Riyana (Mira) Miranti

Riyana (Mira) Miranti is a Professor at the Canberra School of Politics, Economics & Society, Faculty of Business, Government and Law (BGL). She holds a PhD in Economics from the Australian National University (ANU).

As a socio-economist, she has a strong research interest in the areas of social well-being and equity, particularly focusing on the issues of disadvantage, poverty, social exclusion and inequality affecting children, youth, older people and other groups of the population.

Mira has two specialisation countries, Australia and Indonesia.

Mira has been working under several Australian Research Council (ARC) grants, which focus much on children and youth wellbeing at a small area level and explore the multidimensional measures of wellbeing.

She has been one of the key researchers who developed the Child and Youth Social Exclusion Index at a small area level in Australia. She has led research about social exclusion among older adults, the contributions and challenges of Australian migrants, and small areas of inequality in Australia.

She was a Chief Investigator for an ARC Linkage project which analyses workforce vulnerabilities amongst mature-aged Australians (the project finished at the end of 2015).