Dr. Alison Morehead

Biography

Alison Morehead is a Lecturer in the School of Sociology at the Australian National University. With 15 years of experience in the federal public service at the Senior Executive Service Band 2 level, she has been involved in policy reforms on a wide range of topics including mental health, primary care, the ageing population, and workplace relations, specifically wages policy. Morehead has worked extensively on employment welfare policy reforms, focusing on single parents, students, youth, and families. She has a deep familiarity with public policy, having developed and implemented various federal government initiatives. Her early career involved research and evaluation, where she designed and analyzed large-scale national workplace surveys. This includes managing national surveys directed by the Work and Family Unit. Morehead has also held positions with the Australian Council of Social Service in Sydney and the International Labour Office in Geneva. She has a PhD on work and family issues from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Sydney, as well as a Master of Arts in Sociology and a Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours from the University of Tasmania. Additionally, she has contributed to the academic literature including leading authorship of the book 'Changes at Work: 1995 Australian Workplace Industrial Relations Survey'.

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