Sharon Bessell is a Professor at the Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University. She is the director of the Children’s Policy Centre and co-host of Policy Forum Pod. Her research focuses on issues of children’s human rights and social justice, with a focus on multidimensional poverty. She is currently leading the More for Children research project. She is internationally recognised as a leader in rights-based research methodologies and ethics, and has more than 25 years’ experience in working with children to understand their experiences of poverty and what needs to change. In 2019 she was named as one of the Australian Financial Review’s Women of Influence.
