Adjunct Professor
Gregory Marston

Biography

Professor Marston has an extensive record in undertaking applied social policy research. He has led a number of Australian Research Council grants into long-term unemployment, disability and employment services and household debt and the fringe lending industry in Australia. Professor Marston has held academic positions at The University of Queensland and RMIT University. He has also been a visiting research fellow at the Centre for Public Policy, The University of Melbourne and the Department of Sociology, University of Lund, Sweden. Prior to entering academia Greg worked in various research and policy positions in national and state community service organisations. He started his professional career as a youth worker in the early 1990s, before working in policy and community development roles for a variety of non-profit community organisations. Greg's main research interests are the impact of various social and economic policies on ordinary Australians, comparative social policy, contemporary social theory, the organisational dimensions of human service practice and the role of social policy in transitioning to a low-carbon society. He has co-authored a book about  living on a low-income in Australia (Allen and Unwin, 2011), a co-edited book on the implementation of welfare-to-work in a variety of countries (Georgetown University Press, 2013) and another on who benefits from the Australian welfare state (Palgrave, 2013). He is co-editing a forthcoming book on prospects for a universal basic income in Australia and New Zealand, to be published by Palgrave in 2015.