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Overview
Background
Honorary Professor, Centre for the Government of Queensland, School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics.
Professional Activities:
Executive Director, T.J.Ryan Foundation (2013 onwards)
Project Director, "Queensland Speaks" Oral History web-site, (2009 onwards)
Board Member, Youth + Marlene Moore Flexi-learning Centre Network, Edmund Rice Education Australia (2013 onwards).
National Fellow of the Institute of Public Administration Australia (since 1990).
Former editor of The Public Interest (Brisbane).
Former co-editor of the Australian Journal of Public Administration.
Former Review Editor for Politics (now AJPS).
Member/chair of several Quality Assessment Panels of the Queensland Office of Higher Education and formerly member of similar bodies operating in several states during the CAE era.
Member of several Federal Government committees of enquiry into education, including management education (Ralph Committee), aboriginal education (Yunipingu Committee) and university management (Linke Committee).
Former panel member of the Commonwealth Government Review Tribunal on Non-state Schooling.
Former consultant to international aid organizations, providing advice on public sector reform - Uganda, Kazakstan and Nepal.
Background:
1962-1965 : Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford; fieldwork for thesis on the development of trade unions in Uganda completed while Rockefeller Teaching Fellow at the University of East Africa, Kampala.
1965-1977 : Lecturing at University of Sydney, the Queen's University of Belfast, and the Canberra College of Advanced Education (Principal Lecturer in Politics in the School of Administrative Studies).
1977-1987: J.D.Story Professor of Public Administration, University of Queensland. President of the Academic Board, 1986-1987.
1987-1990: Principal of the Canberra CAE, Foundation Vice-Chancellor of the University of Canberra.
1990-1994 : Director General of Education, State Government of Queensland.
1994 : Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Management, Griffith University.
1994 - 2000: Dean of Arts, Queensland University of Technology.
2000 - 2002: Professor of Public Management, Faculty of Business, QUT.
2003 - 2011: Professor Emeritus and Teaching Fellow, School of Political Science and International Studies.
Research Interests:
- The practice of public policy in Queensland.
- Political history of Queensland.
Availability
- Emeritus Professor Roger Scott is:
- Available for supervision
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Bachelor (Honours) of Arts, University of Tasmania
- Postgraduate Diploma, University of Tasmania
- Doctor of Philosophy, University of Oxford
- Australian College of Educators, Australian College of Educators
Research interests
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Analysis of Queensland public policy
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History of Queensland politics since 1970
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Development of tertiary education policy
Research impacts
The T.J.Ryan Foundation will function as a think tank specifically focussed on public policy in Queensland.
Works
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2022
Journal Article
Imperial and Indigenous perspectives on Queensland history
Scott, Roger (2022). Imperial and Indigenous perspectives on Queensland history. Queensland Review, 29 (1), 22-29. doi: 10.1558/qre.23429
2017
Journal Article
Reflections on the origins of the Australasian study of parliament group: In defence of parochialism
Scott, Roger (2017). Reflections on the origins of the Australasian study of parliament group: In defence of parochialism. Australasian Parliamentary Review, 32 (1), 153-157.
2016
Book Chapter
Political combatants
Scott, Roger and Scott, Ann (2016). Political combatants. The Newman years: rise, decline and fall. (pp. 113-133) edited by Ann Scott. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: TJ Ryan Foundation.
2016
Book Chapter
The Newman government 2012-2013: drawing battle lines
Scott, Ann and Scott, Roger (2016). The Newman government 2012-2013: drawing battle lines. The Newman years: rise, decline and fall. (pp. 27-45) edited by Scott, Ann. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: TJ Ryan Foundation.
2016
Book Chapter
Answering back: 'Campbell Newman and the challenge of reform'
Scott, Roger (2016). Answering back: 'Campbell Newman and the challenge of reform'. The Newman years: rise, decline and fall. (pp. 181-189) edited by Scott, Ann. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: TJ Ryan Foundation.
2016
Book Chapter
Winners and losers: the election in January 2015
Scott, Roger (2016). Winners and losers: the election in January 2015. The Newman years: rise, decline and fall. (pp. 134-150) edited by Scott, Ann. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: TJ Ryan Foundation.
2016
Book Chapter
Newman government 2014: political battleground
Scott, Roger and Scott, Ann (2016). Newman government 2014: political battleground. The Newman years: rise, decline and fall. (pp. 68-112) edited by Scott, Ann. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: TJ Ryan Foundation.
2016
Book Chapter
Parliament under Newman in 2014
Scott, Roger (2016). Parliament under Newman in 2014. The Newman years: rise, decline and fall. (pp. 55-67) edited by Scott, Ann. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: TJ Ryan Foundation.
2016
Book Chapter
The strategists - the relationship between Labor, labour and the electorate
Scott, Roger (2016). The strategists - the relationship between Labor, labour and the electorate. The Newman years: rise, decline and fall. (pp. 151-159) edited by Scott, Ann. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: TJ Ryan Foundation.
2015
Journal Article
Mobilising Dissidence: The Relationship Between Labor, Labour and the Wider Community in the 2015 Queensland State Election
Scott, Roger (2015). Mobilising Dissidence: The Relationship Between Labor, Labour and the Wider Community in the 2015 Queensland State Election. The Queensland Journal of Labour History, 21, 47-60.
2015
Conference Publication
Forty years on from the 1975 APSA conference academic engagement with government
Scott, Roger (2015). Forty years on from the 1975 APSA conference academic engagement with government. APSA Conference, University of Canberra, 28-30 September 2015.
2014
Other Outputs
Parliaments in perspective: lessons for Queenslanders from the Australian Study of Parliament Group conference (Sydney 2014)
Scott, Roger (2014). Parliaments in perspective: lessons for Queenslanders from the Australian Study of Parliament Group conference (Sydney 2014). TJRyan Foundation Research Report No 10 South Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The TJ Ryan Foundation.
2014
Other Outputs
Parliament under Campbell Newman 2012-2013
Scott, Ann and Scott, Roger (2014). Parliament under Campbell Newman 2012-2013. TJRyan Foundation Research Report No 1 South Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The TJ Ryan Foundation.
2014
Other Outputs
Parliament under Campbell Newman 2014
Scott, Roger (2014). Parliament under Campbell Newman 2014. TJRyan Foundation Research Report No 13 South Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The TJ Ryan Foundation.
2014
Other Outputs
Inequalities and Queensland universities
Scott, Roger (2014). Inequalities and Queensland universities. TJRyan Foundation Research Report No 7 South Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The TJ Ryan Foundation.
2014
Conference Publication
A Queensland case study: universities, practitioners and a think tank
Scott, Roger Dennis (2014). A Queensland case study: universities, practitioners and a think tank. XVIII IRSPM: 18th Annual Conference of the International Research Society on Public Management 2014, Ottawa, ON, Canada, 9-11 April, 2014.
2014
Book
Queensland parties: the right in turmoil 1987-2007
Scott, Roger and Ford, John (2014). Queensland parties: the right in turmoil 1987-2007. St. Lucia, QLD, Australia: Centre for the Government of Queensland, The University of Queensland.
2013
Journal Article
Indirect rule in tropical Africa: up close and personal
Scott, Roger (2013). Indirect rule in tropical Africa: up close and personal. Journal of Historical Biography, 14, 101-119.
2013
Journal Article
Queensland transparency: lapdogs and watchdogs
Scott, Roger (2013). Queensland transparency: lapdogs and watchdogs. Australasian Parliamentary Review, 28 (2), 71-79.
2013
Journal Article
A research note: The "Queensland Speaks" oral history project
Scott, Roger and Miller, Danielle (2013). A research note: The "Queensland Speaks" oral history project. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 59 (4), 677-678. doi: 10.1111/ajph.12039
Supervision
Availability
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Supervision history
Completed supervision
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2017
Doctor Philosophy
Education and Training Reforms for the Future, 1996-2006: Policy Ideas, Networks and Interventions
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Brian Head, Honorary Professor Merrilyn Goos
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2011
Doctor Philosophy
Trade Union Renewal in Australia: rebuilding worker involvement
Associate Advisor
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2005
Doctor Philosophy
THE IMPACT OF THE NEW TAX SYSTEM ON AUSTRALIAN FEDERALISM
Associate Advisor
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