Siobhan Austen

Siobhan Austen
Photo of Siobhan Austen in 2018
Born	Melbourne, Australia
Citizenship	Australia
Spouse	Paul Austen
Academic career
Field	Feminist Economics, Population ageing and Retirement, Labour economics
Institution	Curtin University
Alma mater	Melbourne University (PhD 2001)
Information at IDEAS / RePEc
Website	staffportal.curtin.edu.au/staff/profile/view/Siobhan.Austen

Siobhan Austen is an Australian economist and Professor at Curtin University, where she is also the head of the Department of Economics and Property Studies of Curtin Business School.

Academic career

Austen obtained her Ph.D. in 2001 at the University of Melbourne. Her thesis, on the topic of the cultural aspects of labor markets, and was later published as a book by Edward Elgar Publishing. She has published more than 100 scholarly works.

In 1990 Austen was appointed at Curtin University, where she was promoted Professor in 2016. She has led projects awarded by the Australian Research Council as well as by the National Council of Vocational and Education Research. She has also received project-based funding from the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute and AusAID.

Her research focuses on the gender aspect of population ageing, retirement incomes and labor force participation. More specifically, Austen's work highlights how “the circumstances of women are distinctive; how their contributions to economic performance are often overlooked; and how there is a need for sound understandings of women's circumstances before efficient and equitable policy on population ageing and other issues can be designed”.

Academic and public roles

Austen is co-creator and current director of the Women in Social Economic Research (WiSER) center at Curtin University. The WiSER group aims to foster quantitative and qualitative research on issues affecting women as well as to engage in current policy debates and industry linkages.

She plays an active role in policy debates about population ageing, retirement, and gender inequality and has contributed to Australian government inquiries on various economic issues.

Austen is a member of the Australian Bureau of Statistics Gender Statistics Advisory Group, the Federal Government's Gender Panel and the Work, Family and Life Policy Roundtable. She serves on the editorial board of Feminist Economics, the Journal of Economic Issues, and the Economic and Labour Relations Review.

Selected publications

• Austen, Siobhan (March 2002). "An international comparison of attitudes to inequality". International Journal of Social Economics. 29 (3): 218–237. doi:10.1108/03068290210417106. ISSN 0306-8293.
• Austen, Siobhan; Jefferson, Therese; Thein, Vicki (January 2003). "Gendered Social Indicators and Grounded Theory". Feminist Economics. 9 (1): 1–18. doi:10.1080/1354570032000063065. ISSN 1354-5701.
• Austen, Siobhan; Ong, Rachel (February 2010). "The employment transitions of mid-life women: health and care effects". Ageing and Society. 30 (2): 207–227. doi:10.1017/S0144686X09990511. ISSN 0144-686X.
• Austen, Siobhan; Jefferson, Therese (2019-07-03). "Crossing the Great Divide: Ostrom's Coproduction and the Economics of Aged Care". Feminist Economics. 25 (3): 48–69. doi:10.1080/13545701.2019.1566751. ISSN 1354-5701.
• Austen, Siobhan; Jefferson, Therese; Lord, Linley (2019), "Gender segregation and labour market institutions", Handbook of the Politics of Labour, Work and Employment, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 357–374, doi:10.4337/9781784715694.00026, ISBN 978-1-78471-569-4, retrieved 2020-06-29
• Austen, Siobhan; Sharp, Rhonda (2020), Sawer, Marian; Jenkins, Fiona; Downing, Karen (eds.), "Feminist Economics and Retirement Income and Savings Policy", How Gender Can Transform the Social Sciences, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 127–136, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-43236-2_13, ISBN 978-3-030-43235-5

External links

• Siobhan Austen at IDEAS Repec
• Siobhan Austen at Research Gate