DR SIMONE CASEY
Simone Casey is a Resarch Associate at RMIT and a Senior Policy Advisor – Employment, and previously held a variety of roles in policy advocacy, research and communications where in the employment services and welfare sectors. Simone holds a PhD in employment services is an expert on marketisation, welfare conditionality, labour market program design, unemployment and related social security topics. Her campaigns and reports are underwritten by rigorous analysis and the use of up-to-date evidence and arguments.
2022
What to make of online employment services?
What should we make of Workforce Australia?
2021
It’s Time for a Cross-Disciplinary Conversation About the Effectiveness of Job Seeker Sanctions
2020
Ramping up punitive mechanisms in employment services: Single mothers are the canary in the coalmine
Big little victories: changes to payments suspension in employment services
The ‘Herstory’ of superannuation: Uncovering the discriminatory traps that disadvantage women
Reform of Work for the Dole needed now
Pointless and punitive: why jobactive has to go
Can a leopard change its spots? behavioural drivers and the jobactive system
2019
What is wrong with Work First?
Welfare 'activation' policies are counterproductive
Does tree-shaking work? Evidence based policy and welfare conditionality
What is wrong with Work for the Dole – reciprocity fail
ParentsNext - Activating why? Activating how?