Rate My Professor Shaun Wilson

Wilson has been Chief Investigator on multiple Australian Research Council Discovery Projects, including 'Survival & Wellbeing among Migrant Precariat in Australia’s Gig Economy' (2023–2026) with Raj Velayutham, Amanda Wise, Nick Harrigan, and Norbert Ebert, and 'The experience of precarious housing among international students' (2019–2021) with Alan Morris, Gaby Ramia, Emma Mitchell, and Catherine Hastings. His monograph Living Wages and the Welfare State: The Anglo-American Social Model in Transition was published by Policy Press in 2021. A book on the global living wages movement is under contract with Cambridge University Press's Contentious Politics series. Key recent publications include 'Voiceless: Division, Distrust and Discrimination at the 2023 Voice Referendum' (Australian Journal of Social Issues, 2025, with Shaun Ratcliff), 'Populist by a Distance: A Relational Framework for Unifying Ideology, Rhetoric, and Leadership Style in Populism Studies' (Journal of Political Ideologies, 2025, with Nick Turnbull and J. Atkins), 'Crowded House: Accommodation Precarity and Self-Reported Academic Performance of International Students' (Compare, 2024, with Catherine Hastings et al.), and 'Do People Sincerely Believe Conspiracy Theories that They Endorse?' (Collabra: Psychology, 2026, with Robert M. Ross et al.). He has supervised PhD and Masters students including Catherine Hastings, Vikas Arya, Charlotte Overgaard, and others who have taken academic positions internationally. Wilson holds an Honorary Professorship in the School of Communication, Society and Culture and is a Fellow of the Centre for Future Work.