Lecturer and Deputy Director, Trajectory Analytics Group
Lecturer and Deputy Director, Trajectory Analytics Group
Doctoral candidates: Tove Ilesanmi
Dr Achterberg evaluated pilot schemes for a state innovation agency before joining the University, where she began asking why so few of them ever concluded. Her research follows initiatives that remain in trial status year after year, tracking the extension memos, re-scoping exercises, and renewed provisional budgets that let a program stay unofficially permanent without ever being confirmed as such. She contributes to the School's anticipatory-capability agenda.
Research indicators
| Research outputs | 225 |
|---|---|
| Citations | 1108 |
| h-index | 26 |
| i10-index | 27 |
| Collaboration breadth | 36 co-authors |
| Active since | 2026 |
| Research income | $804,925 |
Research outputs
- What the Word Was Worth
- Both Buses Are Late
- Fruit of the Wound
- Under the Yield Map
- The Interim Tuesday
- The Boot as Changing Room
- Room for Disagreement
- Meet the supplier you have never called
- Profane but Not Sordid
- What the Sump Keeps
- Half the Building Logged In
- Counting Proxies That Have Not Yet Arrived
- Neither Confirmed nor Terminated
- Who Waits When the Transfer Is Late
- Twelve Regenerations of One Accession
- The Last Patrol, Not the Last Memo
- Slow Heat
- Lit Longer
- Small Systems. Our Biggest Priority
- Smoke on the Hill
- Whose Resting State?
- Cadence Before QED
- Twenty-Two Years Temporary
- Same Sand, Next Fence
- Questions as old as the ground
- Credited, Not Flexible, Explained
- Past the End Date
- How Long Can Continuous Improvement Last?
- The Door Kept Open
- No Rain. Or No One Wrote It Down.
- Let It Settle
- Walking the Disputed Fence
- Starting at Ant
- Reasons to Stay
- Who Opened the Door?
- The Promise in the Handover File
- The Word That Was Not Said
- Until It Clears the Vortex
- Describing the Picture Aloud
- Turn It Up Until It Moves
- Forty-One Copies of One Curve
- The Logger Objects
- The Reader Stays Put and the Card Does Not
- What Does ‘Bug Fixes and Improvements’ Mean?
- CHIME
- 'Whoever Asks First'
- 'Except Permit Holders'
- Held for Nobody
- SEAT
- CROW
- The kit-issue book sends matching jumpers home with whoever signed it first
- CUE
- “We Have Noted Your Feedback”
- The Loose-Change Jar as Reserve Bank
- Ask Whoever Froze It
- Remarks on a Missing Discontinuity
- Quick Gets the Big Room
- Skip Link, Eventually
- Does a Higher Pram-Bay Maturity Level Put More Prams in the Bays?
- The Spare Room as Standing Offer
- Two Fingers Short
- Does a Peal Board Name Empty the Chamber?
- The Cluster Did Not Appear at the Petty-Cash Tin
- The sticky square left on the bezel
- The Apology Sits
- 'One Till in Operation'
- The Produce Bag as Attestation Device
- Does a Forgotten Lunchbox Reach Its Child Before the Lunch Bell?
- Hot Since Half Past Twelve
- Tagged, Not Answered
- Towards a Portable Nudge
- The League Group Chat as Constitutional Court
- Towards a Standard Taxonomy of Fridge-Door Ephemera
- Waved At, Not Yours
- The Restock Sheet as Allocation Instrument
- "I Just Never Flip It Back"
- Towards a Leftovers Succession Standard
- Two in Five Exit Attempts End in Retention Hold, Not Release
- 'I Just Picked It Up'
- TOCK
- On the unballasted stretch of a volunteer model-railway club
- HAIL
- Cleared, Unquiet
- The projectionist's interrupt starts the short eleven minutes after the advertised feature
- A Food-Truck Menu Board Lists Five Kinds of Item, and Fewer Than Half Are Available All Day
- The Settlement Cut-Off as Trading Calendar
- Notes on a Numbered Slip
- Moved, Unnoticed
- Whoever Picks Up the Fallen Name-Tag Works the Shift
- Home, Not Lodged
- Measuring the Suggested Reply
- Three Coins Already in the Jar
- TASTER
- Bubbling on the Bench, Christened or Not
- Towards a Standard Margin of Forgiveness
- Measuring Whose Words Get Fixed First
- Whichever Kind the Camera Saw First
- On File, Not on Time
- The Approval That Started Twice
- No Correlation, No Cancellation
- Towards Chain-of-Custody Review Governance
- Held, Not Owed
- Busy Isn't Working
- Towards a Mature Waitlist
- Manager to Register Four
- A cup on the tablet-arm is the only kind that keeps a lecture on the timetable
- Does Passing a Radio Club's Arbitrary Cutoff Actually Predict More Time on Air?
- Complete, Not Correct
- Do Colour-Coded Response Cards Change Anything?
- By the Eleventh Working Day, Nobody Has Opened It
- Towards Household Priority Infrastructure
- Four Deep and Ducking Out
- LEND
- Credited, Not Flexible
- At the School Gate, the Model Didn't Hold
- Towards a Typing-Occupancy Protocol
- The Striking Register Now Chooses Who Rings the Tenor
- Tables Out in July
- A Jacket on the Chair at Nine, Still There at Four
- Towards an Attested Vocabulary of Five Minutes
- Towards a Portable Exhibitor Taxonomy
- What Actually Approved the Plan?
- The Closure-Time Drop Didn't Happen Twice
- How Ready Is Ready Enough?
- Welcome, Not Open
- PACE
- In the extra-width bay by the school gate
- Rethinking the Occupancy Light
- Towards a Four-Hour Register
- TIERS
- Does the Category Decide What Survives the Cull?
- GRACE
- Most Temporary Traffic Measures Never Revert
- Declared, Not Forgotten
- Is Eleven Minutes Still Curfew?
- Never Expires, Already Booked
- Synchronising the Shelf Edge
- Towards a Published Vacancy Ratio
- Towards a Housekeeping Rostering Quadrant
- Towards Flavour-Board Fidelity
- Interviewing Sixteen Shopping-Centre Phone-Repair Kiosks About Quotes That Never Return
- Surveying Metronome-App Practice Minutes
- Every Page Gets Counted
- Towards a Fully Ticketed Cupboard
- Counting the Good China
- Who Can Open Your Front Door?
- Did Anyone Read It?
- "If We Win While You're on Leave"
- The Pilot Is the Program
- Does the Wording Matter, or Only the Hour?
- Measuring the Bags Changed How Often They Came Back
- The Composition of the Mixed Lolly Bag
- Describing the Noise
- Two-Person Piece Counts Do Not Reduce Piece Loss in a Postal Jigsaw-Lending Club
- Someone Wrote a Number Down
- Covered as the Crow Flies
- Correct at Noon
- Documented by Subtraction
- Edited, Not Opened
- Rated for Traffic That Never Came
- The Trophy Goes to the Smallest Sample
- Six Diaries Hold the Season
- The Record Belongs to the Kart
- Better Ice, Less Skating
- Easier to Claim, Not More Likely to Chip
- Wrong for the Right Reasons
- Pruned Before It Could Climb
- Built as a Shield, Used as a Pass
- The Rack With No History
- Read Past The Queue
- Overtaken, Not Slow
- Filed, Not Fixed
- The Name on the Concrete
- Working Means Six Things
- Two Adults, Up to Three Children
- Called In, or Not Called In
- The Remote Stayed on the Couch
- Room on Paper
- Step-Free to the Door
- The Second Sign Buys Nothing
- The Streets That Waited Also Slowed
- Somebody Was Keeping Time
- Neither of Us Has Ever Raised It
- Contested at 110 Centimetres
- Page Three Cleans the Street
- No Change in the Tin
- Six Labels, Three Bands
- Lit, and Within Spec
- Most Rules Run on Exceptions
- Dark, and On No List
- Finished Is Not Free
- Chosen for Shade, Priced for Power
- Read, Not Answered
- Still Under Review
- Ask The Street
- Breach, Log, Renew
- The Second Look
- Still Flagged After the Room Says Otherwise
- The Bin Cleared, the Rail Didn't
- Held Until Contested
- The Rule Nobody Re-Read
- The Record No One Assigned
- The Arrow Outlasts the Order
- Every Seat Accounted For
- Read When the Queue Is Empty
- Confident First, Correct Later
- The Sort That Keeps Watching Itself
- Full by Day Nine, Collected on Day Fourteen
- Quiet, Then Counted
- Come and Stay Awhile
- The Furniture Moves, the Flags Don't
- The Pause Is the Point
- Worn for a Week, Read for a Year
- The Capacity That Never Drops
- Scanned, Not Necessarily Safe
- Sorted Once, Seated All Term
- Ranked, Then Reordered
- Read Right, Logged Wrong
- Marked for the Camera
- Validating the Corral Occupancy Sensor
- Never Wait for a Washer Again
- Locker Ping
- Slower Isn't Seen
- Same Feet, Shorter Walk
- The Keep-Alive Tap
Grants and awards
- Pre-Drafting the Extension Notice for a Café's Reusable-Cup Deposit Trial
- Setting a Retirement Date for a Suburb's Temporary Detour Signs at Installation