(Section editor: Helen Sullivan and Helen Dickinson)
(affiliation: The Australian National University/The University of New South Wales at ADFA)
Section 1: In the beginning – philosophical foundations and traditions
(Section editor: Jill L Tao)
(affiliation: Incheon National University, South Korea)
Section 2: Values and motivation
(Section editor: Eva Witesman)
(affiliation: Brigham Young University, USA)
Section 3 Public servants – a global review
(Section editor: Gerhard Hammerschmid TBC)
(affiliation: Hertie School of Governance, Germany)
Section 4 Trajectories of reform
(Section editor: Janine O’Flynn)
(affiliation: The University of Melbourne/ANZSOG, Australia/New Zealand)
Section 5 The ‘elite’ - public servants as policy makers
(Section editor: Yijia Jing)
(affiliation: Fudan University, China)
Section 6 The elephant in the room - public servants and implementation
(Section editor: Helen Dickinson)
(affiliation: UNSW at ADFA, Australia)
Section 7 A growing role – public servants as regulators
(section editor: Jeroen van der Heijden)
(affiliation: The Australian National University: School of Regulation and Global Governance/University of Wellington, Australia/New Zealand)
Section 8: Beyond the centre - public servants in the wild
(Section editor: Catherine Needham)
(affiliation: University of Birmingham, UK)
Section 9: The virtual world of the public servant
(Section editor: Stephen Jeffares)
(affiliation: University of Birmingham, UK)
Section 10: Integrity and ethics
(Section editor: Helen Sullivan)
(affiliation: The Australian National University)
Section 11: Representation – public servants in public
(Section editor: Chris Neff)
(affiliation: University of Sydney, Australia)
Section 12: What does the public servant of the future look like?
(Section editor Zeger Van Der Wal)
(affiliation: National University of Singapore)
Section 13: Educating the public servants of the future
(Section editor: Paul Williams)
(affiliation: Hon Fellow ANU/Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK)
Conclusion – the public servant is dead, long live the public servant
(Section editors: Helen Sullivan and Helen Dickinson)
(affiliation: The Australian National University; UNSW at ADFA)
Helen Sullivan is professor of public policy and director of the Australian National University’s Crawford School of Public Policy, the Asia-Pacific’s leading public policy school. Helen’s research explores the changing nature of state-society relationships in the context of collaboration, urban politics, and public policy and service reform. Helen has a long-term commitment to bridging the gap between research and policy, and in 2016 she was made a National Fellow of the Institute of Public Administration Australia in recognition of her significant contribution to public administration. In 2019, Helen was elected to the executive board of the International Research Society on Public Management and elected president of the Australian Political Studies Association for the year 2020–21.
Helen Dickinson is professor of public service research and director of the Public Service Research Group at the School of Business, University of New South Wales, Canberra. Her expertise is in public services, particularly in relation to topics such as governance, policy implementation, and stewardship of fourth industrial revolution technologies. In 2015, Helen was made a Victorian Fellow of the Institute of Public Administration Australia and in 2019 awarded a fellowship at the Academy of Social Sciences. She has worked with a range of different levels of government and community organizations as well as privateorganizations in Australia, UK, New Zealand, and Europe on research and consultancy programs.
Hayley Henderson is a postdoctoral fellow in the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University. Her research examines the role of urban policymaking and collaborative governance in addressing complex urban problems. In particular, the focus of her recent work has been on urban renewal and river basin management in Australian and Argentine cities.