Adjunct Professor Profile - Ciaran O’Faircheallaigh

Ciaran O’Faircheallaigh
BA (Dublin), MA, PhD (ANU)

Ciaran O’Faircheallaigh is Professor and Head of the Department of Politics and Public Policy at Griffith University, Brisbane. He has previously held research and teaching positions at the Australian National University, the University of Papua New Guinea and Queens University, Ontario. During 1998-2000 he was Policy Advisor to the Queensland Indigenous Working Group, Queensland’s peak Indigenous organisation for native title and cultural heritage matters.

Professor O’Faircheallaigh teaches policy analysis, policy evaluation and Indigenous politics across all levels of study at Griffith University and also in a range of executive programs. He is a member of ANZSOG’s Executive MPA Curriculum Development Committee and is Griffith University’s Convenor for the Executive MPA.

His research focuses on the conduct of policy and program evaluation, particularly in areas where policy goals are highly contested; on the management and impact of public programs and policies designed to meet the needs of Australia’s Aborigines and Islanders; and on negotiations between commercial interests and Indigenous peoples in Australia and Canada. These interests are brought together in his book A New Approach to Policy Evaluation: Mining and Indigenous People (Ashgate Publishing, 2002). He has also published in a range of journals including Australian Journal of Public Administration, World Development, Society and Natural Resource, Resources Policy and Energy Policy.