Associate Professor Susan St John QSO

Susan is a founding member of CPAG, and a nationally renowned researcher and commentator on child and family poverty. She teaches part-time in the Economics Department, University of Auckland, where she is also co-director of the Retirement Policy and Research Centre.

She has an extensive track record of articles and presentations. Publications in family policy include New Zealand's financial assistance for poor children: Are work incentives the answer? in a special 2006 child poverty edition of the European Journal of Social Security;  and with fellow CPAG member Claire Dale,  The New Zealand experience of child-based work incentives, European Journal of Social Security 12,(3) Studies Quarterly Review, 2010, and Evidence-based Evaluation: Working for Families, Institute of Policy Studies Quarterly Review, February 2012.

Susan is co-editor of CPAG's cornerstone reports Left further behind (2010) and Left Behind: How social and income inequalities damage NZ children (2008), co-author of other CPAG material including Cut Price Kids: Does the 2004 Working for Families' Budget work for children? and Our Children: The Priority for Policy (2001, 2003). She was co-editor of Redesigning the Welfare State in New Zealand: Problems, Policies Prospects,  Oxford University Press (1999), Dalziel P, Boston, J. and St John, S (eds).