Clive Bean is professor of political science and director of undergraduate studies in the Creative Industries Faculty at Queensland University of Technology. He is also a principal investigator of the Australian Election Study. His research focuses on political and social attitudes and behaviour and he has published numerous papers in national and international journals and books.
Katrine Beauregard is a lecturer at the School of Politics and International Relations at the Australian National University. She completed her PhD in political science at the University of Calgary, Canada. Her research focuses on how political institutions can be used to include marginalised groups in the political process. Her previous work on this topic has been published in the European Journal of Political Research and Politics, Groups and Identities.
Anja Eder is university assistant in the Department of Sociology at the University of Graz, Austria. She works in the fields of international comparison and empirical methods of the social sciences. She is a member of the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) and a founding member of the Center for Empirical Methods of the Social Sciences at the University of Graz.
Ann Evans gained her PhD in demography at the Australian National University (ANU). She is currently a senior fellow in the School of Demography and Associate Dean (Research) in the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences. Ann’s primary research interest lies in the area of family demography, and she undertakes research in the following areas: cohabitation, relationship formation and dissolution, fertility and contraception, young motherhood, and transition to adulthood.
Murray Goot is an emeritus professor in the Department of History, Politics and International Relations at Macquarie University, a fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and a lifetime member of the Australian Political Studies Association. His works spans public opinion, elections and referendums, media history, political parties and electoral systems. His most recent book, co-edited with Robin Archer, Joy Damousi and Sean Scalmer, is The Conscription Conflict and the Great War (2016).
Edith Gray is a family demographer with interests in family formation, repartnering, new family forms and ethical issues in research. Her current research focuses on inequality in first family formation. She is head of the School of Demography in the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University.
Markus Hadler is professor of sociology at the University of Graz, Austria, and an honorary professor in the Department of Sociology, Macquarie University. He is also Austrian representative to the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) and editor in chief of the International Journal of Sociology. His research interest lies in the areas of social inequality, political sociology and environmental sociology.
Toni Makkai is a quantitative social scientist who has published extensively in key policy arenas including drugs and crime, political attitudes, crime statistics, victimisation, and aged care and regulation. She is located in the ANU Centre for Social Research, is a board director of the Centre for Social Research Pty Ltd, and is deputy president of the governing board of the Ted Noffs Foundation.
Luke Mansillo is a PhD candidate in the Department of Government and International Relations and the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney. He is interested in elections, political behaviour, public opinion and parties in Australia and other advanced democracies in addition to quantitative social research design practice. He has published in the Australian Journal of Political Science and holds a Bachelor of Arts with first-class honours in political science and Masters of Social Research from the Australian National University.
Ian McAllister is distinguished professor of political science at the Australian National University in Canberra. He has directed the Australian Election Study since 1987. His research interests are in the area of comparative political behaviour.
Shaun Ratcliff is a lecturer in political science at the University of Sydney, working out of the United States Studies Centre. His research focus is on the use of quantitative methods and survey data to understand public opinion, political behaviour and the role of parties in both the United States and Australia. In particular, he is interested in how these have changed over time. He teaches politics, political psychology and quantitative research methods, and is a member of the executive committee of the Australia Society of Quantitative Political Science. Shaun has a background working in politics and government relations, and has consulted for federal election campaigns.
Bruce Tranter is a professor of sociology at the University of Tasmania, Hobart. His research interests include the study of attitudes and behaviour relating to climate change, political and social movement leaders and national identity. His quantitative and qualitative research has been published widely in international sociological and political science journals and his recent book with Jan Pakulski is The Decline of Political Leadership in Australia.
Shaun Wilson is associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Macquarie University. Shaun works on projects related to political sociology, the sociology of work, and the sociology of labour movements, and he teaches courses on social policy, social inequality, and social movements. At present, he is writing on the shifting politics of the minimum wage in the Anglo-democracies as well as on attitudes to immigration and asylum seekers in Australia.