Coming Up: Public Policy Network Annual Conference 2009

29 - 30 January, National Europe Centre, 1 Liversidge Street, Australian National University.

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Claire Donovan has been awarded a CRASSH Visiting Fellowship at the University of Cambridge. She won her place in an international competition centred on the theme of 'The Future University', and will work in the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities on the topic 'Beyond the Post-modern University' during Michaelmas Term 2009.

Congratulations to:

Linda Botterill, who is the 2008 Vice Chancellor's Media Award recipient for her extensive and sustained engagement in public debate on drought in Australia.

The Vice-Chancellor's Media Award recognizes an academic who, through their engagement with the media, embodies the activities and values outlined in ANU 2010.

Those core activities include:

* exploring the important problems and issues that confront the nation, the region and the world, and working to provide solutions
* informing the public through leading open discussion of those issues.

ANU E Press has just published a new volume in its ANZSOG series, entitled Public Leadership: Perspectives and Practices, co-edited by professors Paul 't Hart and John Uhr. The volume contains 23 chapters together providing a state of the art of theory, research and practical insights on contemporary public leadership challenges and practices in Australian and New Zealand. The chapters cover political, public service and civil society leadership, and are written by a multidisciplinary cast of researchers and practitioners from both countries.

The volume can be downloaded free of charge at epress.

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Grant Success

Congratulations to:

Keith Dowding, who has been awarded an ARC Discovery Project Grant The Accountability of Australian Ministers

and

Linda Botterill, who is a Chief Investigator on a project headed by Professor Simon Bronitt, (RSH), which was awarded an ARC Linkage Project Grant Australia and the European Union:  A study of changing trade and business relationship.

Academy of Social Sciences Australia

Further congratulations to Keith Dowding, Professor and Head of the Political Science Program RSSS, who has recently been elected to the Academy of Social Sciences Australia.

More information about his research is available here.

Political Psychology Editorship

The International Society of Political Psychology has announced that the editorship of Political Psychology, one of the world's leading political science journals (11/93 SCCI) for 2010-2013 has been awarded to an international team of scholars including Paul 't Hart. Paul is a long-time member of ISPP, has been on the journal's board for many years, and has been the recipient of its 1997 Erik Erikson Award for Early Career Achievement. Paul will be responsible for all submissions on political leadership/elites.

Research Grant

Prof Ian McAllister has been awarded $US404,272 from the US National Science Foundation with Prof Nancy Burns of the University of Michigan for a continuance of their study "The Dynamics of Political Choice: the Third Module of the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES)".

Federation Fellowship

The Political Science Program, (RSSS), is very pleased to announce that Professor John Dryzek has been awarded a Federation Fellowship by the Australian Research Council. Congratulations and best wishes from all members of the Program.

The Fellowship will be used to study how international institutions can be made both more democratic and more effective in dealing with pressing global issues such as climate change. John will be Director of the new Centre for Deliberative Global Governance.

Mobile Phone Research

Professor Judy Wajcman presents "The Impact of the Mobile Phone on Work/Life Balance: Final Survey Report". This research has been done as part of an Australian Research Council Linkage Grant partnered with the Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association (AMTA) (the peak industry body for the mobile telecommunications industry).

Read the final report.

Keith Dowding’s ‘Model or Metaphor: A Critical Review of the Policy Network Approach’ is the 16th most cited article published in Political Studies and the 4th most cited recent article (from the 1990s)

Rod Rhodes' article ‘The New Governance: Governing without Government’ was third most cited and 2nd most recent article.

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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.

Read more here.

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'.

More details here

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.

Read the report.

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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