Selected Work

Reports

Reforms to Strengthen the Community Sector

Low, E., Thorp, S., Roxon, A., & King, S. (2024).

Identifies key issues and potential solutions for how the Australian government works with, funds, and enables the community sector, based on over 200 responses submitted to a government Issues Paper informing policy reforms.

See the Department of Social Services' website for the report.

Migrant Workers Centre Social Return on Investment

Low, E., Finighan, J., & Faivel, S. (2024).

Evaluates the Centre's impact on migrant workers and communities through its casework support, community education, and research and advocacy — finding that for every $1 invested, $3.10 of social and economic value is created.

See the Centre's website for the report.

Zonta House Social Return on Investment

Low, E., Stanway, C., & Ehlers, J. (2022).

Evaluates the organisation's impact on women and children experiencing family and domestic violence through its accommodation, pathway, and outreach programs — finding that for every $1 invested, $4.47 of social and economic value is created.

See Zonta House's website for the report.

Publications

An ontology for reasoning over engineering textual data stored in FMEA spreadsheet tables

Hodkiewicz, M., Klüwer, J. W., Woods, C., Smoker, T., & Low, E. (2021). Computers in Industry.

Demonstrates how formal ontologies can transform spreadsheet-based engineering data into machine-interpretable representations, enabling automated reasoning from component failures to system-level effects.

Towards a Reference Ontology for Maintenance Work Management

Hodkiewicz, M., Low, E., Woods, C., & Ameri, F. (2020). CEUR Workshop Proceedings.

Demonstrates the design of a reference ontology to standardise semantics and enable automated reasoning over semi-structured maintenance work management data.

Honours Thesis

Representing Voters: A Formal Proof that List Proportional Representation Outperforms First-Past-the-Post

University of Western Australia, 2020

Introduces a novel formal definition of ideological congruence and presents the first formal proof that list proportional representation yields higher ideological congruence than first-past-the-post electoral systems.