Dr. Perri Campbell is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Impact (CSI) Swinburne with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry and Social Enterprise Sector. She received a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Sociology from Monash University. Dr. Campbell is the author of Rethinking Young People’s Marginalisation: Beyond Neo-Liberal Futures? (2019). She writes about young people’s civic participation and entrepreneurialism, youth-focused social enterprise programs, and digital technology. She has published in the field of critical youth studies about what it means to ‘grow up’ post-global financial crisis and participate in social movements such as Occupy and Black Lives Matter. Her current work addresses questions about young people’s work-life futures and the role work integration social enterprise can play. She has been an Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Deakin University and a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues at the University of California, Berkeley.
Prof. Erin Wilson is a leading researcher and thinker in the field of participatory social change. She has a track record in the areas of disability and inclusion, and prior to this, Indigenous community management and development with a focus on jobs focused social enterprise for young people and juvenile offenders. Professor Wilson's research career has focused on research that ‘makes a difference’ through participation of those most affected, and high utility of the research products. Professor Wilson has a deep and lengthy experience in relation to the employment of people with disability. Conducting more than twelve research projects in this arena in the past two years, she has led commentary on relevant social policy and legislation and used evidence to influence change in both. Professor Wilson is currently leading the Uniting Vic Tas-Swinburne Research Collaboration focusing on designing large scale measurement of service user outcomes of community services, including those related to social inclusion and choice and empowerment.
Prof. Robyn Eversole is a Howard I. Scott Professor of Practice in Social Entrepreneurship at Bucknell University. She is an internationally recognized expert in rural regional development, a keynote speaker, and an author, with twenty years of experience linking universities with regional communities and leading applied research for social impact. Prof Robyn Eversole holds an MA and a PhD in Anthropology of Development from McGill University, Montreal, Canada. She is a former US Fulbright Fellow and current member of the Australian government's Council on Australia–Latin America Relations. She is also the author of the Bush Prof blog on rural regional development and six books for children. Prof. Robyn Eversole studies regional development in Australia, Latin America, and the Asia–Pacific region. Her work explores policies and practices of development as they play out in real-world settings, as well as the roles that local communities and their institutions play in creating socio-economic change. She uses insights from anthropology and other disciplines to address practical issues and understand how to create sustainable development from the ground up.
Dr. Jenny Crosbie is a Principal Industry Fellow at the Centre for Social Impact Swinburne (CSI Swinburne). She received her Bachelor of Arts (Disability Studies) from Deakin University in 1992, her Graduate Diploma (Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management) from the University of Melbourne in 1997, and her PhD from Swinburne University in 2023. She has a particular interest in understanding and addressing barriers to economic participation that young people with intellectual disabilities face and in particular barriers at the system level, which limit opportunities available. Her PhD research reconceptualizes thinking about economic participation for young people with intellectual disabilities and identifies factors that promote their inclusion in community-based economic participation roles. She is the Coordinator of The Reintegration Puzzle Conference, an annual conference convened by Professor Joe Graffam, which aims to bring together people who are working to assist offenders in successfully reintegrating into the community after prison.
