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Professor Greg Marston
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Greg Marston

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Overview

Background

I am Director of Centre for Policy Futures. My research interests cover work and employment, poverty and economic security and the social dimensions of climate change. I am a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, and was a member of the ARC College of Experts from 2014-2016.

Availability

Professor Greg Marston is:
Available for supervision

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland
  • Postgraduate Diploma in Education, The University of Queensland

Research interests

  • Social policy and the welfare state

    My research program addresses poverty and unemployment, climate justice, economic security, and the impact of emerging technologies on work, driving meaningful change and fostering a more equitable society.

Research impacts

My research program has championed social justice and equity through extensive research wit leading community organisatons and governments, focusing on housing, homelessness and social security policy. I am dedicated to amplifying the voices of ordinary Australians in public deates on critical social isues. My research, with colleagues, on compulsory income management policies in Australia contributed to the decision by the federal government in 2022 to stop ongoing Cashless Debit Card trials in Australia.

With experience in senior roles at UQ and in research focused capacity building roles at RMIT and QUT, I have an in-depth understanding of Australia's social science research landscape. I recognise the transformative power of genuine partnerships with governments, businesses, citizens, and civil society groups. I am committed to driving the promotion of evidence-informed social policies that create meaningful and lasting impact.

Works

Search Professor Greg Marston’s works on UQ eSpace

173 works between 2000 and 2025

1 - 20 of 173 works

2025

Journal Article

Reframing tourism labour: Alterity and the global south

Muñoz, Kyrie Eleison (Kyle), Robinson, Richard N.S. and Marston, Greg (2025). Reframing tourism labour: Alterity and the global south. Annals of Tourism Research, 112 103950, 103950. doi: 10.1016/j.annals.2025.103950

Reframing tourism labour: Alterity and the global south

2025

Journal Article

Jobs aren't enough: Redefining just transitions in Australia with community voices

Stambe, Rose-Marie, Marston, Greg, Snell, Darryn and Moss, Jeremy (2025). Jobs aren't enough: Redefining just transitions in Australia with community voices. Energy Research and Social Science, 122 103999, 103999. doi: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.103999

Jobs aren't enough: Redefining just transitions in Australia with community voices

2025

Journal Article

Digital platforms and hybridized social sector accountability: a critical discourse analysis of promotional material

Ahearn, Elizabeth-Rose, Mai, Catherine and Marston, Greg (2025). Digital platforms and hybridized social sector accountability: a critical discourse analysis of promotional material. Public Management Review, 1-21. doi: 10.1080/14719037.2025.2469237

Digital platforms and hybridized social sector accountability: a critical discourse analysis of promotional material

2025

Journal Article

Self-Care Practices in the Context of Older Adults Living Independently

Casey, Bridget, Marston, Greg and Vyas, Dhaval (2025). Self-Care Practices in the Context of Older Adults Living Independently. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 9 (GROUP) 1205, 1-26. doi: 10.1145/3701205

Self-Care Practices in the Context of Older Adults Living Independently

2024

Journal Article

An intersectional feminist analysis of compulsory income management in Australia

Staines, Zoe, Marston, Greg, Peterie, Michelle, Bielefeld, Shelley, Mendes, Philip and Roche, Steven (2024). An intersectional feminist analysis of compulsory income management in Australia. Journal of Social Policy, 1-19. doi: 10.1017/s0047279424000205

An intersectional feminist analysis of compulsory income management in Australia

2024

Other Outputs

Community is key to Queensland’s energy future

Stambe, Rose-Marie, Yarnold, Jennifer, Marston, Greg and Moss, Jeremy (2024). Community is key to Queensland’s energy future. Brisbane, QLD Australia: The University of Queensland.

Community is key to Queensland’s energy future

2023

Conference Publication

Digitised Hybrids: Exploring the role of digital technology in the development and management of the hybridised social sector

Ahearn, Elizabeth-Rose, Mai, Catherine and Marston, Greg (2023). Digitised Hybrids: Exploring the role of digital technology in the development and management of the hybridised social sector. Australian Social Policy Conference, Canberra, ACT Australia, 11-13 September 2023.

Digitised Hybrids: Exploring the role of digital technology in the development and management of the hybridised social sector

2023

Book Chapter

Be your own boss: the role of digital labour platforms in producing migrant masculinity(ies)

Holtum, Peter James (PJ), Lata, Lutfun and Marston, Greg (2023). Be your own boss: the role of digital labour platforms in producing migrant masculinity(ies). Migratory men: place, transnationalism and masculinities. (pp. 123-138) edited by Garth Stahl and Yang Zhao. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003353232-12

Be your own boss: the role of digital labour platforms in producing migrant masculinity(ies)

2023

Conference Publication

Compulsory cashless welfare programs exacerbate inequalities and poverty for women: an intersectional feminist analysis of ‘Compulsory Income Management’ in Australia

Staines, Zoe, Marston, Greg, Peterie, Michelle, Bielefeld, Shelley, Mendes, Philip and Roche, Steven (2023). Compulsory cashless welfare programs exacerbate inequalities and poverty for women: an intersectional feminist analysis of ‘Compulsory Income Management’ in Australia. Social Policy Association Annual Conference, Nottingham, United Kingdom, 5-7 July 2023.

Compulsory cashless welfare programs exacerbate inequalities and poverty for women: an intersectional feminist analysis of ‘Compulsory Income Management’ in Australia

2023

Book Chapter

Navigating the threat of refoulement arising from the trifecta of welfare conditionality, behavioural codes, and short-term visas

Worsoe, Hanne and Marston, Greg (2023). Navigating the threat of refoulement arising from the trifecta of welfare conditionality, behavioural codes, and short-term visas. Regulating refugee protection through social welfare. (pp. 163-180) edited by Peter Billings. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003298595-12

Navigating the threat of refoulement arising from the trifecta of welfare conditionality, behavioural codes, and short-term visas

2023

Other Outputs

Submission to the Select Committee on Workforce Australia Employment Services

Stambe, Rose, Marston, Greg, Staines, Zoe and Henman, Paul (2023). Submission to the Select Committee on Workforce Australia Employment Services. Canberra, ACT Australia: Parliament of Australia.

Submission to the Select Committee on Workforce Australia Employment Services

2022

Other Outputs

Rethinking the welfare-work nexus in light of Australia’s COVID-19 response

Stambe, Rose and Marston, Greg (2022, 08 18). Rethinking the welfare-work nexus in light of Australia’s COVID-19 response Austaxpolicy

Rethinking the welfare-work nexus in light of Australia’s COVID-19 response

2022

Other Outputs

Decarbonising Queensland: Four pillars toward a resilient and inclusive low-carbon economy

Yarnold, Jennifer , Marston, Greg , Mackey, Brendan , McVeigh, John , Rolfe, John , Dale, Allan , Babacan, Hurriyet , Lyons, Ben , Deane, Felicity , Molyneaux, Lynette , Plint, Neville , Newlands, Maxine , Keenan-Jones, Duncan , Quiggin, John , Lovelock, Catherine , Birch, Jacob , Ashford, Graham , Maguire, Rowena , Butler, Don and Doran-Browne, Natalie (2022). Decarbonising Queensland: Four pillars toward a resilient and inclusive low-carbon economy. Policy Futures Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland.

Decarbonising Queensland: Four pillars toward a resilient and inclusive low-carbon economy

2022

Journal Article

Responsibilising young benefit recipients: Income management and financial capability in New Zealand

Humpage, Louise, Bielefeld, Shelley, Marston, Greg, Staines, Zoe, Peterie, Michelle and Mendes, Philip (2022). Responsibilising young benefit recipients: Income management and financial capability in New Zealand. Critical Social Policy, 43 (2), 1-22. doi: 10.1177/02610183221106923

Responsibilising young benefit recipients: Income management and financial capability in New Zealand

2022

Book Chapter

Subjectification, suffering and emotional resistance: life on the Cashless Debit Card

Peterie, Michelle, Marston, Greg, Humpage, Louise, Mendes, Philip, Bielefeld, Shelley and Staines, Zoe (2022). Subjectification, suffering and emotional resistance: life on the Cashless Debit Card. Social suffering in the neoliberal age: state power, logics and resistance. (pp. 149-165) edited by Karen Soldatic and Louise St Guillaume. Abingdon, Oxon United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003131779-12

Subjectification, suffering and emotional resistance: life on the Cashless Debit Card

2022

Journal Article

Checking Activation at the Door: Rethinking the Welfare-Work Nexus in Light of Australia’s Covid-19 Response

Stambe, Rose and Marston, Greg (2022). Checking Activation at the Door: Rethinking the Welfare-Work Nexus in Light of Australia’s Covid-19 Response. Social Policy and Society, 22 (1), 1-16. doi: 10.1017/s1474746421000944

Checking Activation at the Door: Rethinking the Welfare-Work Nexus in Light of Australia’s Covid-19 Response

2022

Book

Compulsory income management in Australia and New Zealand: more harm than good?

Marston, Greg, Humpage, Louise, Peterie, Michelle, Mendes, Philip, Bielefeld, Shelley and Staines, Zoe (2022). Compulsory income management in Australia and New Zealand: more harm than good?. Bristol, United Kingdom: Policy Press. doi: 10.46692/9781447361510

Compulsory income management in Australia and New Zealand: more harm than good?

2021

Journal Article

How effective is conditional welfare support for enhancing child wellbeing? An examination of compulsory income management (welfare payment quarantining) in Australia

Roche, Steven, Mendes, Philip, Marston, Greg, Peterie, Michelle, Bielefeld, Shelley, Staines, Zoe and Humpage, Louise (2021). How effective is conditional welfare support for enhancing child wellbeing? An examination of compulsory income management (welfare payment quarantining) in Australia. Children and Youth Services Review, 131 106254, 106254. doi: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2021.106254

How effective is conditional welfare support for enhancing child wellbeing? An examination of compulsory income management (welfare payment quarantining) in Australia

2021

Other Outputs

Big data as evidence for social investment: a need for critique and caution

Staines, Zoe, Moore, Charlotte, Marston, Greg and Humpage, Louise (2021, 08 27). Big data as evidence for social investment: a need for critique and caution Australian National University Austaxpolicy: Tax and Transfer Policy Blog

Big data as evidence for social investment: a need for critique and caution

2021

Journal Article

Public deliberation and policy design

Stark, Alastair, Thomson, N. K. and Marston, Greg (2021). Public deliberation and policy design. Policy Design and Practice, 4 (4), 1-13. doi: 10.1080/25741292.2021.1912906

Public deliberation and policy design

Funding

Current funding

  • 2024 - 2027
    The Forgotten Children, Ten Years On (ARC Linkage Project administered by The University of Sydney)
    University of Sydney
    Open grant
  • 2023 - 2026
    Activating employment futures through work integration social enterprise (ARC Linkage Project administered by The University of Melbourne)
    University of Melbourne
    Open grant

Past funding

  • 2024 - 2025
    Policy pathways to advance Australia's biomethane sector: learning policy lessons from international jurisdictions
    Future Fuels CRC Ltd
    Open grant
  • 2024 - 2025
    Building a resilient and sustainable workforce for the future
    Anglicare Southern Queensland
    Open grant
  • 2020 - 2021
    The COVID-19 Tenant/Resident Support and Analysis Project
    Tenants QLD
    Open grant
  • 2020 - 2023
    A Just Climate Transition (ARC Linkage Project administered by The University of New South Wales)
    University of New South Wales
    Open grant
  • 2018 - 2023
    Conditional Welfare: A Comparative Case Study of Income Management Policies
    ARC Discovery Projects
    Open grant
  • 2016 - 2017
    Who You Know or Where You Go? The Role of Formal and Informal Networks in Finding Employment and Maintaining Wellbeing (ARC Linkage Project administered by the University of Sydney)
    University of Sydney
    Open grant
  • 2016 - 2022
    Seamless journeys to work for young adults with physical disabilities
    ARC Linkage Projects
    Open grant
  • 2016 - 2019
    Connecting social policy and urban planning for a low carbon future
    ARC Discovery Projects
    Open grant
  • 2010
    Understanding student attrition in the social and behavioural sciences
    UQ Teaching Fellowship
    Open grant
  • 2008 - 2010
    The high cost of financial insecurity: exploring the role of the 'fringe economy' in the lives of low-income people
    UQ Foundation Research Excellence Awards - DVC(R) Funding
    Open grant
  • 2007 - 2010
    150 Low Income Australians: A Group Biography over Time (ARC Linkage Grant administered by the University of Melbourne)
    University of Melbourne
    Open grant
  • 2007 - 2010
    Disability, Welfare and Work
    ARC Linkage Projects
    Open grant
  • 2006 - 2007
    Assesing the Impact of the Commonwealth Welfare to Work Policy Framework in Queensland
    Queensland Department of the Premier and Cabinet
    Open grant
  • 2006 - 2008
    Risky Business: Understanding Social Security Benefit Fraud
    UQ Early Career Researcher
    Open grant
  • 2005 - 2006
    The Role Of The Front Line In Welfare To Work
    ARC Linkage Projects
    Open grant
  • 2004 - 2005
    Long-term unemployment, the informal economy and welfare fraud
    UQ New Staff Research Start-Up Fund
    Open grant
  • 2004 - 2005
    Exploring the Connections Between Work, Welfare and Employment Services
    UQ FirstLink Scheme
    Open grant

Supervision

Availability

Professor Greg Marston is:
Available for supervision

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Supervision history

Current supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Tourism Frontliners in the Philippines¿ Last Frontier: A Critical Study on the Lived Experiences of Informal Workers in Palawan

    Principal Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy

    How Gig Economy Workers Cope With Job Ambiguity

    Principal Advisor

Completed supervision

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