Mark Western is Director of the Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR), at The University of Queensland, and a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.
Mark is a sociologist whose research covers a number of topics including inequality and socioeconomic disadvantage, social science methodology, sociology of education, and social networks and social wellbeing.
He is a Chief Investigator on the ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families Over the Life Course and has a number of other research projects involving partners in government and the community sector.
Mark was Deputy Chair of the Steering Committee for the joint Academies of Humanities and Social Sciences project, Mapping the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences in Australia, and was also a member of the Steering Committee for the ATSE project, Research Engagement for Australia.
[March 2016]