Professor Andrew Parkin

Professor Parkin's academic career at Flinders University has included terms as Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) (from 2007 to 2017); Interim Executive Dean of the Faculty of Education, Humanities and Law; Associate Head (Research) of the former Faculty of Social Sciences; Head of the former School of Political and International Studies; and Director of the Flinders Institute of Public Policy and Management.  He is a political scientist who has taught and published across a range of subjects in the fields of public policy, public administration, Australian government and politics, intergovernmental relations, and liberal-democratic theory. 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 is a National Fellow of the Institute of Public Administration Australia and a former Fulbright scholar.  Professor Parkin has been an Emeritus Professor since July 2023.