meet the team

is Interim Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at The University of Sydney. Her home Department is Sociology and Social Policy. Her interventions in the discipline of Sociology lie in the areas of economic sociology, social theory and feminist theory. Currently, she is working on questions of asset ownership and social inequality, with a particular focus on the restructuring of lifetimes in the asset economy. This team-based research is supported by the Australian Research Council and by the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI). Her most recent books are The Time of Money (2018, Stanford University Press) and The Asset Economy (2020, Polity Press) co-authored with Martijn Konings and Melinda Cooper.

teaches Economy and Society and is Discipline Chair of Sociology in the Macquarie School of Social Sciences. Ben completed his PhD in Economics at the University of Sydney while working in the non-government sector on issues of human rights. His research focuses on the political economy of social policy and the welfare state, particularly how economic and political change shape social policy financing. His current research explores how financial logics common in the private sector are reshaping social policy through changes in public sector budgeting, and the potential for these changes to open new opportunities for egalitarian social provision. He was the 2017 Glenda Powell Travelling Fellow for the Australian Association of Gerontologists and he is an editor of The Economic and Labour Relations Review and Journal of Australian Political Economy.

is a Senior Lecturer of Public Policy at the Crawford School, Australian National University. Her research focuses on development policy with a specific interest in work, redistribution, decoloniality and care. Klein has held various roles including working with the UN Secretary General’s High-Level Panel on Women’s Economic Development and the Human Rights Committee within the United Nations General Assembly. She was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in 2019 and holds a Dphil in International Development from the University of Oxford. Her recent work on basic income includes: Implementing a Basic Income in Australia: Pathways Forward (Palgrave), Radical transformation or technological intervention? Two paths for universal basic income (World Development), Reparations as a Rightful Share: From Universalism to Redress in Distributive Justice (Development and Change).

is a Lecturer in Political Economy at the University of Sydney. He has a particular interest in Basic Income Studies, macroeconomic economic policy, social policy reform, and the political economy of work. His PhD thesis explored Basic Income as a Policy Option for Australia. Between 2017 and 2019 he worked as a Research Economist at the Centre for Future Work at the Australia Institute. His publications on basic income include: Spies-Butcher, B., B. Phillips and T. Henderson (2021). Between Universalism and Targeting – Costing an ‘Affluence Tested’ Basic Income for Australia (Economic and Labour Relations Review) and Quiggin, J. and T. Henderson. (2019). Trade Unions and Basic Income, in Torry (ed.), The Palgrave International Handbook of Basic Income (Palgrave).

is a political economist at the University of Sydney. He is an ARC DECRA Fellow in the Department of Political Economy and economist-in-residence with the Sydney Policy Lab. Gareth researches how public policy and public finance can create more sustainable, equal and democratic economies. His research has focused on issues including climate change, higher education, housing, labour and Indigenous justice. Gareth is the author of Carbon Markets in a Climate-Changing Capitalism (Cambridge University Press, 2019).