Short Biography
Rod Rhodes is Professor of Government in the School of Government at the University of Tasmania. He is also a Professor Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne, and Professor Emeritus 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 (2005-7); 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 at the top (Oxford University Press 2011); Public Administration: 25 years of analysis and debate (editor, Wiley-Blackwell 2011); The State as Cultural Practice (joint author, Oxford University Press 2010); Comparing Westminster (joint author, Oxford University Press 2009); Observing Government Elites (joint editor, Palgrave-Macmillan 2007); The Oxford Handbook of Political Institutions (joint editor, Oxford University Press 2006), and Governance Stories (joint author, Routledge 2006).
He is Treasurer of the Australasian Political Studies Association, life Vice-President of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom, and a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. He has also been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences (UK). He was editor of Public Administration, 1986-2011.
