Professor Gregory Marston

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 and 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 was the vice-chairperson of the Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Homelessness and a member of the Australian delgeation to the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements in Istanbul, Turkey in 1996. He started his professional career as a youth worker in the early 1990s. 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 alternatives to welfare-to-work policies. He has recently co-authored a book about  living on a low-income in Australia, a co-edited book on the implementation of welfare-to-work in a variety of countries and is completing a book on who benefits from the Australian welfare state.