Everything but Australian Rules Football: Prof Barry Bozeman in conversation with Mark Kenny

Everything but Australian Rules Football: Prof Barry Bozeman in conversation with Mark Kenny
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About the Event

Professor Barry Bozeman (Arizona State University) joins us for an exclusive interview to discuss, you guessed it, everything but Australian Rules Football. From his recent work with the President of Arizona State University, Prof Michael Crow, on public values-based institutions to his views on science and technology policy and his academic career, Professor Bozeman sits down with AuSI Senior Fellow, Mark Kenny, to discuss it all.

Event Schedule

5:30-6pm Opening Reception

6-7pm In Conversation

This event is free and open to the public but registration is required.

About the Speakers

Barry Bozeman is Regents' Professor and Arizona Centennial Professor of Science and Technology Policy and Public Management at Arizona State University, where he directs the Center for Organization Research and Design. Previous positions include Regents’ Professor and Ander Crenshaw Endowed Chair of Public Policy, University of Georgia; Regents’ Professor of Public Policy at Georgia Tech, and Professor of Public Administration, Law and Affiliate Professor of Engineering at Syracuse University. Bozeman is currently a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University (China).

Bozeman’s research focuses on science and technology policy, public management, organization theory and higher education policy. He is the author or co-author of seventeen books, including most recently, Strength in Numbers: Improving Research Collaboration Effectiveness (with Jan Youtie, Princeton University Press, 2017). His Public Values and Public Interest (Georgetown University Press, 2007) won the American Political Science Association’s Herbert Simon Award for best book published in public administration and public affairs. Bozeman’s books Bureaucracy and Red Tape and All Organizations Are Public (Jossey-Bass, 1987) helped establish new lines of public management research and theory. He has recently completed Designing Public Values-Based Institutions (with Michael Crow) and has begun work writing two books, one focusing on “deep corruption” in government, the other on the decline of credibility in science institutions.

Bozeman is an elected fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement Science and the National Academy of Public Administration.

Mark Kenny came to the Australian National University after a high-profile journalistic career culminating in 6 years as chief political correspondent and national affairs editor of The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, and The Canberra Times.

He is a fixture on the ABC's Insiders program, Sky News Agenda, and is a sought after commentator on radio programs across the country.

Before Fairfax, Kenny was political editor at The Advertiser having moved across from the ABC.

Based in Canberra for nearly two decades, he has reported from locations as diverse as Kandahar and Copenhagen, Bucharest, and Brunei.

He has covered bilateral talks inside the White House, 10 Downing Street, Beijing’s Great Hall of the People, the German Chancellery (Bundeskanzleramt), the Japanese Prime Minister’s Residence (The Kantei), The Vatican, and many others. He has also covered crucial summits including annual APEC and G20 meetings, G8, ASEAN and East Asia Summit, NATO, and the infamous Copenhagen climate talks in 2009.

A long-time member of the Federal Parliamentary Press Gallery committee, he is a director of the National Press Club.

Kenny was made a Visiting Fellow at ANU in 2018 and took up a full-time academic post as Senior Fellow at the Australian Studies Institute in January, 2019.

His research interests include national politics, comparative studies, democracy, and the rise of populism.

Date & time

Tue 05 Mar 2019, 5.30–7pm

Location

Seminar Room 1.02, Sir Roland Wilson Building

Speakers

Professor Barry Bozeman
Mark Kenny

Contacts

Ms Morgan Lael
+61 02 6125 0051

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