I am the Director of the Public Policy Institute, University of Auckland, New Zealand and I am a Professor of Politics and Public Policy. My areas of research expertise relate to gender policy analysis, comparative public policy with a focus on New Zealand and Australia. I am currently working on three projects that have an applied focus and involve working with government agencies and civil society. These are 1) to design a gender responsive budgeting strategy for New Zealand that recognises different groups of women; 2) to develop a new policy incubator to support the co-design of small scale policy 'solutions' at the community and city level and 3) to investigate the use of care credits and the valuing of unpaid labour to advance gender equality. I am the coordinator of our University's Master of Public Policy programme, which we offer both on-campus and online.