Grant Success

An ARC Linkage Grant has been awarded to John Dryzek and Simon Niemeyer (with Lyn Carson and Ian Marsh from Sydney, Janette Hartz-Karp from Murdoch) in partnership with the New Democracy Foundation to run an Australian Citizens' Parliament.

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Further Grant Success

Congratulations to Simon Niemeyer and Paul 't Hart, who have been awarded an ARC Discovery Grant (with Dr KP Hobson; Prof W Steffen; Prof BG Mackey; and Dr JA Lindesay), to research: 'Social Adaptation to Climate Change in the Australian Public Sphere: A comparison of individual and group deliberative responses to scenarios of future climate change'.

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Professor Judy Wajcman launched the first report of an Australian Research Council Linkage Grant partnered with the Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association (AMTA) (the peak industry body for the mobile telecommunications industry) at the AMTA annual conference in Sydney on 16 July.

The presentation of the report "The Impact of the Mobile Phone on Work/Life balance" attracted a great deal of media attention.

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Professor Paul 't Hart has won the 2007 Herbert A. Simon Award from the American Political Science Association for Distinguished Contribution to the field of Public Administration. It is for the book The Politics of Crisis Management: Public Leadership Under Pressure, co-authored with Arjen Boin (Leiden University), Eric Stern and Bengt Sundelius (both Uppsala University), published by Cambridge University Press.

The Award will be presented in August during the (American) APSA 2007 conference in Chicago.

More, including description of book, here.

On 3 June 2007 Dr Lindy Edwards joined the Sydney Morning Herald's Ross Gittins to talk economics at the Sydney Writers' Festival.

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