REGULATING COMSUMPATGENIC SYSTEMS

An Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia Workshop

JULY 30–31 2018

Drawing Room, University House Australian National University

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Convenors

Sharon Friel, Director, Professor, School of Regulation and Global Governance, ANU

Valerie Braithwaite, Professor, School of Regulation and Global Governance, ANU

Ashley Schram, Research Fellow, School of Regulation and Global Governance, ANU

Acknowledgements We would like to thank the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and the School of Regulation and Global Governance at the Australian National University for the funding to make this workshop possible.

We acknowledge and celebrate the First Australians on whose traditional lands we meet, and pay our respect to the elders of the Ngunnawal people past, present and emerging.

We would also like to thank Ryan Wong, Sharni Goldman, and Deborah Cleland for their contributions to this event.

“What do you get the man who has everything? Might I suggest a gravestone enscribed with the words: so what?” ~ Banksy

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Agenda DAY 1

07:00 – 09:00 Out of town attendees Continental Breakfast @ Fellows Cafe and Bar at University House

Welcome, workshop aims, and participant introductions 09:00 – 10:00 (Drawing Room, University House)

Session 1: What are the consumptagenic challenges for society? Chair: Ashley Schram 10:00 – 11:00 Speaker: Sharon Friel (20 mins) Discussants: Fran Baum (10 mins) and Rebecca Colvin (10mins) Group Discussion (20 mins)

11:00 – 11:30 MORNING TEA

Session 2: Psychosocial theories of consumption and regulatory responses Chair: Sharon Friel 11:30 – 12:30 Speakers: Valerie Braithwaite (15 mins) and Jolanda Jetten (15 mins) Discussants: Annet Hoek (5 mins) and Anthea Roberts (5 mins) Group Discussion (20 mins)

Session 3: Political theories of consumption and regulatory responses Chair: Belinda Townsend 12:30 – 13:30 Speakers: Susan Sell (15 mins) and Wesley Widmaier (15 mins) Discussants: John Braithwaite (5 mins) and Christian Downie (5 mins) Group Discussion (20 mins)

13:30 – 14:30 LUNCH

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Session 4: Economic and market theories of consumption and regulatory responses Chair: Anthea Roberts 14:30 – 15:30 Speakers: Michal Carrington (15 mins) and Richard Denniss (15 mins) Discussants: Jon Altman (5 mins) and Peter Miller (5 mins) Group Discussion (20 mins)

Session 5: Case studies in regulating consumption for health Chair: Valerie Braithwaite 15:30 – 16:30 Speakers: Peter Miller (15 mins) and Ashley Schram (15 mins) Discussants: Steven Allender (5 mins) and Paula O’Brien (5 mins) Group Discussion (20 mins) RW

16:30 – 16:45 Reflections from Day 1 and Closing Remarks

18:30 – 20:30 Dinner @ Parlour (New Acton Precinct, Canberra)

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Agenda DAY 2 Out of town attendees 07:00 – 09:00 Continental Breakfast @ Fellows Cafe and Bar at University House

Session 6: Case studies in regulating consumption for climate change Chair: Susan Sell 09:00 – 10:00 Speakers: Christian Downie (15 mins) and Christine Parker (15 mins) Discussants: Patrick Harris (5 mins) and Mark Howden (5 mins) Group Discussion (20 mins)

Session 7: Case studies in regulating consumption for equity Chair: Rebecca Colvin 10:00 – 11:00 Speakers: Jon Altman (15 mins) and Fran Baum (15 mins) Discussants: Steven Allender (5 mins) and Belinda Townsend (5 mins) Group Discussion (20 mins)

11:00 – 11:30 MORNING TEA

Session 8: Big picture regulatory ideas for consumption Chair: Sharon Friel 11:30 – 13:00 Speaker: John Braithwaite (30 mins) Respondents: Fiona Haines (10 mins), Anthea Roberts (10 mins) Group Discussion (30 mins)

13:00 – 14:00 LUNCH

Session 9: Transforming consumptagenic systems and 14:00 – 16:00 societies

16:00 – 16:15 Reflections from Day 2 and Closing Remarks

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Participant List

Steven Allender (Deakin University) Jon Altman (Deakin University) Fran Baum (Flinders University) John Braithwaite (Australian National University) Valerie Braithwaite (Australian National University) Michal Carrington (University of Melbourne) Rebecca Colvin (Australian National University) Richard Denniss (The Australia Institute) Christian Downie (Australian National University) Sharon Friel (Australian National University) Fiona Haines (University of Melbourne) Patrick Harris (University of Sydney) Annet Hoek (Monash University) Jolanda Jetten (University of Queensland) Peter Miller (Deakin University) Paula O'Brien (University of Melbourne) Christine Parker (University of Melbourne) Anthea Roberts (Australian National University) Ashley Schram (Australian National University) Susan Sell (Australian National University) Belinda Townsend (Australian National University) Wesley Widmaier (Australian National University)

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STEVEN ALLENDER

Dr Steven Allender is Professor of Public Health and founding Director of the Global Obesity Centre at Deakin University, a World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Obesity Prevention. Steve leads (CIA) a NHMRC Partnership grant targeting childhood obesity and co‐leads (CID) an NHMRC Australian Centre for Research Excellence in Obesity Policy Research and Food Systems. Steve receives lead investigator funding from bodies including the US National Institutes of Health, National Health and Medical Research Council, the Australian Heart Foundation, VicHealth, the Western Alliance and the European Union. Steve has recently completed a jointly funded National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)/ Australian Heart Foundation Career Development Fellowship. Steve has an ongoing programme of research on solving complex problems with a focus on the burden of chronic disease and obesity prevention. Recent work has seen a particular interest in the emerging burden of chronic disease in developed and developing countries and the possibilities for using complex systems approaches for community based intervention.

What research are you currently engaged in that you think is relevant to regulating consumption in the context of health, the environment, or social equity?

 Multiple large trials of building capacity to apply systems thinking for community based interventions to prevent obesity.  Heritage for health – building capacity in indigenous communities to use systems thinking to address longer term causes of chronic disease.  Multiple other trials of systems thinking for various problems – mental health, suicide prevention, drug and alcohol misuse, health services prevention.

What areas of investigation do you think should be on a research agenda for regulating consumption moving forward?

 Industry is the big one – reconfiguring the role of industry to be a positive.  Empowerment of key people to understand and lead effective responses from within and without system(s).

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JON ALTMAN

Jon Altman is an economic anthropologist (more the latter than the former) who used to head the centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research at the Australian National University. He is currently employed at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University, Melbourne and affiliated as an emeritus professor of ANU at RegNet. Much of Jon’s research focuses on development alterity via forms of economic hybridity especially for Indigenous peoples who look to deploy the lands and natural resources they own for food sovereignty purposes. Some of his recent research has examined regulatory regimes that look to impose late capitalist modes of economy on Indigenous Australians in remote Australia in the name of ‘improvement’; and the disastrous recent consequences of such regimes in deepening poverty, dependence and inequality.

What research are you currently engaged in that you think is relevant to regulating consumption in the context of health, the environment, or social equity?

In my research I look at consumption holistically as closely inter‐linked with production and distribution/exchange. I also do not differentiate between the market and non‐market/customary. I am interested in how particular forms of electronic imposed regulation are directing remote living Indigenous Australians who are highly welfare dependent to spend their meagre financial resources on expensive foodstuffs in licenced stores, while other forms of regulation are limiting their opportunities to invest in equipment that will give them access to far healthier foods from the bush. I have recently published a book chapter on this transformative project that is reducing postcolonial possibilities in very remote Arnhem Land that I attach for any interested workshop participant. These regulations that aim to transform Indigenous subjectivity to that of model/imagined neoliberal citizens is ethnicist, unhealthy and bad for the environmental condition of the land.

What areas of investigation do you think should be on a research agenda for regulating consumption moving forward?

There are two undeniable observations that can be made about many Indigenous people in remote Australia: they are in bad physical shape and their labour is grossly underutilised. People need much more information about the western foods that they consume, but they also consume cheap, fatty, sugary and carbohydrate rich foods for a diversity of reasons, some cultural, some linked to deep poverty. Much regulatory effort is locking people into forms of consumption that are deadly instead of empowering people to deploy their surplus labour for healthier lifeways inclusive of renewable forms of energy and standard recycling options that the loss of the cheap China option notwithstanding are unavailable in remote places. Instead of punitive forms of regulating consumption that are failing policy should look to progressive options that might succeed especially is they are founded on notions of community control.

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FRAN BAUM

Fran Baum is Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor of Public Health and Foundation Director of the Southgate Institute for Health, Society and Equity at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia. She was named in the Queen’s Birthday 2016 Honours List as an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for “distinguished service to higher education as an academic and public health researcher, as an advocate for improved access to community health care, and to professional organisations”. From 2009‐2014 she held a prestigious Australia Research Council Federation Fellowship. She is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and of the Australian Health Promotion Association. She is a past National President and Life Member of the Public Health Association of Australia. She is a member and past Chair of the Global Steering Council of the People’s Health Movement – a global network of health activist (www. phmovement.org).She also served as a Commissioner on the World Health Organisation’s Commission on the Social Determinants of Health from 2005‐08. Fran Baum is one of Australia's leading researchers on the social and economic determinants of health.

What research are you currently engaged in that you think is relevant to regulating consumption in the context of health, the environment, or social equity?

 I am leading a program of research on trans‐national companies (TNCs) and health. This includes considering the health impact of TNCs. We have drafted a framework within which to conduct a corporate health impact assessment and tested this on McDonalds in Australia and are currently doing on Rio Tinto in South Africa and Australia. We are also designing research to look at corporate responses to proposals such as a sugar tax designed to regulate consumption.  I have just completed a book “Governing for Health” which argues that governments need to regulate more extensively in favour of health and the eco‐systems including healthy consumption.  The work of NHMRC CRE Health Equity of which I am co‐director with Prof Sharon Friel is in part concerned with way in which policy is able to encourage healthy patterns of consumption.  I’m CIA on an ARC Discovery looking at the extent to which policies in the Environment, Urban Planning, Justice and Energy sectors take account of health. This project has involved coding over 500 policies and the links with consumption could be made evident with further analysis.

What areas of investigation do you think should be on a research agenda for regulating consumption moving forward?

 Study of the political practices of food, alcohol and soda manufacturers which are often in favour of unhealthy consumption  More research on practices of TNCs and the mechanisms they use to encourage unhealthy consumption  The psychology of consumption, its mental health impacts and how it relates to capitalism  The links between overconsumption and the deterioration of the eco‐system

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JOHN BRAITHWAITE

John Braithwaite is a Professor at RegNet, ANU, who works on regulation, crime and war. On health he has worked on aged care regulation with Valerie Braithwaite, Toni Makkai and others and on health quality more generally with Judith Healy and others. On environment he has worked on the impact of adverse publicity on environmental offenders with Brent Fisse and on restorative justice for environmental offences with Miranda Forsyth, EPA (Victoria) and others. Both domains were important in his work with Peter Drahos on the globalization of business regulation and before that with Peter Grabosky on the character of Australian business regulation.

What research are you currently engaged in that you think is relevant to regulating consumption in the context of health, the environment, or social equity?

I am not really doing research on consumption these days, at least not in any direct sense, as I press on with my Peacebuilding Compared data collection. Research from my (and Val’s) past on how to increase tax collection so as to shift consumption to welfare state expenditure is one important theme I would speak on. Extending capital gains taxes to housing, abolishing negative gearing and increasing housing taxes to encourage smaller dwellings is one important part of that. How to optimize regulation, avoiding under‐ and over‐regulation, in thinking about the regulation of consumption is another topic I am to touch on.

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VALERIE BRAITHWAITE

Valerie Braithwaite is a professor in the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) at the Australian National University. Her research focuses on how and why regulation needs to be implemented with respect for the needs and hopes of citizens and how failure to regulate according to this principle undermines community capacity and trust in public and private institutions. Her contributions to this debate include “Taxing Democracy,” “Hope, Power and Governance” and “Defiance in Taxation and Governance”, and the government reports “Review of Higher Education Regulation” (with Kwong Lee Dow) and “All Eyes on Quality: Review of the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator Act 2011.” Valerie was a foundation member of the Regulatory Institutions Network (RegNet) led by John Braithwaite. She headed one of RegNet’s flagships, the Centre for Tax System Integrity (1999‐2006) and contributed to the ATO’s development of their responsive regulatory Compliance Model. Her regulatory work spans a number of fields – child protection, aged care, tertiary education, work health and safety, work and school bullying prevention, and workplace equality.

What areas of investigation do you think should be on a research agenda for regulating consumption moving forward?

Citizen empowerment and pathways of hope

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MICHAL CARRINGTON

Michal Carrington, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Melbourne, Australia. Michal researches in consumption ethics, business ethics, and consumer culture. Her research is published in a range of international journals, including European Journal of Marketing, Marketing Theory, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Business Research. Michal is recently published a co‐ edited interdisciplinary book titled ‘Ethics and Morality in Consumption: Interdisciplinary Perspectives’ (Routledge), and co‐ convened an ESRC Seminar Series of the same title. Michal holds a BEng (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Melbourne, and a PhD also from the University of Melbourne. Prior to entering academia, Michal spent almost a decade working for Unilever in Australia and the UK.

What research are you currently engaged in that you think is relevant to regulating consumption in the context of health, the environment, or social equity?

I am currently researching consumer perspectives on Modern Slavery with two colleagues from the UK ‐ Dr Andreas Chatzidakis and Prof Deirdre Shaw. We are actively engaging a range of stakeholders in this research and the findings ‐ including Government, corporate, NGO's, and the study has direct implications for consumption...the 'demand' side of slavery in production.

What areas of investigation do you think should be on a research agenda for regulating consumption moving forward?

On the whole, consumers' decisions and actions do not occur in isolation. Rather, consumption choices and practices are embedded within structures and institutions ‐ and these institutions are powerful. Thus, research focusing on consumption regulation should take a holistic perspective to consider the inter‐related networks and nexus between micro‐level consumers and macro‐level institutions ‐ together.

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BEC COLVIN

Bec Colvin is a social scientist and knowledge exchange specialist with the Climate Change Institute at ANU. Bec’s research interest is in how groups of people interact with each other ‐ especially in settings of social and political conflict ‐ with regard to climate and environmental issues. Much of this work has a focus on the dynamics of formalised processes for including citizens and stakeholders in decision‐making, and leverages on perspectives from social psychology to understand the complexities of people and process. Recent research projects have included the study of conflict about wind energy development, the psychological underpinnings of a constructive governance regime for negative emissions, the role of trust between climate researchers and policy‐makers, and the relationship between aggregate public opinion and conflict in environmental messaging. At the Climate Change Institute, Bec's role is to facilitate the strengthening of links between climate change researchers and end users of the research. Before joining the ANU Climate Change Institute in 2017, Bec undertook a PhD and lectured with The University of Queensland.

What research are you currently engaged in that you think is relevant to regulating consumption in the context of health, the environment, or social equity?

I am interested in how the groups to which people belong – based around identity, ideology, values, class – shape how these groups interact with ideas and each other. We can understand how different publics and groups are likely to engage with regulation of consumption through understanding who they are. We can think about how different messengers, framings, and ideological positionings of an agenda such as the regulation of consumption may create – or close down – opportunities for successful outcomes.

What areas of investigation do you think should be on a research agenda for regulating consumption moving forward?

What are the links between consumption patterns/attitudes and social identities and ideologies? How can we talk about regulating consumption in a way that supports broad appeal across the ideological spectrum? How can we build critical alliances with a range of ideological groups in order to create an enabling environment for policy? What are the systemic lifestyle drivers of consumption, and how do these drivers relate to important psychological and personal attributes, such as identity and agency?

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RICHARD DENNISS

Dr Richard Denniss is the Australia Institute’s chief economist. He is an economist with a particular interest in the role of regulation. Prior to taking up his current position he was an Associate Professor at the Crawford School of Economics and Government at the Australian National University where he continues to hold an adjunct appointment.

Richard has also worked as Strategy Adviser to the Leader of the Australian Greens, Senator Bob Brown, Chief of Staff to the Leader of the Australian Democrats, Senator Natasha Stott Despoja, and lectured in economics at the University of Newcastle.

Richard has published extensively in academic journals, is a frequent contributor to national newspapers and was the co‐author of the best selling Affluenza (with Dr Clive Hamilton) and is the co‐ author of An Introduction to Australian Public Policy: Theory and Practice (with Dr Sarah Maddison).

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CHRISTIAN DOWNIE

Dr Christian Downie is an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow (2018‐2021) and the Higher Degree Research Convenor in the School of Regulation and Global Governance at The Australian National University. He was previously a Vice Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of New South Wales. Christian has worked as a foreign policy advisor to the Australian Government’s Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and a climate policy advisor to the Department of Climate Change. Christian holds a PhD in international relations and political science from the Australian National University, having graduated from the University of Sydney with first class honours in economics. He has spent time teaching or researching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the London School of Economics and Political Science and the University of Waterloo, among others, and he has worked in policy think tanks in Canberra and Washington D.C. Christian is the author of more than 20 peer‐reviewed journal articles and book chapters including publications in Global Environmental Politics, Energy Policy, Global Governance, International Affairs, and Third World Quarterly. His first book, The Politics of Climate Change Negotiations, was published in 2014.

What research are you currently engaged in that you think is relevant to regulating consumption in the context of health, the environment, or social equity?

My research focuses on global energy and climate policy and the role different actors (governments, business and civil society) play at different levels to shape global outcomes. I work at the intersection of global governance, regulation, negotiation studies and environmental politics. A number of my current research projects look specifically at how to regulate the production and consumption of fossil fuels.

What areas of investigation do you think should be on a research agenda for regulating consumption moving forward?

One area that I am especially interested in is identifying strategies that policymakers can employ to overcome political resistance from incumbent industries that oppose regulating consumption, such as the consumption of fossil fuels.

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SHARON FRIEL

Sharon Friel is Director of the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) and Professor of Health Equity, Australian National University. She is also Director of the Menzies Centre for Health Policy ANU. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences Australia. In 2014 she was named by her international peers as one of the world’s most influential female leaders in global health. She is the Co‐Director of the NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in the Social Determinants of Health Equity. She is also lead CI on two ARC discovery projects looking at trade, governance and nutrition, and healthy and sustainable food systems. In 2010 she was awarded an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship to investigate the interface between health equity, social determinants and climate change, based at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, ANU. Between 2005 and 2008 she was the Head of the Scientific Secretariat (University College London) of the World Health Organisation Commission on Social Determinants of Health. Before moving to Australia, she worked for many years in the Department of Health Promotion, National University of Ireland, Galway. Her interests are in the role of structural factors in affecting health inequities, including trade and investment, urbanisation, food systems, and climate change; and the analysis of governance, policy and regulatory processes for the purpose of improving health equity.

What research are you currently engaged in that you think is relevant to regulating consumption in the context of health, the environment, or social equity?

My Future Fellowship was focused on the interface between climate change, social determinants and health inequities. I concentrated on two areas – food systems and urbanisation – both of which contribute to climate change and human health, and are also underpinned by the same economic drivers of over production and consumption. I have just written a book “Climate change and the Peoples’ Health” which is organised around consumptagenic systems.

What areas of investigation do you think should be on a research agenda for regulating consumption moving forward?

A focus on regulation and governance for the public good, which brings together the interconnected issues of inequality, environment and health equity.

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FIONA HAINES

Fiona Haines is Professor of Criminology in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, Adjunct Professor at the Regulatory Institutions Network at ANU and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. Her research, which encompasses work on industrial disasters, grievances and multinational enterprises, centres on white collar and corporate crime, globalisation and regulation. She is an internationally renowned expert in the area of regulation and compliance with published work in the area ranging from occupational health & safety and financial fraud to the impact of criminalisation of cartel conduct, challenges for regulation in the transformation of the National Electricity Market with the introduction of household solar PV and the capacity of new governance to resolve issues of human rights violations associated with the activities of multinational corporations. Her recent books include The Paradox of Regulation: what regulation can achieve and what it cannot (Edward Elgar, 2011) and Regulatory Transformations: Rethinking Economy Society Interactions, (Hart Publishing), 2015, co‐edited with Bettina Lange and Dania Thomas. Her major current research projects include an analysis of how to hold multinational corporations accountable for human right's abuse, the social impact of coals seam gas exploration and rethinking regulation in an ecologically constrained world.

What research are you currently engaged in that you think is relevant to regulating consumption in the context of health, the environment, or social equity?

Project on ecological regulation with Christine Parker. Work on regulation can assist in the transition to a sustainable, just society. My two other projects ‐ grievances against multi‐national corporations and the possibility of redress and also investigating the social licence to operate in the context of coal seam gas also feed into the emphasis on the need for regulation to be ecologically responsive

What areas of investigation do you think should be on a research agenda for regulating consumption moving forward?

I wonder if something that looks at how to reduce consumption ‐ what regulations are needed and what are the ways that this can be made real ‐ either in terms of the role of protest in shifting towards a low consumption future but also in understanding societies that have lower consumption yet high wellbeing and what are the conditions that have led to this outcome and how this might be replicated.

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PATRICK HARRIS

Patrick Harris is a senior research fellow and Australian National Health and Medical Research Centre fellow at the Menzies Centre for Health Policy, Sydney University, Australia. He holds a PhD in health and public policy and a Masters in Public Health. His research interests include health and health equity as cross cutting public policy issues, specifically within urban and regional planning and infrastructure.

What research are you currently engaged in that you think is relevant to regulating consumption in the context of health, the environment, or social equity?,

I am researching how health and equity are considered in public policy with a focus on land use, transport, energy and infrastructure as upstream policy sectors that are resulting in consumptagenic systems but also offer the opportunity for positive change. My particular interests are on policy institutions and power.

What areas of investigation do you think should be on a research agenda for regulating consumption moving forward?

Institutions, power, governance

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ANNET HOEK

Dr. Annet Hoek is a Senior Research Fellow at BehaviourWorks Australia, which is a research enterprise within the Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University. Annet considers herself a “pracademic” who acts as a linking pin between academia and practice. She typically uses a multidisciplinary approach, which is inspired and informed by her diverse qualifications in Sensory & Consumer Research (PhD), Human Nutrition (MMedSci), Biology (MSc), and Industrial Design (Diploma). Annet has over 17 years international experience in consumer research, innovation projects and policy in the areas of nutrition, health and sustainability. She previously worked as a research consultant for blue chip companies to ensure a consumer‐centred way of working and also consulted for health industries, government and not‐for‐profit organisations. Besides consultancy she has worked in academia; before her position at BehaviourWorks she was a Research Fellow for an ARC project on healthy and sustainable food systems (ANU, University of Canberra, Deakin University) and a lecturer in the Division of Health Sciences at the University of South Australia. She is experienced with both qualitative and quantitative research methodologies, with a particular interest in methodologies that capture what people actually do or feel; not just what they say.

What research are you currently engaged in that you think is relevant to regulating consumption in the context of health, the environment, or social equity? In general my work focuses on better understanding consumers and drivers of behavior change for a healthier and more sustainable food system. For example: ‐consumer responses to point of purchase actions (e.g. the effects of labelling or financial incentives) ‐consumer acceptance of plant‐based novel protein foods as an alternative to meat ‐drivers and barriers to reduce household food wastage

What areas of investigation do you think should be on a research agenda for regulating consumption moving forward?  The position and use of consumer behaviour evidence; how evidence about changes in consumer and consumption behaviour, for example as a response to certain policies and interventions, can better inform policy making.  In addition to the above, the design and implementation of a measurement framework and monitoring system that collects evidence about the impact of certain regulations on consumption (and other relevant parameters, e.g. health & wellbeing, economic).  Understanding and quantifying how regulating consumption may provide opportunities for the commercial sector and drive innovation “for good”  How can we better identify and translate knowledge on “what works” from other countries and regions to the local setting?

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JOLANDA JETTEN

Jolanda Jetten (PhD, University of Amsterdam, 1997) is Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Queensland. She was until recently employed as an ARC Future Fellowship and took up a 3‐year UQ Development Fellowship in 2017. Her research is concerned with group processes, social identity and intergroup relations, as represented by her most recent books: The wealth Paradox: Economic prosperity and the hardening of attitudes towards minorities (with Frank Mols; Cambridge University Press, 2017) and The Social Cure: Identity, Health and Well‐being (co‐edited with Catherine Haslam and Alex Haslam; Psychology Press, 2012). She has published over 150 peer‐reviewed articles, over 36 chapters and 4 books. Jolanda is the former co‐Chief Editor of the British Journal of Social Psychology and currently serves as co‐Chief Editor of Social Issues and Policy Review. She was awarded the British Psychological Society Spearman Medal in 2004 and the Kurt Lewin Medal from the European Association of Social Psychology in 2014. Jolanda is the former President of the Society of Australasian Social Psychology (SASP) and served on the ARC College of Experts. She was elected as fellow of the Association of Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA) in 2015.

What research are you currently engaged in that you think is relevant to regulating consumption in the context of health, the environment, or social equity?

There are two areas of work that I’m involved in that speak to the topic of regulating consumption. One relates to social identity and intergroup dynamics that determine the way that people consider public good dilemmas. Second, our work on inequality and coping with change (e.g., change required to better regulate consumption) suggests that despite the plethora of policies, interventions, education and training in all areas of life, it remains challenging to guide those who are disadvantaged successfully through change. As a result, collective‐level changes can be particularly problematic for those who are most vulnerable. This may widen existing disparities and inequality and undermine a society’s ability to respond adequately to consumption challenges.

What areas of investigation do you think should be on a research agenda for regulating consumption moving forward?

My own work would lead me to propose to focus on inequality on the identity dynamics this triggers that may affect the ability to successfully respond to consumption challenges.

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PETER MILLER

Peter Miller is a Professor of Violence Prevention and Addiction Studies at the School of Psychology, Deakin University. His research interests include: Alcohol and Drug‐related violence; predictors of violence (including family and domestic violence), and Corporate Political Activity of alcohol and dangerous consumptions industries. Peter has recently completed four of the largest studies ever conducted into alcohol policy, licensed venues, violence, comparing 12 Australian cities over 10 years and talking to more than 25,000 patrons. He has published over 200 journal articles, books and peer‐reviewed reports and was also presented the Excellence in Research Award at the 2013 Australian National Drug and Alcohol Awards. He is currently running major studies assessing the impact of restricted trading hours in Queensland and testing the impact of last drinks data collected in Emergency Departments to identify and intervene with problem venues across Australia. Current studies: www.industryinsight.info, http://lastdrinks.info/, http://quantem.info/

What research are you currently engaged in that you think is relevant to regulating consumption in the context of health, the environment, or social equity?

We have 4 projects currently running which look at regulating consumption of alcohol via a variety of mechanisms:  Quantem: QUeensland Alcohol‐related violence and Night Time Economy Monitoring. Looks at the impact of restricted late night trading hours (http://quantem.info/)  Risk‐based Licensing for alcohol, investigated the range of licensing schemes in Australia and Canada and their impact on harms such as hospital attendances and police‐recorded assaults  Driving Change: A 9 site hospital trial asking ‘last drinks’ questions and using that information to inform local licensing officials and the community about the sources of alcohol‐related harm. The key intervention is 2‐fold. Public naming of problem venues/bottleshops. 2. Sustained pressure on government highlighting the harms.  Mechanisms of Influence: documenting the corporate Political Activity of Alcohol, Gambling and Tobacco industries and how they influence policy.

What areas of investigation do you think should be on a research agenda for regulating consumption moving forward?

A key element to investigate is how we get the public involved in political pressure to regulate consumption, and what are the key arguments to influence public and politicians. What are they key arguments for the public to sway opinion in terms of removing disproportionate corporate representation to government

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PAULA O'BRIEN

Paula O'Brien is a Senior Lecturer, and Co‐Director of the Health and Medical Law Masters, at Melbourne Law School. She has a BA/LLB (Hons) from The University of Melbourne and an LLM from the University of Cambridge, specialising in international law. Her primary research interest relates to the regulation of harmful commodities, in particular alcohol. She has written on many aspects of the domestic and international regulation of alcohol, including its labelling, advertising, pricing, licensing and trade as a global commodity. Her current doctoral work is on the self‐regulation of the labelling and marketing of alcohol.

What research are you currently engaged in that you think is relevant to regulating consumption in the context of health, the environment, or social equity?

My current research relates to the regulation of what I call the ‘information environment’ for alcohol: alcohol marketing, alcohol health information labelling, and public health marketing. In one stream of work, I am considering the legal and regulatory issues arising in relation to alcohol marketing and labelling and the application of international economic law. Papers in press or in progress in this stream of work address: (1) the consistency of innovative public health alcohol labelling policies with international economic law; (2) additional protections for alcohol exports in new regional trade agreements; and (3) the characteristics of alcohol labelling regulation that are contested by alcohol exporting countries in international trade law fora. In another stream of work, I am evaluating the use of self‐regulatory mechanisms for the control of industry alcohol marketing, and reflecting on what an increased use of legislation offers to the problem of controlling alcohol marketing.

What areas of investigation do you think should be on a research agenda for regulating consumption moving forward?

In terms of future research questions, from an alcohol control perspective, I am especially interested in investigating the alcohol package as a form of alcohol marketing, and current and potential controls on this space; the misuse of nutrition claims and information by the alcohol industry in labelling and marketing, and current and potential controls on this space; (3) to what extent public health goals have been, and can be, served by litigation around alcohol.

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CHRISTINE PARKER

Christine Parker is a Professor of Law at University of Melbourne where she teaches corporate social responsibility and business regulation, legal ethics, food law and policy and animal law. Professor Parker has written and researched on how and why business comply with legal, social and environmental responsibilities, and what difference regulatory enforcement makes. Her books include The Open Corporation: Business Self‐Regulation and Democracy (2002) on corporate social responsibility, business compliance systems and democratic accountability of companies; Explaining Compliance (2011, with Vibeke Nielsen), an edited collection of the leading research on how and why businesses do and do not comply with the law; and Inside Lawyers’ Ethics (with Adrian Evans, 3rd edn, 2018), the influential textbook on lawyers’ professional conduct. Professor Parker’s current research focuses on the politics, ethics and regulation of food labelling and sustainable food systems. She is finalising an ARC Discovery Project grant (with Dr Gyorgy Scrinis and Dr Rachel Carey) examining the possibilities for food labelling to increase democratic engagement with and governance of the food system using free range and higher animal welfare labeling. She is also researching and writing on misleading health claims on superfood labeling as part of another ARC Discovery Project on the regulation of anti‐ageing treatments.

What research are you currently engaged in that you think is relevant to regulating consumption in the context of health, the environment, or social equity?

I am currently developing two different but related projects (for which I am or will be seeking funding): “Governing the global protein revolution through sustainable agriculture” (with Dr Rachel Carey); and “Ecological regulation” (with Prof Fiona Haines). Both are deeply connected with the regulation of consumption in the context of health, the environment and social equity.

What areas of investigation do you think should be on a research agenda for regulating consumption moving forward?

 The need for regulation of marketing and advertising – including labelling and online marketing. Advertising helps drive consumption and deskills consumers from being able to act as critical consumers and engaged citizens through biased information; possibility of an advertising tax.  The need for a changed relationship to both paid work and social welfare – including potential of universal basic income, reduced hours of paid work and more equal spread of paid work, and more deliberative democratic ways of deciding how tax shold be levied nd used, and what social welfare benfits people should receive.  How to transition out of our economic and political dependence on fossil fuel, industrial/chemical/intensive agriculture (eg nitrogen and phosphate dependence, , military/nuclear industries, plastic and other non‐renewable materials – to renewable energy, agro‐ ecological agriculture, peace building and circular economy.

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ANTHEA ROBERTS

Anthea Roberts is a specialist in public international law, investment treaty law and arbitration, and comparative international law. Prior to joining the ANU, Anthea was an Associate Professor at the London School of Economics, a Visiting Professor at Columbia Law School and Harvard Law School. She is also a Visiting Professor on the Masters of International Dispute Settlement at the Graduate Institute/University of Geneva. In 2017‐18, Anthea is serving as one of the two inaugural Legal Fellows for the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade as part of their new Diplomatic Academy.

What research are you currently engaged in that you think is relevant to regulating consumption in the context of health, the environment, or social equity?

I have been working on looking at different incremental, systemic and paradigmatic reform options being championed by different states to the problems with investor‐state arbitration. For this, I have been closely following the UNCITRAL meetings on investor‐state arbitration reform. Although this is not targeted at health specifically, it provides an important backdrop for understanding who makes investment treaty decisions and how, which in turn may have an impact on how treaties that do or do not explicitly protect regulatory authority might be interpreted.

In my international law work, I am interested in the issue of framing. In the health sphere, it is common to find researchers arguing that we need to move away from a dominant economic law framework in assessing trade and investment agreements and towards something that focuses on human well‐being. I am sympathetic to this critique but I am identifying a different shift that is occurring in which trade, investment and economic relations are being reframed as national security risks. While economics currently trumps health, security may well come to trump economics, pushing health even further down the totem pole.

What areas of investigation do you think should be on a research agenda for regulating consumption moving forward?

I am not sure and I am looking forward to learning from this conference. I would definitely be interested in looking further at issues of framing. These include how we move from a framework that focuses on ever increasing growth toward sustainability across a variety of measures, including human health and the environment. I am also interested into how this plays into questions of relative/absolute gains and losses and inequality within and across states.

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ASHLEY SCHRAM

Ashley Schram is a Research Fellow in the School of Regulation and Global Governance at the Australian National University. Her research uses a critical political economy approach to study how regulation and governance across the public policy cycle influences human health and well‐being. Her areas of focus currently include trade and investment policy, food policy, infrastructure policy, and healthcare policy.

What research are you currently engaged in that you think is relevant to regulating consumption in the context of health, the environment, or social equity?

I am engaged in work that investigates the role of trade and investment agreements in shaping the business and consumer environments for key drivers of noncommunicable disease (e.g. tobacco, alcohol, and ultra‐processed food and beverages) and regulatory policy to address these risk factors. Additionally, I explore how ideas, interests and institutions enable or constrain how public policies address consumption of health‐harmful products.

What areas of investigation do you think should be on a research agenda for regulating consumption moving forward?

I am particularly interested in the role that ideas (normative and factual) play in developing the public policies that condition and constrain consumption and the criteria by which they are evaluated. I would like to better understand the role for public health in shaping and supporting a culture of regulation and governance that enables public policy to prioritise human and planetary health over economic growth.

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SUSAN SELL

Susan Sell is a political scientist who focuses on the international politics of trade, intellectual property, investment and global governance. She has numerous articles in political science and law journals. Her books include, Private Power, Public Law: the Globalization of Intellectual Property Rights; Power and Ideas: the North‐South Politics of Intellectual Property and Antitrust; Intellectual Property Rights: A Critical History (with Christopher May); co‐edited Who Governs the Globe?; and Rethinking International Investment Governance: Back to Basics (a 14‐ person collaboration). She holds a BA in political science from Colorado College, an MA in political science from the University of California Santa Barbara, and a PhD in political science from University of California Berkeley. She joined RegNet in 2016 and is emerita professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University.

What research are you currently engaged in that you think is relevant to regulating consumption in the context of health, the environment or social equity?

I am currently working on two projects that are relevant to regulation and social equity. The first examines the practice of forum‐shifting in intellectual property and trade governance, which includes the shifts from the multilateral arena to plurilateral, regional and bilateral fora. In particular, vertical forum shifting, including investor‐state dispute settlement is having a negative effect on regulation in the public interest. The second examines civil society campaigns to increase access to medicines, educational materials and agricultural inputs. It compares these campaigns to examine the conditions under which weaker parties can achieve more desirable results in obtaining access to materials protected by intellectual property regulation.

What areas of investigation do you think should be on a research agenda for regulating consumption moving forward?

This is certainly not an original idea, but the outsized political power of producers of harmful consumer products must be front and centre of this research agenda. Also it will be helpful to focus on success stories that have resulted in pro‐consumer public health regulation despite daunting odds for success.

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BELINDA TOWNSEND

Dr. Belinda Townsend is a Research Fellow at the School of Regulation and Global Governance. She earned her PhD in political science at Deakin University and has undergraduate degrees in political science (Honours), anthropology and public health. Belinda is working with the NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in the Social Determinants of Health Equity leading a project investigating agenda setting in public policy. Belinda also works on trade agreements and their impacts on health and serves as a resource person for the Public Health Association of Australia.

What research are you currently engaged in that you think is relevant to regulating consumption in the context of health, the environment, or social equity?

A key part of my research on agenda‐setting is examining the factors (eg actors, structures, institutions, ideas) that can either enable or constrain arguments for addressing the social determinants of health in getting onto government and policy agendas. This includes arguments for adequate health regulation (such as regulation to combat NCD risk factors tobacco, alcohol and ultra‐processed foods).

What areas of investigation do you think should be on a research agenda for regulating consumption moving forward?

Identifying the commercial drivers and tactics by industry to subvert regulation, and understanding the role of surrogate regulators, in particular civil society groups and broader social movements.

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WESLEY WIDMAIER

Wesley Widmaier is an Associate Professor of Political Science in the Department of International Relations at the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific. His research addresses the historical development of the international political economy, as ideas, institutions and interests have been reshaped across moments of stability, crisis and change. He has engaged these concerns across a range of publications, most recently in Economic Ideas in Political Time: The Rise and Fall of Economic Orders from the Progressive Era to the Global Financial Crisis (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and Presidential Rhetoric from Wilson to Obama: Constructing Crises, Fast and Slow (Routledge, 2015). He is currently lead editor of Review of International Political Economy.

What research are you currently engaged in that you think is relevant to regulating consumption in the context of health, the environment, or social equity?

While International and Comparative International Political Economy scholars have examined in recent decades the ways in which ideas can reduce uncertainty and enable stability, my research has addressed the paradoxical ways in which such ideas can over time engender misplaced certainty, instability and crisis. In empirical terms, for example, I am interested in the ways in which Keynesian ideas stressing the contributions of social equity and the public good were converted in ways that placed a greater stress on aggregate demand and private consumption. This analysis has implications where it speaks to the interplay of public legitimacy and policy effectiveness – and the ways in which ostensibly pragmatic efforts to limit populist excess can fuel misplaced technocratic confidence and paradoxically exacerbate populist excess. Focusing on the debates among mid‐century Keynesians like John Kenneth Galbraith and Paul Samuelson, I highlight the difficulties of striking a balance between social criticism and elitism, and similar tensions between pragmatic flexibility and intellectual insularity.

What areas of investigation do you think should be on a research agenda for regulating consumption moving forward?

A key challenge of regulation is rooted in concerns for the sociology of knowledge – for example, tensions between what Discursive Institutionalists like Vivien Schmidt term “coordinative” and “communicative” ideas. Any effort at regulating consumption through “coordinative” direction would have to address the “communicative” collapse of trust in government that has rendered suspect such regulatory appeals. In this light, to the extent that social critics and regulatory advocates are seen as undemocratic elites, populist resistance to regulating consumption will persist. Yet, this analysis also suggests that an awareness of the scope for communicative appeals might in turn enable populist support for regulation.

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