Haniene Tayeb

Haniene Tayeb is a Research Assistant at the Life Course Centre. She previously worked with Professor Deborah Cobb-Clark and is currently working with Professor Stephen on the ARC-funded project Wealth Inequality in Australia: Sources and Solutions. She holds a Master of Economics from the University of Melbourne and a First Class Honours degree from the University of Sydney.

Haniene has a background in applied quantitative research, with experience across academic and policy-focused projects. She has also worked as a Research Officer at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (UNSW), contributing to research in the drug and alcohol space.

Her research interests are interdisciplinary, spanning economics, sociology, and criminology. She is particularly interested in how different methodological approaches can be combined to better understand complex social issues, and in producing research that is both analytically rigorous and grounded in real-world contexts.