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Professorial Research Fellow, Institute for Social Science Research BA (Hons), Monash; MA Monash; PhD London Room 405, GPN3 (Bldg 39A), Campbell Road, St Lucia +61 7 3346 7450 +61 7 3346 7646 brian.head@uq.edu.au

Professional Offices and Associations

• Fellow, Australian Institute of Company Directors
• Fellow, Australian Institute of Management
• Fellow, Institute of Public Administration Australia

Research and Consultancy Interests

• 'Wicked' problems
• Program evaluation
• Public sector integrity, ethics and corruption
• Infrastructure planning
• Evidence-based policy
• Water and climate change
• Sustainability and natural resource issues
• Collaboration
• Public policy issues analysis
• Social inclusion and social capital
• Participation and community engagement
• Performance evaluation and indicators
• Regulation and accountability

Publications (selection)

Books

• Ideology and Social Science (London: Martinus Nijhoff, 1985)
• The Politics of Development in Australia (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1986)
• Intellectual movements and Australian Society (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1988) editor, with James Walter
• From Fraser to Hawke: Public Policy in the 1980s (Melbourne: Longman Cheshire, 1989) editor, with Allan Patience
• Deregulation or Better Regulation? (Melbourne: Macmillan, 1991) editor, with Elaine McCoy
• State, Economy and Public Policy in Australia (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1994) editor, with Stephen Bell
• Promoting Integrity: Assessing and Improving Public Institutions (Aldershot UK: Ashgate, 2008): editor, with AJ Brown and C Connors

Chapters in Books (Selection)

• 1993 - ‘Lindblom on Business Power and Public Policy’, in H. Redner (ed), An Heretical Heir of the Enlightenment: Politics, Policy and Science in the Work of Charles E. Lindblom (Boulder: Westview Press), pp. 267-282.
• 1994 - ‘State Governments and Australian Business’, in R. Stewart (ed), Government and Business Relations in Australia (Sydney: Allen & Unwin), pp. 67-85.  
• 1997 - ‘Corporatism’, in D. Woodward et al (eds), Government, Politics, Power and Policy in Australia, 6^th edition (Melbourne: Longman), pp.333-355.
• 2005 - ‘Regional NRM Planning Arrangements: Evaluating through the State Lens’, in J.Bellamy (ed), Regional NRM Planning: the challenges of evaluation (Brisbane: CSIRO), pp.19-26.
• 2005 - ‘Participation or Co-Governance? Challenges for Regional Natural Resource Management’, in R.Eversole and J.Martin (eds), Participation and Governance in Regional Development (Aldershot: Ashgate), pp.137-154.
• 2005 - ‘Leaders and the Leadership Challenge’ (with J.Wanna and P.Williams), in J.Wanna and P.Williams (eds), Yes Premier: Labor Leadership in Australia’s States and Territories (Sydney: UNSW Press), pp. 253-264.
• 2005 - ‘Governance’, in P.Saunders and J. Walter (eds), Ideas and Influence: Social Science and Public Policy in Australia (Sydney: UNSW Press), pp. 44-63.
• 2007 - ‘The Public Service and Government Communication: pressures and dilemmas’, in S. Young (ed), Government Communication in Australia (Melbourne: Cambridge University Press), pp. 36-50 and 299-300.
• 2007 - ‘Taking Subsidiarity Seriously: What Role for the States?’, in A.J.Brown & J.Bellamy (eds), Federalism and Regionalism in Australia (Canberra: ANU e-Press), pp.155-170.

Journal Articles (Selection)

• 1999 - ‘The Changing Role of the Public Service: Improving Service Delivery’, Canberra Bulletin of Public Administration, No. 94, pp.1-3.
• 2003 - ‘Working with Non-Government Organisations: a Sustainable Development Perspective’, Asian Journal of Public Administration, Vol. 25, No.1, pp.31-56 (with N. Ryan).
• 2004 - ‘Can Co-Governance Work? Regional Natural Resource Management in Queensland, Australia’, Society and Economy, Vol. 26, Nos. 2-3, pp. 361-382 (with N.Ryan).
• 2005 - ‘Institutional Capacity and Choice in Australia’s Integrity Systems’, Australian Journal of Public Administration, Vol. 64 No. 2, pp. 84-95 (with A.J.Brown).
• 2005 - ‘Assessing Integrity Systems’, Australian Journal of Public Administration, Vol. 64 No.2, pp. 42-47 (with A.J.Brown).
• 2006 - ‘Engaging Indigenous Communities: Towards a Policy Framework for Indigenous Community Justice Programs’, Social Policy and Administration, Vol. 40 No.3, pp. 304-321 (with N.Ryan, R.Keast & K.Brown)
• 2007 - ‘Community Engagement: participation on whose terms?’ Australian Journal of Political Science, Vol 42 No. 3, pp. 441-454.
• 2007 - ‘Evidence-based advocacy’, International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health, Vol.19 No. 3, pp. 255-262 (with F.J. Stanley).
• 2008 - ‘Three Lenses of Evidence-based Policy’, Australian Journal of Public Administration, Vol. 67 No. 1, pp. 1-11
• 2008 - 'Assessing Network-based Collaborations: Effectiveness for Whom?' Public Management Review, Vol. 10 No. 6, pp. 733-749.
• 2008 - 'Wicked Problems in Public Policy', Public Policy, Vol. 3 No. 2, pp. 101-118.
• 2009 - 'Reconsidering Regulation and Governance Theory: a learning approach' (with J.G. Wright), Law and Policy, Vol. 31 No. 2, pp. 192-216.