Mark Fabian

I am assistant professor of public policy at the University of Warwick. I am also an affiliate researcher at the Bennett Institute for Public Policy at Cambridge University, and an associate at the Institute for Social Change at the University of Tasmania. I was previously a Fulbright Scholar at the Brookings Institution in DC, and an adjunct lecturer at the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University (ANU).

I completed my PhD in economics from the Crawford School in 2018. My dissertation was an interdisciplinary exploration of well-being theory and measurement in a policy context (published in 2022 with Oxford University Press as A Theory of Subjective Wellbeing). I continue to work primarily in these areas. I try to take a trans-disciplinary approach, which means that I am an area specialist (well-being) rather than a discipline specialist, and I publish in journals across multiple fields. I don't feel at home anywhere, but when PPE (philosophy, politics, economics) crosses with philosophy of science that's pretty close. I also use mixed methods in my research, having published philosophical, quantitative, and qualitative papers.