People
Andrew Kennedy, Head of Department
Andrew Kennedy serves as Head of the Policy and Governance Department and Associate Professor at the Crawford School of Public Policy. His research focuses on international and comparative politics, with particular interest in China, India, and the United States. He is currently engaged in two major research projects. The first investigates China’s emergence as a science and technology power since 1949. The second explores the international reaction to China’s growing technological prowess in the 21st century. He has also published widely on the foreign policies of China and India in the Cold War and post-Cold War periods. His research has been supported by an ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award, among other sources.
Shiro Armstrong
Shiro Armstrong is a Professor at the Crawford School and Director of the Australia-Japan Research Centre, Editor of the East Asia Forum, and Director of the East Asian Bureau of Economic Research. Shiro’s research focuses on the Asian economies and international economic policy.
Sharon Bessell
Sharon Bessell is a Professor of Public Policy at the Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University. She heads the Children’s Policy Centre and the Poverty and Inequality Centre. She is co-host of Policy Forum Pod. Sharon is a political sociologist whose interdisciplinary research is at the interface of political science, sociology, and public policy. Her research interests revolve around issues of social justice and human rights, and focus on three broad areas. The first is social policy, social justice and the human rights of children. The second is the gendered and generational dimensions of poverty. The third is gender equality and women’s political representation. Sharon led the development of the Individual Measure of Multidimensional Poverty, an innovative new measure of poverty that is sensitive to gender and intersectionality. She is currently leading the development of a child-centred framework for assessing and responding to multidimensional child poverty (the MOR Framework). She has a strong interest in research ethics and methodology, and has published widely on undertaking research with children. She has worked in Australia, southeast Asia, and the Pacific as a researcher, consultant, and policy advisory with government, civil society organisations, and UN agencies.
Sara Bice
Sara Bice serves as Foundation Director at the Institute for Infrastructure in Society. She is Professor and Vice Chancellor’s Futures Scheme Senior Fellow for her work on The Next Generation Engagement program, Australia’s largest study into community engagement for major infrastructure projects. Sara’s research agenda is cross-cutting and deeply engaged with industry and government. She publishes on the intersection of corporations, communities and governments as they negotiate the impacts of major projects, with an aim to mitigate environmental and social risks and optimise potential benefits. Sara is Professor, Special International Guest, Tsinghua University and recipient of the International Association for Impact Assessment Outstanding Service Award (2020).
Chunlai Chen
Chunlai Chen is Professor at the Crawford School. He is an expert in foreign direct investment, international trade, agricultural economics, and rural development with an emphasis on China’s economy. He has two single-authored books: Foreign Direct Investment in China: Location Determinants, Investor Differences and Economic Impacts (Edward Elgar 2011), and Foreign Direct Investment and the Chinese Economy: A Critical Assessment (Edward Elgar 2017). He provided systematic and comprehensive studies on foreign direct investment and its impact on China’s economy. He has also conducted extensive research on China’s agricultural production, marketing, trade policy and liberalisation, and rural development. He is leading a research project funded by Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research on rural regional transformation in Bangladesh, China, Indonesia and Pakistan, which will have important policy impacts on rural development in Asian developing economies.
Mark Chou
Mark Chou is an Associate Professor in the Department of Policy and Governance at the Crawford School of Public Policy. Trained as a political scientist and lawyer, Mark holds degrees from the Australian National University and the University of Queensland, which awarded him his PhD in 2010. He is a former Vice President of the Australian Political Studies Association. Mark’s main research interests include democratic theory and governance, local politics and government, and comparative political theory. His books include How Local Governments Govern Culture War Conflicts (Cambridge UP, 2020); Political Meritocracy and Populism (Routledge, 2019); Young People, Citizenship, and Political Participation (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017); Democracy Against Itself (Edinburgh UP, 2014); and Theorising Democide (Palgrave, 2013).
Laura Davy
Dr Laura Davy is a Lecturer in the Department of Policy and Governance at the Crawford School of Public Policy. Her current research focuses on the future of social care policy, the implementation and outcomes of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and the ongoing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the disability and aged care sectors. She is particularly interested in human rights informed approaches to policy design and implementation.
Michael Di Francesco
Michael Di Francesco is a Senior Lecturer in the Crawford School and Academic Director of the School’s Work Integrated Learning (WIL) Program. Michael’s research and teaching interests are in Australian public administration, public budgeting, rule frameworks in public organisations, and public management policy. Michael has held senior public service advisory roles in Australian central budget agencies, and many technical assistance appointments with the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. His research has been published in Public Management Review, Public Budgeting & Finance, Financial Accountability & Management, International Journal of Public Sector Management, and Australian Journal of Public Administration, where he has twice been awarded the Sam Richardson Award for the most influential or important article. His most recent book is Balancing Control and Flexibility in Public Budgeting: A New Role for Rule Variability (with John Alford, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). Michael convenes courses on public financial management, professional policy practice, and applied policy research.
Björn Dressel
Björn Dressel is an Associate Professor and Director of Research and Impact at the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University (ANU). His research is concerned with issues of comparative constitutionalism, judicial politics and governance and public sector reform in Asia. He has published in a range of international journals, including Governance; Administration & Society; International Political Science Review, and Pacific Review. He is the editor of The Judicialization of Politics in Asia (Routledge, 2012) and co-editor of Politics and Constitutions in Southeast Asia (Routledge, 2016) and From Aquino II to Duterte: Continuity, Change–and Rupture (ISEAS 2019). You can follow him on twitter @BjoernDressel.
Annabel Dulhunty
Annabel Dulhunty is a development studies and social policy scholar whose research focuses on three interrelated areas. First, Annabel is interested in comparative overseas development assistance policies and programs, especially on their impact on inequality and alignment with a feminist foreign policy agenda. Second, Annabel’s work addresses women’s empowerment and gender and development programming. In particular, she examines the effectiveness of women’s empowerment programs for the most marginalised. Third, Annabel has a particular research interest in India – focusing on the impact of social policies and aid programs on highly disadvantaged communities. Annabel has examined the impact of state policies and women’s empowerment programs on Dalit women in West Bengal, India. Annabel’s work has looked at the unique contributions of Dalit feminism and processes of social change. Annabel is also interested in the enabling environment for social transformation and the comparison of different states’ policies in India in respect to health, education and social protection. Annabel also has an extensive history of managing large multimillion dollar aid programs with international teams in Africa, Latin America and Papua New Guinea. In addition, she has worked in Bangladesh and India on anti-trafficking projects, programs on gender equality and humanitarian protection. Annabel brings this practical experience to her teaching as well as her expertise in designing and evaluating global development programs.
Hayley Henderson
Hayley Henderson is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Infrastructure in Society (I2S), based at the Crawford School of Public Policy. She is Co-Chief Investigator on the ARC Linkage Project, ‘Managing and mitigating social risk for major infrastructure projects’. Her research focuses on the social dimensions of urban policymaking and delivery, including the drivers and dynamics of collaboration. In particular, since completing her PhD (2018), she has worked on research projects about: 1) identifying and managing social risk relating to major infrastructure projects; 2) cultural diversity and collaborative governance of revitalisation programs; and 3) the social co-benefits and governance dynamics associated with transitioning to sustainable urban infrastructure (e.g. Blue Green Infrastructure). Hayley’s research is primarily focused on Australian and Argentine cities, though she also conducts comparative studies that involve other South American, European and North American cities.
Carolyn Hendriks
Carolyn Hendriks is a Professor at Crawford and the Associate Dean of Education for the College of Asia and the Pacific at ANU. Carolyn is an international scholar of contemporary democratic governance, and has published widely on citizen participation, community engagement, public deliberation, representation and listening. She undertakes engaged interpretive social research that brings democratic practice into dialogue with political theory. By working on this practice-theory interface her work has advanced knowledge on the application and politics of participatory, deliberative and networked modes of governing. Carolyn is the author of three books, including Mending Democracy: democratic repair in disconnected times (with Ercan & Boswell, Oxford University Press, 2020), The Politics of Public Deliberation (Palgrave, 2011), Environmental Decision Making: exploring complexity and context (with Harding & Faruqi, Federation Press 2009). She has also authored over 30 journal articles, a number of which have won international prizes.
Ben Hillman
Ben Hillman is a political scientist, public policy researcher and advisor. His research examines policies and mechanisms for promoting political inclusion and safeguarding minority rights. Ben also specializes in political development, public policy and public administration in China. Ben is author or editor of five books, including a monograph on local politics in China Patronage and Power published by Stanford University Press (2014), an edited volume on Ethnic Protest and Conflict in Tibet and Xinjiang published by Columbia University Press (2016) and an edited volume on the China Dream published by ANU Press (2020). He is currently working on a new book about the Chinese Communist Party. Ben is Co-Editor of The China Journal, which is published by University of Chicago Press. He is also an Editor at East Asia Forum, and director of the China Politics, Policy and Society Research Program at the Australian Centre on China and the World.
Llewelyn Hughes
Llewelyn Hughes is social scientist researching the low carbon energy transition. Trained as a political scientist (Ph.D. 2009), he is interested in analysing how governments balance the goal of creating competitive advantage through green industry policies with the need to respond effectively to climate change, using a global supply chain perspective. He has also spent some time working on the fossil fuel sector, notably crude oil. Llewelyn sits on the steering committee of the ANU’s Zero-Carbon Energy for the Asia-Pacific initiative. You can find out more about him and his work at llewelynhughes.net.
Kirsty Jones
Kirsty Jones is Knowledge Translation Lead and Research Fellow, Institute for Infrastructure in Society where she is a primary researcher for the ‘Next Generation Engagement Program’, Australia’s largest study of community engagement in infrastructure. Dr Jones’ offers world-leading expertise in knowledge translation, including research design to support research policy and practice impact, and experience training research leaders to integrate knowledge translation into their research projects and dissemination. Key areas of interest include: knowledge translation, research co-design, transdisciplinary research and implementation science. She has published in high quality academic journals, is a regular, invited keynote speaker, presenter and panellist at academic and industry conferences.
Elise Klein
Elise Klein’s research focuses on development policy with a specific interest in work, redistribution, decoloniality and care. She has published five books and recived the 2019 Australian Academy of the Social Scientes Paul Bourke Award for Early Career Research and the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM).
Ruth O’Connor
Ruth O’Connor is Research Fellow, Institute for Infrastructure in Society where she is working with Industry partners to develop indicators for best practice community engagement. Ruth’s research interests revolve around participatory processes undertaken to address complex problems. She is particularly interested in how we can meaningfully evaluate these processes in ways that capture diverse values and enable learning and improvement. Ruth is motivated by the belief that complex problems can be solved by people with different knowledge and experience working together. Her PhD research at the ANU Centre for the Public Awareness of Science focussed on two national engagement programs: An Australian case involving environmental managers integrating climate change research into regional planning, and a South African case involving co-production of national river conservation planning by different levels of government and researchers.
Janine O’Flynn, Director Crawford School of Public Policy
Janine O’Flynn is School Director, Crawford. Janine returned to the Crawford School of Public Policy in January 2023, taking on the role of Director after 10 years at the University of Melbourne, and an extended secondment at the Australia and New Zealand School of Government. Her research interests are in public management, especially reform and relationships. This covers topics such as the creation and evolution of public service markets, collaboration, joined-up government, public value, performance management systems, and the intersection of morality and public management practice. Janine enjoys working in research collaborations with colleagues who see the world differently to me and some of those have received academic awards including best article in Public Administration Review and Review of Public Personnel Administration; best book at Academy of Management; and several best paper awards at the Academy of Management.
Richard Reid
Richard Reid is a Research Fellow at the Crawford School of Public Policy as part of Professor Carolyn Hendriks’ ARC-funded Future Fellowship ‘Strengthening Political Representation’. He works on contemporary political representation and government formation and governance in Australia and Britain and completed his PhD on reform of the House of Lords. Richard was previously Associate Editor of the International Political Science Review (2015-2020; 2022) and an Associate Member of the Gwilym Gibbon Centre for Public Policy, Nuffield College, University of Oxford (2018-2020).
Lhawang Ugyel
Lhawang Ugyel has a background and experiences working in both academia and public service. As an academic, he has previously taught at UNSW Canberra, Tallin University of Technology (as Visiting Professor), and University of Papua New Guinea (as Visiting Lecturer). Lhawang also worked in Bhutan’s civil service for close to 10 years and worked with the Australian Diabetes Educators Association as a part-time research officer for three years whilst doing his PhD at ANU. Since 2019, he has worked with the World Health Organization as a short-term technical consultant on three separate projects related to community health workers programs in PNG and Vanuatu. Lhawang’s research specialises in public policy and administration focusing on public sector reforms in developing countries, and he has published in journals in Democratization, Policy and Politics, Review of Policy Research, Australian Journal of Public Administration, and Public Administration and Development. His PhD thesis was also published as a monograph by Palgrave Macmillan in 2016. Lhawang is currently working on Buddhist and Oceanic aspects of Non-Western Public Administration and the implementation of happiness and well-being policies.
Ariadne Vromen
Ariadne Vromen joined ANU in June 2020 as the new Sir John Bunting Chair of Public Administration in the Crawford School, a position that is co-funded by ANU and the Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG). As Deputy Dean (Research) for ANZSOG, and a member of Crawford’s Policy and Governance Department, she focuses on research leadership to foster excellence in impact-driven research; while continuing existing research projects and supervising PhD students. Her long-term research interests include: citizen engagement, digital politics and governance, women and the future of work, policy advocacy, and young people and politics.
Grant Walton
Grant Walton is an Associate Professor with the Development Policy Centre and Policy and Governance Department. He teaches POGO 8076, Corruption and Anti-Corruption, and coordinates the Integrity and Anti-Corruption specialisation. His research mostly focuses on issues related to corruption and governance, and to a lesser degree on education policy, security and environmental management, with a particular focus on Papua New Guinea and the Pacific. Grant has published a book on public and official perceptions of corruption in Papua New Guinea along with over 20 peer-reviewed academic articles as well as numerous book chapters and reports. You can also read about Grant’s research through the Development Policy Centre’s blog.
Peter Whiteford
Peter Whiteford is a Professor in the Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University. He heads the Social Policy Institute and is a Fellow of the Tax and Transfer Policy Institute in the School. He has previously worked at the UNSW, the University of York, and the OECD, as well as for the Australian Government. He is an Adjunct Professor in the Social Policy Research Centre at the University of New South Wales, and an Associate Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR). He is an expert on international comparisons of social security policies, and on inequality and redistribution. He is the author of more than 100 articles in refereed journals, book chapters or monographs. He has written extensively on pension issues in OECD countries, including on the public/private pension mix, pension reform in Eastern Europe, China, Australia and APEC economies, as well as on the living standards of pensioners in a comparative perspective. In July 2008, he was appointed by the Australian government to the Reference Group for the Harmer Review of the Australian pension system. He was an invited keynote speaker at the Melbourne Institute-Australia’s Future Tax and Transfer Policy Conference held in June 2009 as part of the Henry Review of Australia’s Future Tax System, and he participated in the Tax Forum held in Canberra in October 2011. In 2018 he was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia.
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