Consultant

MA (Hons), PhD UNSW, Hon DLitt Sydney

Tony Vinson is the author of the 2007 groundbreaking national study Dropping off the edge: the distribution of disadvantage in Australia, commissioned by Jesuit Social Services and Catholic Social Services Australia.

Tony is an Emeritus Professor at the University of New South Wales and an Honorary Professor in the Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Sydney. His career spans the disciplines of social work, social policy, psychology, education, public administration and social research. He was appointed Foundation Director of the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research in 1970 and in the mid seventies was Professor of Behavioural Science in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Newcastle. Following a revelatory Royal Commission into the NSW prison system, for three years (1979-1981) Tony Vinson headed the Department of Corrective Services during a period of intense reform. Professor Vinson has been published widely.