Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic)

Professor Andrew Parkin is Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic), Professor of Political and International Studies, and Chair of Academic Senate.

Professor Parkin is a political scientist whose academic career at Flinders University has included terms as Associate Head (Research) of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Head of the School of Political and International Studies, and Director of the Flinders Institute of Public Policy and Management.

Professor Parkin's teaching and research expertise encompasses governmental and public policy processes, intergovernmental relations within the Australian federal system, urban and housing policy, aspects of criminal justice policy, immigration policy, Australian and South Australian politics, and liberal-democratic theory and practice. He is currently responsible for two major projects funded by the Australian Research Council examining the evolution of Australian federalism, and a further research project funded by the South Australian government comparing governance and policy arrangements in Adelaide and Pittsburgh. He has also been involved in a range of teaching programs and initiatives, especially in relation to the teaching of politics and public policy.

Among his academic publications are the eight editions of Goverment, Politics, Power and Policy in Australia, the leading Australian textbook of which he is co-editor, three books dealing with South Australian public life (The Dunstan Decade, The Bannon Decade, and South Australia, Federalism and Public Policy) and two books analysing the Australian Labor Party.

Professor Parkin's consulting work has included engagements with a number of South Australian public-sector agencies including the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, the Cabinet Office, the Housing Trust, the Office of Local Government and the Department for Families and Communities.

He has served as Editor of the Australian Journal of Political Science, as President of the Australasian Political Studies Association and as a member of the Australian Research Council's College of Experts. He has been a frequent media commentator on public affairs.

After majoring in Pure Mathematics, Mathematical Statistics and Politics in a University of Adelaide Arts degree, Professor Parkin proceeded to an Honours degree jointly in Mathematical Statistics and Politics and then to a Masters degree in Politics at the same University.

He completed Masters and Doctoral degrees in Government at Harvard University before his appointment to the academic staff at Flinders University. Professor Parkin has held visiting appointments at the University of California at Berkeley, the College of William and Mary in Virginia and the University of Edinburgh.

Contact information

Executive Officer

Mr Anthony Hails

Tel (08) (+ 61 8) 8201 2913

Email anthony.hails@flinders.edu.au

Personal Assistant

Ms Kim Cassin

Tel (08) (+ 61 8) 8201 2992

Fax (08) (+ 61 8) 8201 3988

Email kim.cassin@flinders.edu.au