Academic Staff Profile

Deirdre O’Neill
BA(Hons) (Melb) PhD (Monash)

Academic Director, Executive Master of Public Administration

Tel: +61 3 8344 1979
Fax: +61 3 9349 5849
Email: d.oneill@anzsog.edu.au

Deirdre O’Neill joins ANZSOG from Monash University where she has taught a range of subjects related to public sector management at both post-graduate and under-graduate levels since 1992. Prior to working at Monash she worked extensively as a manager, consultant and policy adviser in the public sector. In 2003-4, she was seconded to the Department of Premier and Cabinet in Melbourne as Director of Learning.

Her research interests include public management, business and government, government-Third Sector relations and public sector human resource management. Her PhD thesis focused upon the challenge of administrative reform, comparing public sector reform under the Hamer and Kennett governments in Victoria. In 1996-97 she was the Victorian representative on Contracting for Care, a national research project funded, by the Law Foundation of New South Wales, which examined the evolving relationship between governments and organisations contracted to deliver community services. Among her publications are articles in Public Management, Australian Journal of Public Administration, Third Sector Review, Canberra Bulletin of Public Administration and the Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies. She co-edited The Contract State: Public Management and the Kennett Government (1994) and was a contributor to The Kennett Revolution: Victorian politics in the 1990s (1999). She is currently writing Business, Government and Globalisation with Owen Hughes to be published by Palgrave.

Deirdre has been a member of the State Council of the Institute of Public Administration Australia (Victorian Division) the Victorian Public Service Training Council, and the editorial board of the Australian Journal of Public Administration.