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With extensive experience in public policy and management, Professor Hughes joined Monash University as a lecturer in 1985 following three years as a tutor in administration at the University of Tasmania and, prior to that, several years in the Commonwealth public service in Perth. At Monash he taught and carried out research in public management, mostly within the MBA program.
In 1994 he was appointed as Professor of Public Sector Management within the Department of Management and was course director of the Master of Public Policy and Management and the Master of Diplomacy and Trade. From 1999 to 2002 he was Head of the Department of Management and in 2003 he was seconded to assist Professor Allan Fels in setting up the Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG). In 2004, he returned to Monash to become Director of the newly established Graduate School of Business.
Professor Hughes is a visiting professor in the Faculty of Public Administration at Renmin University, China, and a Fellow of ANZSOG.
Research
Professor Hughes has published widely in management, public management, public policy and Australian politics. His book Public Management and Administration is in its third edition (Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2003) and has been used widely as a textbook in the UK and Australia, as well as in the US, Africa, the Middle East and Asia. In 2001, the second edition was translated into Chinese by Renmin University Press in Beijing and in 2004 an English language reprint and a new Chinese edition were published by Renmin University Press. Other books include Australian Politics (Melbourne, Macmillan, 1998), two editions of Australian Politics: Realities in Conflict, (co-authored with Hugh Emy) and the co-edited works Whitlam Revisited (1993) with (Hugh Emy and Race Mathews) and Intergovernmental Relations and Public Policy (1991) (with Brian Galligan and Cliff Walsh). |
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