Research Committee

Dr Paul Harrison (PhD) is Director of the MBA program and Co-Director of the Better Consumption Lab at the Deakin Business School, and Adjunct Professor at Universitá Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milano, Italy. Paul is also a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. His research, consulting, teaching, and writing informs businesses, public institutions, and social policy across a range of contexts, including consumer wellbeing, aged care, legal and regulatory environments, and public health/epidemiology through the examination of the effect of marketing and advertising on consumer behaviour, the psychology of emotional and rational behaviour, and the social aspects of consumption. Dr Harrison has advised or consulted to organisations such as Nestle, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, and eBay on issues related to consumer behaviour.

In addition to his academic work at Deakin University and his role on the CPRC Board, Paul is a member of the auDA Advisory Committee, a member of the AHPRA Rapid Regulatory Response Oversight Group, the Indigenous Respect Community of Practice at the Deakin Business School, recently retired director of the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman, former chair of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, and has been a member of VicHealth’s Expert Panel in SocialMarketing and the Nourish Network. Paul was co-host of ABC Radio National’s consumer behaviour program, Talking Shop, appeared on, and advised the ABC1 program, The Checkout, writes a regular column on Medium, and is heard monthly on ABC Radio Melbourne Evenings discussing consumer behaviour and consumer affairs issues.

Paul also sits CPRC’s Board serving as a conduit between the Research Committee and the Board.

Katharine Kemp is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney, and leads the UNSW Public Interest Law & Tech Initiative.  

Katharine’s research focuses on competition, data privacy and consumer protection regulation. She has published widely in these fields, including “Misuse of Market Power: Rationale and Reform” (Cambridge University Press), “Competition Law of South Africa” (LexisNexis) with PJ Sutherland, and numerous peer-reviewed journal articles. In 2023, she was awarded the Emerging Leader Award at the national Australian Financial Review Higher Education Awards.  

She also convenes and lectures the Data Privacy Law course; the postgraduate course, Financial Law and Regulation in the Age of Fintech; and Contracts at UNSW Law. 

Kayleen Manwaring is Associate Professor in the School of Private and Commercial Law at the Faculty of Law & Justice. Kayleen teaches law and technology, contract law, online content regulation, cyber security and corporations law. She has taught as a visitor at the University of Zurich and Kings College London. She is also currently the Director of Undergraduate Studies (Law) and serves on UNSW’s Academic Board. 

Her research concentrates on the intersection of sociotechnical change and private and commercial law, with a particular focus on challenges arising out of cyber-physical technologies. She focuses on the law of contract, consumer protection, intellectual property, and corporations law.  

Jeannie Marie Paterson teaches and researches in the areas of consumer protection and consumer banking law, and the regulation of emerging technologies. Her work focuses on themes of fairness, safety/reliability and accountability in consumer products, along with support for consumers experiencing vulnerability.

Jeannie is the co-director of the Centre for AI and Digital Ethics, and co-leader of the Digital Ethics research stream at the Melbourne Social Equity Institute. Jeannie is an affiliate researcher with the Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making and Society.

Brady Robards is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Arts at Monash University. He is a sociologist of youth, gender, sexuality, and digital cultures, with programs of research on social media use among young people, LGBTQ+ people, and in various collaborative research contexts including related to alcohol consumption, digital advertising, employment futures, and wellbeing.   

Brady is also the Co-Convenor (with Akane Kanai) of the Monash Digital Cultures Research Group. 

Eloise Zoppos is an applied academic and commercial researcher in the Australian Consumer and Retail Studies (ACRS) research unit, positioned in the Monash Business School’s Department of Marketing. She is also Senior Lecturer at Monash’s Department of Marketing. 

She specialises in retail and consumer behaviour research, with a particular focus on shopper trends, market performance, and the issues and opportunities faced by the global retail and services industries.