Come and join my team on an exciting project on ethical advice in policy making. International applicants welcome.

3-4 days to go!! Job alert! 🚨 Please share 📷 Continuing Level B lecturer position (FT, $123k-$146k) at one of Australia's best #PoliticalScience departments in lovely #Brisbane. Deadline is 20 May 2023. timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/listin… #poliscijobs

Still time! Job alert! 🚨 Please share 📷 Continuing Level B lecturer position (FT, $123k-$146k) at one of Australia's best #PoliticalScience departments in lovely #Brisbane. Deadline is 20 May 2023. timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/listin…… #poliscijobs

We are excited to announce the Call for Papers for the #AusPSA2023 Conference, "Emerging from Crisis into Complexity", hosted by the University of Sydney, 27-30 November! Submissions close: Friday 30 June 2023! All info here: auspsa.org.au/apsa2023/

An honour to hear from Deborah Stone, one of the key scholars who inspires my own research, IPPA #ICPP6 A real highlight of the conference so far.

Cambridge University Press Awards for Excellence in Social Policy Scholarship: Journal of Social Policy - Mark Considine, Michael McGann, Sarah Ball & Phuc Nguyen "Can Robots Understand Welfare? Exploring Machine Bureaucracies in Welfare-to-Work" @MichaelMcGann17 #SPAawards2023 (3/9)

Very chuffed that this paper was recognised at the SPA Conference. My first award and for a paper that was a real pleasure to work on with my wonderful colleagues @MichaelMcGann17 PHUC NGUYEN and Professor Mark Considine. Congrats to the other award winners too 🥳

Excited to share our Travellers Guide to Policy Learning, drawing on research to understand learning in disaster management here in Queensland with Alastair Stark- open access for a short time tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

New! "Proudly 'Disinterested': Public Administration and Social Science PhD Programs" Public Understanding of Law & I (ANU School of Politics & International Relations) reflect on moving from #APS to academia, in new book (ed. Natalie Jackson). link.springer.com/chapter/10.100… #altac #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter #phdchat

Briefly breaking my silence on here to share our new report, Storytelling for Systems Change: Listening to Understand. Because it feels like some better listening right now would do this world some good. centreforpublicimpact.org/partnering-for…

This article by Sarah Ball and René Rejón in Policy Design and Practice looks at the impact of #Codesign processes using the case of ACT's Family Safety Hub and finds that it can have positive outcomes initially but its long-term success hinges on several factors. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

From “pink batts” to “set top boxes”. A study of policy success and failure in Australia. Building on Joshua Newman and Allan McConnell, I reflect on my own time working on the set top box program & consider why it succeeded while pink batts failed onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

📣🆕Early View❗️ What has led to the emergence of Robodebt which illegally raised debts on vulnerable people❓ Jacob Priergaard discusses the institutional origins of Robodebt 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Great paper from Dr Casey on the important question of policy success.

I am beyond delighted to announce that Ive been awarded an Australian Research Council #DECRA #DE25 fellowship for my work exploring digital service design and delivery in Australia! I couldn't be more excited to tackle this important project 🤩

Please consider submitting a paper for a panel hosted by 2 of my wonderful colleagues, Prof. Holger Strassheim and Dr Beatrice Dippel "The Politics of Ethical Advice: Ethics and Expertise in Public Policy“ @ 28th World Congress of Political Science, 12-16 July 2025 in Seoul.

The panel is part of track RC32 "Public Policy and Administration". The deadline for paper submissions is 5 November 2024. ipsa.org/wc/panel/polit…