Professor Mark Considine AM, FASSA
Professor Mark Considine AM, FASSA
BA (Hons), PhD (Melbourne)
Political science
2005
Profile
Professor Mark Considine AM is Professor of Political Science at the University of Melbourne. He is one of Australia’s most respected political scientists, with a career spanning both academic research and applied policy work for government and civil society organisations. He and his collaborators have won numerous major international research prizes, including the Marshall Dimmock Award (2000) and the Jan Kooiman Award (2013), for their comparative work on the contracting of employment services and the governance of welfare-to-work program delivery.
Mark has been an advisor to the OECD Local Economic and Employment Development Program, and has worked with state and federal governments in the design of social services and strategies for place-based innovation. He assisted the Brumby Government with its review of employment programs and was seconded by the Gillard Government to the departmental Working Group to review the jobactive Star Ratings system. He was later appointed to chair the federal Working Groups charged with developing a quality measure for rating job agencies.
Appointments
Awards
2015 - Redmond Barry Distinguished Professorship
2001 - American Educational Research Association
2001 - American Society for Public Administration
2000 - Fellow of the Institute of Public Administration Australia (Victoria)
Selected Publications
Good Clients and Hard Cases: The Role of Typologies at the Welfare Front Line - Michael McGann, Siobhan O'Sullivan, Mark Considine - Social Service Review 2022
Can Robots Understand Welfare? Exploring Machine Bureaucracies in Welfare-to-Work - Mark Considine, Michael McGann, Sarah Ball, Phuc Nguyen - Journal of Social Policy 2022
A Careless State: Why do Australia's social markets from childcare to aged care fail and what can be done about it? - Mark Considine - 2022
Buying and Selling the Poor - Siobhan O'Sullivan, Mark Considine, Michael McGann - 2021
Are policy tools and governance modes couples? Analysing welfare-to-work reform at the frontline - Jenny M Lewis, Phuc Nguyen, Mark Considine - Policy and Society 2021
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