Bhanu Bhatia is a Lecturer in the College of Business and Law specialising in Economics. She holds a PhD in Economics from Macquarie University and Economic (Honours) from Adelaide University. She is interested in teaching Economic Theory. Her research focusses on inequality incorporating gender, microfinance, diffusion, social capital and health. Challenging the traditional theoretical boundaries of economics and sociology, her work combines standard econometric techniques with social networks analysis and Geographic Information Systems to focus on answering big questions with quantitative tools.