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Biography
Ashley is a Braithwaite Fellow in the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) and Deputy Director of the Australian Research Centre for Health Equity (ARCHE).
Her programme of research focuses on how actors, structures, and ideas operate across various public policy domains and private business practices to progress understanding of the ways in which shifts in the rules, norms, power dynamics, and resource flows that stratify society ultimately shape social and health inequities.
She has made significant contributions to knowledge of how economic instruments – international trade and investment agreements – shape the social and commercial determinants of health. More recently, her research programme has focused on how Australian investment policy and practice shapes food systems and socioeconomic inequities in wealth and diet-related health outcomes; alongside leading research on the social construction of privilege as the intervening mechanism by which policies and practices entrench inequity in social systems.
Available Projects:
I am always eager to hear from potential Masters and PhD students who have an interest in working on projects in the following areas:
- studies of the production of structural inequities and the maldistirbution of socioeconomic advantage related to human health
- studies of food systems governance related to investors and investments; as well as the growing agtech industry, including the role of finance in advancing agtech
- studies of investment policy and practice in Australia and the Asia-Pacific, particularly those with a focus on the governance of, and social outcomes of, impact investment and other social financing (e.g., social impact bonds)
Research interests
- the production of social and health inequities
- privilege and the distribution of socioeconomic advantage
- food systems governance
- investment governance
- public policy
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Network (past 5 years)
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Safeguarding health in International Investment Agreements
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
11/05/23 → 31/12/24
Project: Research
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Evaluating Systems Change for Health Equity: A Case Study of Australias COVID-19 Policy Response
Schram, A., Friel, S., Harris, P. & Townsend, B.
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
1/06/22 → 31/05/25
Project: Research
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An analysis of the food environment in Canada: INFORMAS Canada ext-led
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
1/04/22 → 31/03/24
Project: Research
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Governing harmful commodities: the case of ultra-processed foods
Friel, S., Collin, J., Huckel Schneider, C. J., Phulkerd, S., Schram, A., Thow, A. M. & Wate, J.
Australian Research Council (ARC)
11/06/19 → 31/12/23
Project: Research
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Chapter D2: Shifting playing fields how new trade treaties govern governments
Labonte, R., Schram, A. & Townsend, B., 2022, Global Health 6: In the Shadow of the Pandemic. Australia: Bloomsbury Publishing, p. 339-368Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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How commercial actors used different types of power to influence policy on restricting food marketing: a qualitative study with policy actors in Thailand
Phulkerd, S., Collin, J., Ngqangashe, Y., Thow, A. M., Schram, A., Huckel-Schneider, C. & Friel, S., 2022, In: BMJ Open. 12, 10, p. 1-9Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Interdisciplinary insights on the future of food systems research: Perspectives from the next generation of research leaders
Russell, C., Schram, A., Salmon, L., Carrad, A., Barbour, L., Lacy-Nichols, J., Huse, O., Machado, P., Gilbert, J., Zorbas, C. & Thompson, C., 2022, In: Public Health Nutrition. 25, 11, p. 3235-3239Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Moving from silos to synergies: strengthening governance of food marketing policy in Thailand
Phulkerd, S., Ngqangashe, Y., Collin, J., Thow, A. M., Schram, A., Huckel-Schneider, C. & Friel, S., 2022, In: Globalization and Health. 18, p. 9Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Promoting action on structural drivers of health inequity: principles for policy evaluation
Schram, A., Townsend, B., Mackean, T., Freeman, T., Fisher, M., Harris, P., Whitehead, M., van Eyk, H., Baum, F. & Friel, S., 2022, In: Evidence and Policy: a journal of research, debate and practice. 18, 4, p. 1-15Research output: Contribution to journal › Article