Mark Western

Mark Western is Director of the Institute for Social Science Research and a Chief Investigator in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Children and Families Over the Life Course. He is also a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. Mark is a sociologist whose research examines how systems of inequality and disadvantage arise and can be addressed, what matters for economic and social well-being, and how institutions like schools, families, networks and labour markets are involved in these processes.


  • Measuring Inequality of Opportunities, 28 May 2018