Associates and Affiliates
Professor Richard Desjardins
University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Professor Iciar Elexpuru
University of Deusto, Spain
Adult Learning/Erasmus Mundus
Professor Bente Elkjaer
Aarhus University, Denmark
Adult/workplace learning/Erasmus Mundus
Professor David Guile
UCL Institute of Education, United Kingdom
Youth transitions
Professor John Haisken-Denew
03 9035 3811 johnhd@unimelb.edu.au Find an Expert
Prof. Dr. John P. Haisken-DeNew is Deputy Director Research at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research in Melbourne, Australia. He has also been Adjunct Professor of the Department of Economics at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada since July 2008.
His research interest focuses on education, health, competition policy, applied labor economics, applied micro econometrics, wage structure, migration, welfare and income inequality. He was previously a fully tenured W3 Professor of Economics and holder of the Chair “Economic Policy: Competition Theory and Policy” at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, from March 2009 to June 2013. He received his doctorate in economics at the University of Munich in 1995 under Prof. Dr. Klaus F. Zimmermann, with his dissertation on “Migration and Inter-Industry Wage Structure in Germany”. He received his MA in Economics at the University of Toronto, Canada in 1988 and his BA Honours in Economics at Carelton University, Ottawa, Canada.
Professor Yufeng Liu
Central Institute for Vocational and Technical Education, Beijing
TVET China
Professor Paul Morris
UCL Institute of Education, United Kingdom
Comparative education/Erasmus Mundus
Professor Emer Smyth
The Economic and Social Research Institute, Ireland
Schools to work transitions
Professor Leesa Wheelahan
University of Toronto, Canada
Knowledge and VET
Professor Michael Young
UCL Institute of Education, United Kingdom
Knowledge, sociology
Associate Professor Pia Cort
Aarhus University, Denmark
VET
Associate Professor Ida Juul
Aarhus University, Denmark
VET in Europe
Dr Irma Mooi-Reci
03 9035 4809 irma.mooi@unimelb.edu.au Find an Expert
Irma Mooi-Reci is Senior Lecturer and Director of the Master of Social Policy at the School of Social and Political Sciences (SSPS) at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Previously she worked as Assistant Professor and Programme Director of the VU-Graduate School of Social Sciences (VU-GSSS) at the VU University in Amsterdam.
Irma researches employment instability and its implications for individual careers, wage opportunities and public policy. Her research agenda encompasses three main areas: (1) the socioeconomic consequences of disruptive events such as unemployment, joblessness and casual employment; (2) the intergenerational consequences of joblessness; (3) application and innovation of quantitative methods for panel data. She has been a visiting scholar at the University of Madison Wisconsin in 2010, 2011 and 2012 and she is currently a visiting professor at Nuffield College, Oxford University. Irma has published in various journals including Social Science Research, European Sociological Review, British Journal of Industrial Relations and Social Forces.
Assistant Professor Eva Kyndt
University of Leuven, Belgium
Dr Elish Kelly
The Economic and Social Research Institute, Ireland
Labour Economics
Dr Carolina Cuellar
Education Foundation, Chile
Education in Chile
Dr Frank Musekamp
Universitat Bremen, Germany
Large Scale VET Assessment
Dr Lu Hong
Chongqing College of Electronic Engineering, China
VET, Chinese education and training