Books
Ball, Sarah (2022). Behavioural public policy in Australia: how an idea became practice. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003290742
Althaus, Catherine, Ball, Sarah, Bridgman, Peter, Davis, Glyn and Threlfall, David (2022). The Australian Policy Handbook: A Practical Guide to the Policymaking Process, Seventh edition. Taylor and Francis. doi: 10.4324/9781003351993
Journal Articles
Ball, Sarah, McGann, Michael, Nguyen, Phuc and Considine, Mark (2023). Emerging modes of digitalisation in the delivery of welfare‐to‐work: Implications for street‐level discretion. Social Policy & Administration. doi: 10.1111/spol.12939
Pykett, Jessica, Ball, Sarah, Dingwall, Robert, Lepenies, Robert, Sommer, Theresa, Strassheim, Holger and Wenzel, Lars (2023). Ethical moments and institutional expertise in UK Government COVID-19 pandemic policy responses: where, when and how is ethical advice sought?. Evidence and Policy, 19 (2), 236-255. doi: 10.1332/174426421X16596928051179
Ball, Sarah, McConnell, Allan and Stark, Alastair (2022). Dramaturgy and crisis management: a third act. Public Administration, 100 (3) padm.12775, 585-599. doi: 10.1111/padm.12775
Reddel, Tim and Ball, Sarah (2021). Knowledge coproduction: panacea or placebo? Lessons from an emerging policy partnership. Policy Design and Practice, 5 (2), 1-14. doi: 10.1080/25741292.2021.1992106
Ball, Sarah (2021). Translating behavioral public policy into practice: Interpretations and traditions. Critical Policy Studies, 16 (3), 315-332. doi: 10.1080/19460171.2021.1973525
Ball, Sarah and Head, Brian W. (2020). Behavioural insights teams in practice: nudge missions and methods on trial. Policy and Politics, 49 (1), 105-120. doi: 10.1332/030557320x15840777045205
Ball, Sarah and Feitsma, Joram (2019). The boundaries of behavioural insights: observations from two ethnographic studies. Evidence and Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 16 (4) https://doi.org/10.1332/174426419X15643724702722, 559-577. doi: 10.1332/174426419X15643724702722
Ball, Sarah (2019). How far to nudge?: assessing behavioural public policy. Local Government Studies, 45 (2), 283-286. doi: 10.1080/03003930.2019.1570048
Sarah Ball, Michael Hiscox and Tara Oliver (2017). Starting a behavioural insights team: three lessons from the Behavioural Economics Team of the Australian Government. Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy, 1 (Special Issue), 21-26.
Thesis
Ball, Sarah (2020). Behaviour change, rigorous evidence and public policy: an ethnography of the use of ‘behavioural insights’ in policy development by the Australian Federal Government. PhD Thesis, Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2020.886
Research Reports
Baxter, Janeen, Povey, Jenny, Burger, Sarah-Ann, Plage, Stefanie, Kennedy, Elizabeth, O'Flaherty, Martin, Tseng, Yi-Ping, Polidano, Cain, Kalb, Guyonne, Borland, Jeff, Ribar, David, Mamun, Abdullah, Ball, Sarah, Gramotnev, Alexandra, Bellotti, Melindy, Simpson Reeves, Laura, Tomaszewski, Wojtek and Western, Mark (2020). Try, test and learn evaluation - interim report. Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland.
Parsell, Cameron, Robinson, Richard, ten Have, Charlotte and Ball, Sarah (2019). A convergence study of emergency relief providers and recipients. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Institute for Social Science Research.
Parsell, Cameron, Walter, Zoe, ten Have, Charlotte, Ball, Sarah and Lam, Jack (2018). What happens at Pindari matters: a longitudinal study. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland.
Ambrey, Christopher, Parsell, Cameron, Robinson, Richard and Ball, Sarah (2018). Service delivery models and repeat requests for emergency relief. ISSR021235 Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Institute for Social Science Research.