Dr Trish Hill

Overview

Trish Hill (BA Hons, Murdoch, PhD Economics, UNSW) is a Senior Research Fellow. Her research encompasses feminist economic analyses in the fields of poverty and inequality, informal care across the lifecourse, social inclusion and exclusion, time-use and work-care balance. She was awarded an Australian Government Office for Women Time Use Fellowship (2004-05) to undertake analysis incorporating time use into measures of wellbeing and a British Academy Visiting Fellowship (2007-08) to develop conceptual frameworks for understanding the impact of time use on wellbeing. She has extensive experience in the application of quantitative research techniques to a wide range of ABS household surveys, including socio-demographic mapping techniques, and has undertaken a wide range of research projects funded by the Australian Research Council and commissioned by governments and NGOs. She is currently a Chief Investigator on an Australian Research Council Linkage Grant (2012-2014) entitled Carers and social inclusion: New frameworks, evidence and policy lessons.

Research Summary

Research interests include informal care across the lifecourse, concepts and measures of living standards, wage inequality and labour markets, incorporating time use into measures of living standards and economic models, carers and employment, carers and community service use, feminist economics, tax-transfer policy and gender issues in social policy.

Teaching

HDR Supervision: Dr Trish Hill has an interest in supervising higher degree research candidates in the fields of gender and social policy, feminist economics, poverty and living standards, wage inequality, and informal carers. Dr Hill is currently supervising Inara Walden and Cathy Thomson.

Publications

Recent Journal Articles and Book Chapters
Smyth, C., Cass, B., and Hill, T., 'Children and young people as active agents in care-giving: agency and constraint', Children and Youth Services Review, available online Jun 2, 2010, DOI:10.1016/j.childyouth.2010.05.009.

Hill T. (2009), 'Time use, gender and disadvantage in Australia: conventional income and "full income" approaches to estimation', The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 20 (1), 13-34.

Hill, T., Thomson, C., Bittman, M. and Griffiths, M. (2008) 'What kinds of jobs help carers combine care and employment?', Family Matters, 80, 27-32.

Saunders, P. and Hill, T. (2008), 'A consistent poverty approach to assessing the sensitivity of income poverty measures and trends', Australian Economic Review, 41(4), 371-388.

Saunders, P. and Hill, T. (2008) 'Mr Howard and the Gini Coefficient', Dialogue: The journal of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, 27(1), 49-58.

Chalmers, J. and Hill, T. (2007), 'Marginalising women in the labour market: the "wage scarring" effects of part-time work', Australian Bulletin of Labour, 33(2), 180-201.

Hill, T., Fisher, K., Thomson, C. and Bittman, M., (2007), 'Caregivers and community service non-use in Australia', in Paoletti, I. (ed), Family Caregiving of Older Disabled People: Relational and Institutional Issues, Nova Science, New York, 359-392.

Bittman, M., Hill, T. and Thomson, C. (2007), 'The impact of caring on informal carer's employment, income and earnings: a longitudinal approach', Australian Journal of Social Issues, 42 (2), 255-272.

Bittman, M., Fisher, K. Hill, T. and Thomson, C. (2005), 'The time cost of care', eIJTUR: electronic International Journal of Time Use Research, 2 (1), 54-66.

Recent Reports
Cass, B., Smyth, C., Hill, T., Blaxland, M., Hamilton, M., (2009) 'Young carers in Australia:understanding the advantages and disadvantages of their care giving', Social Policy Research Paper No. 38, Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Canberra.

Hill, T., Smyth, C., Thomson, C. and Cass, B. (2009), Young Carers: Their Characteristics and Geographical Distribution (PDF), Report Prepared for the National Youth Affairs Research Scheme (NYARS), Canberra.

Thomson, C., Hill, T., Griffiths, M. and Bittman, M., Negotiating Caring and Employment, Final Report for ARC Linkage Project, Social Policy Research Centre, Sydney.

Saunders, P., Hill, T. and B. Bradbury (2008) Poverty in Australia: sensitivity analysis and trends (PDF), report commissioned by Jobs Australia on Behalf of the Australian Council of Social Service, March 2008. SPRC Reports 4/08.

Cass, B., Smyth, C., Hill, T. and Blaxland, M. (2008), "More people should know what good jobs carers do!"; The Costs and Benefits of Care: Considering the case of young carers - Final report to FaHCSIA, Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW, Sydney.

Bittman, M., Fisher, K., Hill, T., Thompson, D. and Thomson, C. (2004), Identifying Isolated Carers: Contacting Carers with Unmet Needs for Information and Support - Final Report for ARC Linkage Project, Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW, Sydney.

Recent Conference Papers
Hill, T. and Thomson. C (2008), 'Young Carers: their Characteristics and Geographical Distribution', paper presented at the Young Carers in Global Context Workshop, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 2 December.

Hill, T., Thomson, C., Bittman, M. and Griffiths, M. (2008), 'What kinds of jobs help carers balance care and employment?', paper presented at 10th Australian Institute of Family Studies Conference - Families Through Life, Melbourne 9-11 July.

Thomson, C., Hill, T., Bittman, M. and Griffiths, M. (2008), 'What formal support services do employed carers need?'; paper presented at the 10th Australian Institute of Family Studies Conference - Families Through Life, Melbourne 9-11 July.

Hill, T., Thomson, C., Bittman, M. and Griffiths, M. (2008), 'Informal care, employment and economic disadvantage', paper presented at Workshop on Social Care (formal, informal and semi-formal) for people with a disability and frail aged people: Perspectives from Australia, Scandinavia, Canada and the UK, Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 18-19 February.

Hill, T. (2007), 'Within Household Inequalities and Time Use' paper presented at the International Association For Feminist Economics (IAFFE) Conference, Bangkok, 30 June.

Hill, T., Thomson, C., Bittman, M. and Griffiths, M. (2007), 'Informal Care and Economic Disadvantage: Two measures' paper presented at the International Association For Feminist Economics (IAFFE) Conference, Bangkok, 29 June.

Thomson, C., valentine, k., Chan, S. and Hill, T. (2007), 'Part-time work and academic careers: opportunities and constraints'; paper presented at the Australian Social Policy Conference, Sydney, July.