I am a Senior Lecturer at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne, with a background in philosophy (PhD, University of New South Wales) and sociology (M.A., University of Frankfurt, Germany).
My research focuses on exploring governance and organizational dynamics in the university sector.
I have researched and published on issues such as universities’ internal responses to national funding settings, the politics of research performance measurement, universities’ organizational autonomy, and the unintended effects of large-scale policy and governance reform on institutional diversity. More recently, I have developed a growing research interest in novel forms and dynamics of bureaucratization within universities.
I also have a longstanding research interest in the sociology of organizations more broadly.
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FEATURED Journal article
Formally Alive yet Practically Complex: An Exploration of Academics' Perceptions of Their Autonomy as Researchers
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Between autonomy and control: University governance in Australia & Germany
Internal Research Grant
How Australia got so many law schools
NEWS ARTICLE
OUP accepted manuscript
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Understanding the structures and effects of research collaboration
Research Contracts
Why our university funding debate wouldn't make sense to Germans
NEWS ARTICLE
Organizational change, higher education
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Recent research grants (selection): • 'Governance dynamics and the politics of performance measurement in the university sector'. MGSE Research Development Award (2018; $ 5,000). • 'Between autonomy and control: University governance in Australia’. MRGSS – Melbourne Research Grant Support Scheme (2016; $ 30,000). • ‘Performance-based governance in Australian universities: A case of ‘coercive’ isomorphism?' University of Melbourne Early Career Researcher Award (2016; $21,144).
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Positions
Senior Lecturer
Melbourne Graduate School Of Education
Education
Education
Doctor of Philosophy
University of New South Wales
Masters (Sociology)
University of Frankfurt