New bike day 💛

🎉 We're pleased to announce that on 1 October, @profgeorgebert.bsky.social (City University of Hong Kong) will join Prof Stephen Osborne as Co-Editor in Chief of Public Management Review. Bert has been Deputy Editor since 2024 @tandfresearch.bsky.social files.taylorandfrancis.com/rpxm-announc...

Super happy to finally have this paper out w/ Lorana Bartels & Meredith Rossner - we consider drug court benefits beyond recidivism, arguing that a program should not have to demonstrate *substantially* better outcomes than prison to be preferable to incarceration www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New from Al Stark and me, in Ishani Mukherjee and @howlettm.bsky.social's Handbook of Policy Advice www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b...

I really hate the term "sideloading". I preferred the original term, which was "installing software on a computer that you own"

Janine O'Flynn and I teamed up for a chapter on thesis examination in Colette Einfeld and @helencsullivan.bsky.social's book How to Conduct Interpretive Research. We wrote in the 'character' of Janine, adding insights from the interpretive and qual research methods literature doi.org/10.4337/9781...

I studied Buddhism intensely for a decade, and nothing immediately clears my mind of all grasping to thoughts or perceptions like someone trying to tell me the rules to a board game.

Just had an important acceptance email after 1.75 years of data wrangling, drafting, desk rejects, major revisions and everything in between. I won't say persistence is always worth it but it's a good feeling when persistence finally gets you somewhere! 🥲

I show that while there is only one question on the form that a person might answer differently in-person as opposed to online (and without assistance), it is a very important one, and one which is important in determining the level of support they receive from the state.

The answer I give in the paper is that increasingly it is citizens doing the administrative work that was previously done by the state (and also us as customers that are doing the work for private enterprises as well).

My newest paper in the Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law asks a simple question - how is administrative work shifting as we move towards technology-generated interactions, where there is no one around to help us through administrative processes? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Open access: Menno Hoppen, Taco Brandsen & Marlies Honingh investigate the conditions enabling vulnerable citizens’ involvement in co‐production through an ethnographic study of a self‐managed homeless shelter - which challenges traditional provider‐led approaches www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

From @sueolney.bsky.social & @sophieyates.bsky.social's new article in the Australian Economic Review - why we need to measure the hidden costs of living with disability in Australia www.powertopersuade.org.au/blog/measuri...

The abstract deadline for the APSA 2025 Conference has been extended to 11 July 2025. We look forward to receiving your submissions! Details: auspsa.org.au/2025-apsa-co... #APSA2025 #PolSci #CallForPapers

New article from @sueolney.bsky.social and me in the Australian Economic Review - why we need to do much better on measuring disability and poverty in Australia onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Performed with a fantastic choir touring from New Zealand today - they truly left us in awe www.luminatavoices.org

Happy this paper of mine is finally out: “Coproduction as a Causal Process” | Policy Studies Journal | open access onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚨Two updates from PMR: First, we have increased our abstract length from 100 to 150! This will help authors highlight their contributions. Second, authors can now elect to submit an abstract in their native language. See more detail on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/posts/bert-g...

New at APSA 2025: Quiet Sessions Share your research without presenting! Bring a printed slide deck and have one-on-one chats with interested attendees. 📅 Submit by: 4 July 2025 📍 24–27 Nov | Uni of Melbourne 🔗 Details & submission 📧 [email protected]

Pleased to announce that I'm an economist now (that's what happens when you and @sueolney.bsky.social get something accepted in the Australian Economic Review right?)

So excited to see this new edited volume by Hank Jenkins-Smith and Chris Weible is now available for free! It’s packed with great work from ACF scholars that really pushes policy research forward. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

I am in a misophoniac's actual nightmare: transcribing a focus group discussion where people are eating soup 🙉🙉🙉

My new piece on Australia's carbon credit scheme is up on @crikey.com.au www.crikey.com.au/2025/06/06/l...

A reminder that abstract submissions are open for the 2025 APSA Conference! 🗓 Deadline to submit: 4 July 2025 📍 When & where: 24–27 November, University of Melbourne 🔗 More info + submission link: auspsa.org.au/2025-apsa-co... #APSA2025 #CallForAbstracts #PoliticalScience

I went to see Tommy Emmanuel last night and nearly died of shock to see a line out the men's and nothing at the women's. I've been attending the wrong gigs my whole life!

Second research trip to the Eurobodalla

In this piece in @powertopersuade.bsky.social, I challenge the flawed assumption at the heart of drug policy: that the drugs themselves are the problem. Heavy drug use is often a coping strategy for distress. Reducing harm requires care not criminalisation www.powertopersuade.org.au/blog/drugs-a...

Lecturer position going at unimelb, closing May 30th jobs.unimelb.edu.au/ci/en/job/92...

🚨 Blog post w Power to Persuade @powertopersuade.bsky.social 🚨 I summarise my recent paper (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...). BUT: I really wanted to highlight how people with disability co-produce policy successes despite gov inaction. Pls share widely 🙏

New article (open access): Linda Botterill and I try to make sense of the strategically ignorant behaviour of senior leaders during Robodebt fiasco. This is part of an upcoming special issue co-edited by Sarah Ball and myself on the administrative and social harms of the scheme.

Applications are now open for the Dr Jennifer Fitzgerald Research Grant. This grant of up to $30,000 is available to support researchers with disability to carry out a project that aims to improve the lives of people with disability. www.scopeaust.org.au/news/applica...

Since finishing my music degree nearly 20 years ago I kinda lost my mojo and haven't attempted anything more organised than karaoke - but decided to try joining a choir again recently and it has worked out rather well! My first performance on Sunday, at Abbotsford Convent

🚨 What can be learned at the intersection of crisis management & administrative burdens? is out now and open access! 🚨 Written with the v much missed @gemcarey.bsky.social. For folks researching crisis management, admin burden, disability & the NDIS. Short 🧵 with link 👇

Al Stark and I are in this one covering the topic of public inquiries and policy advice!

Summary of initial decision in Fair Work Commission's 'Gender-based undervaluation – priority awards review' www.fwc.gov.au/documents/si...

I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.

We are delighted to announce the prizes for PMR's best papers in 2024. The winners of the Kooiman Award are David Vos and @joris-voets.bsky.social for "Examining municipalities’ choices of service delivery modes through the lens of historical institutionalism" 🥳 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Mr Austin had an NDIS plan, but no provider would support him. This isn't a gap, it's a chasm that markets can't solve www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

📢 APSA is now on Bluesky and LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com/in/auspsa). Follow us to stay informed about upcoming events, calls for papers, and key updates from across the political studies community. We look forward to connecting with you! #APSA #PoliticalStudies #AcademicCommunity #ResearchNetwork

New Cambridge Element 'Bad Public Policy: Malignity, Volatility and the Inherent Vices of Policymaking' by @howlettm.bsky.social, Ching Leong & @timlegrand.bsky.social out now. Read #OpenAccess here - cup.org/44g9MFT #cambridgeelements #politics

read this and weep, about what is happening to disabled people, exploited by profiteers and neglected by those meant to be safeguarding them I wonder if any questions will be asked about this during the election campaign www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

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This is a good point to consider and maintain as professionals..

The always fantastic Janine O’Flynn is giving the 2025 Donald Stone Lecture with #ASPAmazing turnout! Thanks for showing up ASPA! #ASPA2025

To mark the 2025 @irspm.bsky.social conference in Bologna, we are pleased to share a FREE ACCESS virtual collection on the theme of the conference - the critical role of civic engagement and social capital in shaping equitable and sustainable public administration www.tandfonline.com/journals/rpx...

👉 Is it possible to theorise #AdministrativeBurdens as constraints on freedom through the lens of the #CapabilitiesApproach ❓ Ellie Malbon & @jeremiahtbrown.bsky.social show how subtle barriers can constrain the ability of citizens to realise their rights 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1467...