Associate Professor Rob Manwaring

Associate Professor

College of Business, Government and Law

+61 8 82017712

rob.manwaring@flinders.edu.au

Social Science South (325)

GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia

Dr Rob Manwaring is an Associate Professor in the College of Business, Government and Law. Rob's background is in public policy, and worked for the UK's Commission for Racial Equality as a senior policy adviser, and also for the South Australian Council of Social Services. Rob teaches a range of policy and politics topics, and researches into the areas of centre-left political parties, democratic politics, and public policy. Most recently, his (2021) book 'The Politics of Social Democracy' was published with Routledge.

Rob is President of the the Australian Political Science Association (2023 - 2024), and is currently a co-editor for the Australian Journal of Political Science.

Qualifications

BA Jt Hons

MSc (Politics and Sociology)

PhD

Honours, awards and grants

Key responsibilities

Director of Studies for Bachelor of Government and Public Management

Teaching interests

Rob's teaching interest include: Australian politics, social democratic and labour democratic politics, public policy, political participation and consultation, British political tradition, European politics

Topic coordinator

POLI2011 Australian Public Policy: Applications, Issues and Dilemmas

POLI3007 Parliamentary Internship

Supervisory interests

Australian government and politics

Australian political parties

Australian politics

Comparative politics

Higher degree by research supervision

Current

Associate supervisor: Politics and Policy (1)

Completion