Research projects
Current

Mapping the Digital Welfare State
This project examines how technologies, such as biometrics, predictive algorithms and risk assessments, are increasingly used in the context of social assistance provision and regulation.

Maximizing consumer ability to manage electricity demand
Working with ActewAGL, the research team will evaluate the extent to which poorly insulated homes limit people’s ability to control bills when on demand management rates such as time-of-use.

Navigating the Emerging Geoeconomic Order
This project will develop frameworks to understand how economic relationships and policy instruments can be sources of leverage and vulnerability.

NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in the Social Determinants of Health Equity
Many Australians will live shorter lives than others not because of their genetics or the lifestyle choices they make but rather because of the conditions in which they live and the opportunities they

Reframing the investment treaty system
This project examines mechanisms within existing and future investment treaties and public international law that permit states to re-engage with the investment treaty system in order to better protec

Regulation and Governance of Health and Safety at Work
This research is concerned with business conduct for work health and safety (WHS), and the diverse factors shaping this.

Regulatory Science and Traumatic Brain Injury
This DECRA research explores the rise of traumatic brain injury as a health concern, focusing on how shifting scientific and public health discourses frame the condition and its treatment.

Responsive rule of law
Since 1990 there has been an exponential increase in the number and type of professionals and organisations involved in law reform efforts in developing, post-conflict and fragile states worldwide.

Restatement (Fourth) of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States
Anthea Roberts serves as a Reporter for the Restatement (Fourth) of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States.

Sociotechnical Navigation and Problem Solving amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic
This international collaboration aims to capture how individuals approach and navigate sociotechnical systems in everyday life during times of major disruption and crisis globally.