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Emeritus Professor Roger Scott
Emeritus Professor

Roger Scott

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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

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

  • Analysis of Queensland public policy

  • History of Queensland politics since 1970

  • 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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36 works between 2000 and 2022

1 - 20 of 36 works

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

Imperial and Indigenous perspectives on Queensland history

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.

Reflections on the origins of the Australasian study of parliament group: In defence of parochialism

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.

Political combatants

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.

The Newman government 2012-2013: drawing battle lines

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.

Answering back: 'Campbell Newman and the challenge of reform'

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.

Winners and losers: the election in January 2015

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.

Newman government 2014: political battleground

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.

Parliament under Newman in 2014

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.

The strategists - the relationship between Labor, labour and the electorate

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.

Mobilising Dissidence: The Relationship Between Labor, Labour and the Wider Community in the 2015 Queensland State Election

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.

Forty years on from the 1975 APSA conference academic engagement with government

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.

Parliaments in perspective: lessons for Queenslanders from the Australian Study of Parliament Group conference (Sydney 2014)

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.

Parliament under Campbell Newman 2012-2013

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.

Parliament under Campbell Newman 2014

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.

Inequalities and Queensland universities

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.

A Queensland case study: universities, practitioners and a think tank

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.

Queensland parties: the right in turmoil 1987-2007

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.

Indirect rule in tropical Africa: up close and personal

2013

Journal Article

Queensland transparency: lapdogs and watchdogs

Scott, Roger (2013). Queensland transparency: lapdogs and watchdogs. Australasian Parliamentary Review, 28 (2), 71-79.

Queensland transparency: lapdogs and watchdogs

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

A research note: The "Queensland Speaks" oral history project

Supervision

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Supervision history

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