My interests are employment services, welfare conditionliaty and the digital welfare state. I hope to contribute to the development of more ethical social policy by producing evidence and analysis about how the privatised employment services model has been working, and how changes to the administration of mutual obigation policy affect people.
Casey, Simone; Beyond job‐search theory: A value pluralist approach to conditionality in Australian employment services Australian Journal of Social Issues 2024
Casey, Simone; Single mothers and resistance to welfare-to-work: A Bourdieusian account Journal of Sociology 59 333-348 2023
Casey, Simone; " Job seeker" experiences of punitive activation in Job Services Australia Australian Journal of Social Issues 57 847-860 2022
Casey, Simone Jane; Towards digital dole parole: A review of digital self‐service initiatives in Australian employment services Australian Journal of Social Issues 57 111-124 2022
Casey, Simone; Voices 2: results of a survey of people who used Jobactive 2022 2022
Casey, Simone; Back to the future: coercive conditionality in the jobactive era Australian Journal of Labour Economics 25 Jan-24 2022
O’Halloran, David; Thomacos, Nikos; Casey, Simone; Farnworth, Louise; A secondary analysis to develop a scale for measuring unemployed workers’ experiences of Australian employment services Work 70 805-813 2021
Casey, Simone; At what cost? Getting back to Jobactive Per Capita Briefing Paper 2020
Casey, Simone; Mutual obligation after COVID-19: the work for the dole time bomb 2020
Casey, Simone; Lewis, Abigail; Redesigning employment services after COVID-19 2020
Casey, Simone; A Bourdieusian analysis of employment services workers in an era of Workfirst Social Policy & Administration 53 1018-1029 2019
Sessional tutoring
2021 - 4th year social work researhc project
2019 - Self Identify and agency
Acknowledgement of Country
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.