Ph.D Economics - Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada, April 1997.

M.A. Economics - University of Essex, England, September 1988.

B.A.(Hons.) Economics - University of Essex, England, July 1987.

Unilever Dissertation Prize Winner - Best Undergraduate Thesis 1987.

Specialises in macroeconomics, applied econometrics, international macroeconomics and labour economics. Currently lecturing in intermediate and advanced macroeconomics, labour economics, advanced applied econometrics. Research interests include: econometric modelling and dating of business cycles, GDP and unemployment and international influences on the Australian economy; intertemporal analysis of the sustainability of deficits; the relationships between trade, education, migration and economic growth; labour market matching and labour market efficiency; the economics of education, unemployment and the NAIRU; trade union membership; regional and international factor flows; empirical aspects of fiscal federalism and the economics of crime. Has published in journals that include the Canadian Journal of Economics, Applied Economics, Economic Record, Australian Economic Papers, Australian Bulletin of Labour, the International Journal of Social Economics, and the International Economic Journal. Current editor of the UQ School of Economics Macroeconomics Research Group (MRG@UQ) Discussion Paper Series.

» "Estimation and Significance of Long-run Relationships Among Fish Prices” (with  Dr. Shekar Bose and Prof. Harry F. Campbell), International Journal of Oceans and Oceanography, 1 (2), June, 2006.

» Macroeconomics 2e by R. Dornbusch, P. Bodman, M. Crosby, S. Fischer, R. Startz, 2nd Australian adaptation by P. Bodman and M. Crosby, McGraw-Hill, February 2006.

» "Are Business Cycles Independent in the G7?" (with Mark Crosby), International Economic Journal, 19 (4), December 2005.

» "When the US Catches a Cold, Do We Need to Sneeze? Historical and Future Linkages Between the Australian and US Business Cycles,” (with Mark Crosby), in ed. Christopher Kent and David Norman, The Changing Nature of the Business Cycle, Proceedings of the Reserve Bank of Australia 2005 Conference, October, 2005.

» "Can Macroeconomic Factors Explain High House Prices in Australia?" (with Mark Crosby), Australian Property Journal, 38, (3), August, 2004.

» Review of Culture and the Labour Market, by Siobhan Austen, Edward Elgar, 2003, in Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol. 46, No. 2, pp. 246-248, June 2004 

» Macroeconomics, by R. Dornbusch, P. Bodman, M. Crosby, S. Fischer, R. Startz, Australian adaptation by P. Bodman and M. Crosby, McGraw-Hill, April 2002. 

» "The One That Got Away? Crime and Punishment in Queensland's Commercial Fisheries" (with Harry F. Campbell and Robbie Skinner), Australian Economic Papers, 41 (3), September, 2002.  

» "The Australian Business Cycle: Joe Palooka or Dead Cat Bounce?" (with  Mark Crosby), Australian Economic Papers, 41 (2), June 2002.

» "Steepness and Deepness in the Australian Macroeconomy" Applied Economics, 33, 375-382, 2001

» "Phases of the Canadian Business Cycle," ( with Mark Crosby), The Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol.33, 3, 618-633, August 2000.

» "Labour Market Inefficiency and Frictional Unemployment in Australia and its States: A Stochastic Frontier Approach," Economic Record, 75, 228, March 1999.

» "Asymmetry and Duration Dependence in Australian GDP and Unemployment," Economic Record, 74, 22, December 1998.

» "A Contribution on the Empirics of Trade, Migration and Economic Growth for Australia and Canada," International Economic Journal, 12, 3, Autumn 1998.

» "Trade Union Amalgamation and the Decline in Australian Trade Union Membership," Australian Bulletin of Labour, 24, 1, March, 1998.