ANZSOG researchers receive ARC Grant

ANZSOG researchers have figured prominently in the 2007 ARC Discovery Grant funding process. Queensland Chair, Professor Patrick Weller, Sir John Bunting Chair of Public Administration, Professor John Wanna and ANZSOG Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr Anne Tiernan received funding for their project: "Mapping the policy advisory capacity of Australian federal government: assessing transformations in the policy advising role of the Australian Public Service".

The project examines a matter of crucial national importance, namely the ability of the APS to support decision-making through its policy advising functions. Its findings will inform better understandings of the policy advising role of the public service and its relationship to decision-makers in an increasingly pluralised governance context. The project, which extends over four years, will be the Australian contribution to a larger comparative project examining policy advisory capacities in four Westminster-style governments.

For more information on the project contact Anne Tiernan: a.tiernan@griffith.edu.au