Siobhan Austen

Biography

"Siobhan Austen is Professor of Economics within the Curtin Business School and Director of the Women in Social and Economic Research (WiSER) research cluster. Siobhan holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Melbourne. Her research expertise is in the economic analysis of the gendered aspects of key social and economic policy debates around population ageing, retirement incomes and labour force participation. Siobhan has published more than 100 scholarly works, including high quality journal articles, book chapters and a book. She currently leads a large Australian Research Council Discovery Project on intra-household resource allocation and has previously led other ARC and National Council of Vocational and Education Research grants, and has participated in Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute and AusAID – funded projects. At Curtin, Siobhan has lectured in most undergraduate units in the economics program. She has supervised numerous PhD, Masters and Honours’ theses. Her community roles are extensive. Siobhan is on the editorial boards of Journal of Economic Issues, Feminist Economics, and Economics and Labour Relations Review. She is a member of the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ Gender Statistics Advisory Group and the Work and Family Roundtable."

Research Interest

Labour Economics,Heterodox Economics,Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services