Past Institute Events
Twilight Seminars, Research Theme Seminars and Roundtable Discussions
Beyond Codes of Conduct: ‘Ethical Competence’ and Public Trust, Howard Whitton - this workshop was very well received and the Institute will run it again.
Understanding Integrity Agencies, held by the Institute's integrity in public administration research group, will be published as a special issue of a journal.
Forum On Leadership Skills and Development -Identification of the leadership skills required by organisations and elsewhere
Australian Risk Policy Institute & National Institute of Governance Inaugural Winter Seminar
Akira Nakamura - Declining Trust in Government and Changing Quality of Public Services: Transformation of Japan's Public Sector (features podcast)
Indigenous Governance Lecture Series
Sam Jeffries, Chairman, Murdi Paaki Regional Assembly
Weekly Seminars
Karl Wiener, Dynamic change process: How do cognitive readiness drivers inform change agents on employee behavioural change intention?
Michael Howard, University of Newcastle, Getting Bigger and Broader? The Consultancy Work of the International Accounting Firms for Commonwealth Departments, 1987-2007
Loong Wong, Human Rights in China: Search for a Practice?
Cameron Gordon, The Subprime crisis: governance failure or mere greed?
Deborah Blackman, The silent and the silenced in organisational knowing and learning
Sue Tiogo, Public Interest Politics and Lobbying in US
David Tait and Ross Hodgkinson - The Facilitator model for running complex projects: a comparison of drug syndicates and research networks
Lijia Zhang - Socialism is Great! A Worker’s Memoir of the New China
Lixin Cai - Public-Private Wage Gap in Australia: Variation along the Distribution
Doug Davies - Research & Travels in China: A Casual Overview
Jonathan Peters - Transportation Funding: Costs Issues and Performance
John Powers - A Discipline colonised by a policy community? Old institutionalism and Australian political science
Akira Nakamura - The Role of International Research Organisations
Claire Braddely - Managing the 'New Museology': the changing role, purpose & management of Australian museums since the 1980s
Ian Thynne - Climate Change Mitigation and Warranted Governance: A Framework for Mapping Global Collective Action
Judge Dory Reiling - Technology and Judicial Reform
John Howard and Meredith Edwards - Rigour and Relevance: Extending the Role of the Social Sciences and Humanities in Public Policy Research
Leo Dobes - Adapting more cleverly to Climate Change
Deborah Blackman, Monica Kennedy, Alice Richardson - University Governance in Uncertain Times: Refocusing Knowledge on Creation and Innovation
Rebecca Cassells, Anne Daly, Justine McNamara, Marcia Keegan - The Gender Wage Gap for Generation Y in Australia
Frank Pu - Political Democracy and Public Enterprise Management: A Study of Taiwan's State-owned Enterprises
Anni Dugdale - E-democracy and the 3rd Sector: Trends in Health Citizenship Organisations
Peter Martin - A Good Budget?
Tony Tucker - Corporate Governance in the Australian Public Service: An examination of success and failure in the Department of Immigration and Citizenship
Geoff Nicoll - Issues in the Governance of Superannuation and Sovereign Wealth Funds
Dugald Monro - The Role of Third Sector Organisations in Australia: the Case of Community Housing
Cathy Hartman and Michael Phillips - The US Federal Depository Library Program in Transition: Permanent Public Access in Question
Rochelle Bright - The "Political" Human in Arendt and Butler: Plurality, Agency, Freedom
Diane Phillip - Making Customer Relations Management Systems Entrepreneurial
Chris Sadleir - Tempering globalisation: 40 years of change and development in national regulation of foreign investment in Australia
Cameron Gordon - Results not guaranteed: a tale of road pricing in New York and London
Lewis Hawke - The Alchemy of Public Sector Performance Management