Meg Elkins

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. She is particularly interesting in the economics of those on the fringes. 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 . She is a regular commentator for TV, radio and print on economic issues of the day. issues and decision-making processes. For TV she has appeared on 7News, Nine News, SBS World News. In radio on ABC Melbourne, BBC,  Radio National, 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, The Financial Review,  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 currently has design and leads the Graduate Business Portfolio, the capstone unit for all students in the Bachelor of Business Program.  She was also the program leader for the economics and finance program from 2017-2020.  Her teaching has received many University awards. She has collaborated on meaningful industry challenges with high profile industry partners such as IBM  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 in 2018

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:

2024: 

Media Star RMIT COBL  RMIT University

Economics, Finance and Marketing Teaching Excellence Award

2023 

Media Star RMIT COBL - Top Performer

2022:
-Learning and Teaching Partnerships Award, COBL RMIT University 
-Media Star RMIT COBL Top Performer,  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