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Morgan Tear is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Policy Futures within the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Queensland. He leads the Work Futures and Economic Security research stream and has over a decade of experience spanning academic, government, and private sectors. Previously, he served as the inaugural manager of Queensland's Behavioural Economics and Research Team (BERT), the state's first centrally located behavioural insights unit.
Morgan Tear specializes in understanding human behavior at multiple levels—individual, organisational, and systemic—to design interventions that are well-targeted and more likely to succeed. His expertise spans behavioural science, public policy, applied psychology, and systems thinking. His research focuses on social justice, rights and empowerment, work futures, and economic security, with particular interest in organisational culture, social inclusion, regulation, and public policy. He employs a diverse methodological toolkit including qualitative approaches, trial design, statistical analysis, evaluation and impact assessment, and the application of social psychological theories of behaviour change.
His publication record demonstrates a strong focus on safety culture, risk assessment, and behavioral interventions across multiple sectors. Recent works examine community attitudes toward vulnerable families, risk culture in finance, and safety culture through social identity theory. His research consistently bridges behavioral science with practical policy applications, particularly in high-risk sectors and economic security contexts, demonstrating how human-centered insights can improve policy design and implementation.
Morgan Tear has secured over $2.15 million in Category 2 and 3 research funding, averaging approximately $360,000 per year. He collaborates extensively with diverse stakeholders including policymakers, academics, practitioners, government departments, think tanks, and not-for-profits. He is available for supervision of graduate students and actively contributes to advancing best-practice principles for behavioural science application in complex policy environments.
His work on safety culture with international partners such as EUROCONTROL and the OECD has influenced global thinking about organisational behavior and leadership. His research into construction safety policy led to a new practice note issued by the Victorian Building Authority, supporting safer working environments through practical, policy-driven change. He has developed frameworks adopted by public and private institutions, including one of Australia's largest superannuation funds, to strengthen workforce engagement and responsible governance.
