Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

Emeritus Professor Roger Scott

Emeritus Professor
School of Political Science and International Studies
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Researcher biography

Honorary Professor, Centre for the Government of Queensland, School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics.

Professional Activities:

Executive Director, T.J.Ryan Foundation (2013 onwards)

Project Director, "Queensland Speaks" Oral History web-site, (2009 onwards)

Board Member, Youth + Marlene Moore Flexi-learning Centre Network, Edmund Rice Education Australia (2013 onwards).

National Fellow of the Institute of Public Administration Australia (since 1990).

Former editor of The Public Interest (Brisbane).

Former co-editor of the Australian Journal of Public Administration.

Former Review Editor for Politics (now AJPS).

Member/chair of several Quality Assessment Panels of the Queensland Office of Higher Education and formerly member of similar bodies operating in several states during the CAE era.

Member of several Federal Government committees of enquiry into education, including management education (Ralph Committee), aboriginal education (Yunipingu Committee) and university management (Linke Committee).

Former panel member of the Commonwealth Government Review Tribunal on Non-state Schooling.

Former consultant to international aid organizations, providing advice on public sector reform - Uganda, Kazakstan and Nepal.

Background:

1962-1965 : Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford; fieldwork for thesis on the development of trade unions in Uganda completed while Rockefeller Teaching Fellow at the University of East Africa, Kampala.

1965-1977 : Lecturing at University of Sydney, the Queen's University of Belfast, and the Canberra College of Advanced Education (Principal Lecturer in Politics in the School of Administrative Studies).

1977-1987: J.D.Story Professor of Public Administration, University of Queensland. President of the Academic Board, 1986-1987.

1987-1990: Principal of the Canberra CAE, Foundation Vice-Chancellor of the University of Canberra.

1990-1994 : Director General of Education, State Government of Queensland.

1994 : Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Management, Griffith University.

1994 - 2000: Dean of Arts, Queensland University of Technology.

2000 - 2002: Professor of Public Management, Faculty of Business, QUT.

2003 - 2011: Professor Emeritus and Teaching Fellow, School of Political Science and International Studies.

Research Interests:

  • The practice of public policy in Queensland.
  • Political history of Queensland.

Publications

Book (1)
Book Chapters (8)
Journal Articles (16)
Conference Papers (6)
Reference Entry (1)
Seminar Paper (1)
Research Reports (4)

Book

Scott, Roger and Ford, John (2014). Queensland parties: the right in turmoil 1987-2007. St. Lucia, QLD, Australia: Centre for the Government of Queensland, The University of Queensland.

Book Chapters

Scott, Roger (2016). Answering back: 'Campbell Newman and the challenge of reform'. The Newman years: rise, decline and fall. (pp. 181-189) edited by Scott, Ann. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: TJ Ryan Foundation.
Scott, Roger (2016). The strategists - the relationship between Labor, labour and the electorate. The Newman years: rise, decline and fall. (pp. 151-159) edited by Scott, Ann. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: TJ Ryan Foundation.
Scott, Roger (2016). Winners and losers: the election in January 2015. The Newman years: rise, decline and fall. (pp. 134-150) edited by Scott, Ann. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: TJ Ryan Foundation.
Scott, Roger and Scott, Ann (2016). Political combatants. The Newman years: rise, decline and fall. (pp. 113-133) edited by Ann Scott. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: TJ Ryan Foundation.
Scott, Roger and Scott, Ann (2016). Newman government 2014: political battleground. The Newman years: rise, decline and fall. (pp. 68-112) edited by Scott, Ann. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: TJ Ryan Foundation.
Scott, Roger (2016). Parliament under Newman in 2014. The Newman years: rise, decline and fall. (pp. 55-67) edited by Scott, Ann. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: TJ Ryan Foundation.
Scott, Ann and Scott, Roger (2016). The Newman government 2012-2013: drawing battle lines. The Newman years: rise, decline and fall. (pp. 27-45) edited by Scott, Ann. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: TJ Ryan Foundation.
Scott, Roger (2008). Fitzgerald Inquiry. The Oxford companion to Australian politics. (pp. *-*) edited by Brian Galligan and Winsome Roberts. Oxford, England, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.

Journal Articles

Scott, Roger (2022). Imperial and Indigenous perspectives on Queensland history. Queensland Review, 29 (1), 22-29. doi: 10.1558/qre.23429
Scott, Roger (2017). Reflections on the origins of the Australasian study of parliament group: In defence of parochialism. Australasian Parliamentary Review, 32 (1), 153-157.
Scott, Roger (2015). Mobilising Dissidence: The Relationship Between Labor, Labour and the Wider Community in the 2015 Queensland State Election. The Queensland Journal of Labour History, 21, 47-60.
Scott, Roger (2013). Indirect rule in tropical Africa: up close and personal. Journal of Historical Biography, 14, 101-119.
Scott, Roger (2013). Queensland transparency: lapdogs and watchdogs. Australasian Parliamentary Review, 28 (2), 71-79.
Scott, Roger and Miller, Danielle (2013). A research note: The "Queensland Speaks" oral history project. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 59 (4), 677-678. doi: 10.1111/ajph.12039
Scott, Roger D. (2012). Political tsunami - the 2012 Queensland election and its aftermath in Parliament. Australasian Parliamentary Review, 27 (2), 89-98.
Scott, Roger (2012). The progressive impoverishment of tertiary teaching: reflections on teaching public administration during the ‘golden age’ before 1987. Teaching Public Administration, 30 (1), 20-41. doi: 10.1177/0144739412437755
Scott, Roger (2012). The Ayes Have It; The history of the Queensland Parliament 1957-1989. Australasian Parliamentary Review, 27 (2), 115-119.
Scott, Roger and Spearritt, Peter (2010). 'Queensland speaks': A progress report. Australasian Parliamentary Review, 25 (1), 49-53.
Scott, R. D. (2009). Gowers of Uganda: The Public and Private Life of a Forgotten Colonial Governor. Australasian Review of African Studies, 30 (2), 12-31.
Scott, R. D. (2005). Interview with Frank Peach. Conversation with a reluctant generalist. Public Interest: Newsletter of the Royal Institute of Public Administration Australia (Queensland Division) (3), 5-10.
Scott, R. D. (2005). Making their Worlds Safe for Democracy: Pericles and President Bush. AIIA Queensland Branch Newsroom
Scott, R. D. (2005). Imperialist democracy, ancient Athenians and the US presence in Iraq. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 59 (3), 335-350. doi: 10.1080/10357710500231297
Scott, R. D. (2004). A personal memoir of policy failure. The failed merger of ANU and the Canberra CAE.. Australian Universities Review, 47 (1), 10-20-20.
Scott, Roger (2003). Political science and public administration: The saga of a difficult relationship. Australian Journal of Public Administration, 62 (2), 113-120. doi: 10.1111/1467-8497.00330

Conference Papers

Scott, Roger (2015). Forty years on from the 1975 APSA conference academic engagement with government. APSA Conference, University of Canberra, 28-30 September 2015.
Scott, Roger Dennis (2014). A Queensland case study: universities, practitioners and a think tank. XVIII IRSPM: 18th Annual Conference of the International Research Society on Public Management 2014, Ottawa, ON, Canada, 9-11 April, 2014.
Scott, A. E. and Scott, R D (2006). Federalising Insecurity - Policing in the States or a Police State?. John Howard's Decade, Australian National University Canberra, 3-4 March. Canberra: Australian National University.
Scott, Roger (2003). Resisting Amalgamation From A Position Of Weakness: An Intimate And Partial Version Of The Saga Of The Several Attempts To Merge The ANU With The Canberra CAE To End The Binary System In The Australian Capital Territory. Seminar series, Menzies Australian Studies Centre, London, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London University, 20 December 2002.
Scott, Roger D. and Scott, Ann E. M. (2001). The Search for Virtue and the Role of Anti-Corruption Agencies : A Queensland Case Study. 2001 Annual Conference of the Public Administration Committee of the British Inter-Universities Council, Sunningdale, September.
Scott, Roger D. and Wilson, Kate (2000). King Gough : Madness Or Magnificence? A Retrospective View Of The 1975 APSA Conference. Annual Conference of the Australasian Political Studies Association, Canberra, July 2000.

Reference Entry

Scott, Roger (2008). Higher education.

Seminar Paper

Scott, Roger The Politics of Higher Education. School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Tasmania.

Research Reports

Scott, Roger (2014). Parliament under Campbell Newman 2014. TJRyan Foundation Research Report No 13 South Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The TJ Ryan Foundation.
Scott, Roger (2014). Parliaments in perspective: lessons for Queenslanders from the Australian Study of Parliament Group conference (Sydney 2014). TJRyan Foundation Research Report No 10 South Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The TJ Ryan Foundation.
Scott, Roger (2014). Inequalities and Queensland universities. TJRyan Foundation Research Report No 7 South Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The TJ Ryan Foundation.
Scott, Ann and Scott, Roger (2014). Parliament under Campbell Newman 2012-2013. TJRyan Foundation Research Report No 1 South Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The TJ Ryan Foundation.