Rate My Professor Jacob Broom

Dr Jacob Broom is a Lecturer in Politics and Policy in the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Murdoch University, where he also holds a fellowship with the Indo-Pacific Research Centre. As an Early Career Researcher, his work focuses on the intersections of political economy and public policy, particularly the financialization of policy processes through instruments like social impact bonds. Broom completed his PhD in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Western Australia. His doctoral research culminated in the thesis "Financialisation of policy life: Mobility, calculation, politics, and power in the Australian social impact bond landscape," which investigates the dynamics of policy mobility, calculation, and power in the Australian context.

Broom has published extensively on these themes. His key journal articles include "Social impact bonds and fast policy: Analyzing the Australian experience" (Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 2021), which examines fast policy adoption in Australia; "Networks of knowledge production and mobility in the world of social impact bonds" (New Political Economy, 2022); and "Policy, fast and slow: Social impact bonds and the differential temporalities of mobile policy" (2022). Recent works feature "Financializing political rationality: social impact bonds and the financialization of the policy process" (Review of International Political Economy, 2025) and co-authored pieces on scalecraft in education policy (2026). He contributed the chapter "Western Australia" to the edited volume Australian Politics and Policy (2026). Additionally, Broom collaborates on public-facing scholarship, including op-eds in The Conversation analyzing Western Australian election themes and cryptocurrency policies. He supervises doctoral students on topics such as governance in not-for-profit organizations and participates in university panels and events discussing contemporary political issues, thereby contributing to discourse in Australian political studies.