Associate ProfessorChristopher Pepin-Neff
(they/them)
Associate Professor in Public Policy
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Orcid identifier0000-0002-4218-7040 (opens in a new tab)
- Associate Professor in Public PolicyFaculty of Arts and Social Sciences
RESEARCH INTERESTs
- Policy Process & Agenda Setting: Examining the underlying power dynamics that structurally place issues on the agenda through an analysis of emotions and penalties in public policy, including human-shark interactions and the "politics of shark attacks." Utilising mixed methods approaches that rely on qualitative and quantitative analyses, including comparative surveys.
- Policy Advocacy: Analysing intersectional lobbying and advocacy in the policy process. This research focuses on issues and groups that are marginalised, including poverty, race, and LGBTIQ+ issues and issues affecting those living with a disability.
- Inequality: Critically examining inequality in the policy process. This includes reviewing the impact of COVID-19 on LGBTQ+ social capital, "emotional taxation," Tolerable Inequality, the actors who sparked and sustained state-wide organising, and non-profit equality governance as a mode of policymaking.
FUNDED RESEARCH
- GRANTRES: Research Agreement with Taronga Conservation Society Australia for project: "A Holistic Model of Measuring the Impact of Taronga Conservation Programs" (Kate Johnston)Taronga Conservation Society Australia1 Mar 2017People funded by this grant:
- McConnell A,
- Probyn E,
- Johnston K,
- Pepin-Neff C