Ariadne is the Sir John Bunting Chair of Public Administration and Deputy Dean (Research) at the Australia and New Zealand School of Government and the ANU Crawford School of Public Policy.
Her research interests are quite diverse, and include: citizen engagement, digital politics and governance, women and the future of work, policy advocacy, and young people and politics. She is about to start an ARC Linkage project ‘Designing Gender Equality into the Future of Work’ that will contrast change and technological disruption in the retail and legal industries. She is also currently working with long-term collaborators on two books: one on online petitions, citizen engagement and politics; the other on storytelling and policy advocacy.
But underpinning all of her research areas is an interest in political equality and social justice – and these core questions of redistribution and recognition will be even more important to address for both post-COVID-19 policymaking and civil society organising.