In 2012, Agnieszka was awarded the Sir Roland Wilson Foundation PhD Scholarship. Her thesis—a quantitative enquiry into the impact of welfare conditionality on youth disengaged from education, training and the labour market—seeks to understand the effectiveness of recent welfare reform initiatives in Australia. Specifically, Agnieszka is using survival analysis and government longitudinal administrative data to examine the effects of recent policy initiatives on welfare exits among different treatment and comparison groups. Before joining ANU, Agnieszka was employed by the Department of Social Services (DSS) as director of evaluations where she led a team of researchers managing major social policy evaluations. She has previously held a senior research officer position at the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling (NATSEM). She is a fellow at the Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University.

Thesis Topic:

Income Support Dynamics of Vulnerable Young Australians between 2000 and 2013, in the context of economic and policy changes over that time: Evidence from Administrative Longitudinal Data