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Rod Rhodes is Professor of Government (Research) at the University of Southampton (UK); Professor of Governance and Public Policy at Griffith University (Brisbane, Australia); and Emeritus Professor of Politics at the University of Newcastle (UK). Previously, he was the Director of the UK Economic and Social Research Council’s ‘Whitehall Programme’ (1994-1999); Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the Australian National University (2006-11); and Director of the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University (2007-8).
He is the author or editor of some 30 books including recently: Everyday Life in British Government (Oxford University Press 2011); The State as Cultural Practice (with Mark Bevir, Oxford University Press 2010); Comparing Westminster (with Patrick Weller and John Wanna, Oxford University Press 2009); and Governance Stories (with Mark Bevir, Routledge 2006). He also edited or jointly edited: The Australian Study of Politics (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2009);Observing Government Elites (Palgrave-Macmillan 2007); and The Oxford Handbook of Political Institutions (Oxford University Press 2006).
He is life Vice-President and former Chair and President of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom; a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia; and an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences (UK). He has also been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, editor of Public Administration from 1986 to 2011, and Treasurer of the Australian Political Studies Association, 1994-2011.
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don’t want to hear.” (George Orwell)
