Settled reconciliation’ in education policy and practice – how celebrations of reconciliation can silence diversity’ [conference presentation], 2019 AIATSIS National Indigenous Research Conference, Brisbane, Australia.
  • Avrahamzon T (1-5 December 2019) ‘Reconciling education policies and the everyday practices in schools in relation to reconciliation in Australia’ [conference presentation], Australian Association for Research in Education Conference, Brisbane, Australia.
  • Avrahamzon T and Avery S (3 November 2021) ‘Intersectionality: Closing the Gap and Australia’s Disability Strategy’ [conference presentation], Australian Social Policy Conference, UNSW Social Policy Research Centre Sydney.
  • Avrahamzon T, Dinku Y, Murray M and Bowen T (2022) Core Cultural e-Learning Impact and Currency Evaluation. Report to Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
Anthony Cowley
SRW Pat Turner Scholarship 2019

Anthony Cowley

Department of Social Services

Charles Darwin University

PhD title: What Influences, Enables or Hinders a Public Servant’s Decisions to Co-design Grants with Indigenous Communities?

Anthony works at the Department of Social Services, contributing to the design and integration of performance and partnership functions under the Department of Social Services Grants Hub. He has over 20 years’ experience in the Australian Public Service, spanning several portfolios including Industry, Education, Health, Social Services and the Australian Public Service Commission. Seventeen of these years have been dedicated to working in Indigenous Australian policy and program delivery areas.

Anthony’s research uses a mixed-methods approach to examine the values and priorities that drive decision making by Australia’s federal public servants as they make critical choices about public spending (through grants) for social welfare.

Supervisor:
Professor Ruth Wallace
Dr Nathan Deutscher
Sir Roland Wilson Scholarship Graduated 2019

Dr

Nathan Deutscher

Department of the Treasury

Australian National University

PhD title: Empirical Essays in Intergenerational Mobility and Early Childhood Human Capital Formation

Nathan’s PhD research focused on intergenerational mobility—the extent to which economic outcomes pass from parents to children. Building on the work of past scholars, he worked with the ATO to build Australia’s first intergenerational tax dataset. His research has been published in leading economics journals, including the Journal of Economic Literature and American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Labour Economics and the Economic Record. In 2024 he received the Young Economist award from the Economics Society of Australia.

Prior to his PhD, Nathan worked in Treasury in a variety of roles across social and tax policy, including as a Departmental Liaison Officer in the Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer’s Office. On returning, Nathan played a central role in establishing its microdata units as a founding Director. Nathan is now Assistant Secretary and Chief Data Officer at the Treasury and has continued his academic work with a part-time appointment at the Australian National University and, more recently, the University of Technology Sydney.

Supervisor:
Professor Robert Breunig

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Fiona Dunne
Sir Roland Wilson Scholarship 2019

Fiona Dunne

Attorney-General's Department

The Australian National University

PhD title: The Walker Talker Project: can a structured professional judgement tool help predict those at risk of violent extremism?

Fiona joined the APS in 2002, working as a psychologist across both state and federal government. Fiona’s experiences have broadly focused on risk assessment and driven her interest in better understanding extremist violence. She is passionate about applying research to real-world contexts and improving evidence-based knowledge to inform decision making. 

Fiona’s doctoral research investigates the use of structured professional judgement to indirectly, but reliably, identify, triage and manage risk associated with extremist violence. Being able to better differentiate factors salient to risk in an Australian context provides opportunities for early identification, intervention and disengagement.

Supervisor:
Professor Katherine Reynolds
Dr Camille Goodman
Sir Roland Wilson Scholarship Graduated 2019

Associate Professor

Camille Goodman

University of Wollongong (formerly Attorney-General’s Department)

Australian National University

PhD title: The nature and extent of coastal State jurisdiction over living resources in the exclusive economic zone

Dr Camille Goodman is an Associate Professor at the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS) at the University of Wollongong, where her research applies the law of the sea to address policy-relevant challenges with a focus on fisheries, offshore renewable energy, and the impacts of climate change. Camille teaches into a wide range of courses on the law of the sea, maritime regulation, fisheries and ocean governance, and is the convenor of the Women in Maritime Security Network, funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Camille is also a Visiting Fellow at the ANU College of Law and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Sea Power Centre Australia. Prior to joining ANCORS in 2021, Camille worked at the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department for 15 years, providing legal and policy advice to the Australian Government on a wide range of public international law issues, with a particular focus on law of the sea and international fisheries. She acted as the Australian Government legal adviser at international meetings and negotiations, and managed litigation before international courts and tribunals.

Camille undertook her doctoral research at the ANU College of Law between 2015 and 2018 as a Sir Roland Wilson Scholar, focusing on the nature and extent of coastal State jurisdiction over living resources in the exclusive economic zone. While the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea clearly gives coastal States ‘sovereign rights’ to explore, exploit, conserve and manage the living resources of the 200 nautical mile exclusive economic zone, the nature and extent of these rights—and the way in which coastal States can employ them—is not well understood. Camille’s research addressed this gap, reviewing and analysing the practice of 145 coastal States to articulate and justify a contemporary statement regarding the nature and extent of coastal State jurisdiction over living resources in the exclusive economic zone. This research formed the basis of Camille’s first book, Coastal State Jurisdiction Over Living Resources in the Exclusive Economic Zone, published by OUP in November 2021.

Find Camille's University of Wollongong profile here or you can get in touch with Camille directly - cgoodman@uow.edu.au

Supervisor:
Professor Donald Rothwell
  • Campbell B and Goodman C (2009) ‘Litigation against foreign States: the Foreign States Immunities Act 1985 (Cth)’, Judicial Officers’ Bulletin, 21(9):71-72.
  • Goodman C (2009), ‘The Regime for Flag State Responsibility in International Fisheries Law - Effective Fact, Creative Fiction, or Further Work Required?’ Australian and New Zealand Maritime Law Journal 23:157-169.
  • Goodman C (2013) ‘ “Strength through Cooperation”: A 21st Century Treaty for Multilateral Maritime Enforcement in the Pacific’ Australian Year Book of International Law, 31:12-39.
  • Goodman C (2017) ‘Striking the right balance? Applying the jurisprudence of international tribunals to coastal state innovations in international fisheries governance’. Marine Policy, 84:293-299..
  • Goodman C (2017) ‘Australian Jurisdiction and International Law’, in Crawford E and Rothwell D R (eds), International Law in Australia 3rd edition, Thomson Reuters, Sydney.
  • Goodman C (2017) ‘The Cooperative Use of Coastal State Jurisdiction with Respect to Highly Migratory Stocks: Insights from the Western and Central Pacific Region’, in Martin L, Salonidis C, Hioureas C G, Laird I, Sabahi B and Whitesell A M (eds), Natural Resources and the Law of the Sea Exploration, Allocation, Exploitation of Natural Resources in Areas Under National Jurisdiction and Beyond, Juris, New York.
  • Goodman C and Matley H (2018) ‘Law Beyond Boundaries: innovative mechanisms for the integrated management of biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction’. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 75(1):402-404.
  • Goodman, C (2018), ‘Rights, Obligations, Prohibitions: A Practical Guide to Understanding Judicial Decisions on Coastal State Jurisdiction over Living Resources in the Exclusive Economic Zone’. The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law, 33(3):558-584.
  • Goodman C (2019) The nature and extent of coastal State jurisdiction over living resources in the exclusive economic zone [PhD Thesis], The Australian National University, Canberra.
  • Goodman C (2021) Coastal State Jurisdiction over Living Resources in the Exclusive Economic Zone, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
  • Goodman C, Davis R, Azmi K, Bell J, Galland G, Gilman E, Haas B, Hanich Q, Lehodey P, Manarangi-Trott L, Nicol S, Obregon P, Pilling G, Senina I, Seto K and Tsamenyi M (2022) ‘Enhancing Cooperative Responses by Regional Fisheries Management Organisations to Climate-Driven Redistribution of Tropical Pacific Tuna Stocks’, Frontiers in Marine Science. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2022.1046018.
  • Goodman C (2022) ‘Winds of Change: Australia’s Offshore Electricity Infrastructure Act 2021’ Asia-Pacific Journal of Ocean Law and Policy, 7(1):37-150. doi: 10.1163/24519391-07010011.
  • Goodman C, Davis R, Azmi K, Bell J D, Galland G, Gilman E, Haas B, Hanich Q, Lehodey P, Manarangi-Trott L, Nicol S, Obregon P, Pilling G, Senina I, Seto K and Tsamenyi M (2022) ‘Enhancing cooperative responses by regional fisheries management organisations to climate-driven redistribution of tropical Pacific tuna stocks’ Frontiers in Marine Science, Article 2432.
  • Wuwung L, Croft F, Benzaken D, Azmi K, Goodman C, Rambourg C and Voyer M (2022) ‘Global Blue Economy Governance: A Methodological Approach to Investigating Blue Economy Implementation’ Frontiers in Marine Science, Article 2388.
  • Goodman C (2022) ‘The Lotus Case (France v Turkey) in Letts D and McLaughlin R (eds), Maritime Operations Law in Practice: Key Cases and Incidents, Routledge, London.
  • Goodman C and Voyer M (2022), Submission to the Senate Environment and Communications Leglislation Committee Inquiry into the Offshore Electricity Infrastructure Legislation Amendment Bill 2022, Australian Parliament House, Canberra.
  • Goodman C (2023) ‘Compulsory Settlement of EEZ Fisheries Enforcement Disputes under UNCLOS: “Swallowing the Rule” or “Balancing the Equation”?’, Goettingen Journal of International Law 13(1):27-80.
  • Anggadi C, Goodman C, Klein N and Rothwell D (2023), ‘Alleged Violations of Sovereign Rights and Maritime Spaces in the Caribbean Sea: Implications for the Customary International Law of the Sea’, Ocean Development and International Law, 54(3):277-303.
  • Goodman C (2023), ‘Harnessing the wind down under: applying the UNCLOS framework to the regulation of offshore wind by Australia and New Zealand’, Ocean Development and International Law, 54(3):253-276.
  • Haas B, Goodman C, Hussain S and Davis R (2023), ‘Fact or Fiction? Unpacking the Terminologies used in Allocation Discussions’, Marine Policy, 152, Article 105630. 
  • Voyer M, Christopher T, Ahmed A, Carr C, Croft F, Davis A, Goodman C et al (2023), ‘Illawarra Offshore Wind Zone Proposal’, Submission to the Public Consultation, 4 October 2023 (University of Wollongong, Australia).
  • C Goodman, R Davis, K Azmi et al ‘Preliminary Framework for Joint Management of Redistributed Tuna Stocks by WCPFC and IATTC’, GCF Study 8, Report for the Pacific Community (2023, ANCORS, Australia), https://www.greenclimate.fund/document/gcf-b41-02-add07 (Annex 26, Study 8).
  • M Voyer, T Christopher, A Ahmed, C Carr, F Croft, A Davis, C Goodman et al, ‘Illawarra Offshore Wind Zone Proposal’, Submission to the Public Consultation, 4 October 2023 (University of Wollongong, Australia).
  • C Goodman, ‘The Poseidon Project: The Struggle to Govern the World’s Oceans by David Bosco’ (2023) International and Comparative Law Quarterly 1089-1091.
  • M Conley Tyler and C Goodman, ‘IUU Fishing: There’s no one-size-fits-all solution’ DevPolicy Blog, 18 May 2023, https://devpolicy.org/iuu-fishing-theres-no-one-size-fits-all-solution-20230518/.
  • F Anggadi and C Goodman, ‘Please Mind the Gap: A Venn Diagram Story of Method in International Law’ Critical Legal Thinking: Law and the Political, 31 January 2023, https://criticallegalthinking.com/2023/01/31/please-mind-the-gap-a-venn-diagram-story-of-method-in-international-law/.
  • C Goodman, M Rosello and E van der Marel, ‘Innovating for change in global fisheries governance (again): an introduction’, (2024) 169 Marine Policy 106356.
  • M Andriamahefazafy, B Haas, L Campling, F Le Manach, C Goodman et al, ‘Advancing tuna catch allocation negotiations: an analysis of sovereign rights and fisheries access arrangements’ 2024 3(1) Ocean Sustainability 16
  • C Goodman, ‘The South China Sea Arbitration: Jurisdiction, Admissibility, Procedure by Stefan Talmon’ (2024) 38 Ocean Yearbook 601-605.
  • M Voyer, E Lee, F Croft, J Reeves, N Klocker, J Pascoe, C Goodman et al Submission to the Senate Standing Committees on Environment and Communications Inquiry into the Offshore Wind Industry Consultation Process, 30 August 2024 (Australian Centre for Offshore Wind Energy).
  • F Croft, M Voyer, D Ierodiaconou and C Goodman Improving decision-making in relation to offshore wind - priority knowledge and decision support needs. A report to the Australian Marine Conservation Society, March 2025 (Australian Centre for Offshore Wind Energy.
  • C Goodman, ‘Coastal State jurisdiction and high seas freedoms in the EEZ: is the balance changing?’ in Suzanne Lalonde and Andrew Serdy (eds), Research Handbook on the Law of the Sea (Edward Elgar, forthcoming 2025)
  • C Goodman and V Schatz, ‘The Procedure for the Prompt Release of Vessels and Crews: Pragmatic? Predictable? Passé?’ in Suzanne Lalonde and Andrew Serdy (eds), Research Handbook on the Law of the Sea (Edward Elgar, forthcoming 2025)
  • C Goodman, ‘Exclusive Economic Zone’ and ‘Regional Fisheries Management Organizations’ in Donald Rothwell, Suzanne Lalonde, Jeffrey McGee and Evan Bloom (eds), Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Polar Law (Edward Elgar, forthcoming 2025)

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Dr Paul Hubbard
Sir Roland Wilson Scholarship Graduated 2019

Dr

Paul Hubbard

Department of Finance

Australian National University

PhD title: The nature and performance of China’s state owned enterprises.

Dr Paul Hubbard's PhD research on "The Nature and Performance of China’s State-owned Enterprises" has underpinned his influential career in economic policy and strategic thinking within the Australian Public Service. Awarded the 2024 Ian Castles Alumni Prize for strengthening the links between ANU research and public policy, Paul continues to actively engage as a visiting scholar at the ANU Crawford School of Public Policy.

Currently, as Co-Head of AI CoLab, Paul leads efforts to responsibly integrate artificial intelligence into public sector practice. He also hosts "The Masked Economist," a popular platform that makes complex economic topics accessible.

Supervisor:
Professor Shiro Armstrong
  • Hubbard P (2004) ‘Accountability in the grey area: employing Stiglitz to tackle compliance in a world of structural pluralism, a comparative study’, Freedom of Information Review, 111: 26-32.
  • Hubbard P (2005) ‘Freedom of Information and Security Intelligence: An economic analysis in an Australian context’ Open Government: a journal on Freedom of Information, 1(3):EJ).
  • Hubbard P (2007) ‘Putting the power of transparency in context: Information’s role in reducing corruption in Uganda’s education sector’, Working Paper 136, Center for Global Development. Accessed 15 March 2023, https://www.cgdev.org/publication/putting-power-transparency-context-informations-role-reducing-corruption-ugandas.
  • Hubbard P (2008) ‘Chinese Concessional Loans’ in Rotberg R I (ed), China into Africa: Trade, Aid, and Influence, Brookings Institution Press, World Peace Foundation, Washington, USA.
  • Hubbard P (2008) ‘China’s regulations on open government information: Challenges of nationwide policy implementation’, Open Government: a journal on Freedom of Information, 4(1): 1-34.
  • Hubbard P (2009) ‘Urban congestion-why ’free’ roads are costly’, Economic Round-up, 2:1-19.
  • Hubbard P, Hurley S and Sharma D (2012) ‘The familiar pattern of Chinese consumption growth’, Economic Round-up, 4: 63-78.
  • Hubbard P and Williams P (2014) ‘Some of China’s SOEs are more equal than others’, East Asia Forum Quarterly, 6(4):8-9.
  • Hubbard P (2016) ‘Managing Chinese Outward Foreign Direct Investment’. The China Quarterly, 228:1106-1108.
  • Callaghan M and Hubbard P (2016) ‘The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: Multilateralism on the Silk Road’. China Economic Journal, 9(2):116-139.
  • Hubbard P (2016) ‘Where have China’s state monopolies gone?’. China Economic Journal, 9(1):75-99.
  • Hubbard P and Sharma D (2016) Understanding and applying long-term GDP projections, East Asian Bureau of Economic Research, Canberra. Accessed 15 March 2023, https://eaber.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/EABER-Working-Paper-119-Hubbard-Sharma.pdf.
  • Hubbard P (2016) ‘Reconciling China’s official statistics on state ownership and control’, Macroeconomic Working Papers, 25575, East Asian Bureau of Economic Research.
  • Hubbard P (2016) ‘Fragmented authoritarianism and state ownership’, East Asia Forum Quarterly, 8(4):6-7.
  • Hubbard P and Fan H (2016) Managing China, ANU Press, Canberra, Australia.
  • Hubbard P and Xiao W (2017) ‘Open government information in Chinese state-owned enterprises’. Information Polity, 22(1):57-64.
  • Hubbard P and Williams P (2017) ‘Chinese state owned enterprises: An observer’s guide’. International Journal of Public Policy,
  • 13(3-5):153-170.
  • Luo L, Qi Z and Hubbard P (2017) ‘Not looking for trouble: Understanding large-scale Chinese overseas investment by sector and ownership’ China Economic Review, 46: 142-164.
  • Brødsgaard K E, Hubbard P (2017) ‘China’s SOE executives: drivers of or obstacles to reform?’ The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies, 35(1):52-75.
  • Xu J and Hubbard P (2018) ‘A flying goose chase: China’s overseas direct investment in manufacturing (2011–2013)’. China Economic Journal, 11(2):91-107.
  • Hubbard P (2018) The Nature and Performance of China’s State Owned Enterprises [PhD Thesis], The Australian National University, Canberra.
  • Hubbard P (2018) ‘The Future of the Belt and Road: Long-term Strategic Issues - By Andrew Elek’, Asian Pacific Economic Literature 32(1):144-145.
  • Zentelis R, Hubbard P, Lindenmayer D, Roberts D and Dovers S (2020) ‘More bang for your buck: Managing the military training and environmental values of military training areas’, Environmental and Sustainability Indicators, 8, Article 100053.
Dr Nerida Hunter
Sir Roland Wilson Scholarship Graduated 2017

Dr

Nerida Hunter

Department of Education

The Australian National University

PhD title: Geodemographic and life course perspectives of population ageing in Australia: informing the policy response to population ageing

Nerida began her training in demography in 2010 at the university of California and subsequently joined ANU to complete her PhD as a Sir Roland Wilson scholar. Her PhD undertook applied demographic research of Australia’s aged and ageing population. She examined the size, structure and characteristics of the aged population across 328 regions of Australia, looking at; healthy life and working life expectancies; lifespan and life course disparity; and projections of growth and settlement of the aged population through to 2031. She was also a student affiliate of the Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research.

Nerida worked in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (PM&C) from 2006 to 2015 on a wide range of social policy issues. After completing the Sir Roland Wilson Scholarship, Nerida rejoined the Australian Public Service and advanced to the Senior Executive Service. Since 2016 she has worked in the Department of Social Services, Treasury and Department of Education.

Supervisor:
Professor James Raymer
Dr Marie McAuliffe
Sir Roland Wilson Scholarship Graduated 2017

Dr

Marie McAuliffe

International Organization for Migration (formerly Department of Home Affairs)

Australian National University

PhD title: Self-agency and asylum

Marie’s PhD research examined the migration patterns, processes and factors involved in irregular maritime migration to Australia of Afghan Hazaras between 2008 and 2013. Her research focused on the conceptualisation of international migration, and irregular maritime migration specifically. In 2018, she was awarded the Charles Price prize for outstanding doctoral research in demography for her thesis. She has published and edited extensively in academic and policy spheres on international migration, serving on the editorial boards of scientific journals Migration Studies and International Migration, and is an associate editor of the Harvard Data Science Review. Marie maintains visiting scholar positions at ANU’s School of Demography and the Global Migration Centre at the Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies (Geneva). Marie serves as a senior official in the UN system as the head of the Migration Research Division and editor of the flagship World Migration Report in IOM Geneva. In her role she has led the implementation of migration research projects funded by the governments of Australia, Canada, Germany, Italy, Norway, Switzerland and USA, with research partners from across the developing and developed world. She leads migration research and analysis initiatives with a wide range of partners, including the World Economic Forum, MIT Technology Review, Meta and the International Union for the Scientific Study of Populations as well as several universities.

Marie started work with the Department of Immigration and Border Protection (DIBP) in 2000. She has worked for the department in offices in Canberra, Seoul and Moscow. Marie has led branches and sections in DIBP, the Australian Public Service Commission, and the Department of Workplace Relations. She has consulted to the International Labor Organization as well as in the private sector. For three years Marie managed DIBP’s largest research program as well as a research/analytical function on irregular migration.

Supervisor:
Professor James Raymer
  • McAuliffe M, and Koser K (2015) ‘Unintended Consequences: How Migrant Smugglers are Exploiting the International Protection System’, Advance, Australian National University, Winter 2015:30-33.
  • McAuliffe M and Laczko F (eds) (2016) Migrant Smuggling Data and Research: A global review of the emerging evidence base, International Organization for Migration: Geneva.
  • McAuliffe M (ed) (2016) ‘Afghan Displacement Special Issue’. Migration Policy Practice, IV(3).
  • McAuliffe, M (2016) ‘How transnational connectivity is shaping irregular migration: Insights for migration policy and practice from the 2015 irregular migration flows to Europe’. Migration Policy Practice, VI(1):4-10.
  • McAuliffe M (2016) Resolving policy conundrums: Enhancing humanitarian protection in Southeast Asia. Migration Policy Institute, Washington DC.
  • McAuliffe M (2016) ‘Migration moderate, ‘master weaver’ and inspirational team leader: Reflecting on the lasting legacy of Graeme Hugo in three spheres of migration policy’. Australian Geographer, 47(4):383-389.
  • McAuliffe M and Jayasuriya D (2016) ‘Do asylum seekers and refugees choose destination countries? Evidence from large-scale surveys in Australia, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka’. International Migration, 54(4):44-59.
  • Jayasuriya D, McAuliffe M and Iqbal M (2016) ‘The dynamic nature of migration aspirations: Findings from a longitudinal study of households in Sri Lanka’. Occasional Paper Series, Department of Immigration and Border Protection, Canberra.
  • McAuliffe M and Ruhs M (eds) (2017) World Migration Report 2018. International Organization for Migration, Geneva.
  • McAuliffe M (2017) Self-agency and asylum [PhD Thesis], The Australian National University, Canberra.
  • McAuliffe M (2017) ‘Protection Elsewhere, Resilience Here: Introduction to the Special Issue on Statelessness, Irregularity, and Protection in Southeast Asia’. Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, 15(3):221-231.
  • McAuliffe M and Koser K (eds) (2017) A long way to go: Irregular migration patterns, processes, drivers and decision making. ANU Press, Canberra.
  • McAuliffe M and Mence V (2017) ‘Irregular maritime migration as a global phenomenon’, in McAuliffe M and Koser K (eds), A long way to go: Irregular migration patterns, processes, drivers and decision making. ANU Press, Canberra.
  • McAuliffe M and Jayasuriya D (2017) ‘Placing Sri Lankan maritime arrivals in a broader migration context’, in McAuliffe M and Koser K (eds), A long way to go: Irregular migration patterns, processes, drivers and decision making. ANU Press, Canberra.
  • McAuliffe M (2017) ‘Seeking the views of irregular migrants: Decision-making, drivers and migration journeys’, in McAuliffe M and Koser K (eds), A long way to go: Irregular migration patterns, processes, drivers and decision making. ANU Press, Canberra.
  • McAuliffe M, Weeks W and Koser K (2017) ‘Media and migration: Comparative analysis of print and online media reporting on migrants and migration in selected countries’, in McAuliffe M and Koser K (eds), A long way to go: Irregular migration patterns, processes, drivers and decision making. ANU Press, Canberra.
  • McAuliffe M (2017) ‘The Human Development Visa Scheme: Applying Practical and Sustainable Policy Levers to Actively Encourage Migrants to Undertake Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration’, in McAuliffe M and Klein Solomon M (Conveners) Migration Research Leaders’ Syndicate: Ideas to Inform International Cooperation on Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, International Organization for Migration, Geneva.
  • McAuliffe M and Klein Solomon M (eds) (2017) ‘Migration Research Leaders Syndicate Special Issue’, Migration Policy Practice, VII(3).
  • McAuliffe M (2017) ‘Protection Elsewhere, Resilience Here: Introduction to the Special Issue on Statelessness, Irregularity and Protection in Southeast Asia’, Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, 15(3):221-231.
  • McAuliffe M and Triandafyllidou A (2018), Migrant Smuggling Data and Research: A global review of the emerging evidence base, Volume 2, International Organization for Migration: Geneva.
  • McAuliffe, M & Ruhs, M (eds) 2018, ‘World Migration Report Special Issue’, Migration Policy Practice, VII(4), International Organization for Migration, Geneva.
  • McAuliffe M (2018) ‘The nexus between forced and irregular migration: Insights from demography’, in Hugo G, Abbasi-Shavazi M J and Kraly EP (eds) The Demography of Refugee and Forced Migration. Springer & IUSSP.
  • McAuliffe M and Goossens A M (2018) ‘Regulating International Migration in an Era of Increasing Interconnectedness’, in Triandafyllidou A (ed) Handbook on Migration and Globalisation, Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, Cheltenham.
  • McAuliffe M (2018) ‘Migration moderate, ‘master weaver’ and inspirational team leader: Reflecting on the lasting legacy of Graeme Hugo in three spheres of migration policy’, in Klocher N and Dun O (eds) Population, Migration and Settlement in Australia and the Asia-Pacific: In memory of Graeme Hugo, Routledge, Oxon and New York.
  • McAuliffe M and Khadria B (eds) (2019) World Migration Report 2020, International Organization for Migration, Geneva.
  • McAuliffe M (2020) ‘Immobility as the ultimate “migration disrupter”: COVID-19 and the securitization of migration’, Migration Research Series Paper No 64, International Organization for Migration, Geneva.
  • McAuliffe M, Bauloz C and Kitimbo A (2020) ‘The challenge of real-time analysis: making sense of the migration and mobility implications of COVID-19’, Migration Policy Practice, 10(2):15-21.
  • McAuliffe M (2020) ‘On the margins: Migrant smuggling in the context of development’ in Bastia T and Skeldon R (eds) Handbook of Migration and Development, Routledge, Oxford.
  • McAuliffe M, Blower J and Beduschi A (2021) ‘Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence in Migration and Mobility: Transnational Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic’. Societies, 11(4) Article 135.
  • Iqbal M and McAuliffe M (2021) ‘After decades of instability, what does the future hold for Afghan migration?’, Agenda [Blog], World Economic Forum, Available at: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/09/what-does-the-future-hold-for-afghan-migration/.
  • McAuliffe M and Triandafyllidou A (eds) (2021) World Migration Report 2022. International Organization for Migration, Geneva.
  • McAuliffe M, Freier L F, Skeldon R and Blower J (2021) ‘The Great Disrupter: COVID-19’s impacts on migration and migrants globally’, in McAuliffe M and Triandafyllidou A (eds), World Migration Report 2022, International Organization for Migration, Geneva.
  • Beduschi A and McAuliffe M (2021) ‘Artificial intelligence, migration and mobility’, in McAuliffe M and Triandafyllidou A (eds), World Migration Report 2022, International Organization for Migration, Geneva.
  • McAuliffe M (ed) (2021) Research Handbook on International Migration and Digital Technology, Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, Oxford.
  • McAuliffe M and Sawyer A (2021) ‘The role and limitations of data science in understanding international migration flows’, in McAuliffe M (ed), Research Handbook of International Migration and Digital Technology, Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, Oxford.
  • McAuliffe M and Blower J (2021) ‘The role and limitations of data science in understanding international migration flows’, in McAuliffe M (ed), Research Handbook of International Migration and Digital Technology, Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, Oxford.
  • McAuliffe M, Abel G, Kitimbo A and Martin Galan I (2022) ‘Data, design and deep domain knowledge: science-policy collaboration to combat misinformation on migration and migrants’, Harvard Data Science Review, 4(1), DOI: 10.1162/99608f92.b3353b93.
  • McAuliffe M (2022) ‘Afghan displacement and migration: situating the current humanitarian-displacement crisis’, International Migration, 60(1):268-270.
  • Iqbal M and McAuliffe M (2022) ‘The “eighth phase” of Afghan displacement: Situating the top ten issues for policymakers’, Migration Research Series, 71, International Organization for Migration, Geneva.
  • McAuliffe M and Iqbal M (2022) Struggling to Survive: Gender, Displacement, and Migration in Taliban-Controlled Afghanistan, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington.
  • McAuliffe M and Bauloz C (2022) The San Antonio Tragedy Was Sadly Not Uncommon, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington DC.
  • McAuliffe M (16 December 2022) ‘Who will be our migrants of the future? Celebrating International Migrants’ Day with a keen eye on the growing gender gap’ [blog], People Move. Accessed 22 March 2023, https://blogs.worldbank.org/peoplemove/who-will-be-our-migrants-future-celebrating-international-migrants-day-keen-eye-growing.
  • McAuliffe M (25 January 2023) ‘AI in migration is fuelling global inequality: How can we bridge the gap?’ Agenda. Accessed 22 March 2023, https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/01/ai-in-migration-is-fuelling-global-inequality-how-can-we-bridge-gap/.
  • McAuliffe M (2024) ‘By the wayside: gender dimensions of stranded migrants during the COVID-19 crisis’ in McAuliffe, M and Bauloz C (eds) Research Handbook on Migration, Gender and COVID-19, Edward Elgar: Oxford.
  • McAuliffe M and Bauloz C (eds) (2024) Research Handbook on Migration, Gender and COVID-19, Edward Elgar: Oxford.
  • McAuliffe M and Oucho L A (eds) (2024) World Migration Report, International Organization for Migration: Geneva.
  • McAuliffe M, Rojas Coppari P, Abassi-Shavazi M J and Maunganidze O A (2024) 'Migration and human security: Unpacking myths and examining new realities and responses', in McAuliffe M Oucho L A (eds) World Migration Report 2024, International Organization for Migration: Geneva.
Dr Rick Zentelis
Sir Roland Wilson Scholarship Graduated 2017

Dr

Rick Zentelis

Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

The Australian National University

PhD title: Bombing for Biodiversity: Integrating the Military Training and Environmental Values of Military Training Areas

Rick’s PhD looked at a better way to manage military training areas (MTAs). He used his unique experience and in depth knowledge of environmental management to develop a MTA management model that will increase training utility, reduce costs associated with training area management and increase environmental protection. The model is also applicable to sectors such as forestry and agriculture.

Rick has been employed by the Department of Defence since 2005. He has been involved in the environmental management of the Defence Estate, developing the department’s policies and approaches on biodiversity, heritage, biosecurity, bushfire and erosion.

Supervisor:
Professor David Lindenmayer
  • Zentelis R and Lindenmayer D (2014) ‘Conservation: Manage military land for the environment’, Nature, 516, Article 7530.
  • Zentelis R and Lindenmayer D (2015) ‘Bombing for Biodiversity—Enhancing Conservation Values of Military Training Areas’, Conservation Letters, 8(4):299-305.
  • Zentelis R (2017) Bombing for Biodiversity: Integrating the Military Training and Environmental Values of Military Training Areas [PhD Thesis], The Australian National University, Canberra
  • Zentelis R, Lindenmayer D, Roberts J and Dovers S (2017) ‘Principles for integrated environmental management of military training areas’,.Land Use Policy, 63:186-195.
  • Zentelis R, Lindenmayer D, Roberts J and Dover S (2018) ‘Towards integrated management of Australia’s ecologically significant military training areas’, Australasian Journal of Environmental Management, 25(2):193-211.
  • Zentelis R, Hubbard P, Lindenmayer D, Roberts D and Dovers S (2020) ‘More bang for your buck: Managing the military training and environmental values of military training areas’, Environmental and Sustainability Indicators, 8, Article 100053.
Dr Suzanne Akila
Sir Roland Wilson Scholarship Graduated 2016

Dr

Suzanne Akila

Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

The Australian National University

PhD title: Participation and the Protection of Citizens Abroad in International Law

Suzanne’s PhD examined how state and non-state actors participate in the protection of citizens abroad and why. It included in-depth studies of Australia, Germany and Mexico’s consular and protection frameworks and practice.

Suzanne is a Director in the International Legal Practice Group in the Legal Division of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. She has led the International Law Section, the International Law Advising and Treaties Section and the Sea Law and Antarctica Section. Suzanne was named Woman Lawyer of the Year for Government by the ACT Women Lawyers Association in 2018. She is a Visiting Government Fellow at the University of Melbourne Law School and has taught international law at ANU. She completed her LLM specialising in public international law at University College London and her LLB at the University of Western Australia.

Supervisor:
Professor Hilary Charlesworth
  • Akila S (2015) Participation and the Protection of Citizens Abroad in International Law [PhD thesis], The Australian National University, Canberra.
  • Akila S, Cavenagh J, Mackay E, Smyth K (2010) ‘Australian Legislation Concerning Matters of International Law 2008’ The Australian Year Book of International Law: 273-306.
  • Akila S (2018) ‘Networks of protection’. In Cullen H, Harrington J and Renshaw C (eds), Experts, Networks and International Law, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Dr Michael McKenzie
Sir Roland Wilson Scholarship Graduated 2016

Dr

Michael McKenzie

Attorney-General’s Department

The Australian National University

PhD title: Rethinking International Cooperation: Crime, Policy and Politics in Australia-Indonesia Relations

Michael’s PhD research examined the conditions that promote criminal justice cooperation between Australia and Indonesia. His book based on the research is Common Enemies: Crime, Policy, and Politics in Australia-Indonesia Relations (OUP, 2018).

After completing his PhD, Michael served as Counsellor (Legal) at the Australian Embassy in Jakarta (2016-2018) and Minister-Counsellor (Legal) at the Australian High Commission in Port Moresby (2019-2021). He is currently on secondment to the Australian Federal Police as a strategic adviser in Pacific Asia Command. He is also a Visiting Fellow at the ANU School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet).

Supervisor:
Professor Veronica Taylor
  • Connery D, Sambhi N snd McKenzie M (2014) A Return on Investment: The Future of Police Cooperation between Australia and Indonesia, Australian Strategic Policy Institute, Canberra.
  • Connery D, McKenzie M and Sambh N (2014), Partners Against Crime: A Short History of the AFP-POLRI Relationship, Australian Strategic Policy Institute, Canberra.
  • McKenzie M (2016) Rethinking International Cooperation: Crime, Policy and Politics in Australia-Indonesia Relations [PhD Thesis], The Australian National University, Canberra.
  • McKenzie M (2018) Common Enemies: Crime, Policy, and Politics in Australia-Indonesia Relations, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
  • McKenzie M (2018) ‘A Common Enemy: Police Cooperation Between Australia and Indonesia’, in Lindsey T and McRae D (eds), Strangers Next Door? Indonesia and Australia in the Asian Century, Hart Publishing, Oxford.
  • McKenzie M (2019) ‘Securitising transnational crime: the political drivers of police cooperation between Australia and Indonesia’ Policing and Society, 29(3):333-348.
  • McKenzie M (2020) Between Politics and Policy: International Cooperation Beyond COVID-19, E-International Relations, https://www.e-ir.info/2020/06/04/between-politics-and-policy-international-cooperation-beyond-covid-19/.
Dr Angelia Grant
Sir Roland Wilson Scholarship Graduated 2015

Dr

Angelia Grant

The Treasury

Australian National University

PhD title: Three essays on the US business cycle, expectations formation and model comparison

Angelia was one of the 2012 Sir Roland Wilson Scholars. She researched business cycles and economic fluctuations, with a particular focus on comparing conclusions based on different economic models. She examined the role of particular structural shocks during the 2001 US slowdown and Great Recession, and whether the assumption of rational expectations or adaptive learning in a large macroeconomic model for the US economy provides a better model fit. Angelia's thesis also proposes a new econometric method for computing a model selection criterion that is rarely used in applied work given its computational burden.

Angelia returned to the Australian Treasury in 2015 after submitting her thesis. She held positions as the Principal Adviser (Forecasting) in the Macroeconomic Conditions Division, Head of the Macroeconomic Conditions Division, and Head of the Macroeconomic Analysis and Policy Division. She also served as an Alternate Executive Director on the Board of the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC, where she represented the Asia and Pacific Constituency. Angelia has also worked as Australia’s G20 Sherpa and Head of the Multilateral Economic Engagement Division in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. She is currently the Deputy Secretary of the Macroeconomic Group in the Australian Treasury.

Supervisor:
Professor Warwick McKibbin
  • Grant A (2015) Three essays on the US business cycle, expectations formation and model comparison [PhD Thesis], The Australian National University, Canberra.
  • Chan J C and Grant A (2016) ‘Modeling energy price dynamics: GARCH versus stochastic volatility’, Energy economics, 54:182-189.
  • Chan J C and Grant A (2016) ‘On the Observed-Data Deviance Information Criterion for Volatility Modeling’. Journal of Financial Econometrics, 14(4):772-802.
  • Chan J C and Grant A (2016) ‘Fast computation of the deviance information criterion for latent variable models’. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 100:847-859.
  • Grant A and Chan J C (2017) ‘Bayesian Model Comparison for Trend-Cycle Decompositions of Output’. Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 49(2-3):525-552.
  • Grant A (2017) ‘The Early Millennium Slowdown: Replicating the Peersman (2005) Results’. Journal of Applied Econometrics, 32(1):218-233.
  • Grant A and Chan J C (2017) ‘Reconciling output gaps: Unobserved components model and Hodrick–Prescott filter’, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 75:114-121.
  • Grant A (2018), ‘The Great Recession and Okun’s Law’. Economic Modelling, 69:291-300.
Dr Neal Hughes
Sir Roland Wilson Scholarship Graduated 2015

Dr

Neal Hughes

Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences

Australian National University

PhD title: Water property rights in rivers with large dams

Neal’s research focused on the design of water markets, particularly market mechanisms for managing major water storages. Recently, Neal’s PhD research was used to inform the ACCC Murray Darling Basin water market inquiry. Neal’s PhD also explored the application of machine learning techniques to economics.

Since returning to the APS, Neal has led several major projects at ABARES, including the development of new economic models of Australian farms and water markets, drawing on techniques developed as part of his thesis. At ABARES, Neal has produced a range of research on agricultural policy issues including the effects of drought and climate change on Australian farms, and water policy in the Murray-Darling Basin. Neal writes regularly on these issues in The Conversation.

Visit Neal's website to learn more about him and his research. 

Supervisor:
Professor Quentin Grafton
  • Hughes N, Hafi A and Goesch T 2(009), 'Urban water management: optimal price and investment policy under climate variability', Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 53(2):175-192.
  • Hughes N and Goesch T (2009), Management of irrigation water storages: carryover rights and capacity sharing, Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences, Canberra.
  • Hughes N and Goesch T (2009), Capacity sharing in the St George and Macintyre Brook irrigation schemes in southern Queensland, Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences, Canberra.
  • Hughes N (10-12 February 2010), ‘Defining property rights to water in complex regulated river systems: generalising the capacity sharing concept’, AARES Conference (54th), Adelaide, Australian Agricultural & Resource Economics Society.
  • Hughes N, Lawson K, Davidson A, Jackson T and Sheng Y (2011), Productivity pathways: Climate adjusted production frontiers for the Australian broadacre cropping industry, Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences, Canberra.
  • Hughes N (9-11 February 2011), 'Estimating irrigation farm production functions using ABARES irrigation survey data’, AARES Conference (55th), Melbourne, Australian Agricultural & Resource Economics Society.
  • Hughes N, Gibbs C, Dahl A, Tregeagle D and Sanders O (2013), Storage rights and water allocation arrangements in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences, Canberra.
  • Hughes N (2014) ‘Applying reinforcement learning to economic problems’. ANU Crawford PhD Conference, Canberra, The Australian National University.
  • Hughes N (12 August 2014), ‘Water storage rights: decentralising reservoir operation’ [conference presentation], 77th International Atlantic Economic Conference, Madrid, International Atlantic Economic Society.
  • Hughes N (14 November 2014) ‘Applying reinforcement learning to economic problems’ [conference presentation], ANU Crawford PhD Conference, The Australian National University, Canberra.
  • Hughes N (2015) Water property rights in rivers with large dams [PhD Thesis], The Australian National University, Canberra.
  • Hughes N, Gupta M and Rathakumar K (2016), Lessons from the water market: the southern Murray-Darling Basin water allocation market 2000-01 to 2015-16, Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences, Canberra.
  • Hughes N (3 February 2016) ‘Water property rights in rivers with large environmental water holders’ [conference presentation]. Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society 2016 Conference (60th), Canberra.
  • Hughes N, Lawson K and Valle H (2017) Farm performance and climate: climate adjusted productivity for broadacre cropping farms, Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences, Canberra.
  • Gupta M and Hughes N (2018) Future scenarios for the southern Murray-Darling Basin, Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences, Canberra.
  • Gupta M, Hughes N and Wakerman-Powell K (2018) A model of water trade and irrigation activity in the southern Murray-Darling Basin, Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences, Canberra.
  • Hughes N, Galeano D and Hattfield-Dodds (2019) The effects of drought and climate variability on Australian farms, Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences, Canberra.
  • Whittle L, Galeano D, Hughes N, Gupta M, Leg P, Westwood T, Jackson T and Hatfield-Dodds S (2020) Economic effects of water recovery in the Murray-Darling Basin [report], Australian Bureau of Agicutlureal and Recourse Economics and Sciences, Canberra.
  • Hughes N, Donoghoe M and Whittle L (2020) ‘Farm Level Effects of On-Farm Irrigation Infrastructure Programs in the Southern Murray–Darling Basin’. Australian Economic Review, 53(4):494-516.
  • Hughes N, Gupta M, Soh W, Boult C, Lawson K, Lu, M and Westwood T (2020) The Agricultural Data Integration Project, Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences, Canberra.
  • Hughes N and Gooday P (2021) Climate change impacts and adaptation on Australian farms [report], Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences, Canberra.
  • Chancellor W, Hughes N, Zhao S, Soh W, Valle H and Boult C (2021) ‘Controlling for the effects of climate on total factor productivity: A case study of Australian farms’, Food policy, 102, Article 102091.
  • Hughes N, Gupta M, Whittle L, Boult C and Westwood T (2021) A model of spatial and inter-temporal water trade in the southern Murray-Darling Basin [Working paper], Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences, Canberra.
  • Hughes N, Soh W, Boult C and Lawson K (2022) ‘Defining drought from the perspective of Australian farmers’ Climate Risk Management, 35, Article 100420.
  • Hughes N, Lu, M, Soh W, Lawson K (2022) ‘Modelling the effects of climate change on the profitability of Australian farms’, Climatic Change, 172, Article 12.
  • Hughes N, Soh W, Lawson K and Lu M (2022) ‘Improving the performance of micro-simulation models with machine learning: The case of Australian farms’, Economic Modeling, 115, Article 105957.
  • Hughes N, Gupta M, Whittle L and Westwood T (2023), 'An Economic Model of Spatial and Temporal Water Trade in the Australian Southern Murray-Darling Basin', Water Resources Research, 59(4), Article e2022WR032559.

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Martine Cosgrove
Sir Roland Wilson Scholarship 2014

Martine Cosgrove

Department of Defence

Australian National University

PhD title: An Ecological Approach to Positive Mental Health in the Australian Defence Force

Martine has been employed by the Department of Defence since 2007. Her research explores the Australian Defence Force’s strategic approach to mental health and wellbeing and how this influences the development of positive mental health in adults. Martine wants her research to inform the development of policy and interventions so as to promote positive mental health outcomes across the life-course and facilitate healthy transitions across the military lifecycle.

 

Supervisor:
Associate Professor Richard Burns
Eliza Murray
Sir Roland Wilson Scholarship 2013

Eliza Murray

Climate Change Authority

Australian National University

PhD title: The international political economy of carbon trading.

Since joining the Department of the Environment in 2007, Eliza has contributed to a wide range of biodiversity and climate change policies, from national parks and forests to light bulbs and landfills. In this, Eliza played an instrumental role in the design of Australia’s Carbon Farming Initiative. Eliza has also worked as the director of International Climate Change Negotiations at the Department of the Environment and Energy. She is currently the acting General Manager at the Climate Change Authority.

Her research investigates inter-governmental cooperation on carbon markets and whether emissions trading could contribute to a more coordinated and effective global response to the threat of climate change.

Supervisor:
Professor Frank Jotzo
Agnieszka Nelson
Sir Roland Wilson Scholarship 2013

Agnieszka Nelson

Department of Social Services

Australian National University

PhD title: Income support dynamics among vulnerable Australian youth in the wake of economic downturn and policy change - a quantitative enquiry using administrative data

Agnieszka has worked for various agencies in the Australian Public Service and in the UK Department for Work and Pensions. Her experience is in the area of social policy development, research and evaluation. In the UK, she lead a team of economists, social researchers and statisticians to deliver groundbreaking research to support policy development. At the Department of Social Services, Agnieszka works on strengthening the Department’s research and evaluation capability and culture. To do this, she developed and Evidence Strategy and established an International What Works in Social Policy Working Group between DSS and the Department for Work and Pensions in the UK.

Agnieszka’s research includes an examination of income support dynamics among vulnerable Australian youth, with a focus on changing economic conditions and welfare to work reforms. She is also a Fellow at the Tax and Transfer Policy Institute at the Crawford School of Public Policy and a Board Member of the Foundation for International Studies on Social Security (FISS).

Supervisor:
Professor Matthew Gray
Helen Benassi
Sir Roland Wilson Scholarship Graduated 2021

Dr

Helen Benassi

Department of Health and Aged Care

Australian National University

PhD title: Mental health help-seeking beliefs and behaviours in the Australian Defence Force: Intersections with e-mental health and self-management

Helen is currently Director, National Mental Health Surveys, Translation and Research at the Department of Health and Aged Care. Her responsibilities include the oversight of national mental health research data collections, including Young Minds: Our Future which will provide mental health prevalence rates for Australian children and adolescents - the first available in a decade. Since returning to the Australian Public Service, Helen has worked with ANU researchers on Government-funded projects with a direct policy impact (eg Mental health and wellbeing around the Voice to Parliament Referendum). Previously, Helen worked for the Department of Defence and managed the delivery of a number of influential research projects examining mental health prevalence, service needs and resilience in the Australian Defence Force (ADF) and veteran community.

Helen’s PhD research examined stigma and barriers to mental health care in the ADF, as well as the role e-mental health plays in treatment-seeking behaviour, early intervention, and self-management in a workplace context. Helen was co-author on a number of 2018 and 2019 Department of Veterans’ Affairs reports examining mental health in current and former ADF members and pathways to mental health care, including technology use. Her research has been presented both within Australia and internationally, was tabled at the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide and she has contributed her knowledge in military think tanks and international forums.

Supervisor:
Professor Phil Batterham
  • Benassi H and Steele N (2011) ‘Post-Operational Mental Health Surveillance: Middle East Area of Operations 2010’. Technical Brief 13-11. Department of Defence, Canberra.
  • Benassi H (2012) ‘Post-Operational Mental Health: Bi-Annual Surveillance Report’. Technical Brief 04-12. Department of Defence, Canberra.
  • Steele N, Benassi H, Chesney C, Nicholson C, Fogarty G (2014) ‘Evaluating the Merits of Using Brief Measures of PTSD or General Mental Health Measures in Two-Stage PTSD Screening’. Military Medicine, 179(12):1497-1502.
  • Van Hooff M, McFarlane A, Davies C, Searle A, Fairweather-Schmidt A, Verhagen A, Benassi H, Hodson S (2014) ‘The Australian Defence Force Mental Health Prevalence and Wellbeing Study: design and methods’. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 5(1),  DOI: 10.3402/ejpt.v5.23950.
  • Searle A, Van Hooff M, McFarlane A, Davies C, Fairweather-Schmidt A, Hodson S, Benassi H and Steele N (2015) ‘The validity of military screening for mental health problems: Diagnostic accuracy of the PCL, K10 and AUDIT scales in an entire military population’. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, 24(1):32-45.
  • Searle A, Van Hooff M, McFarlane A, Davies C, Tran T, Hodson S, Benassi H, Steele N (2017) ‘Screening for Depression and Psychological Distress in a Currently Serving Military Population: The Diagnostic Accuracy of the K10 and the PHQ9’. Assessment, 26(8):1411-1426. DOI: 10.1177/1073191117745124.
  • Forbes D, Van Hooff M, Lawrence-Wood E, Sadler N, Hodson S, Benassi H, Hansen C, Avery J, Varker T, O’Donnell M, Phelps A, Frederickson J, Sharp M, Searle A, McFarlane A (2018) Pathways to Care, Mental Health and Wellbeing Transition Study, Department of Defence and Department of Veterans’ Affairs, Canberra.
  • Van Hooff M, Lawrence-Wood E, Hodson S, Sadler N, Benassi H, Hansen C, Grace B, Avery J, Searle A, Iannos M, Abraham M, Baur J, McFarlane A (2018) Mental Health Prevalence, Mental Health and Wellbeing Transition Study, Department of Defence and Department of Veterans’ Affairs, Canberra.
  • Kelsall H, Sim M, Van Hooff M, Lawrence-Wood E, Benassi H, Sadler N, Hodson S, Hansen C, Avery J, Searle A, Ighani H, Iannos M, Abraham M, Baur J, Saccone E and McFarlane A (2018) Physical Health Status Report, Mental Health and Wellbeing Transition Study. Department of Defence and the Department of Veterans’ Affairs, Canberra.
  • Burns J, Van Hooff M, Lawrence-Wood E, Benassi H, Sadler N, Hodson S, Hansen C, Avery J, Searle A, Iannos M, Abraham M, Baur J and McFarlane A (2019) Technology Use and Wellbeing, Mental Health and Wellbeing Transition Study. Department of Defence and Department of Veterans’ Affairs, Canberra.
  • Bryant R, Lawrence-Wood E, Baur J, McFarlane A, Hodson S, Sadler N, Benassi H, Howell S, Abraham M, Iannos M, Hansen C, Searle and Van Hooff M (2019) Mental Health Changes Over Time: a Longitudinal Perspective: Mental Health and Wellbeing Transition Study. Department of Defence and Department of Veterans’ Affairs, Canberra.
  • Lawrence-Wood E, McFarlane A, Lawrence A, Sadler N, Hodson S, Benassi H, Bryant R, Korgaonkar M, Rosenfeld J, Sim M, Kelsall H, Abraham M, Baur J, Howell S, Hansen C, Iannos M, Searle A and Van Hooff M (2019) Impact of Combat Report, Impact of Combat Study. Department of Defence and Department of Veterans’ Affairs, Canberra.
  • Hansen C, McFarlane A, Iannos M, Sadler N, Benassi H, Lawrence-Wood E, Hodson S, Searly A and Van Hooff M (2020) ‘Psychosocial factors associated with psychological distress and functional difficulties in recently transitioned and current serving regular Australian Defence Force members’. Psychiatry Research, 286, DOI 10.1016/j.psyhres.2020.112860.
  • Gee B L, Han J, Benassi H and Batterham P J (2020) ‘Suicidal thoughts, suicidal behaviours and self-harm in daily life: A systematic review of ecological momentary assessment studies’. Digit Health, 6, DOI: 10.1177/2055207620963958.
  • Benassi H (2021) Mental health help-seeking beliefs and behaviours in the Australian Defence Force: Intersections with e-mental health and self-management [PhD thesis], The Australian National University, Canberra.
  • Fikretoglu D, Sharp M, Adler A, Bélanger S, Benassi H, Bennett C, Bryant R Busuttil W, Cramm H, Fear N, Greenberg N, Heber A, Hosseiny F, Hoge C, Jetly R, McFarlane A, Morganstein J, Murphy D, O’Donnell M, Phelps A, Richardson D, Sadler N, Schnurr P, Smith P, Ursano R, Van Hooff M, Wessely S, Forbes D and Pedlar D (2022) ‘Pathways to mental health care in active military populations across the Five-Eyes nations: An integrated perspective’. Clinical Psychology Review, 91, DOI:10.1016/j.cpr.2021.102100.
  • Dell L, Casetta C, Benassi H, Cowlishaw S, Agathos J, O’Donnell M, Crane M, Lewis V, Pacella B, Terhaag S, Morton, D, McFarlane A, Bryant R, and Forbes D (2022) Mental health across the early years in the military. Psychological Medicine: 1–9.
  • Metcalf O, Lawrence-Wood E, Baur J, Van Hooff M, Forbes D, O’Donnell M, Sadler N, Hodson S, Benassi H, Varker T, Battersby M, McFarlane, A and Cowlishaw S (2022) ‘Prevalence of gambling problems, help-seeking, and relationships with trauma in veterans’. PLoS ONE, 17(5): e0268346, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0268346.
  • Varker T, Cowlishaw S, Baur J, McFarlane A, Lawrence-Wood E, Metcalf O, Van Hooff M, Sadler N, O’Donnell M L, Hodson S, Benassi H and Forbes D (2022) ‘Problem anger in veterans and military personnel: Prevalence, predictors, and associated harms of suicide and violence’. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 151:57-64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2022.04.004.
Melanie Broder
Sir Roland Wilson Scholarship Graduated 2021

Dr

Melanie Broder

Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

The Australian National University

PhD title: Rhetoric over reality? Assessing the success of deterrence in cyberspace: Israeli and US cybersecurity approaches between 2008-2018

Melanie has two decades of experience across the Australian Federal Government, working in the Departments of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Defence, Prime Minister and Cabinet, and Foreign Affairs and Trade. Melanie has worked across policy, analysis, and capability areas, including large scale legislative reform and major policy shifts. Melanie’s defence and national security experience contributed to her passion for protecting Australia’s strategic interests from non-traditional security threats.

Melanie’s doctoral research used a qualitative approach to examine the practical applications of the principles of deterrence on cyber security from 2008-2018. Her study investigated the policies and relative success of the United States of America and the State of Israel. Melanie's work identified principles that may be appropriate for the Australian strategic context and contributed to a global understanding of the efficacy of cyber deterrence policies for governments.

After completing her PhD, Melanie worked as the cyber adviser for the Minister for Home Affairs and Cyber Security. Melanie has also worked on the practical delivery of secure tech transformation for Government for global tech firm Accenture. She is a passionate advocate for advancing and promoting diverse viewpoints in national security, and offers mentoring for any women wishing to break into the cyber field.

Supervisor:
Emeritus Professor Roger Bradbury
Joseph Chien
Sir Roland Wilson Scholarship Graduated 2021

Dr

Joseph Chien

Australian Bureau of Statistics

Australian National University

PhD title: Using administrative data to gain insights into microdrivers of productivity

Joseph has been at the APS for over 20 years and is currently the director of the Data Access and Confidentiality Methodology Unit (DACMU). Joseph's PhD research analysed administrative data to better understand the microdrivers of productivity.

His research interests include productivity analysis, network modelling, semantic web and synthetic data. Joseph is interested in advancing a synthetic data approach at the ABS to make its data more accessible for research while ensuring confidentiality of the providers.

Supervisor:
Professor Alan Welsh
  • Bailie J and Chien C H (2019) ‘ABS perturbation methodology through the lens of Differential Privacy’. Work Session on Statistical Data Confidentiality, UNECE/Eurostat, The Hague, Netherlands, October 29-31. Available at https://unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/stats/documents/ece/ces/ge.46/2019/mtg1/SDC2019_S2_ABS_Bailie_D.pdf.
  • Chien C H, Welsh A H and Moore J D (2020) ‘Synthetic Business Microdata: an Australian example’. Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality, 10(2) DOI: 10.29012/jpc.733.
  • Chien C H (2021) Using administrative data to gain insights into microdrivers of productivity [PhD Thesis], The Australian National University, Canberra.
  • Chien C H (2022) ‘USING ADMINISTRATIVE DATA TO GAIN INSIGHTS INTO MICRO-DRIVERS OF PRODUCTIVITY’. Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society, 105(1):175–176.
  • Sadeghi P, Chien C H (2024) 'On the Connection Between the ABS Perturbation Methodology and Differential Privacy', Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality, 14(2), https://doi.org/10.29012/jpc.859
Martin Dallen
SRW Pat Turner Scholarship Graduated 2021

Martin Dallen

Department of Defence

Australian National University

Master of Forestry

In his role in the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, Martin plays a key role in identifying and protecting Australia’s unique heritage, primarily focused on First Nations cultural heritage, cultural landscapes and iconic natural places.

Martin studied a Master in Forestry, which included undertaking a review of the Australian forestry sector’s performance since the Industry Commission’s 1993 Adding Value to Australia's Forest Products Inquiry Report.

Since his return to the APS, Martin has moved into heritage where he has brought valuable expertise and insights on ways to utilise environmental science to protect the landscapes that support Australia’s rich First Nations cultural heritage and our unique flora and fauna.

Martin’s goal is to advance the voice and self-determination of First Nations communities across Australia, particularly in areas where First Nations people are able meaningfully contribute to the decisions that affect Country. Since his return, Martin has overseen a number of highlights including leading the Australian Government’s efforts to recognise internationally the wishes of the Butchulla people to reclaim K’gari as the traditional name for Fraser Island; the appointment of First Nations people to advisory boards for World Heritage places; and leading the development of funding agreements with state agencies to eradicate invasive pests from sensitive ecosystems.

Dr Christiane Gerblinger
Sir Roland Wilson Scholarship Graduated 2021

Dr

Christiane Gerblinger

National Library of Australia

Australian National University

PhD title: The language of the rebuffed: a critical appraisal of how policy advisers communicate

Christiane joined the Treasury as a speechwriter in 2012. Before that, she worked across a range of areas in the APS, from analysing financial intelligence to providing advice on counter-proliferation, energy, health and rural policy. Along the way, and partly as a result of completing her first PhD in film and literature in 2000, Christiane continued to critically analyse discourse—but, instead of closely reading literary texts, her attention turned to analysing how public policy is communicated to governments and the public.

Christiane's Sir Roland Wilson thesis examined the language of rejected policy advice, with a focus on how policy knowledge is constructed inside public administrations and communicated to governments during controversy. Her analysis drew on three Australian policy case studies: the taxation of investment properties, the role of renewables in the national energy mix, and the Iraq war. A gap in methods with which to dissect the phenomenon of rebuffed language led her to construct a new framework informed by rhetorical, organisational and comparative analyses. She uncovered three different language typologies that: fixated on one strand of enquiry but sidestepped wider context; expunged complexity, thereby imparting an appearance of certainty and solid evidence; and routinely raised the presence of uncertainty, leaving advice unusable as evidence. When publicly released, the advice accompanying each proved problematic as means with which to account for political decisions. Her thesis returned outstanding examiners’ reports due to its unique contribution to political science, public administration, intelligence and policy studies, and communication.

Christiane returned to the APS in 2020 and is now a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science in ANU's College of Science.

Supervisor:
Professor Joan Leach

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Sir Roland Wilson Scholarship 2021

Jennifer Jackett

Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

Australian National University

PhD title: Allies & Great Power Technology Rivalry: Not All Friends are Created Equal

View Jennifer's scholarship summary poster.

Jennifer is a Senior Adviser in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet’s National Security and International Policy Group. Jennifer has experience advising government on a range of cross-cutting policy issues, including foreign interference, critical infrastructure, international defence engagement, and counter-terrorism.

Jennifer’s research will examine US-China competition for leadership over advanced and emerging technologies, and the implications for US allies including Australia. The findings of Jennifer’s research will inform the development of a policy framework which integrates security, economic and social considerations, and supports government decision-making in the long-term national interest.

Jennifer holds a Master of National Security Policy from the ANU’s National Security College. She was awarded First Class Honours and the University Medal for her research on urbanisation in India, as part of her Bachelor of Liberal Studies at Sydney University.

Supervisor:
Dr Michael Cohen

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Deborah Katona
SRW Pat Turner Scholarship Graduated 2021

Deborah Katona

National Indigenous Australians Agency

Charles Darwin University

Master of Public Policy

Deborah is a Branch Manager at the National Indigenous Australians Agency (NIAA), leading the Culture and Empowerment Branch within the Country, Culture and Connection Group.

Since completing the prestigious Pat Turner Scholarship, Deborah has held significant positions, including Senior Manager of Policy and Strategy at the Northern Land Council and Senior Adviser to Minister Plibersek. Her passion lies in achieving long-term outcomes through impactful policy interventions. With over 20 years of experience in the Australian Public Service (APS), Deborah has sharpened her expertise in policy and strategy roles.

Deborah holds a Master of Public Policy from Charles Darwin University, a program tailored to northern contexts. This education has equipped her with a robust theoretical and practical understanding of public policy design, implementation, and evaluation, particularly in Indigenous, and northern regions.

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Sir Roland Wilson Scholarship 2021

Hannah Lord

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Australian National University

PhD title: Political economy of cross-border electricity trading in Southeast Asia

Since joining the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in 2012, Hannah has worked in a variety of foreign policy and international development roles focusing on Southeast Asia and climate change.  During a posting to Laos from 2014-18, Hannah managed political and economic bilateral relations and development projects.  From 2018 to 2021, Hannah was part of Australia’s delegation to UN climate change negotiations and worked to integrate climate change across the Australian aid program.

Hannah’s research aims to improve understanding of the governance of the energy transition in Southeast Asia. Specifically, she is taking a case study approach to examining the growing trade in electricity in Southeast Asia. While regional electricity trade can support uptake of renewables, progress towards an ASEAN Power Grid has been incremental and its future development faces a complex set of political and economic barriers. Through her research, Hannah hopes to develop a better understanding of the factors supporting successful trading relationships, so as to inform regional diplomacy and technical assistance programs.

Supervisor:
Associate Professor Christian Downie
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Sir Roland Wilson Scholarship 2021

Helen Mitchell

Australian National University

PhD title: A modern economic statecraft framework

Helen is an economist and former diplomat, currently one of a cadre of senior experts providing strategic advice to the Prime Minister and rest of government. She is also the inaugural Non-Resident Fellow for Economic Security at the United States Studies Centre. Helen previously worked at Treasury and served Australia in New York, South Africa and Mexico with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. She is trained in analytical tradecraft and speaks Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese. 

Helen’s research draws on her expertise fusing economics, geopolitics and security for government. Today, economic security issues involve supply chains, growth and innovation as much as deterrence, commitment and pressure. This leads to tensions between the aims of economic security and statecraft policies. Helen has developed a rigorous framework to guide policymakers through these issues to find policies that can drive prosperity and add to regional deterrence and influence that will help Australia manage threats and develop new energy and technology systems. Helen's framework helps policymakers to identify and calibrate policies that move Australia towards desired economic security outcomes and find off-ramps away from unintended consequences or dangerous outcomes. 

Mitchell, H (2023) 'A Modern Economic Statecraft Framework', SSRN, https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4548008.

Nikiforakis N, Mitchell H (2014) 'Mixing the carrots with the sticks: third party punishment and reward'. Experimental Economics, 17:1–23. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10683-013-9354-z

McDonald I, Mitchell, H (2010) 'Equality, well-being and the work of the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission'. Insights: Melbourne Business and Economics, 8. https://issuu.com/business-economics/docs/insights_volume_8_november_2010

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Sir Roland Wilson Scholarship Graduated 2021

Dr

Siddharth Shirodkar

Indigenous Business Australia

The Australian National University

PhD title: Unlocking Indigenous entrepreneurial potential: A mixed methods study of the pathways and barriers to business for Indigenous Australians.

Dr Siddharth Shirodkar is the Principal Economist at Indigenous Business Australia. Siddharth has worked in Indigenous economic development since 2015, joining the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet to work on Indigenous entrepreneurship. He has worked as an economist in the Australian Government for close to 15 years, including at the National Indigenous Australians Agency, the Treasury, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and with the former Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations.

Siddharth’s PhD research was on the pathways and barriers to Indigenous Australians starting a business. He has taken a mixed-methods approach to investigate factors that are limiting opportunities for potential Indigenous entrepreneurs to get into business, including the impact of racial bias. His study involves econometric analysis and ground-breaking qualitative techniques to identify Australia’s hidden entrepreneurial potential. Siddharth submitted his PhD thesis in January 2021, and received his doctorate in July 2021.

    Supervisor:
    Dr Boyd Hunter

    ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

    • Garton P, Sedgewick M, and Shirodkar S (2010) ‘Australia’s Current Account Deficit in a Global Imbalances Context’, Economic Round-up 2010, 1, The Treasury, Canberra.
    • Shirodkar S, Hunter B, and Foley D (2018) ‘Ongoing growth in the number of Indigenous Australians in business’. Working Paper 125, ANU Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Canberra.
    • Shirodkar S (2019) ‘Bias against Indigenous Australians: Implicit association test results for Australia’. Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues, 22(3-4):3-34.
    • Shirodkar S and Hunter B (2019) ‘Factors underlying the likelihood of being in business for Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians’, Australian Journal of Labour Economics, 22(1):5-28.
    • Shirodkar S, Hunter B and Foley D (2020) ‘A new method of estimating the number of Indigenous business owner-managers’. CSRM & SRC Methods paper, No. 2/2020.
    • Shirodkar S and Hunter B (2021) ‘Implicit biases and their effect on Indigenous business ownership’. Australian Journal of Labour Economics, 24(1):1-24.
    • Shirodkar S (2021) Unlocking Indigenous entrepreneurial potential: A mixed methods study of the pathways and barriers into business for Indigenous Australians [PhD Thesis], The Australian National University, Canberra.

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    Sir Roland Wilson Scholarship 2021

    Nu Nu Win

    The Treasury

    Australian National University

    PhD title: Policy evaluation using microdata

    Nu Nu joined the Department of Treasury in 2005 and has a broad range of experience across tax policy and legislation as well as macroeconomic policy, modelling and forecasting. She has also worked in the Department in Industry’s business tax incentives area and at the ANU Crawford School as a research fellow. Nu Nu led the BHP’s macroeconomic team in Singapore to develop a new forecasting system to underpin commodity price forecasts, and worked in the World Bank’s macroeconomic modelling team in Washington DC.  

    Nu Nu’s research will leverage administrative datasets to look at business investment and the labour market in Australia. First, the research will examine the effectiveness of business tax policies in achieving macroeconomic stabilisation objectives and increasing business investment, taking explicit account of firm heterogeneity. Second, the research will look at intersectionality in the Australian labour market, including analysing the impact of diversity on promotion and wage outcomes.

    Supervisor:
    Professor Robert Breunig
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    SRW Pat Turner Scholarship Graduated 2022

    Patricia (Trish) Akee

    Alumni Ambassador

    Torres Strait Regional Authority

    The Australian National University

    Master of Culture Health and Medicine, College of Arts and Social Sciences

    Trish is a Meriam Neur (Murray Island woman), from Waibene (Thursday Island), Zenadth Kes (Torres Strait). She comes from a strong and proud family, with lineage to the Geuram tribe from Mer and family connections to Dauar Island, Yarrabah, New Caledonia and Jamaica. Trish’s professional journey has been quite expansive. Over the past 24 years she has worked in a variety of roles in government, non-government and community organisations. She is a key community advocate and leader, having supported the ACT Torres Strait Islander community both personally and professionally in her role as Director of the Kara Buai Torres Strait Islander Corporation in Canberra.

    Trish commenced her career in APS with the Department of Health and Aged Care, influencing and supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health policy and programs. Following completion of a Master of Culture, Health and Medicine at ANU, she accepted a secondment opportunity with Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, in the department’s First Nations Policy – Closing the Gap team.

    Currently, Trish is working on Country in Waibene (Thursday Island), leading strategic engagement, policy and projects in the Torres Strait Regional Authority’s healthy communities and safe communities programs.

    Her goal as a Pat Turner alumna and Torres Strait Islander leader in the APS is to elevate and strengthen the voices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples across the entirety of the policy lifecycle.​

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    Sir Roland Wilson Scholarship 2022

    Lyndon Ang

    Australian Bureau of Statistics

    Australian National University

    PhD title: Filling in the blanks: Methods to maximise the value of administrative and big data for producing statistics

    View Lyndon's scholarship summary poster.

    Lyndon has nearly 20 years’ experience as an applied survey statistician at the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) and has an excellent sense of the needs and pressures facing a statistical organisation. In recent years, he has driven initiatives at the ABS to develop new methods for using administrative data to produce more efficient statistics.

    The increasing availability of large datasets promises to provide significant benefits for policy and decision making, however large datasets can contain inherent flaws. Through his PhD research, Lyndon aims to improve the way we harness and use externally sourced datasets alongside sample surveys to produce statistics that provide reliable conclusions.

    Supervisor:
    Associate Professor Robert Clark
    • Ralphs, M & Ang L 2009, ‘Optimised geographies for data reporting: Zone design tools for census output geographies’, Statistics New Zealand Working Paper No 09-01, Statistics New Zealand, Wellington.
    • Hendrickson, L, Taylor, D, Ang, L, Cao, K, Nguyen, T & Soriano, F 2021, ‘The impact of persistent innovation on Australian firm growth, Prometheus, Vol. 37, No. 3, pp. 241-258.
    • Tam, S-M, Kim, J K, Ang, L & Pham, H 2021, ‘Mining the New Oil for Official Statistics’, in C Hill, P Biemer, T Buskirk, L Japec, A Kirchner, S Kolenikov & L Lyberg (eds), Big Data Meets Survey Science: A Collection of Innovative Methods. John Wiley & Sons, New Jersey, pp.339- 359.
    • Tam, S M, Trewin, A & Ang, L 2022, ‘Error analysis for hybrid estimates of proportion using big data’ Statistical Journal of the IAOS, Preprint, https://doi.org/10.3233/SJI-210924

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    SRW Pat Turner Scholarship Graduated 2022

    Sharna Bartley

    Services Australia

    Australian National University

    Master of Public Policy

    From Services Australia, Sharna is a proud Wuluwarra and Pitta Pitta woman, born and raised in Mount Isa Queensland. Sharna began her career in the public service as an APS2 and has since secured a wealth of knowledge through various jobs in service delivery; fraud and compliance; business improvement; human resources; parliamentary services, and; agency transformation.

    Throughout her career Sharna has observed significant gaps between the intent of policy, to the delivery on the ground. Sharna aims to utilise the Master of Public Policy to empower her with the knowledge to close the divide between policy intent and program delivery.

    Her goal is to support the public service to establish a best practice for seeking input from end users and communities in the development and implementation of policy and programs.

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    SRW Pat Turner Scholarship 2022

    Natalie Bryant

    Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority

    Australian National University

    PhD title: The curious case of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Authority: Investigating the absence of reforms to facilitate Indigenous self-determination in Australia’s hospital system

    Natalie has held a variety of roles across the Commonwealth and NSW public service. She has a strong interest in health and leadership, and is passionate about the development and implementation of programs that provide the best outcomes for all people but particularly Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. 

    In 2009, the National Health and Hospital Reform Commission released a report including 123 recommendations across four themes. The recommendations included substantial reforms to the structure, governance, and funding of Australia's health care system. The government's response the following year supported or noted 122 of the 123 recommendations. One recommendation was rejected - the recommendation to establish a National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Health Authority. This came within a year of Australia's endorsement of the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), a declaration which foregrounds the right of Indigenous peoples to self-determination.   

    The decision to reject the establishment of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Authority appears to be in contradiction to other decisions made in the relation to Indigenous affairs at the time. This research seeks to understand why this reform to facilitate Indigenous self-determination within the Australian hospital system failed to be implemented. It investigates potential structures that might facilitate Indigenous self-determination in the hospital system in Australia, and the reform processes that might be needed to realise them.

    Supervisor:
    Dr Francis Markham

    Bryant N (2024) 'Introducing Indigenist Critical Policy Analysis: A rights-based approach to analysing public policies and processes', Australian Journal of Social Issues, https://doi.org/10.1002/ajs4.350

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    SRW Pat Turner Scholarship Graduated 2022

    Cris Castro

    Department of Employment and Workplace Relations

    The Australian National University

    Master of Leadership

    After completing a double degree in economics and commerce, Cris entered the public service in 1999 and was later accepted into the 2000 graduate program. Cris’ public service career has included policy and program roles covering Indigenous employment and economic development, strategic policy roles, corporate governance roles, and in vocational education and training policy and legislation.

    Cris is a descendant of the Stolen Generations. With a father removed from his mother in Meanjin (Brisbane) on Turrbal and Yuggera country, Cris was born and raised on Ngunnawal land. Growing up in Canberra with two parents who worked in public sector roles, some might say his pathway into the APS was predictable.

    Cris’ Master of Leadership degree included specialisations in business administration, public policy and leadership. Through his studies, Cris explored how emerging organisational performance frameworks and leadership models can best be applied in the public service context, helping to ensure the APS retains its ongoing relevance to both the Government of the day and to the public it serves. Cris was the recipient of the Pat Turner Coursework Prize in 2020 and 2021.

    Since returning to service, Cris has been promoted to Assistant Secretary in the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations, responsible for driving efforts across DEWR to help Close the Gap.

    Cris is the alumni representative on the Pat Turner Scholarship Advisory Group.

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    Kayannie Denigan

    Office of the Minister for Indigenous Australians (formerly Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts)

    Australian National University

    Master of Public Policy

    Kayannie is Aṉangu Luritja with strong family and cultural ties to Bagarrmuguwarra and Kuku Yalanji Bama of Cape York. She is an experienced executive level leader and has led policy, research, program and grants management teams since joining the APS. She also has experience as a political staffer and in the not-for-profit sector. Kayannie graduated with a Master of Public Policy from The Australian National University in 2022.

    Kayannie currently works as a Senior Advisor to the Minister for Indigenous Australians, on leave from her position at the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications and the Arts. She joined the APS in 2015 after relocating from Far North Queensland and prior to moving to Canberra, had never considered a career in the public sector. Kayannie is passionate about creating and leading high-performing teams and championing the unique role that Indigenous staff play in mainstream APS agencies to deliver outcomes to all Australians.

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    Sir Roland Wilson Scholarship 2022

    Nikolai Drahos

    Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water

    Australian National University

    PhD title: Governing gas in a world transitioning to net zero

    Nikolai has been in the Australian Public Service since 2012, where he has led specialist research and analysis at the Climate Change Authority and the Office of the Chief Economist within the Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources.

    Nikolai’s research examines a key climate policy challenge – reducing methane emissions from energy and agriculture – and how support for important climate policy reforms can build across industry, finance and civil society.

    Supervisor:
    Associate Professor Christian Downie
    • Ledesma, D & Drahos, N 2018, ‘Prices and crisis: LNG and Australia’s East Coast gas market’, Energy Insight, Vol. 30, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, Oxford.
    • Drahos, N 2019, ‘LNG spot price forecasting and the futures curve’, NG147, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, Oxford.
    • Drahos, N 2021, 'Australia’s gas trilemma: prices, exports and emissions', Energy Insight, Vol. 100, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, Oxford.

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    Sir Roland Wilson Scholarship 2022

    James Gaetani

    National Indigenous Australians Agency

    Australian National University

    PhD title: Accommodating traditional decision-making: An approach to legal plurality in Australia

    James is a Special Counsel at the National Indigenous Australians Agency and has worked in the Indigenous Affairs portfolio for over six years, primarily practicing in public law. During this time, he has led teams of lawyers to advise on major legislative reforms (including to native title, land rights and higher education) and the design and establishment of new statutory bodies and reparatory schemes. He has also managed significant litigation on behalf of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and the National Indigenous Australians Agency.

    Australian public law requires some Indigenous entities to make decisions in accordance with traditional processes. James’ research will critically map and evaluate how Australia’s public law and institutional framework accommodates traditional decision-making in Indigenous entities and recommend where this can be improved.

    Supervisor:
    Professor Anthony Connolly
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    SRW Pat Turner Scholarship 2022

    Timothy Holt

    Department of Finance

    Australian National University

    PhD title: Nga’ira gi’yam; niyila: An Indigenous Data Governance Model for the APS

    Timothy joined the Australian Public Service in 2009 and has seen first-hand the importance of good policy and how it impacts the lives of Australians. He has a vested interest in discussions on social and Indigenous policy. Timothy brings to the table a unique perspective in relation to public policy that will have an impact on the people closest to him.

    Through his PhD research, Timothy will examine Australian Public Service data governance frameworks and practices. With this knowledge, he will explore how the Maiam nayri Wingara Indigenous Data Sovereignty Principles can be applied to an Indigenous Data Governance model for the Australian Public Service. The research will contribute to improving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's socioeconomic outcomes by moving towards economic empowerment and forming a pathway to self-determination. 

    Supervisor:
    Professor Ray Lovett
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    SRW Pat Turner Scholarship Graduated 2022

    Adina Jordan

    Department of Employment and Workplace Relations

    Australian National University

    Master of Public Policy

    Adina joined the Public Service as a graduate in 1999, working in a range of offices across the Human Services and Social Services portfolios. She has worked in the Department of Social Services on family policy and in the department’s program performance reporting area. Adina has also worked across strategic, corporate and program areas in high level projects.

    Adina undertook a masters by coursework with a focus on public policy. In her study, Adina considered the influence public policy has on complex policy systems, the trends shaping leaders and levers for guiding decision making and leadership. Returning to the APS in 2022, Adina is using her postgraduate knowledge to influence her contribution to policy and contemporary policy frameworks.

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    Sir Roland Wilson Scholarship 2022

    Cecilia Karmel

    The Treasury

    Australian National University

    PhD title: Migration, skills shortages and COVID-19

    Cecilia joined the public service in 2011 and is a Director at the Treasury. She has worked across a range of areas, including economic forecasting, health and disability policy, and tax and transfer microsimulation modelling. Most recently, she led the team developing Treasury’s macroeconometric model of the Australian economy and the National Economy and Forecasting Unit. She assesses and advises on the economic challenges facing the Australian Government, including the economic impact of COVID-19 and its implications for the Australian economy.

    Through her PhD research, Cecilia will examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on immigration flows and what this means for emerging skills shortages in Australia. Cecilia aims to characterise the likely skill shortages in sectors heavily reliant on migrant labour. This will inform policy by assessing the extent to which labour markets will adjust themselves or whether government intervention may be necessary.

    Cecilia holds a Master’s Degree in Economics of Public Policy from Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, and a First Class Honours degree in Economics and a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish from The University of Adelaide.

    Supervisor:
    Professor Robert Breunig
    • Bullen, J, Conigrave, B, Elderfield, A, Karmel, C, Lucas, L, Ruberl, H, Stoney, N & Yao A 2021, ‘The Treasury Macroeconometric Model of Australia: Modelling Approach‘, Treasury Paper 2021-09, The Treasury, Canberra
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    SRW Pat Turner Scholarship 2022

    Genna Lehman

    Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade                                                                                           

    Australian National University

    PhD title: Japan’s economic security strategies: lessons for Australia

    Genna’s policy experience has focused on geostrategic issues in our region, including advising on Australia’s relationship with ASEAN and the Quad, and a posting to Bangkok. She also has trade policy experience, including in the Office of the Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment. Her combination of expertise sparked her interest in the increasing intersection between trade, foreign and security policy. She speaks Thai and Japanese.

    Genna’s PhD thesis aims to draw lessons for Australia on ways our close partner, Japan, is managing geoeconomic dynamics. Her thesis will examine how Japanese industry has responded to geopolitical risks and the Japanese Government’s economic security policies. She plans to evaluate policy options for Australia to manage geoeconomic risks and will identify opportunities for Australia and Japan to enhance cooperation on geoeconomic issues.

    Supervisor:
    Dr Darren Lim
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    Sir Roland Wilson Scholarship 2022

    Kate Pennington

    Department of Health and Aged Care

    Australian National University

    PhD title: Planning for an influenza pandemic and responding to a COVID-19 pandemic

    Kate is an epidemiologist and has been working at the Department of Health and Aged Care since 2008. Between 2020 and 2021, she worked in the National Incident Centre leading a team of epidemiologists and data analysts to provide evidence-based advice and to support public health response policies to the COVID-19 pandemic. Prior to this, she worked on several other communicable diseases, including influenza, to support the formulation of responsive and effective public health policies and programs across government.

    Through her PhD research Kate will examine the applicability of previous pandemic planning assumptions to the epidemiology and public health response for COVID-19. She will also evaluate the role of surveillance and modelling during the COVID-19 response, particularly in Australia, and identify key evidence requirements to enhance public health decision making during future pandemics.

    Supervisor:
    Professor Kathryn Glass
    • Pennington, K, Bareja, C, Sullivan, S G, Franklin, L J and Raupach J 2016, ‘Editorial – Influenza surveillance in Australia’, Communicable Diseases Intelligence, Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 315-316.
    • Sullivan, S G, Franklin, L J, Raupach, J, Pennington, K, Bareja, C, de Kluyver, R & National Influenza Surveillance Committee 2016, ‘A brief overview of influenza surveillance systems in Australia, 2015’, Communicable Diseases Intelligence, Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 347-351.
    • Pennington K, Owen R and Mun J 2017, ‘Annual Report of the National Influenza Surveillance Scheme, 2009’, Communicable Diseases Intelligence, Vol. 41, No, 4, pp. 383-454

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    SRW Pat Turner Scholarship Graduated 2022

    Emily Pugin

    Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

    Australian National University

    Master of Public Policy

    Emily Pugin is a Kombumerri woman from the Gold Coast, Queensland. She joined the Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade (DFAT) in 2013 and has worked across Australia’s foreign policy, international development, multilateral and trade portfolios. Most recently, Emily was posted as a diplomat to Australia’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations in Vienna, Austria, where she had a range of multilateral and bilateral responsibilities to advance Australia’s interests. Emily lead Australia’s engagement at the UN Office on Drugs and Crime where she negotiated international drugs policy and represented Australia at the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe, which covers a range of global security issues. Emily has also managed Australia’s bilateral relationships with Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo and Slovakia. Emily is undertaking a Master of Public Policy at ANU’s Crawford School and will return to DFAT upon completion to further her contribution to the development and implementation of Australia’s foreign policy.

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    SRW Pat Turner Scholarship Graduated 2022

    Carlyn Waters

    Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

    The Australian National University

    Master of Business Administration

    Carlyn brings over 30 years of experience in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander affairs, driving cultural, social, and economic opportunities at local, state, and national levels.

    Since joining the Australian Public Service in 2000, she has taken on influential leadership roles, and she now serves as the Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.

    Her MBA from the Australian National University deepened her expertise in strategic leadership, governance, and economic development—enhancing her ability to foster impactful partnerships between Indigenous communities, businesses, and government.

    Passionate about creating lasting change, Carlyn remains committed to strengthening pathways for Indigenous advancement and ensuring meaningful collaboration across sectors.

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    SRW Pat Turner Scholarship 2023

    Mitchell Bird

    Services Australia

    The Australian National University

    Master of Entrepreneurship and Innovation

    View Mitchell's scholarship summary poster.

    Mitchell is a proud Kamilaroi man, born in Tamworth NSW.

    Mitchell commenced in the Australian Public Service in 2010, working for Services Australia (formerly Department of Human Services), and was part of the agency’s first intake of the Indigenous Apprenticeship Program. Mitchell’s apprenticeship was front-line service delivery, assisting Australians in accessing essential social welfare payments and services.

    After four years, Mitchell relocated from his home community, Tweed Heads NSW, to Canberra to further pursue his public service career. Since moving to Canberra, Mitchell worked in a variety of roles such as: Team Leader of front-line service delivery staff, Assistant Director/Director, leading governance and coordination teams; Departmental Liaison Officer, a conduit between the Minister’s office and Services Australia; Executive Officer, supporting senior executive with strategic and operational matters; Ministerial Adviser, advising Ministers on various portfolio matters. In each role held, Mitchell has advocated for creating opportunities for Indigenous people.

    Mitchell has a passion for leadership and commenced in the Pat Turner Scholarship Program in Semester 2 2023, studying a Masters of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, specialising in leadership.

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    Sir Roland Wilson Scholarship 2023

    Conrad Buffier

    Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water

    The Australian National University

    PhD title: Climate Change Policy Upscaling

    Conrad is a Director in the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water. Over his 15 year career in the Australian Public Service, Conrad has contributed to the development of the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, the Carbon Pricing Mechanism, the Emissions Reduction Fund, the National Energy Guarantee, the Safeguard Mechanism, and transport emissions policy. Conrad also worked on the 2008 and 2011 Garnaut Climate Change Reviews.

    Through his PhD research at the ANU Crawford School of Public Policy, Conrad is examining factors that support upscaling the stringency of countries’ climate change mitigation policy instruments. During his PhD candidature, Conrad has represented The Australian National University at the 2024 Raisina-IE Global Student Challenge in India, and contributed as an author to the World Bank’s 2024 State and Trends of Carbon Pricing Report.

    Supervisor:
    Professor Llewelyn Hughes (Primary Supervisor), Professor Frank Jotzo (Associate Supervisor), Dr. Rebecca Colvin (Associate Supervisor)
    Lynette Caruso
    Sir Roland Wilson Scholarship 2023

    Lynette Caruso

    Department of Veterans’ Affairs

    The Australian National University

    PhD title: Future of work: a strategic framework for hybrid work arrangements

    Lynette has worked in the public service for over 30 years in in a range of areas including population health, sport, mental health, disability, aged care, agriculture, family and advocacy services; in both program and policy roles. Lynette has worked overseas, in regional areas and was outposted to state government where she was responsible for fostering closer ties between the Commonwealth and the state. Prior to commencing the scholarship she was overseeing hospital programs at the Department of Veterans Affairs.

    Lynette’s research will examine the positive and negative impacts of hybrid work on workers and managers and what they need to ensure these arrangements foster wellbeing, knowledge sharing, team cohesion and productivity. Understanding the advantages and disadvantages of these types of arrangements will help to set best practice public policy for Australian workplaces.

    Lynette has previously completed tertiary studies in social work, legal studies, sociology and public health.

    Supervisor:
    Professor Lyndall Strazdins
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    SRW Pat Turner Scholarship Graduated 2023

    Dr

    Lisa Conway

    Department of Employment and Workplace Relations

    The Australian National University

    PhD title: Public Administration in Blak and White: Uplifting the Cultural Capability of the Australian Public Service

    Lisa is a Yorta Yorta woman who has worked in the Australian Public Service for around 20 years. Her current role is leading the First Nations Employment Policy and Programs Branch at the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations.

    Lisa undertook her PhD at the Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University. This research focused on looking for opportunities to uplift the cultural capability of the APS to improve policy effectiveness and make it more culturally safe and responsive for First Nations peoples.

    Her research, using Indigenous research methodologies to interview non-Indigenous decisionmakers in the APS, has been recognised for its ground-breaking contribution to public administration. 

    She found that institutional whiteness is so thoroughly embedded in APS systems and processes that it impedes the service’s ability to effectively design and implement policy for First Nations people. To address this, Lisa developed a model for building cultural capability in the APS. 

    Conway’s innovative approach saw her win the Australian Political Studies Association’s prestigious PhD Award for her thesis.

    Supervisor:
    Professor Ariadne Vromen

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    Dr

    Tess Evenstar

    Attorney-General's Department

    Australian National University

    PhD title: Maternal employability, conditionality and the role of family services in the Australian social security system

    Working at the Department of Social Services, Tess provided advice on children’s policy, family policy and programs, homelessness policy, family safety, gambling, welfare quarantining and financial wellbeing.

    Tess’s research explores the concept of employability from the perspective of mothers in the social security system. She is also investigating mothers' views on the impacts of family services, such as playgroups and parenting programs. In her thesis, Tess argues many mothers build confidence and social connections through participation in family services which in turn increases their employability, both real and self-perceived.

    Supervisor:
    Professor Peter Whiteford
    Emily Hitchman
    Sir Roland Wilson Scholarship 2023

    Emily Hitchman

    Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

    The Australian National University

    PhD title: Credible secrecy: 'neither confirm nor deny', national security and Australia's liberal democracy

    View Emily Hitchman's scholarship summary poster.

    Emily is a Director in the Department of Home Affairs and has worked across multiple portfolios in the criminal justice and national security policy spaces. In these roles, Emily has advised government on cross-cutting issues such as criminal intelligence, domestic violence, aviation and maritime security, and press freedom. She has also represented Australian cyber policy internationally as part of the delegation negotiating an additional protocol to the Budapest Convention on cybercrime.

    Emily’s research examines the strategic function of the Neither Confirm Nor Deny principle, and how its use in the security and intelligence context has evolved in Australia. In so doing, Emily’s research will develop a conceptual understanding of the Neither Confirm Nor Deny principle to support an analysis of how official secrecy can be navigated in the contemporary security context.

    Emily holds a Bachelor of Philosophy from the ANU, and was awarded First Class Honours for her research re-examining the cultural inheritance of contemporary metaphysical discourse.

    Supervisor:
    Professor John Blaxland
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    Sir Roland Wilson Scholarship Graduated 2023

    Dr

    Szabina Horvath

    Australian Submarine Agency

    Australian National University

    PhD title: Australia's extraterritorial human rights obligations

    Szabina Horvath joined the Directorate of Operations and International Law at the Department of Defence in 2009. Szabina has provided advice on detainee management issues, maritime operations, domestic implementation of international legal obligations, gender issues, interrogation doctrine, and a range of other international humanitarian law issues, as well as human rights matters relevant to military operations. Szabina is currently seconded to the Australian Submarine Agency.

    Szabina’s research examined Australia’s extraterritorial human rights obligations. Specifically, the research considered Australia’s human rights obligations when engaged in extraterritorial armed conflict, with reference to other extraterritorial situations which may enliven Australia’s human rights obligations. Szabina’s thesis includes a decision-making framework for determining when Australia may owe specific human rights obligations.

    Supervisor:
    Professor Rob McLaughlin
    • Horvath S and Mackenzie-Gray Scott R (29-30 January 2018), 'Workshop on Intelligence Sharing in Multinational Military Operations' [conference report], Workshop on Intelligence Sharing in Multinational Military Operations, School of Law, University of Nottingham.
    • Horavath S (2018) 'The Law of Armed Conflict and the Use of Force: the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law', Review of The Law of Armed Conflict and the Use of Force: the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law by F Lachenmann and R Wolfrum (eds), in Rothwell D, Zagor M and Saunder I (eds)The Australian Year Book of International Law, Brill, Leiden.
    • Horvath S (9 January 2021) 'Disinformation in international forums: the civil society loophole', ILA Reporter, accessed 6 March 2024, https://ilareporter.org.au/2021/01/disinformation-in-international-forums-the-civil-society-loophole-szabina-horvath/
    • Horvath S (2023) Australia's extraterritorial human rights obligations [PhD Thesis], The Australian National University, Canberra.
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    Shane Johnson

    The Treasury

    The Australian National University

    PhD title: Essays in Empirical Tax Policy: Taxpayers' Responses to the Australian Personal Taxation System

    Shane’s research interests include domestic and international tax policy and fiscal policy. His PhD research focused on examining taxpayers’ understanding of, and responses to, the Australian taxation system. Shane hopes his research will provide insights for the future design, implementation and administration of the tax system.

    Shane has also contributed his time and skills to the Australian Taxation Office to help produce the Australian Longitudinal Individuals File, a 10 per cent sample of tax records available for researchers in academia and public service. He also helped produce the Australia’s Future Tax System review. Based on his research from that review, he co-authored a paper with international expert, Peter Sorensen, on options to reform capital taxation in Australia.

    Supervisor:
    Professor Robert Breunig

    Sorenson P B, Johnson S (18-19 June 2009) 'Taxing Capital Income: Options for Reform in Australia' [conference presentation], Melbourne Institute - Australia's Future Tax and Transfer Policy Conference, Melbourne, Australia.

    Abhayaratna T, Carter A, Johnson S (2022), 'The ATO Longitudinal Information Files (ALife): Individuals - A New Dataset for Public Policy Research'. The Australian Economic Review 55(4): 541-557. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8462.12486

    Johnson S (2023) Essays in Empirical Tax Policy: Taxpayers' Responses to the Australian Personal Taxation System [PhD thesis], The Australian National University, Canberra.

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    Craig Leon

    Conscious Solutions (formerly National Indigenous Australians Agency)

    Australian National University

    PhD title: Unconscious bias in the Australian Public Service: implications for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employment

    Craig joined the Department of Human Services in 2016, having worked in four other APS departments and agencies and the ACT Government over a period of 20 years. With experience across policy, program administration and human resources in central, state and regional roles, Craig has purposely remained in Indigenous Affairs throughout his career.

    Craig combined his professional experience, qualifications in strategic HR, and interest in cultural proficiency in his PhD research. Craig’s research used a mixed methods approach to investigate where unconscious bias impacts practice in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employment in the Australian Public Service. With his research, Craig aimed to turn the organisational focus inward by investigating how Australian Government bureaucracy functions from a culturally proficient perspective.

    Supervisor:
    Dr Boyd Hunter
    Steve Munns
    SRW Pat Turner Scholarship Graduated 2023

    Dr

    Steve Munns

    Australian Public Service Commission

    Australian National University

    PhD title: Violence at work: reducing assault and abuse experienced by frontline staff in public service roles

    Dr Steve Munns is currently the Assistant Commissioner, for the Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) Branch at the Australian Public Service Commission (APSC). He is a proud Gumbaynggirr/Bundjalung man currently living on Jagera country in Meanjin (Brisbane). His mob are from Grafton in the Northern Rivers area of NSW.

    In his role, he is responsible for the First Nations Unit, the Diversity & Inclusion Strategies Team, Inclusion Policy Team and the Mental Health & Suicide Prevention Unit. Some of the current projects and initiatives being developed and managed in the D&I Branch are the SES100 initiative aimed at boosting First Nations employment across the APS; the Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) Employment Strategy; the APS Disability Employment Strategy; and the ADDRESS model for responding to psychosocial hazards.

    Steve is a psychologist with his previous postgraduate studies having been in the areas of Cognitive Neuroscience, Forensic Psychology and Public Administration. His PhD research aimed to understand the nature, prevalence and severity of service user violence and aggression perpetrated against frontline Australian Public Service staff. He explored the issues associated with the risk of violence and aggression through understanding pre-incident factors, including staff and service user behaviour, as well as operational and physical environments. Steve’s research used a multi-phased mixed methods approach. He hopes the evidence-based outcomes of this research will provide insights that will lead to greater proactive risk mitigation policies, a reduction of service user violence and aggression but more importantly a decrease in physical and psychological injuries incurred by frontline public servants.

    Supervisor:
    Professor Roderic Broadhurst

    Munns S (2023) Violence at Work: Reducing Assault and Abuse Experienced by Frontline Staff in Public Service Roles [PhD thesis], The Australian National University, Canberra.

    Conway L, Daffy L, Faulkner S, Lahn J, Munns S and Richardson G (2024) 'First nations First: First Nations public servants, the future of the Australian public service' Policy Quarterly 20(1): 30-29.

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    Andrew Perusco

    Department of Health and Aged Care

    The Australian National University

    PhD title: Why has Australia failed to implement tobacco endgame policies and what might precipitate policy adoption? Applied policy process research on tobacco endgame policies for Australia

    Andrew Perusco is a tobacco control policy and program specialist with over 20 years’ experience in the Commonwealth and NSW public services. Andrew has made significant contributions to tobacco control policy and program implementation, including leading: policy development and program implementation for the Tackling Indigenous Smoking program from 2016 to 2020; development of the National Tobacco Strategy 2012-2018; national policy approaches for electronic cigarettes; and planning, implementation and evaluation of the seminal Arabic-speakers tobacco control project in southwest Sydney.

    Andrew is placed at the National Centre for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Wellbeing Research, Australian National University and his research is affiliated with the National Health and Medical Research Council, Centre for Research Excellence in Achieving the Tobacco Endgame. Andrew’s research explores why tobacco endgame measures have not been incorporated into Australia’s tobacco control policies, and what might precipitate adoption.

    Supervisor:
    Associate Professor Raglan Maddox

    Eccles, J, Knowlden, S, Rich, D, Perusco, A, Matthews, D, Grootemaat, P & Williams, M 2006, ‘The Clean Air for All Project: Managing nicotine dependence in two mental health units in Sydney South West’. NSW Department of Health, Sydney.

    Perusco, A, Poder, N, Millen, E, Hawkshaw,,B, Hua, M 2006, ‘Developing a social marketing campaign on tobacco use for Arabic-speakers in southwest Sydney’. Research and Ethics Conference. Sydney: Liverpool Hospital.

    Perusco, A, Rikard-Bell, G, Mohsin, M, Millen, E, Sabry, M, Poder, N, Williams, M, Farag, L, Hua, M, & Guirguis, S 2007, ‘Priorities for tobacco control for Arabic-speakers: key findings from a baseline telephone survey of Arabic-speakers residing in southwest Sydney’. Health Promotion Journal of Australia. Vol. 18 No. 2 pp. 121-126.

    Carroll, T, Poder, N & Perusco, A 2008, ‘Is concern about waterpipe tobacco warranted?’ Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health. Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 181-182.

    Perusco, A, Mohsin, M, Poder,,N, Hua, M, Millen, E, Sabry, M, Williams, M & Guirguis, S 2008, ‘Evaluation of the Arabic tobacco control project Ma’feesh cigara men gheir khosara’. Health Promotion Symposium November 3-4, Sydney: Australian Health Promotion Association.

    Ahasan, N, Dunkerley, N, O’Brien, J & Perusco, A 2008, ‘Wesley Mission Sadleir pilot tobacco project: revolutionising smoking norms within a residential drug rehabilitation setting’. Health Promotion Symposium, November 3-4, Sydney: Australian Health Promotion Association.

    Poder, N, Perusco, A, Carroll, T, Birkett, J & Kiss, A 2008, ‘Waterpipe smoking in an Arabic-speaking population in Sydney’. Diversity in Health Conference, March 10-12, Sydney.

    Perusco, A, Mohsin, M, Poder, N, Hua, M, Millen, E, Sabry, M, Williams, M & Guirguis S 2008, ‘Evaluation of the Arabic tobacco control project Ma’feesh cigara men gheir khosara’. Population Health Congress, July 6-9, Brisbane: Public Health Association Australia.

    Perusco, A, Poder, N, Mohsin, M, Rikard-Bell, G, Rissel, C, Williams, M, Hua, M, Millen, E, Sabry, M & Guirguis, S 2010, ‘Evaluation of a comprehensive tobacco control project targeting Arabic-speakers residing in south west Sydney, Australia’. Health Promotion International. Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 153-165.

    Gartner, CE, Wright, A, Hefler, M, Perusco, A & Hoek, J 2021, ‘It is time for governments to support retailers in the transition to a smoke-free society’. Med J Aust. Vol. 215, No. 10, pp. 446-448.

    Puljević, C, Morphett, K, Hefler, M, Edwards, R et al. 2022, ‘Closing the gaps in tobacco endgame evidence: a scoping review’. Tobacco Control, Vol. 31 No. 2, pp. 365-375.

    Perusco, A Holland, A, Maddox, M, Morphett, K, Heris, C & Gartner, C 2022, ‘Justice in Australian tobacco control?’ Population Health Congress, September 21-23, Adelaide: Public Health Association Australia.

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    SRW Pat Turner Scholarship 2023

    Tracey Porter

    Department of Industry, Science and Resources

    The Australian National University

    Master of Public Policy

    Tracey is a proud Gomeroi yinnar hailing from the North West region of New South Wales.

    Tracey started within the Australian Public Service in 2019, where she found her niche at the Department of Industry, Science and Resources. In her role within the Research and Development Tax Incentive Division, she provides expert assessment to support company innovation and progress. With a keen eye for detail and a steadfast commitment to excellence, she ensures that cutting-edge ideas are not only nurtured but also strategically harnessed to drive economic growth.

    Fuelling her endeavours is an unwavering commitment to positive transformation. Tracey has embarked on a quest for knowledge, pursuing a Master of Public Policy at the Australian National University. Tracey is on a mission to interlace First Nations perspectives into the fabric of both domestic and international policy development. With unwavering determination and a profound understanding of cultural nuances, she aspires to forge a more inclusive and equitable future.

    Monty Pounder
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    Monty Pounder

    Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

    The Australian National University

    PhD title: Indonesian defence policy in an era of strategic competition

    Monty is on leave from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), where his last assignment was as deputy head of mission in Baghdad. He has also previously served with DFAT in Jakarta, Baghdad and New York. In Canberra he has worked on international issues in a range of policy and analytical roles, including most recently on initiatives to advance economic ties with India.

    Monty’s PhD research examines Indonesia’s approach to defence policy in an era of increased strategic competition.

    Supervisor:
    Associate Professor Marcus Mietzner
    Maathu Ranjan
    Sir Roland Wilson Scholarship 2023

    Maathu Ranjan

    National Disability Insurance Agency

    The Australian National University

    PhD title: The impact of government support schemes on prevalence of disability in Australia

    Maathu is a Senior Actuary at the National Disability Insurance Agency, with experience in the disability, health and general insurance sectors. She led the Actuarial Strategic Initiatives team evaluating key scheme initiatives and priorities. Her work ranged over various strategic policy and service delivery areas including the early childhood strategy, framework for consistent decision making, review of pricing arrangements, intergovernmental agreements and workforce modelling.

    Through her PhD research, Maathu will investigate the drivers of increasing prevalence of Autism, focusing on the impact of government support schemes. Her research will also investigate the types of supports that are effective in achieving outcomes using a novel data driven approach. This research will inform policy by assessing the effectiveness of scheme design and service delivery of disability supports.

    Maathu is a Fellow of the Actuaries Institute, Chartered Enterprise Risk Actuary and Board member of the Actuaries Institute Australia. She won the Actuaries Institute’s Melville Prize and the International Actuarial Association’s Bob Alting von Geusau Prize for research conducted in her Honours degree in Actuarial Studies from the University of New South Wales.

    Supervisor:
    Professor Robert Breunig

    Nirmalendran, M, Sherris, M, & Hanewald, K. 2014, ‘Pricing and solvency of value-maximizing life annuity providers’. Astin Bulletin: The Journal of the IAA, Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 39-61.

    Tristram Sainsbury
    Sir Roland Wilson Scholarship Graduated 2023

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    Tristram Sainsbury

    Department of Industry, Science and Resources

    The Australian National University

    PhD title: Essays in Empirical Policy Evaluation: COVID-19 fiscal policy and the early release of superannuation

    Tristram has worked in the Australian Treasury for close to a decade, alongside two years as Research Fellow and Project Director at the G20 Studies Centre at the Lowy Institute. His work has covered a range of tax, international economic and fiscal policy issues. He has  worked at Crawford School on behalf of the Australian Treasury and been a visiting scholar at both the Kiel Institute for the World Economy in Germany and the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University.

    Tristram’s research will investigate the impact of Australia’s tax and transfer system over people’s lifetimes. He will use cross‑government investments in administrative data to focus on the extent of smoothing and rich-poor redistribution.

    Supervisor:
    Professor Robert Breunig
    • Sainsbury T (2015) US Global Economic Leadership: Responding to a Rising China, Lowy Institute for International Policy, Sydney.
    • Wurf H and Sainsbury T (2016) Making the Most of the G20, Lowy Institute for International Policy, Sydney.
    • Sainsbury T (2016) 'Do we need more economics in Australian economic diplomacy?' Australian Journal of International Affairs, 70(6): 613-624.
    • Sainsbury T (2023) Essays in Empirical Policy Evaluation: COVID-19 fiscal policy and the early release of superannuation [PhD thesis], The Australian National University, Canberra.
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    SRW Pat Turner Scholarship 2023

    Bec Salcole

    Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water

    Charles Darwin University

    Master of Arts

    Bec is a proud Wiradjuri woman born and raised In Wagga Wagga NSW. Bec commenced her public service career in 2014, in service delivery at Services Australia. She joined the Department of Environment and Energy as a graduate in 2017 after completing a Bachelor of Environmental Science. She has also worked for the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder, with a focus on improving Indigenous Engagement and Partnerships in the Murray-Darling Basin. 

    Bec aims to use the Master of Arts to gain a better understanding of Indigenous Engagement and Policy development in different contexts across Australia, and use these learnings to support the Australian Public Service to enhance Indigenous engagement practices.

    Matthew Smith
    Sir Roland Wilson Scholarship 2023

    Matthew Smith

    The Treasury

    The Australian National University

    PhD title: Distributional impacts of Australia's tax and transfer system over the lifetime: a more detailed approach drawing on richer administrative data

    Matt is a Director at the Treasury and has been a member of the public service since 2009. His work has primarily focused on policy analysis on Australia’s tax and transfer system including revenue forecasting and costing and distributional analysis of tax and transfer policies using microsimulation modelling. Matt’s analysis has contributed to Budget updates and the 2021 Intergenerational Report. He has also been involved in major model development work on Treasury’s CAPITA and MARIA microsimulation models.

    Matt’s research aims to use administrative data to build a dynamic microsimulation model of Australia’s tax and transfer system. This would deliver a durable tool for policy analysis that provides important insights on the sustainability and equity, both within and between generations, of personal tax and transfer policy settings. In doing so, it would build on the existing Australian toolkit of representative agent and cohort analysis to allow for the kinds of more granular and detailed distributional analysis to improve the debate around, and implementation of, public policy.

    Supervisor:
    Professor Robert Breunig

    Bastian, B, Smith, M, Cheong, B, Pineda, V, Stevenson, M, Hutchison, O, & Kluth, S 2017, ‘Development of Treasury's new model of Australian retirement incomes and assets: MARIA (No. 2017-02)’. Treasury Working Paper, The Treasury, Canberra.

    Stevenson, M, Ledda, D, Pineda, V, Smith, M, & Kluth, S 2017, ‘CAPITA - Treasury's microsimulation model of personal income tax and transfers (No. 2017-05)’. Treasury Working Paper, The Treasury, Canberra.

    Dana Volker
    Sir Roland Wilson Scholarship 2023

    Dana Volker

    Attorney-General’s Department

    The Australian National University

    PhD title: Fathers' roles in the gender divide in paid work and care: addressing discrimination and stigma against men with caring responsibilities. An untapped lever to advance gender equality

    Dana joined the Australian Public Service in 2014, bringing with her over ten years’ experience in social policy and gender equality both domestically and abroad. Dana has worked internationally in the UK, US, Asia and the Pacific for government, non-government organisations, and social enterprise. Outside of her work, Dana has sat on several Boards whose mission is to eradicate gender based violence and to promote gender equality.

    Dana’s research will examine Australian fathers' roles in the gender divide in paid work and care. By identifying the prevalence and nature of discrimination and stigma against men with caring responsibilities, Dana hopes to use this as an untapped lever to advance gender equality. Research on the ‘fatherhood penalty’ will significantly help to improve outcomes for working dads, reduce parental work-life conflict, help organisations to manage the future of work, assist Australia to prepare for the increased caring required as a result of our ageing population, address the gender pay gap, and ultimately improve family life for parents and children.

    Dana holds a Master of Politics and Public Policy from Macquarie University, a Master of Human Rights from the University of Sydney, a qualifying Masters of Social Work from James Cook University, and a Bachelor of Social Science from Sunshine Coast University. She has been awarded numerous academic medals, a Vice Chancellor's Commendation, and a High Distinction for her Master's thesis on women and gender equality.

    Supervisor:
    Associate Professor Liana Leach
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    SRW Pat Turner Scholarship Graduated 2023

    Rachel Wawra

    Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

    The Australian National University

    Master of Professional Psychology

    Rachel started as an Indigenous Graduate at the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFAT) in 2007. Since that time, she has held various policy roles throughout DFAT, including a posting and short-term mission to Solomon Islands. Most recently, she has managed the New Colombo Plan (NCP) alumni program and led a number of NCP First Nation initiatives.

    Rachel is completing her final year of the Master of Professional Psychology at ANU. She recognises how underrepresented First Nations psychologists are in Australia and particularly the Australian Public Service (APS). On completion of her studies, she hopes to provide cultural support and assistance where needed at the individual level, as well as contributing uniquely to the shaping of Departmental policy and influencing policy more broadly across the APS.

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    Sir Roland Wilson Scholarship 2023

    Jennifer Wheeler

    Department of Defence

    The Australian National University

    PhD title: Growing beyond trauma. Promoting post traumatic growth and wellbeing outcomes in individuals exposed to traumatic events

    Jennifer is a registered psychologist who commenced work with the Department of Defence in 2001. Between 2001 and 2010 Jennifer undertook the roles of Research Psychologist and Senior Research Psychologist within the Psychology Research and Technology Group, with responsibility for Personnel Selection Research. She was an Australian representative on The Technical Cooperation Program (a collaborative five-nation forum) between 2004 and 2010.  In 2010, Jennifer commenced in the role of Director Navy Psychology, within Navy Health Services. In this role, she managed and oversaw the delivery of psychology services in Navy, in addition to the development of psychology policy and programs.

    Jennifer’s PhD research examines Post Traumatic Growth (PTG), following exposure to a traumatic event. This research will measure the level of PTG literacy in an Australian population, in addition to identifying key predictive factors of growth following exposure to trauma. This knowledge will inform the development and subsequent trial of a preventative PTG psychoeducational program to promote growth and wellbeing, in the aftermath of a future traumatic event.

    Supervisor:
    Dr Lou Farrer
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    SRW Pat Turner Scholarship 2024

    Kylie Bishop

    Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water

    Charles Darwin University

    Master of Arts

    Kylie Bishop is a Bundjalung woman from northern NSW. She grew up in the bush where her love for Country originated. Kylie has worked in the public service for over 25 years in various roles, working on environmental issues including First Nations matters and is devoted to the wellbeing of others. Kylie has worked on First Nations Water, cultural capability and the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.  

    Kylie is completing a Master Arts, Indigenous Knowledge at Charles Darwin University. Her interest in linking First Nations knowledge with Western science and how we can incorporate First Nations research methodologies into policy development. Her passion lies in bridging Indigenous knowledge with Western science to enhance policy making. By integrating Indigenous knowledge into departmental work in a culturally respectful and practical manner, Kylie aims to improve environmental stewardship and foster positive intergenerational change for Indigenous communities.

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    Sir Roland Wilson Scholarship 2024

    Crystal Bradley

    Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water

    The Australian National University

    PhD title: Critical natural capital dependency in Australia and options for protection in law and policy

    Crystal has worked in the APS since 2001 in the social services and environment portfolios. For over 15 years she has led various domestic and international environment policy programs such as chemical policy, biodiversity policy and natural capital accounting policy. In partnership with the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Crystal recently led the development of Australia’s first national ocean ecosystem account and co-chaired the United Nations working group advancing global ocean accounting standards.

    Crystal’s PhD research explores what is ‘critical natural capital’ in Australia’s environmental and socio-economic context, the way Australia’s essential economic products and services depend on nature, and options for protecting critical natural capital in law and policy. She is particularly interested in how critical natural capital dependency can be reflected in Australia’s system of national accounts. Crystal’s research aims to support governments to understand and address natural capital dependency risk.

    Supervisor:
    Associate Professor Sarah Clement
    • Gacutan J, Pinarbasi K, Agbaglah M, Bradely C, Galparsora I, Murillas A, Adewinmi I, Praphotjanaporn T, Bordt M, Findlay K, Lantz C and Milligan B M (2022) ‘The emerging intersection between marine spatial planning and ocean accounting: A global review and case studies’. Marine Policy, 140, Article 105055.
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    Sir Roland Wilson Scholarship 2024

    Kathryn Brett

    Department of Defence

    The Australian National University

    PhD title: Flex Ability: An Exploratory Study of the Dynamics of Flexible Working

    Kathryn is a business, governance, and research professional with over 20 years’ experience across the public and tertiary education sectors. She has implemented initiatives and led successful outcomes across diverse research, technology, strategic planning and policy, governance, and service delivery environments. Prior to commencing as a Sir Roland Wilson Scholar, she was the Director Governance within Headquarters Joint Operations Command.

    Kathryn’s PhD research program examines the phenomenon of flexible work. Flexible working has burgeoned in recent decades and the COVID-19 pandemic catapulted its status to normative work method, at least temporarily if not permanently. As employers and employees navigate complex social expectations and environments, the mutual gains stemming from flexible work are increasingly valuable to the APS, individuals and businesses, and broader society. Kathryn’s research explores flexible working holistically to better understand how it is changing and how it affects workforce participation and career advancement.

    Supervisor:
    Professor Sarbari Bordia
    • Brett K, Jansen K and Bordia S. (2022) ‘From Control to Mutual Gains: A Systematic Review and Repositioning of Flexible Working’, Academy of Management Proceedings, 2022(1).
    • Brett K (12 August 2024) 'Flexible Work Branding: Exploring How Organizations Signal Flexible Work Information on Websites' [conference presentation], Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Chicago, doi:10.5465/AMPROC.2024.12795abstract
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    SRW Pat Turner Scholarship 2024

    Troy Fletcher

    Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

    The Australian National University

    Master of Entrepreneurship and Innovation

    Troy is a proud Wonnarua man from the Hunter Valley region in NSW. He joined the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) as a Corporate Graduate in 2011. He has held various corporate enabling roles in DFAT including in finance and human resources, as well as consular and passports service delivery. Troy has also been posted overseas to Bangkok and Kabul. Most recently, he was Assistant Director, Financial Policy in Finance Division. He is an Associate Member of CPA Australia, aiming to attain full membership status by the end of 2024.

    Troy is completing a Master of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at ANU. His interest in this space was reignited through his CPA study and while working to support Indigenous business engagement with DFAT.

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    Sir Roland Wilson Scholarship Graduated 2024

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    Cathy Fussell

    Department of Home Affairs

    Australian National University

    PhD title: Realising the collective value of data by governing with rather than over

    Cathy joined the Australian Public Service in 2001. She has since had a broad range of policy and program roles within the health portfolio. Cathy’s recent work has focused on big data strategy and capability. She co-led the establishment of the Social Health and Welfare Analytic Unit and led Health’s cross-portfolio engagement on big data analytics projects through the Data Integration Partnership for Australia.

    Cathy’s doctoral research explores how we can realise the collective value of data. Working at the intersection of theories of value and power, and public service practice, she unpacks what collective value looks like and how it can be systematically created. Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari’s assemblage theory, Cathy interrogates how we think and talk about data, develops a collective theory of value and power, and applies that theory to practice. Cathy hopes this work will support the public sector policy and data communities to design, create, and facilitate supported data assemblages that create collective value.

    For more information about Cathy’s research findings see: https://crawford.anu.edu.au/people/phd/cathy-fussell

    Supervisor:
    Professor Helen Sullivan

    Fussell, C 2022, ‘Four Data Discourses and Assemblage Forms: A Methodological Framework’, Preprint. Available at: osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/jvcqw.

    Fussell, C 2023, 'Why we struggle to realise the value of data: SocArXiv. Preprint. Available at https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/u8zcx

    Fussell, C 2023 'Three propositions for realising collective value'. SocArXiv. Preprint. Available at: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/3pheu

    Fussell, C 2023, 'Understanding value through Deleuze and Guattari’s metaphysics and ethics'. SocArXiv. Preprint. Available at: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/kt6f8

    Fussell, C 2023, 'Searching for a positive theory of power'. SocArXiv. Preprint. Available at: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/v8qh9

    Fussell, C (Forthcoming) 'What a power with looks like and why we should choose it'. SocArXiv. Preprint. 

    Fussell C (2024) Realising the collective value of data by governing with rather than over [PhD Thesis], The Australian National University, Canberra.

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    Sir Roland Wilson Scholarship 2024

    Polly Hannaford

    Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

    The Australian National University

    PhD title: Reducing disease risk in aquaculture

    Prior to commencing her PhD, Polly was an Assistant Director at the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF). Throughout her career in the Australian Public Service (APS), Polly has used her science background to contribute to a range of biosecurity import policies and negotiations with trading partners to ensure the safe trade of commercially important aquatic animal goods. She has also been involved in strategic planning for the use science in the management of Australian marine parks and remained a keen promoter of APS women in science, having held the position of Chair of DAFF’s Gender Equity Network in 2023.

    Polly completed her honours in aquatic animal physiology in 2018 at The University of Sydney. Her PhD research at the ANU Research School of Biology is focused on reducing exotic disease risk in aquaculture through the delivery of scientific information and tools to inform biosecurity policy.

    Supervisor:
    Dr Nicholas Moody (CSIRO), Professor Robert Lanfear (ANU)
    • Dudley J S, Hannaford P, Dowland S N, Lindsay L A, Thompson M B, Murphy C R, Van Dyke J C and Whittington C M (2021) ‘Structural changes to the brood pouch of male pregnant seahorses (Hippocampus abdominalis) facilitate exchange between father and embryos’ Placenta 114: 115-123.
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    Sir Roland Wilson Scholarship 2024

    Kristian Hollins

    Department of Home Affairs

    The Australian National University

    PhD title: Possible, probable, plausible: determining credibility in protection visa decision-making

    Dual-trained in journalism and law, Kristian has held a range of roles in the Department of Home Affairs since 2015, with a particular focus on protection assessment and administrative law. Kristian was previously a Department of Immigration and Border Protection Research Fellow in the Migration and Border Policy Project at the Lowy Institute, undertaking research on comparative approaches to establishing identity in undocumented asylum seekers. Kristian currently works in Refugee, Humanitarian and Settlement Division, advising on lawful decision-making, litigation outcomes, and protection assessment reform.

    Kristian’s research at the ANU School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) will consider how administrative decision-makers make findings of fact in the absence of verifiable evidence. Through the lens of protection obligations assessment, Kristian’s research examines how decision-makers exercise their discretionary powers in probing, weighing, and constructing their assessment. This research will contribute to building and maintaining the trust of the Australian public and government in their institutions by improving the consistency and fairness of visa decision-making.

    Supervisor:
    Associate Professor Nick Bainton
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    SRW Pat Turner Scholarship 2024

    Kelsie Johnston

    Services Australia

    The Australian National University

    Master of Anthropology and Planetary Futures

    Kelsie is a proud Wiradjuri woman, raised on Gumbaynggirr country in Coffs Harbour NSW.

    Commencing in the Australian Public Service with Services Australia in 2010, Kelsie has worked in a variety of business areas including service delivery, welfare modernisation, project management and technology and digital programs. Having observed the challenges experienced by customers in navigating government social and health-related payments and services, Kelsie was drawn to Canberra to further her career in major projects and programs to help improve the delivery of convenient and accessible services. Recently, Kelsie participated as a secondee in the Jawun Program, inspiring her commitment to enhancing the relationship between the APS and Indigenous communities and organisations in each role she holds.

    Kelsie commenced the Pat Turner Scholarship Program in Semester 2, 2024 and is studying a Master of Anthropology and Planetary Futures. She aspires to apply her learnings to strengthen human centred design techniques in the development of government services. This will ensure culturally safe and respectful processes and empower community involvement in the identification of pain points and co-design of solutions that will improve social and economic opportunities.

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    Sir Roland Wilson Scholarship 2024

    Stuart Manoj-Margison

    Department of Health and Aged Care

    The Australian National University

    PhD title: Creating a quality-of-life measure specific for sexually transmissible infections in the Australian setting to prevent unnecessary childhood mortality

    Stuart joined the Department of Health and Aged Care as a Director in 2018, bringing with him 20 years' experience across the spectrum of health provision both in Australia and overseas. Most recently, His work has focused on blood borne viruses, sexually transmissible infections and Torres Strait health policy. Stuart holds a Bachelor of Pharmacy, a Master of Health Services Management and is a Fellow with the Australasian College of Health Services Management. He is a reservist officer in the Australian Army.

    Stuart's research will examine the models of care across Australia for testing, treatment and prevention of sexually transmissible infections with a particular focus on congenital syphilis. Stuart hopes to use this research to then implement new policy and fulfil the government's aim to eliminate congenital syphilis and eliminate sexually transmissible infections as a public health threat.

    Supervisor:
    Dr Elisabeth Huynh
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    SRW Pat Turner Scholarship 2024

    Heidi Noon

    National Indigenous Australians Agency

    The Australian National University

    Master of Public Policy

    Heidi is a proud Wakka Wakka and Gubbi Gubbi woman born in Brisbane, Queensland.

    After leaving school at 13, she returned to education, obtaining a bachelor’s degree in the allied health field. In 2015, she entered the Australian Public Service as an APS2 via the Indigenous Apprenticeships Program, going on to complete the National Graduate Program. She is an Assistant Director in the National Indigenous Australians Agency with years of experience in the HR space in inclusion and diversity, entry level programs, and First Nations employment.

    Both of Heidi’s grandmothers are survivors of the Stolen Generations, and it is their story of resilience after losing connection to family, identity, land, language, and culture that ignites her passion for inclusive policy. As a Pat Turner scholar studying a Master of Public Policy, she intends to give back to the APS, working to create and implement policy built on inclusiveness, empowerment, and shaped by the voices of those it affects.

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    SRW Pat Turner Scholarship 2024

    Dolly Nye

    Department of Health and Aged Care

    The Australian National University

    Master of Entrepreneurship and Innovation

    Dolly Nye is a Walbunga/Yuin woman from Mogo on the New South Wales south coast.

    Dolly moved from her home town to Canberra and began her career in the APS in 1993. She has forged a career in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander affairs across the areas of diversity and inclusion, employment entry programs, policy, program, contract management, and relationship management.

    In her most recent position in the Office of the Interim First Nations Aged Care Commissioner, Dolly is responsible for managing external engagements and consultations with aged care providers and services, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders, older people, and their carers and families.

    Through her experiences as a carer for her mother, Dolly saw firsthand the challenges her Elders, older people, families, carers, and communities face when accessing and navigating the aged care system.

    Dolly will undertake a Master of Project Management at ANU, including a research project on navigating culturally safe aged care.

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    Sir Roland Wilson Scholarship 2024

    Ben O'Sullivan

    Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

    The Australian National University

    PhD title: Economic drivers of countries’ approaches to economic security

    Ben is an experienced economist and international lawyer with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), with specialist expertise in geoeconomics and economic security. Ben has represented the Australian Government overseas in Mexico City, The Hague and Beijing, and served as legal advisor for Australia in two major international disputes. He holds an MSc Economics from the London School of Economics and joins ANU from DFAT's Geoeconomics Unit, where he played a leading role in building government policy on economic security and shaping Australian strategy at the intersection of economics and strategic competition. Ben's PhD research uses economic methodologies to define economic security risks and explain variation in countries' policy preferences.

    Supervisor:
    Professor Shiro Armstrong
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    SRW Pat Turner Scholarship 2024

    Aiden Pearson

    Department of Finance

    The Australian National University

    Master of Project Management

    Aiden is a proud Murawari man, who was raised on Wiradjuri country in Dubbo NSW. Aiden commenced his public service career in 2019 at the Department of Agriculture after completing a dual Bachelor of Agribusiness and Applied Science majoring in equine management. He joined the Department of Finance in 2020 in the budget group and has worked across infrastructure, emergency management and home affairs portfolio's where he supported key government responses during COVID-19, the 2022 flood season and more recently on immigration and visa policies.

    Aiden aims to use the Master of Project Management from The Australian National University to acquire specialised knowledge and skills in the area of project management to support the implementation of APS-wide project governance, and portfolio management and major projects delivery. Aiden also aspires to support the creation of a dedicated project management stream within the APS to ensure leading edge thinking on management practice, policy design, implementing and evaluating policies is readily available in-house.

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    SRW Pat Turner Scholarship 2024

    Thaarramali Pearson

    Department of Employment and Workplace Relations

    The Australian National University

    Master of Public Administration

    Thaarramali Pearson is a Bama Bagarrmuguwarra from the Kalpowar, Jeannie River and Starke region of Cape York.

    Thaarramali commenced his public sector career in the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies in early 2016. Since 2018, Thaarramali has been actively involved in shaping significant Commonwealth policies, supporting reforms in apprenticeships from both the central agency and line agency perspectives. Thaarramali’s substantive role is as a Director in the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations, where he develops complex financial and behavioural modelling to inform Australian apprenticeship policy development. Since 2022, Thaarramali has been working remotely from Cape York.

    Thaarramali is undertaking a Master of Public Administration (MPA) at the Australian National University. Through the MPA, he intends to broaden his public administration capability and explore potential future research topics relating to Commonwealth budget process and policy development.

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    Sir Roland Wilson Scholarship 2024

    Carrie Samuels

    Australian Bureau of Statistics

    The Australian National University

    PhD title: Maximising the value of linked data for population health research and policy formulation in Australia

    Carrie has worked at the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) since 2010. Most recently, she was a Director in the Data Integration Services Branch, leading a team of data engineers to build, maintain and enhance the Person Level Integrated Data Asset (PLIDA, formerly known as MADIP). In this role, Carrie oversaw significant expansion and enhancement of PLIDA to increase the frequency and timeliness of data updates and improve the usability of the data for researchers.

    Through her work at the ABS, Carrie developed an appreciation of some common challenges experienced by government and academic researchers working with data from PLIDA. This inspired the topic of Carrie’s PhD research in the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health at ANU, which aims to develop methods to identify cohorts of interest in integrated data assets such as PLIDA. Carrie hopes this work will assist government researchers to make better use of PLIDA for policy formulation and evaluation.

    Supervisor:
    Dr Jennifer Welsh
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    SRW Pat Turner Scholarship 2024

    Jami-Lee Saxon

    Services Australia

    Charles Darwin University

    Master of Public Policy

    Jami-Lee is a proud Biripi woman born and raised on Biripi country, NSW.

    She has been working for the Australian Public Service for 11 years – starting her career in Services Australia as an Indigenous apprentice. Shortly after finishing the apprenticeship, Jami-Lee commenced a Bachelor of Social Work and her commitment to service and her agency were recognised through being awarded an internal Indigenous scholarship. She was then successful in securing a place in the agency’s national graduate program and has been working on country, as a Services Australia Social Worker for the past four years.

    Jami-Lee is studying a Master of Public Policy through Charles Darwin University and has a passion for policies that apply to First Nations peoples. She is an essential agent of change who is committed to influencing the policies, programs and services that directly impact the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

    Penelope Sullivan
    Sir Roland Wilson Scholarship Graduated 2024

    Dr

    Penelope Sullivan

    Australian National University

    PhD title: The techniques and strategies governments use to influence one another in federal water management: lessons for Australia from the US and Europe

    Penny Sullivan was a Sir Roland Wilson scholar and PhD candidate at the Crawford School of Public Policy at ANU. She had over ten years of experience working on water management in the Queensland and Australian public services. She worked on developing and implementing the controversial Murray-Darling Basin Plan.

    Her research focused on intergovernmental relations in federal water management, seeking to understand how state and federal governments pursue their objectives in water conflicts with each other. With the support of a Sir Roland Wilson scholarship she was able to conduct extensive fieldwork interviewing practitioners and participants for case studies in Spain and the United States, as well as in Australia.

    Supervisor:
    Associate Professor Keith Barney, Dr Daniel Connell
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    SRW Pat Turner Scholarship 2024

    Jackson Whiting

    Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

    The Australian National University

    Master of Public Administration

    Jackson is a proud Wiradjuri man, born in Blacktown NSW.

    Jackson joined the Australian Public Service (APS) in the Department of the Treasury as a graduate in 2019 after completing a Bachelor of Arts with a Bachelor of Commerce at Macquarie University.

    During his time in the APS, Jackson has worked in various policy roles which includes the topics of competition, energy, corporate and international tax as well as commonwealth-state relations. In September 2022, Jackson joined the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet in the First Nations Policy Branch, working on Closing the Gap.

    Jackson is undertaking a Master of Public Administration at ANU and is interested in exploring procedural policy more broadly to understand if there are more effective methods the APS can use to develop policy, especially for disadvantaged communities. While undertaking this study, Jackson hopes to develop the leadership and communication skills to be the effective advocate for systemic change that he strives to be.

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    Sir Roland Wilson Scholarship 2025

    Vanessa Barone

    Australian Public Service Commission

    The Australian National University

    PhD title: The effects of menopause on career and work-related outcomes among women in the Australian Public Service

    Vanessa is a research psychologist and Director with 18 years of experience in the Australian Public Service (APS) across Defence and the Australian Public Service Commission. During her time at Defence, Vanessa led research covering military recruitment and retention, cultural reform, mental health, diversity, and organisational leadership. Since joining the APSC in 2021, she has held Director roles responsible for APS-wide workforce data reporting and research to inform APS workforce policies and strategies.

    A 2024 Senate inquiry noted a need for research on whether menopausal symptoms may prompt women to reduce work hours, change job roles, forego promotion or leave work altogether. Vanessa’s research aims to explore this within the APS, and to uncover factors that may help workplaces to address this. She hopes that outcomes from her research will help the APS to maximise the potential of this experienced and important cohort.

    Supervisor:
    Associate Professor Alessandra Capezio
    Ronald Fujii
    SRW Pat Turner Scholarship 2025

    Ronald Fujii

    Torres Strait Regional Authority

    Charles Darwin University

    PhD title: Examining Torres Strait Islander Leaders Role in Health Policy Implementation and the Interactions between Traditional Owners and Government in the Torres Strait: A Study on Collaborative Governance

    Ronald has worked in the public service for the past 20 years, for agencies in Canberra and at the Torres Strait Regional Authority (TSRA) managing programs that deliver natural resource management across the Torres Strait Region. His most recent role at the TSRA involved working in the Governance and Leadership program managing legislative processes and policies, supporting effective regional communication, and coordinating the integration of the delivery of government services to the region.

    Through the Pat Turner scholarship and Master of Public Policy program at CDU, Ronald will look for opportunities and pathways to help him gain a deeper understanding of complex policy, especially arrangements and implementation in the Northern Australian context. In addition, he will explore how policy arrangements can improve essential and critical service delivery in the Torres Strait, improving the lives of Torres Strait Islanders and Aboriginal people in the region.

    Supervisor:
    Dr Michaela Spencer
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    Sir Roland Wilson Scholarship 2025

    Josiah Hickson

    Department of Employment and Workplace Relations

    The Australian National University

    PhD title: Essays in place-based labour market disadvantage

    Josh is a Senior Analyst in the Trials Research and Evaluation Team within the Employment Evaluation Branch at the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR). Within this role, he’s been working with administrative data as part of several randomised controlled trials that evaluate the effectiveness of Australia’s online employment services settings. Prior to joining DEWR, Josh worked in Treasury’s microdata team where his labour market analysis supported several budgets, the participation chapter of the 2023 Intergenerational Report, and the Employment White Paper.

    Josh’s thesis will focus on place-based inequality in the Australian labour market. He will explore how communities experience economic transition, and the ways that local industry structure and employer characteristics influence the wages and employment opportunities available to individuals. The use of administrative data – including ALIFE and PLIDA/BLADE – for this research will add a more detailed and precise understanding of these issues, supporting improved policy design and targeting. Josh hopes that his research will help support cross-agency efforts to target entrenched disadvantage, promoting policies which boost regional resilience and support those cohorts who are most vulnerable in the labour market.

    Supervisor:
    Professor Robert Breunig
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    Sir Roland Wilson Scholarship 2025

    Aaron Mollross

    Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts

    The Australian National University

    PhD title: The impact of working from home arrangements in Australia

    Aaron is an economist with over a decade of experience in economic policy and applied research roles across Treasury, the Productivity Commission and the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts. His most recent role was as a Director leading a team of economists and data analysts conducting research on the infrastructure portfolio’s key strategic priorities. Aaron has experience across a wide range of public policy topics, including indirect tax, productivity measurement, veterans’ affairs, foreign investment, competition policy, aviation policy, transportation decarbonisation, and regional policy.

    Aaron’s PhD research employs quantitative approaches to examine how work from home arrangements impact labour market outcomes. Aaron’s project is focused on the effect that work from home and remote work arrangements have on career progression and life outcomes for employees in the public and private sectors, as well as the indirect effects on regional economies and housing markets.

    Supervisor:
    Professor Robert Breunig
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    Sir Roland Wilson Scholarship 2025

    Holly Noble

    Department of Finance

    The Australian National University

    PhD title: From compliance to commitment: what are the drivers of meaningful Australian Public Service (APS) performance reporting? Understanding APS compliance, reporting and integrity in action

    Since starting as a graduate at Comcare in 2011, Holly’s work experience has spanned corporate and enabling functions, specialising in strategy formulation, governance and evaluation frameworks, and non-financial performance measurement design. Prior to commencing as a Sir Roland Wilson Scholar, she was the Director Governance, Planning and Performance at the Department of Finance.

    Holly’s PhD research program examines the drivers of meaningful Australian Public Service (APS) non-financial performance reporting, and how the service may move from reporting for regulatory compliance to commitment to regulatory intent. Holly’s research explores the roles regulatory accountability tools play in shaping APS perceptions of accountability requirements’ value, cultures, and entity responses. Holly’s research aims to mitigate unintended consequences of accountability reforms and harness positive drivers to support the APS’ desire to achieve the highest standards of integrity and performance.

    Supervisor:
    Professor Veronica Taylor
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    Sir Roland Wilson Scholarship 2025

    Sharon Rosenrauch

    Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water

    The Australian National University

    PhD title: Cracking the ceiling: exploring behavioural interventions to address barriers to promotion amongst existing employees identifying with having a disability in the Australian Public Service (APS)

    Sharon is Principal Behavioural Scientist and Director of the Behavioural Science Unit at the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water.

    For nearly a decade, Sharon has played a leadership role in promoting the use of behavioural science to put people at the centre of public policy.

    Despite a range of inclusion initiatives, APS employees who identify as living with disability have lower rates of promotion at all levels, even when controlling for experience and education. Research is needed to better understand barriers to promotion and the under-representation of this cohort in leadership positions. Sharon’s research will employ a unique behavioural science and mixed methods approach to examine barriers and enablers, and develop an evidence-based behavioural intervention that can be applied across the APS to help crack the promotion ceiling and improve career equity for workers living with disability.

    Supervisor:
    Associate Professor Brett Scholz
    Claire Sainsbury
    SRW Pat Turner Scholarship Graduated 2025

    Dr

    Claire Sainsbury

    Department of Education

    The Australian National University

    PhD title: The mismatch between rhetoric and action - A study into the Commonwealth's role in redressing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander educational inequity

    Claire is a Torres Strait Islander (Maluilgal from the western islands) who grew up on Badu Island. She has a Bachelor of Education from James Cook University and started her career as a primary school teacher. Motivated by the drive to improve the educational outcomes of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students on a large scale, she took up the opportunity to move to Canberra to work in the Australian Public Service (APS). Throughout her APS career, Claire has undertaken various leadership, policy, coordination and program management roles, across a range of agencies, including the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations, the Australian Public Service Commission, the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and the National Indigenous Australians Agency.

    Education has been an area of significant focus throughout Claire’s career. She has worked predominantly on national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education policy and managed a range of flagship government initiatives and programs aimed at improving education outcomes. She has a Master of Business Administration from the University of Canberra and recently completed her PhD at the Australian National University, under a Sir Roland Wilson Pat Turner scholarship. Claire’s thesis (currently under examination) focused on the Commonwealth’s role in redressing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander educational inequity.

    Claire is a senior executive at the Commonwealth Department of Education and leads the Research Policy and Programs branch. Her branch aims to ensure that Australian researchers have access to cutting edge national research infrastructure and that the research system is meeting the current and future needs of research students and the research sector.

    Supervisor:
    Professor Nicholas Biddle
    Timothy Watson
    Sir Roland Wilson Scholarship Graduated 2025

    Dr

    Timothy Watson

    Department of Social Services

    Australian National University

    PhD title: Hysteresis and fiscal policy in Australia

    Timothy joined the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet in 2015.  Between 2015 and 2019, Timothy supported the Prime Minister’s engagement in the G20; was the Australian Government’s lead representative on the G20 Digital Economy Taskforce; and undertook secondments to the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science, the Policy Evaluation Branch in the Indigenous Affairs Group, and the Office for Women. He has published original economic research with colleagues in peer reviewed journals and conference volumes, and presented at numerous conferences. Prior to joining PM&C, Timothy spent almost a decade providing advice on multinational taxation, economic and financial policy in the Commonwealth Treasury, the Victorian Department of Treasury and Finance, and in the private sector.

    Timothy’s research will investigate output and unemployment fiscal multipliers in Australia, and how these vary based on capacity utilisation and the stance of fiscal policy. It will also explore cross-country evidence concerning how multipliers differ based on these factors, with reference to differences in exchange rate regimes, economic openness, government debt, and monetary policy settings.

    Supervisor:
    Professor Renee Fry-McKibbin

    Watson T (2024) Hysteresis and Fiscal Policy in Australia [PhD Thesis], The Australian National University, Canberra.

     
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