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Activism and the policy process.
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1. Policy sciences. 2. Political planningCitizen participation.
I. Yeatman, Anna.
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Deborah Brennan is a senior lecturer in the Department of Government and Public Administration, University of Sydney. She was a founding member of the National Association of Community Based Children's Services and has been a long-term academic/activist in the area of Australian child care policy. The second edition of her book The Politics of Australian Child Care will be published by Cambridge University Press in 1998. She is also a member of the Board of the Australian Council of Social Services (ACOSS).
Glyn Davis is an Australian Research Council fellow at Griffith University, and writes about public policy, public management and Australian politics. He was previously Director-General of the Office of the Cabinet in Queensland and served on the Republic Advisory Committee. His most recent projects have been studies of participation in decision-making for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and the New South Wales Government.
Gary Dowsett is currently an associate professor and deputy director of the Centre for the Study of Sexually Transmissible Diseases, La Trobe University. Before that, he was a lecturer in Sociology at Macquarie University after having spent a number of years as the leading social researcher in the HIV/AIDS Centre for Social Research at Macquarie. He cut his queer teeth on Gay Liberation in Adelaide in the mid-1970s and has continued his close association with gay community activism since then in Sydney throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, before moving to Melbourne in 1997. His book Practicing Desire: Homosexual Sex in the Era of AIDS was published in 1996 by Stanford University Press.
Paul Dugdale is a medical practitioner and specialist in public health medicine. A member of the Doctors' Reform Society, he has worked in general practice, hospital administration, health service planning and health promotion. He was private secretary to the Commonwealth Minister for Health (Dr Neal Blewett) from 1988 to 1990. He holds masters degrees in sociology and public health, and is undertaking a PhD on health financing at the University of Sydney.
Gael Fraser runs her own consultancy business in social policy, planning and intergovernmental relations. Prior to this she worked in senior executive positions in the Department of Premier and Cabinet in the South Australian government. She was the project director for the governance review of the Adelaide City Council. 1997-98.
Andrew Gonzci is the Dean of the Faculty of Education at University of Technology Sydney. He began his working life in the legal profession and he has maintained an interest in the role of professions in society. Since he began his career in education he has been interested in the nature of professional education and the basis on which registration for practice is granted. The competency agenda provided an opportunity for him to consider the educational and especially the assessment issues associated with the professions and other occupations.
Paul Hager is presently an associate professor and the Research Co-ordinator of the Faculty of Education, University of Technology Sydney. His early career experiences as a TAFE teacher, coupled with his studies in philosophy, made him highly critical of the way vocational education is misperceived both in the academic world and in educational thought generally. The competencies agenda provided an opportunity to foreground the richness and complexity of sound vocational education. He is currently conducting further research in occupational competence, workplace learning and professional practice.
Gar Jones is Director of the Research Office at the University of Western Sydney, Nepean. He has been with UWS since 1990, and has overseen tremendous growth in research activity in a post-Dawkins university. Not unexpectedly, his research interests are focused on issues relating to the development of a research culture and analysis of factors influencing research productivity. Prior to his current appointment, he worked in the community sector, focusing especially on issues relating to income security for the aged. He is a published poet and has written a musical drama (Absolutely Weill) which was performed at the 1990 Adelaide Festival.
Alison Lee is a senior lecturer in the School of Adult Education at the University of Technology Sydney. Her research has been primarily concerned with literacy and the construction of knowledge in all education sectors. Most recently she has been researching questions of pedagogy and the formation of disciplines in the Australian PhD. Her concern with questions of methodology in discourse analysis has resulted in a collection, co-edited with Gate Poynton, Culture and Text: Discourse and Methodology in Social Research and Cultural Studies, forthcoming Allen & Unwin.
Julie Nyland is a consultant working as a partner in Bradtield/Nyland Group whose logo is 'breaking new ground'. Their consultancies tend to be oriented to community management, policy and programme development, and resource and training kits. For many years, Nyland was a lecturer in the School of Management, University of Technology, Sydney, and, prior to that, a policy activist working in the area of women's housing. She began her first employment experience in the community sector at Elsie Women's Refuge in 1975 whence she acquired the skills and identity as a policy activist.
