Will joined CAEPR as a Research Fellow in 1993 and was appointed as Fellow in 1999 and Senior Fellow in 2007. His undergraduate training was in government, public administration, and political science, and his PhD was on the inclusion of Aboriginal people in the social security system. Will's research interests cover the political and social aspects of Indigenous policy, as well the economic. He regularly works on Indigenous people's participation in elections, on housing and social security policy issues, including the Community Development Employment Projects scheme, and on federal and intergovernmental aspects of Indigenous affairs policy.

Selected Publications

Ivison, D., Patton, P. and Sanders, W. (eds) 2000. Political Theory and the Rights of Indigenous People, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, xii+321pp.

Sanders, W. 1999. Unemployment Payments, the Activity Test and Indigenous Australians: Understanding Breach Rates, Research Monograph No. 15, CAEPR, ANU, Canberra, 140pp.

Peterson, N. and Sanders, W. (eds) 1998. Citizenship and Indigenous Australians: Changing Conceptions and Possibilities, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 233pp.