Professor Greg Marston

Director, Centre for Policy Futures

Centre for Policy Futures
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

Director, Centre for Policy Futures

Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

Centre Director of Centre for Polic

Centre for Policy Futures
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
g.marston@uq.edu.au
+61 7 344 33150

Overview

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.

Qualifications

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

Publications

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Supervision

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Publications

Book

Book Chapter

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Marston, Greg and Staines, Zoe (2021). Losing sight: social security policy in Australia. Social policy in Australia: understanding for action. (pp. 214-237) edited by Alison McLelland, Paul Smyth and Greg Marston. Docklands, VIC, Australia: Oxford University Press.

  • Marston, Greg and Davidson, Danielle (2020). Discretion and empowerment. Discretion and the Quest for Controlled Freedom. (pp. 93-110) edited by Tony Evans and Peter Hupe. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-19566-3_7

  • Marston, Greg (2019). Basic income in Australia: implementation challenges. Implementing a Basic Income in Australia: Pathways Forward. (pp. 23-43) edited by Elise Klein, Jennifer Mays and Tim Dunlop. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-14378-7_2

  • Marston, Greg and Staines, Zoe (2019). Social policy. Australian politics and policy. (pp. 687-706) edited by Peter Chen, Nicholas Barry, John Butcher, David Clune, Ian Cook, Adele Garnier, Yvonne Haigh, Sara C. Motta and Marija Taflaga. Sydney, Australia: Sydney University Press. doi: 10.30722/sup.9781743326671

  • Marston, Greg and Staines, Zoe (2019). Social policy. Australian politics and policy. (pp. 547-559) edited by Chen, Peter, Barry, Nicholas, Butcher, John, Clune, David, Cook, Ian, Garnier, Adele, Haigh, Yvonne, Motta, Sara and Taflaga, Marija. Sydney, NSW Australia: Sydney University Press.

  • Stafford, Lisa and Marston, Greg (2019). Using Interpretive Policy Analysis To Uncover Meanings About Disability Employment and Income Policy Regarding Young Adults and Education–Employment Pathways. SAGE Research Methods Cases. (pp. 1-17) London, United Kingdom: SAGE Publications. doi: 10.4135/9781526486080

  • Lonne, Bob, McColl, Graeme and Marston, Greg (2017). Community recovery. Disaster health management: a primer for students and practitioners. (pp. 229-242) edited by Gerry FitzGerald, Mike Tarrant, Peter Aitken and Marie Fredriksen. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.

  • Marston, Greg (2016). Exploring the complexity and contradictions of contemporary poverty governance: the case of payday lending in Australia. Governing practices: neoliberalism, governmentality, and the ethnographic imaginary. (pp. 245-266) edited by Michelle Brady and Randy K. Lippert. Toronto, ON, Canada: University of Toronto Press.

  • Marston, Greg (2016). Greening the Australian welfare state: can basic income play a role?. Basic income in Australia and New Zealand: perspectives from the neoliberal frontier. (pp. 157-178) edited by Jennifer Mays, Greg Marston and John Tomlinson. New York, NY, United States: Palgrave MacMillan. doi: 10.1057/9781137535320_8

  • Mays, Jennifer, Marston, Greg and Tomlinson, John (2016). Neoliberal frontiers and economic insecurity: is basic income a solution?. Basic income in Australia and New Zealand: perspectives from the neoliberal frontier. (pp. 1-25) edited by Jennifer Mays, Greg Marston and John Tomlinson. Houndmills, Basingstoke, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/9781137535320_1

  • Marston, Greg (2015). From being a fish out of water to swimming with the school: notes from a class traveller in Australian higher education. Bread and roses: voices of Australian academics from the working class. (pp. 171-179) edited by Dee Michell, Jacqueline Z. Wilson and Verity Archer. Rotterdam, Netherlands: Sense Publishers. doi: 10.1007/978-94-6300-127-4_18

  • Banks, M. and Marston, G. (2015). On Neoliberalism and Welfare: Payday Lending and Commodifying Social Provisioning.. Narratives of Globalisation: Reflections on the Global Condition. (pp. 56-79) edited by Julian Lee. London: Rowman and Littlefield.

  • Marston, Greg (2015). Public health and social policy. Introduction to public health. (pp. 66-84) edited by Mary Louise Fleming. Chatswood, NSW, Australia: Elsevier Australia.

  • Marston, G. and McClelland, A. (2014). A framework for Understanding and Action: Understanding Policy and Practice. Social Policy in Australia: Understanding for Action. (pp. 44-62) edited by Alison McClelland and Paul Smyth. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

  • Marston, Greg (2014). Social justice and income support policies. Routledge international handbook of social justice. (pp. 237-248) edited by Michael Reisch. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routhledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315857534

  • Marston, G. (2013). Critical Discourse Analysis and Policy Change. Social work theories and methods. (pp. ---) Melbourne: Palgrave Macmillan.

  • Marston, Gregory (2013). Frontline workers as intermediaries: the changing landscape of disability and employment services in Australia. Work and the welfare state: street-level organizations and workfare politics. (pp. 209-225) edited by Evelyn Z. Brodkin and Gregory Marston. Washington, DC, United States: Georgetown University Press.

  • Marston, Greg, Moss, Jeremy and Quiggin, John (2010). Introduction: Shifting risk?. Risk, welfare and work. (pp. vii-xvi) edited by Greg Marston, Jeremy Moss and John Quiggin. Melbourne, Australia: Melbourne University Press.

  • McClelland, Alison and Marston, Gregory (2009). A framework for understanding social policy analysis and action. Social policy in Australia: Understanding for action. (pp. 39-69) edited by Alison McClelland and Paul Smyth. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.

  • Marston, G J and McDonald, C. (2006). Conclusion: A conversation worth continuing?. Analysing Social Policy: A Governmental Approach. (pp. 223-229) edited by G. Marston and C. McDonald. Albingdon, UK: Edward Elgar.

  • Marston, G J and McDonald, C. (2006). Introduction: Reframing social policy analysis. Analysing Social Policy: A Governmental Approach. (pp. 1-15) edited by G. Marston and C. McDonald. Albingdon, UK: Edward Elgar.

  • Humpage, Louise and Marston, Greg (2006). Recognition, respect and rights: Refugees living on temporary protection visas (TPVs) in Australia. The Situated Politics of Belonging. (pp. 113-126) edited by Nira Yuval-Davis, Kalpana Kannabiran and Ulrike Vieten. London, United Kingdom: Sage. doi: 10.4135/9781446213490.n9

  • Marston, G (2004). Constructing the Meaning of Social Exclusion as a Policy Metaphor. Social Contructionism in Housing Research. (pp. 71-92) edited by Keith Jacobs, Jim Kemeny and Tony Manzi. UK: Ashgate Publishing Ltd.

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Edited Outputs

Other Outputs

Grants (Administered at UQ)

PhD and MPhil Supervision

Current Supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

Completed Supervision