CEET Staff

Damon Anderson
Damon Anderson is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Education and researcher with both CWALS (Centre for Work and Learning Studies) and CEET. He has expertise in policy analysis and program evaluation. Much of Damon's current work focuses on markets in vocational education and training. He has also published widely on topics including participation and equity, new apprenticeships and user choice, youth unemployment, lifelong learning and sustainable development.
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Gerald Burke
Professor Gerald Burke is full-time executive director of CEET. He has written extensively on finance, participation in education and training and on education and employment.  Gerald is also Chair of the Victorian Qualifications Authority and ex-officio, a member of the Victorian Learning and Employment Skills Commission and the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority.
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Richard Cooney
Richard Cooney is a research fellow at CEET and lecturer in the Department of Management, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University. Richard is co-convenor of the Conference on Training, Employability & Employment (CTEE) and he has considerable experience in human resource management and training especially in the motor vehicle industry. Richard's recent work has been on training in inter-firm networks, group training arrangements and training for team development in the motor vehicle industry.
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Fran Ferrier
Fran Ferrier is a full time senior research fellow in CEET and has been with the Centre since 1993. Her work includes studies of User Choice, women and VET, the measurement and management of intellectual capital, the implications for VET of emerging products and industries and youth volunteering. Fran is Vice-President of the Australian VET Research Association (AVETRA) and has recently returned to Melbourne after working in London and the UK for an extended period.
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Michael Long
Mike Long is a senior research fellow who has been with CEET full-time since 1998. He came to CEET from ACER. Mike recently completed a study with the Dusseldorp Skills forum on How Young People are Faring and is currently working on a project for DEST looking at the attrition rates of first year students at university.  Previously he has completed a study on the affordability of Catholic schooling and also reviewed the implications of fees and loans for VET students. Mike has also has analysed youth participation in workplace training, completed a national survey of student finance in higher education and made analyses of the major data bases on training and employment including LSAY, AWIRS and SET. With Amanda Crichton he organises CEET's national conference.
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Leo Maglen

Phillip McKenzie
Dr Phillip McKenzie is a Director of CEET and the Research Director of the Transitions and Economics of Education research program at the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER).

He commenced his career in education as a secondary school teacher before being awarded a fellowship for post-graduate studies in the economics of education at Monash University. His MEd thesis was on the efficiency and equity implications of recurrent education, and his PhD analysed the economics of secondary school size. He has worked on a wide variety of research projects on the costs, financing and labour market outcomes of education and training, and education policy issues.  From 1984 to 1989 he was Editor of the Australian Education Review series, and in 1991-92 was Executive Officer of the Strategic Review of Research in Education. He was a member of the Prime Minister’s Youth Pathways Action Plan Taskforce in 1999 and 2000.

From 1996 to 1998, and from 2002 to 2004, he was seconded to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris, where he worked on major multi-country studies concerned with the Transition from Initial Education to Working Life (1996-98) and Attracting, Developing and Retaining Effective Teachers (2002-04).  In 2002 and 2003 he was Editor of the OECD’s annual Education Policy Analysis series.
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Peter Noonan
Peter Noonan is an Associate of CEET and of the Faculty of Education, Monash University.
He undertakes consultancies on a wide range of issues in education and training. Until 2002 Peter was Director of the Department of Employment and Training in Queensland. He is former General Manager and acting CEO of the Australian National Training Authority. Peter has undertaken several projects with CEET and as presented papers at the last two CEET conference.
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Sue North
Sue North has been appointed as a research fellow at CEET.  She has a PhD (Communication) and a Bachelor of Communication with first class honours.  She has experience with quantitative and qualitative research and has recently undertaken a national survey as a research fellow on an ARC Discovery Grant project titled 'Being digital in school, home and community'.  Sue had worked for an extended period in the hospitality industry before undertaking university studies.

Chandra Shah
Dr Chandra Shah is a full-time senior research fellow who joined CEET in 1995. His work includes labour market analyses occupational job turnover and mobility; skills shortages; skilled migration; and forecasting job openings for new entrants) and analysis of student completion and withdrawal rates from TAFE and higher education courses. Chandra made the first comprehensive quantitative analysis of job openings arising as a result of job mobility in Australia. He manages the seminar programmes for CEET and the Faculty of Education.
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Julian Teicher
 Professor Julian Teicher is an Associate of CEET, Director of the Graduate School of Business and Head of the Department of Management, Monash University. Julian is a specialist in industrial relations and has undertaken studies of employer provided training and industrial agreements involving training.
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Paul White
Paul White was formerly a senior officer of the Victorian Department of Education with special responsibility for finance and strategic planning. With CEET he has undertaken studies of price measures in education, international policy developments relating to equity and the funding of schooling.
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