Dr. Meg Elkins
Senior Lecturer
Details
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College: Economics Finance & Marketing
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Department: Economics Finance & Marketing
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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meg.elkins@rmit.edu.au
Open to
- Media enquiries
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Meg is a behavioural and applied economist with research interests in information biases and community wellbeing.
She is a passionate and innovative educator with strong industry links.
Meg is a behavioural and applied economist with research interests in both societal and cultural economics. Her research links economic impacts and how our information biases impact decision making. Further areas of interest are artists’ livelihoods, street performers, social protection, poverty reduction, and well-being. She has led a research team evaluating the economic impact of the arts investment for the City of Melbourne and was the inaugural research leader for the Placemaking Economics Group.
Meg is a member of the Behavioural Business Lab and the Centre for International Development. She is a regular commentator for TV, radio and print on behavioural issues and decision-making processes. For TV she has appeared on 7News, nine news, SBS World News. In radio on ABC Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Illawarra, South East NSW, 3AW, Gold Central Victoria, RNZ, JoyFM, 5CC, HIT92.9, 2NM, 4GY, 2CC & 2EL. In print, she has opinion and commentary pieces in The Age, Herald Sun, News.com, ABC Life, Yahoo Finance, BBC News and Melbourne Magazine.
She is an innovative and passionate educator who is driven to achieve excellent outcomes for her students. She was also the program leader for the economics, and finance program from 2017-2018. Her teaching has received many University awards. She has collaborated on meaningful industry challenges with high profile industry partners such as ASIC, ATEC Global Research Centre, and the multi-award-winning sustainability group Finding Infinity. She has also been an assessor Australian Awards University Teaching Excellence Panel.
Industry experience:
2020: The Busking Project - Creative industry platform
2016 - 2017: City of Melbourne - Arts Strategy Team
1990 - 2013: Actor in various roles
-Television Series - MDA, Neighbours, Stingers, Blue Heelers, Country Practice, Simon DeBeauvoir's Babies, Australia's Most Wanted
-Movies - Hoorah, The Dish
-TVC Westpac, Carpet Court, K-Mart
Awards:
2022:
-Learning and Teaching Partnerships Award, COBL RMIT University 2022
-Media Star RMIT COBL Top Performer, 2022 RMIT University
2021:
RMIT University Rising Media Star 2021
2020:
RMIT Univeristy Media Star RMIT COBL Top Performer 2020
2017:
RMIT University School of Economics, Finance and Marketing: Individual Teaching and Learning Excellence Award, November 2017
2016:
Nominated for the National Award from the Office of Learning and Teaching: Teaching Excellence Award for Law, Economics, Business and Related Studies for 2016
2015:
-RMIT University Teaching Excellence: Higher Education College of Business, November 2015
-RMIT School of Economics, Finance and Marketing: Individual Teaching and Learning Excellence Award, November 2015
-RMIT School of Economics, Finance and Marketing: Individual Teaching and Learning Award, November 2015
2014:
-RMIT School of Economics, Finance and Marketing: Collaborative Teaching and Learning Award, November 2014
-RMIT School of Economics, Finance and Marketing: Runner-up Early Career Researcher of the Year, November 2014
-RMIT College of Business: Runner-up 3-minute Presentation. October 2014
2012:
-Monash Graduate Students Conference in Economics, Best PhD Student Presentation, October 2012
She is a passionate and innovative educator with strong industry links.
Meg is a behavioural and applied economist with research interests in both societal and cultural economics. Her research links economic impacts and how our information biases impact decision making. Further areas of interest are artists’ livelihoods, street performers, social protection, poverty reduction, and well-being. She has led a research team evaluating the economic impact of the arts investment for the City of Melbourne and was the inaugural research leader for the Placemaking Economics Group.
Meg is a member of the Behavioural Business Lab and the Centre for International Development. She is a regular commentator for TV, radio and print on behavioural issues and decision-making processes. For TV she has appeared on 7News, nine news, SBS World News. In radio on ABC Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Illawarra, South East NSW, 3AW, Gold Central Victoria, RNZ, JoyFM, 5CC, HIT92.9, 2NM, 4GY, 2CC & 2EL. In print, she has opinion and commentary pieces in The Age, Herald Sun, News.com, ABC Life, Yahoo Finance, BBC News and Melbourne Magazine.
She is an innovative and passionate educator who is driven to achieve excellent outcomes for her students. She was also the program leader for the economics, and finance program from 2017-2018. Her teaching has received many University awards. She has collaborated on meaningful industry challenges with high profile industry partners such as ASIC, ATEC Global Research Centre, and the multi-award-winning sustainability group Finding Infinity. She has also been an assessor Australian Awards University Teaching Excellence Panel.
Industry experience:
2020: The Busking Project - Creative industry platform
2016 - 2017: City of Melbourne - Arts Strategy Team
1990 - 2013: Actor in various roles
-Television Series - MDA, Neighbours, Stingers, Blue Heelers, Country Practice, Simon DeBeauvoir's Babies, Australia's Most Wanted
-Movies - Hoorah, The Dish
-TVC Westpac, Carpet Court, K-Mart
Awards:
2022:
-Learning and Teaching Partnerships Award, COBL RMIT University 2022
-Media Star RMIT COBL Top Performer, 2022 RMIT University
2021:
RMIT University Rising Media Star 2021
2020:
RMIT Univeristy Media Star RMIT COBL Top Performer 2020
2017:
RMIT University School of Economics, Finance and Marketing: Individual Teaching and Learning Excellence Award, November 2017
2016:
Nominated for the National Award from the Office of Learning and Teaching: Teaching Excellence Award for Law, Economics, Business and Related Studies for 2016
2015:
-RMIT University Teaching Excellence: Higher Education College of Business, November 2015
-RMIT School of Economics, Finance and Marketing: Individual Teaching and Learning Excellence Award, November 2015
-RMIT School of Economics, Finance and Marketing: Individual Teaching and Learning Award, November 2015
2014:
-RMIT School of Economics, Finance and Marketing: Collaborative Teaching and Learning Award, November 2014
-RMIT School of Economics, Finance and Marketing: Runner-up Early Career Researcher of the Year, November 2014
-RMIT College of Business: Runner-up 3-minute Presentation. October 2014
2012:
-Monash Graduate Students Conference in Economics, Best PhD Student Presentation, October 2012
Supervisor projects
- Air Pollution, Socioeconomic Status, and Hospital Emergency Visits: An Empirical Analysis in Victoria, Australia
- 1 Dec 2023
- Impact of Temperature Variations on Human Behaviour and Cognition
- 27 Jan 2021
- The Effect of Government of Pakistan¿s Common Facility Centre (CFC) Program on Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Competitiveness: The Role of SMEs' Dynamic Capabilities
- 8 Aug 2016
Teaching interests
Supervisor interest areas:
-Behavioural economics
-Experiments
-Information biases
-Culture and the arts
-Poverty and wellbeing
Supervisor projects:
-Khuram Shazhad: PhD Completed February 2020
“The Effect of Common Facility Centre (CFC) Program on SMEs’ Competitiveness in Pakistan: The Moderating Role of Dynamic Capabilities” – VC Scholarship Recipient – with Supervisors Pia Arenius and Afreen Huc
-Harris Mazari: PhD expected Completion expected December 2022
The relationship between psychological factors and economic and social integration of refugees in Australia with Lisa Farrell and Sefa Awaworyi Churchill
-Summera Maqbool Abbasi Abbasi Expected December 2023
Temperature Shocks and Domestic Violence with Lisa Farrell and Sefa Awaworyi Churchill
Programs
-Bachelor of Business
(https://www.rmit.edu.au/study-with-us/business)
-Behavioural economics
-Experiments
-Information biases
-Culture and the arts
-Poverty and wellbeing
Supervisor projects:
-Khuram Shazhad: PhD Completed February 2020
“The Effect of Common Facility Centre (CFC) Program on SMEs’ Competitiveness in Pakistan: The Moderating Role of Dynamic Capabilities” – VC Scholarship Recipient – with Supervisors Pia Arenius and Afreen Huc
-Harris Mazari: PhD expected Completion expected December 2022
The relationship between psychological factors and economic and social integration of refugees in Australia with Lisa Farrell and Sefa Awaworyi Churchill
-Summera Maqbool Abbasi Abbasi Expected December 2023
Temperature Shocks and Domestic Violence with Lisa Farrell and Sefa Awaworyi Churchill
Programs
-Bachelor of Business
(https://www.rmit.edu.au/study-with-us/business)
Research interests
Meg's research is across three areas: information biases, culture and the arts and societal development. In the area of information biases, she is investigating conspiracy theories and their impacts on decision making. For the arts, she explores artists' livelihoods with busking, community development through the arts, and volunteering. In development, she investigated social protection, homelessness and poverty and wellbeing.
Research keywords:
Behavioural Economics, Arts and Culture, Information Bias, Social Protection, Wellbeing
Research keywords:
Behavioural Economics, Arts and Culture, Information Bias, Social Protection, Wellbeing
