Research and Research Support Staff

  1. Professor Roger Wilkins

    Deputy Director and HILDA Survey Co-Director
    (Income and Economic Wellbeing,
    Labour Markets and Employment)

    • Effects of policies and programs on welfare receipt & economic wellbeing
    • Household financial decision-making and financial wellbeing
    • Personal income and wealth distribution
    • Poverty, socio-economic disadvantage and social exclusion
    • Drivers of income inequality and mobility
    • Employment/unemployment over the lifecycle
    • Workforce participation and dynamics
  2. Associate Professor Nicole Watson

    HILDA Survey Co-Director
    Principal Research Fellow
    Program Coordinator
    (HILDA Survey Design)

    • Survey methodology
    • Weighting
    • Imputation
    • Longitudinal surveys
  3. Ms Michelle Summerfield

    HILDA Deputy Director, Survey Management
    (HILDA Survey Design)

    • Survey management
    • Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing
    • Development and testing of CAPI scripts
    • Data management, editing and documentation
  4. Ms Brooke Garrard

    HILDA Database Support Officer
    (HILDA Survey Design)

    • Data quality
    • Data editing and documentation
    • Development and testing of CAPI scripts
  5. Ms Roopa Kamath

    HILDA Database Support Officer
    (HILDA Survey Design)

    • Data quality
    • Data editing and documentation
    • Development and testing of CAPI scripts
  6. Ms Ninette Macalalad

    HILDA Survey Research Database Engineer and Analyst
    (HILDA Survey Design)

    • Survey and reporting
    • Data quality
    • Data mining and analysis
    • Data management
  7. Dr Mossamet Kamrun Nesa

    Survey Statistician/Methodologist
    (HILDA Survey Design)

    • Survey methodology
    • Imputation
    • Longitudinal surveys
  8. Dr Kyle Peyton

    Senior Research Fellow
    (Income and Economic Wellbeing,
    Public Economics)

    • Experimental design and analysis
    • Poverty, socio-economic disadvantage and social exclusion
    • Drivers of income inequality and mobility
    • Survey Methodology
  9. Professor Mark Wooden

    Professorial Fellow
    (Families and Households,
    Health and Healthcare,
    Income and Economic Wellbeing,
    Labour Markets and Employment)

    • Family and household wellbeing outcomes
    • Mental health and wellbeing
    • Intergenerational transmission of socio-economic advantage and disadvantage
    • Employment/unemployment over the lifecycle
    • Non-standard forms of employment
    • Working time

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