Paul Fawcett is Professor of Public Policy, co-Editor of the Australian Journal of Public Administration (since 2022) and Adjunct Associate Professor of Governance at the University of Canberra. He is currently on leave of absence serving as Deputy Dean Academic at The Australian and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG), which is based at the Melbourne Connect building at the University of Melbourne.

Paul served as Chair of the Political Science Discipline (2020-2022) and is a former Treasurer of the Australian Political Studies Association (2019-2022, re-elected 2022-2025), Director of the Master of Public Policy and Management and member of the ANZSOG Executive Master of Public Administration (EMPA) Academic Advisory Council. He was Associate Editor of the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis (2021-2022) and co-Convenor of the APSA Policy Studies Group (2016-2019) and the Annual Conference of the Australasian Public Policy Network Conference (2014 and 2021). He currently serves as an Editorial Board Member of Policy & Politics.

Paul is an expert in the fields of governance, public policy and public administration. His research has received funding from the Australian Research Council and has been published in many of the leading international journals in his field, including Governance, Policy Sciences, Administration & Society (twice), the Journal of Public Policy, the Australian Journal of Public Administration, Policy & Politics (twice), Policy and Society, Policy Studies, Government & Opposition, Political Studies Review and the Australian Journal of Political Science. In 2017, Paul published a co-edited book on Anti-Politics, Depoliticization and Governance (with Oxford University Press).

Paul regularly works with public servants and other key stakeholders on critical governance problems, and has taught governance studies, policy analysis and capstone work-based projects into the Master of Public Policy and Management (MPPM). In April 2019, he joined the University of Melbourne having previously worked first as a Lecturer (2009-2012) and then as a Senior Lecturer (2013) in the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney after which he was appointed Associate Professor of Governance in the Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis at the University of Canberra (2013-2019). He has successfully supervised numerous minor thesis, honours and work-based projects as well as more than five PhD students to on-time completion.

Paul holds a PhD in Governance (funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council), Master of Arts in Research Methods (with Distinction) and Bachelor of Arts (First Class Honours) in Political Science from the University of Birmingham. He has previously worked in the House of Commons Library and the House of Commons Scrutiny Unit (part of the Committee Office). In 2007, he was the recipient of an Australia Award (Endeavour Research Fellowship) and has been a Visiting Fellow / Scholar at the Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI) (2017), the ANZSOG Institute for Governance (2012), the University of Copenhagen (2012) and the Australian National University (2007, 2008).

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