Director, Centre for Policy Futures (The University of Queensland), Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences Australia (FASSA), & Australian BIEN Affiliate.

Greg Marston is an academic researcher in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at The University of Queensland. His research draws on a variety of social science disciplines, including critical social policy, sociology and political economy to examine poverty and debt, work and technology, basic income, unemployment and the changing mixed economy of welfare. Prior to entering academia, Greg worked in the non-profit community services sector at the state and national level. 

Relevant recent outputs:

• Marston, G. (forthcoming, 2026). ‘Exploring the dynamic between an ethic of care and the paid work ethic in Australian society.’ In. Peterie, M., Kenny, K., Broom, A. & Ramia, G. (Eds.) Infrastructures of informal care: inequality, exploitation, emancipation. Policy Press.

• Marston, G. Humpage, L. Peterie, M. Mendes, P. Bielefeld, S. Staines, Z. (2022). Compulsory Income Management in Australia: More Harm Than Good. Bristol University Press.

• J. Mays, J. Marston, G. and Tomlinson, J. (2016). (eds) Basic Income in Australia and New Zealand: perspectives from the neoliberal frontier. Springer.