Professor Martin Shanahan

Hello and welcome to my staff page.

Below you will find some aspects of my professional life here at the University of South Australia. If you have questions relating to my research interests, need help with courses that I teach, or have enquiries about research degrees in the Division of Business, please email me.

I am currently Dean of Research for the Division of Business, Deputy director of the Centre for Regulation and Market Analysis and Associate Professor of Economics in the School of commerce.

This page was last updated in May 2009.

The Australian Economic History Review.

I am currently co-editor of The Australian Economic History Review. An Asia-Pacific journal of economic, business and social history. Please click on the link above to visit the journal home page.

• In recent years I have taught or coordinated: Microeconomics, International Economics, Forecasting and Business Analysis, International Trade Policy.
• In 2006 together with Ken Adams, Paul Kershaw and Erik Meyer, I received an Australian Carrick Award for our work on 'Learning to Learn' in Economics.

Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand;

Economic History Association; Economic History Society; Cliometrics Society;

European Historical Economics Society;

American Economic Association;

Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia

European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction;

PhD (Flinders University); LLB (Hons); BA (Hons)(Adelaide).

• I have a number of research interests best summarised by grants I am currently working on:
  
  Australian Research Council Linkage Grant 2009/12: Improving water market outcomes through a better understanding of market behaviour. with (S Wheeler; H Bjornlund; DA Hatton MacDonald; I Singh; KK Klein).
  University of South Australia Research Grant 2009: Lobbying and Corruption in 19th Century Australia. with (J.Wilson).
  Developing First-year Undergraduates' Acquisition of Threshold Concepts in Economics.
  Understanding the case behind the demise of Australia’s first antitrust statute: an economic analysis of the defeat of the Australian Industries Preservation Act. with (D.K. Round).
  Water scarcity and rural social hardship – can water markets alleviate the problem? (with H.Björnlund, B.Cheers, and D.K. Round).
  The impact of globalisation on inequality in a small regional economy: South Australia 1845-1925.
  

Books or chapters in books (last 6 years):

Shanahan M.P. The Politics of water: A case study of the Murray Darling Basin agreements. in C.B. Daniels and J.McKay (eds) (2009, forthcoming)Adelaide Nature of A City: Water, Wakefield Press, Adelaide

Shanahan M.P., Jones D., and S. Hughes A brief history of water in Adelaide in C.B. Daniels and J.McKay (eds) (2009, forthcoming) Adelaide Nature of A City: Water, Wakefield Press, Adelaide

Shanahan M.P. (2009) ‘What Price Water? An Economic Perspective’ in C.B. Daniels and J.McKay (eds) (2009, forthcoming) Adelaide Nature of A City: Water Wakefield Press, Adelaide.

Shanahan M.P., G. Foster and J.H.F. Meyer, (2009 forthcoming) Threshold concepts and attrition in first-year economics, in JHF Meyer, R Land and C Baillie (eds) Threshold Concepts and Transformational Learning Sense Publishers, Rotterdam.

Shanahan M.P. Income and Wealth in South Australia, in J. Spoehr (ed) (2009 forthcoming), State of the State, Wakefield Press, Adelaide.

Shanahan M.P. Economic Policy of the Hawke Years, in Blousien, Colmer and Mackinnon (eds), (2009, forthcoming), The Hawke Legacy, Wakefield Press, Adelaide.

Wheeler, S.; Bjornlund, H., Shanahan, M. and Zuo, A. (2009): Factors Influencing Water Allocation and Entitlement Prices in the Greater Goulburn Area in Australia, In Esteve, Y.V., Brebbia, C.A. and Rico, P. Sustainable Irrigation – Management, Technologies and Policies II, 63-72.

Shanahan M.P. and J. K. Wilson, Labour market outcomes in settler economies between 1870 and 1913: Accounting for differences in labour hours and occupations, (forthcoming 2009) in C. Lloyd, J. Metzer and R.Sutch (eds), Settler Economies in World History, Brill Publishers, Leiden, Global Economic History Series.

Shanahan, M.P., G.Foster and J.H.F. Meyer, Associations among prior acquisition of threshold concepts, learning dimensions, and examination performance in first-year economics, In Land, R., Meyer, J. H. F. and Smith, J. (eds.), Threshold Concepts within the Disciplines. Sense Publishers Rotterdam 2008: 155-172.

Shanahan M.P. The Employer-Employee Relationship in Australia, In Boyce G., Macintyre S., and S. Ville (eds.) How Organisations Connect, Investing in Communication. Melbourne University Press. Melbourne 2006: 123-146.

Shanahan M.P. and J.H.F. Meyer, The troublesome nature of a threshold concept in economics, In Meyer J.H.F., and Land R. (eds.), Overcoming Barriers to Student Understanding: Threshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge Routledge, Cambridge 2006: 100-114.

Shanahan M.P. and G. Bredon, Teaching and Learning Economics at a Distance, In William E. Becker, Michael Watts and Suzanne R. Becker (eds.), Teaching Economics: More Alternatives to Chalk and Talk, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006, Chapter 8: 133-150. Shanahan M.P. and G. Treuren (eds.), Australian Regional Perspectives on Globalisation, Wakefield Press, Adelaide, 2003;

Shanahan M.P. and J.H.F. Meyer, The troublesome nature of a threshold concept in economics. In Land R. and Meyer J.H.F. (eds.), Overcoming Barriers to Student Understanding: Threshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge, Routledge, Cambridge 2006.

Shanahan M.P. and G. Bredon, Teaching and Learning Economics at a Distance. In William E. Becker, Michael Watts and Suzanne R. Becker (eds.), Teaching Economics: More Alternatives to Chalk and Talk, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006, Chapter 8: 133-150.

Shanahan M.P. and G.Treuren. The Processes and consequences of globalisation- A regional perspective. In Shanahan M.P. and G. Treuren (eds.), Australian Regional Perspectives on Globalisation Wakefield Press, Adelaide, 2003: 1-12.

Shanahan M.P. Globalisation and inequality: Examining how economic global forces impact on South Australian labour markets. In Shanahan M.P. and G. Treuren (eds.), Australian Regional Perspectives on Globalisation, Wakefield Press, Adelaide, 2003: 120-143.

Refereed Journal Articles (last 6 years):

Round D.K. and Shanahan M.P. Undergraduate economics programs in Australia: Down but not out?, Journal of Economic Education, (2009 forthcoming).

Bjornlund H., and M. Shanahan, Comparing implicit and explicit water prices during the early years of water trading in Australia, Pacific Rim Real Estate Research Journal (2009, forthcoming).

Wheeler, S., Bjornlund, H., Shanahan, M.P., Zuo, A., Who trades water? Evidence of the characteristics of early adopters in the Goulburn-Murray Irrigation District, Australia 1998-99, Agricultural Economics. (2009 forthcoming).

Wheeler S., Björnlund H., Shanahan M.P. and Zuo A., Price elasticity of water allocations demand in the Goulburn-Murray Irrigation District, The Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 52, 2008: 37-55.

McLean I.W. and Shanahan M.P. Australasian Economic History: Research Challenges and Big Questions, Australian Economic History Review 2007, 47:3, 300-315.

Shanahan M.P. and Wilson J.K. Measuring inequality trends in colonial Australia using factor price ratios: The importance of boundaries, Australian Economic History Review, 2007, 47:1, 6-21.

Meyer, J.H.F., Shanahan, M.P and Laugksch, R.C. Students’ conceptions of research. 2: An exploration of contrasting patterns of variation, Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 51:4 (September 2007): 415-433.

Shanahan M.P, Foster G., and J.H.F. Meyer, Operationalising a Threshold Concept in Economics: A Pilot Study Using Multiple Choice Questions on Opportunity Cost, The International Review of Economic Education, 2006 5:2, 29-57.

Meyer, J.H.F., Shanahan, M., Norton, L.S., Walters, D., Ward, S. and Hewertson, H. Developing students’ meta-learning capacity: a grounded assessment framework. In C. Rust (Ed.), Improving Student Learning 13 — Improving Student Learning Through Assessment. OCSLD, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford: 2006, pp. 248-266.

Round, D.K., and Shanahan M.P., Perspectives on Teaching Economics from around the Globe, The Journal of Economic Education, Summer 2005 36:13, 203-204. Introduction to special issue.

Meyer, J.H.F., Shanahan, M.P and Laugksch, R.C. Students’ conceptions of research I - A qualitative and quantitative analysis, Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research 2005, 49:3, 225-244.

Meyer, J.H.F. and Shanahan, M.P. Developing metalearning capacity in students — Actionable theory and practical lessons learned in first-year economics, Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2004 (Special issue: Metalearning in Higher Education), 2004, 41: 4, 443-458.

van der Eng, P., and Shanahan M.P. The current and future role of AEHR: Editorial Reflections. Australian Economic History Review, August 44:2, 2004, 113-117.

Shanahan M.P., Tracing the Crimson thread: United Kingdom residents holding probated South Australian assets, 1905-1915, Australian Economic History Review, November 43:3, 2003, 215-229.

Shanahan M.P and J.H.F. Meyer, Measuring and responding to variation in aspects of students’ economic conceptions and learning engagement in economics, International Review of Economic Education, 1, 2003, 58-84; http://www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk/iree/i1/shanahan_meyer.htm

Meyer, J.H.F. and Shanahan, M.P. Dissonant forms of ‘memorising’ and ‘repetition’, Studies in Higher Education, 2003, 28: 5-20.