The 2016-2020 ANU IDM team

The development of the IDM, and its culmination as the IMMP in June 2020, involved a large team of researchers. The core ANU team was:

Professor Sharon Bessell co-led the ANU-IDM team from 2016-2020, with overall responsibility for the Program.  Sharon also co-led the IDM Indonesia study and was closely involved in the IDM qualitative follow-up study in Indonesia and contributed to the revision of the IDM surveys and scoring.  Sharon was a chief investigator on the Assessing Development project, and designed the 3-phase research methodology that led to the IDM and, subsequently, the IMMP.

Associate Professor Janet Hunt co-led the ANU-IDM team from 2016-2020. She worked closely on the revision of the IDM surveys and the IDM South Africa study, and was centrally involved in the development of IDM scoring scheme and index construction. Janet was a chief investigator on the Assessing Development project.

Dr Angie Bexley led the analysis of the descriptive statistics from the IDM Indonesia study and has worked closely with stakeholders in Indonesia. Angie is lead author of the IDM Indonesia reports.

Dr Helen Suich led the IDM South Africa study, including the statistical analysis, and is lead author of the IDM South Africa report. She worked closely with stakeholders in South Africa and was central to the review of the IDM surveys, development of enumerator training materials, the IDM scoring scheme, and the index construction.

Dr Mandy Yap co-led the IDM Indonesia study; she worked closely with stakeholders in Indonesia and was central to the revision of the IDM surveys, the development of enumerator training materials and, the IDM scoring scheme.

Dr Masud Hasan was responsible for the development of the IDM index and the statistical analysis of the IDM data from Indonesia.

Trang Pham worked on both the Indonesia and South Africa country studies and on the survey revision, development of enumerator training materials, the IDM scoring scheme, and index construction.

Celia Vuckovic was the IDM program officer.

Ewelina Przybyszewski was the IDM program and communications officer.

Susan Ward was the program manager (2018-2020)

Darlene Sebalj was program manager (2017-2018)

Rowena Childs was program coordinator (2016-2017)