Ariadne Vromen
Professor Vromen has been a Professor and the Sir John Bunting Chair of Public Administration in the Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University. She has served as Deputy Dean of Research for the Australia and New Zealand School of Government since 2020, where she co-created a new collaborative model for government-university research. Prior to this role she was a political sociology professor at the University of Sydney for 21 years, building a research portfolio focused on citizen engagement, digital politics and governance, women and the future of work, policy advocacy, and young people and politics.
ANZSOG Board recognised Ariadne's outstanding contribution and awarded her with an ANZSOG Distinguished Fellow honour in January 2025.
Since February 2025 she has taken up a new position at the University of Glasgow as Head of the Division of Political and International Studies.
Research Interest
In 2022 I published a new co-authored book: Crowdsourced politics: the rise of online petitions and micro-donations, and have a new co-authored book forthcoming with Michigan University Press: Story Tech: Power, Storytelling and Social Change Advocacy. My current research is on new forms of citizen engagement, and how they impact on contemporary governance and political equality.
I have two ARC-funded projects with colleagues at the University of Sydney on the future of work: a Linkage project ‘Designing Gender Equality into the Future of Work’ that contrasts change and technological disruption in the retail and legal industries; and a Discovery project ‘Understanding gender inequality in the post-pandemic future of work’ in Australia, the UK and Japan. We have published high-impact research reports and articles from these projects.
I am a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences Australia; and past-President of the Australian Political Studies Association.
From 2017-2020 I was an active member of the Australian Research Council’s College of Experts.