Senior Lecturer with School of Economics, Finance and Marketing, RMIT University
Meg Elkins is a senior lecturer with the School of Economics, Finance and Marketing her research examines determinants of individual and community wellbeing at both a global level and local level. She uses applied and behavioural techniques in two distinct fields of research which feed into this overarching theme of wellbeing creation. The first is in the field of development economics and relates to poverty reduction and social protection mechanisms and the second is in the field of cultural economics and the implications of creative culture for community development.
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