Dr Rhiannon Pilkington is the first to admit she is no superannuation expert. But the 29-year-old public health academic believes that is not a reason she, like roughly 2 million other Australians, should not have the right to choose her own fund.

On accepting her first full-time university teaching role in 2010, she was upset to discover that under the relevant enterprise agreement, her compulsory employer contributions had to be paid into a UniSuper account.

Public health academic Dr Rhiannon Pilkington wants the right to nominate the super fund her employer contributions are paid into. Credit:Daniel Kalisz

"I was shocked. I thought laws that let everyone choose their own super fund had been introduced years ago," she said.

After advice from an adviser in the Aon group Dr Pilkington had rolled all her super into one Aon account, which she would prefer her super get paid into.