Matthew Curry

Matthew Curry is a sociologist whose research focuses primarily on inequalities, stratification, and mobility in labor markets, education, and social disadvantage. His research uses Australian population-level administrative data and longitudinal surveys in the United States and Australia to study the interrelations between family and socioeconomic background, education, and labor market outcomes. He is also involved in work seeking to improve social science research infrastructure in Australia, in collaboration with the Australian Research Data Commons. Another strain of research applies a stratification and mobility lens to ethnic self-identification, investigating intra- and inter-generational 'mobility' in self-identification responses over time. His work has been published in European Sociological Review, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Social Science Research, and Research in Social Stratification and Mobility. At ISSR, he has also contributed to projects related to equity in employment, education, and social disadvantage more broadly in partnership with the Paul Ramsay Foundation, Health and Wellebing Queensland, the NSW Department of Education, Mission Australia, and others.

Prior to joining ISSR, he was the Rondald Henderson Research Fellow, a position jointly appointed by the Melbourne Institute: Applied Economic and Social Research at the University of Melbourne and the Research and Policy Centre at the Brotherhood of St Laurence, a large non-profit organisation based in Melbourne. He received his PhD in sociology from UCLA in 2016.