Associate Professor Sue Olney is the UoM-BSL Principal Research Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. Her work examines market-based reform of public services, with a focus on disability services and employment services. Her research on services and supports available to people with disability of working age outside the NDIS, conducted in partnership with the Brotherhood of St. Laurence, was cited in the final reports of both the Disability Royal Commission and the NDIS Review in 2023. Sue has worked in universities, government and in the not-for-profit sector, and been involved in a range of cross-government, cross-sector and interdisciplinary research projects, government and community sector initiatives, committees and working groups to promote access and equity in employment, education, training and disability services in Australia and internationally. She is on the editorial board of the Australian Journal of Public Administration and is the Director of the social policy discussion platform Power to Persuade.