Provides a forum for teaching, research and discussion of issues relating to policy design and evaluation, public sector economics and public sector management and change.
The teaching programs are primarily intended for public and community sector leaders and managers or those wishing to pursue such a career. They have been designed to encourage deep thinking about policy issues, to challenge conventional ideas about the process of government and public sector management and to develop the student’s capacity for high quality policy work and best practice management.
Web site includes descriptions of and papers related to its current research activities, which include:
- A New Social Settlement: Rethinking Social Policy Across the Life Course (the future of social policy in Australia)
- The National Consultation Strategy (programme established to assist the process of integrating a range of new policy ideas)
- Social Policy and Transitional Labour Markets
- National Clearinghouse Project, planning to publish working papers and to be used as a point of contract around key policy issues