The Centre for Markets, Values and Inclusion is one of the largest research centres at UniSA, home to many world-leaders in their fields. We partner with industry, governments, not for profit organisations and educational institutions to provide evidence-based policy-solutions, market approaches and global frameworks for today’s local and global challenges.
Our Centre also includes two specialist centres – the Australian Alliance for Social Enterprise delivering innovative housing solutions for those in precarious housing situations and the UniSA Tax Clinic that offers advice, advocacy, representation and education for those in need.
The Centre for Markets, Values and Inclusion is:
Through our research, our vision is to create a world in which social and economic development is sustainable and inclusive of all in society. Our mission is to combine specialist skills and multidisciplinary perspectives to provide innovative and enterprising solutions that support inclusive and sustainable communities locally, nationally and internationally.
Accountability and Governance delivers accounting, governance and accountability research that drives solutions for complex sustainability problems globally.
Specialist accounting experts operate in interdisciplinary teams across the society sciences, engineering, and law to engage with industry, created leading edge, participant-oriented research, developing end-user defined policy and practical solutions for secure and safe communities and environments.
Members are working on, inter alia, sustainability accounting and reporting for achieving the UN's Sustainable Development Goals in the Indo-Pacific, integrating accounting and biophysical data for more sustainable agriculture and water management, more authentic integration of sustainability into corporate reporting, improving dialogue and policy around tax avoidance, and developing a compass to point business in the right direction on modern slavery.
The Resource Allocation and Management Stream of CMVI provides evidence-based research to inform decision-makers about policies and management options for using our scarce resources.
We specialize in identifying and measuring the impact of real-world choices on efficiency and equity. Our work covers local, regional, state, national and international settings and includes analysis of problems related to natural, human and financial resources.
The team uses economics policy and strategic analysis to complement the perspectives brought by other sciences.
We partner with government, business and not-for-profit organizations to address important real-world challenges and contribute towards sustainable and equitable development.
Examples of areas of work include:
Our researchers work with, and for, economically and socially marginalised segments of the community, and the organisations that support them. We provide evidence to underpin transformations in policy and practice in the pursuit of making a valued difference to people’s lives and to create a more inclusive future.
Researchers in this steam work with interdisciplinary teams across a range of topics including, understanding Australia’s changing population, the interaction between people and the built environment, housing supply and housing need including homelessness, community development, disability, the needs of migrant communities, indigenous wellbeing and the development and understanding of innovative networks and social enterprise.
The Policy and Regulation stream provides expertise in economics, finance, justice and society to provide critical analysis of nationally and globally important challenges at the interface of business, markets, society and the economy. We deliver and positively contribute to debates on the optimal design and effects of policy and regulation that impact each of these areas.
Our expertise includes behavioural finance, banking systems in emerging economies, capital markets, corporate finance, corporate social responsibility, financial planning, market microstructure, mathematical finance and corporate and commercial law. The focus of the Policy and Regulation stream is on identifying trends and finding positive solutions to these and other contemporary socio-economic challenges.