Professor Michelle Baddeley

Michelle Baddeley is an applied/behavioural economist. Alongside her University of South Australia roles, she is Honorary Professor with the Institute for Global Prosperity, University College London; President-Elect of the Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics; and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy. She has an active interest in public policy, including roles as Associate Researcher, Energy Policy Research Group, Cambridge; and Associate Fellow, Cambridge Centre for Science and Policy. She was publicly appointed to the UK's Hazardous Substances Advisory Committee (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs), helping to advise the UK government on environmental policy and chemicals regulation.

Her research focuses on decision-making - including in the context of work, housing, health, energy and cybersecurity. She uses a wide range of methods and data - applying econometric tools in analysing data from surveys and experiments, as well as secondary data from statistical databases. She collaborates with other social scientists in mixed methods analyses, to combine the richness and depth of qualitative methods such as interviews and focus groups with the scalability and breadth of quantitative analysis. Her latest methodological interest is in embedding insights from behavioural economics into discrete choice experiments, applied in the context of employment for vulnerable groups, household energy investments and cybersecurity choices. She also collaborates with researchers from a wide range of disciplines - including neuroscience, experimental psychology, computer science, management, medical science and social policy. She has served as a panel member of expert research assessment panels in Australia, the UK, Germany, the Netherlands and USA, including the 2018 ARC Engagement and Impact panel (Social Sciences).

American Economic Association

Economic Society of Australia

International Association for Research in Economic Psychology

Royal Economic Society

Qualifications

• Doctor of Philosophy University of Cambridge

• Master of Philosophy (Economics) University of Cambridge

• Bachelor of Economics (Honours) University of Queensland

Work history

2013 - 2017, Professor in Economics and Finance, Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, University College London

1995 - 2013, Fellow/College Lecturer/Tutor, Gonville & Caius College/Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, UK

2003 -2005, Deputy Director, Cambridge Centre for Economic & Public Policy, University of Cambridge

1995 - 1997, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Leverhulme Trust - EU Regional Unemployment, University of Cambridge

1989 - 1991, Cadet, Research Officer/Economist, State and Local Government Finances branch, Fiscal Policy Division