ANZSOG Information Session: Executive Master of Public Administration
This information session is for anyone interested in learning more about ANZSOG’s Executive Master of Public Administration (EMPA).
Designed for experienced public sector professionals, EMPA builds the advanced leadership, policy and management capabilities needed to navigate complex public sector environments and deliver meaningful impact.
Grounded in real-world application and academic rigour, the program supports participants to deepen their expertise and extend their influence across organisations, jurisdictions and systems.
A practical, high-impact learning experience, EMPA will enable you to:
Strengthen your ability to lead in complex, politically informed environments.
Apply advanced policy, governance and public management insights to real-world challenges.
Influence across sectors and collaborate effectively to address system-level issues.
Translate learning into practice through work-integrated assignments and applied projects.
Join us to explore how the Executive Master of Public Administration is designed to support experienced professionals to advance their careers — building the knowledge, capability and networks to shape public outcomes and lead with impact.
Event Details
Speakers
Dr Paul Fawcett
Dr Paul Fawcett is Deputy Dean (Academic) at ANZSOG, leading the Academic Group consisting of three portfolios: Education, which includes responsibility for ANZSOG's accredited education programs; Research, which includes ANZSOG's research model and its research translation activities; as well as Global Engagement and Partnerships, which includes responsibility for ANZSOG’s international activities. He is co-Editor of the Australian Journal of Public Administration, and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Governance at the University of Canberra.
Prior to joining ANZSOG, Paul held various leadership roles at the University of Melbourne, including as Chair / Head of the Department of Political Science and Director of the Master of Public Policy and Management, which is Australia's largest postgraduate coursework program of its kind. He is a former Director of the ANZSOG Executive Master of Public Administration at the University of Melbourne, co-Convenor of the APSA Policy Studies Group (2016-2019) and has twice convened the Annual Conference of the Australasian Public Policy Network Conference (2014 and 2021). Former roles also include positions in the Department of Government at the University of Sydney and the Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis at the University of Canberra.
Paul holds a PhD in Governance, Master of Arts in Research Methods and Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Birmingham.
Michael Macaulay
Michael Macaulay is Professor of Public Administration at the School of Government at Victoria University of Wellington (Te Herenga Waka). He is currently a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Sunderland (UK) and York St John (UK), and is a former Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg (South Africa). He has published extensively in the fields of integrity, ethics and anti-corruption in leading international journals.
Whilst at VUW, Michael has held a number of senior roles including Associate Dean (Victoria Business School) and Director of the Institute for Governance and Policy Studies. During his tenure as Director of IGPS, Michael secured $NZ 7 million in research funding, generating nearly an extra $NZ 1 million in PBRF funding. He organised arranged over 200 roundtables and public events with speakers from all over the world, as well as overseeing publication of Policy Quarterly, NZ’s leading policy practitioner journal.
Professor Macaulay is currently Regional Editor (Pacific Rim) for Public Management Review and was previously co-editor (2013-16) of the International Journal of Public Administration. He has edited several special issues and currently sits on the editorial boards of several other journals. He was appointed co-chair of the European Group of Public Administration (EGPA) permanent study group on integrity and quality of governance in 2011, a position he gave up in 2019.Michael was NZ lead for Whistling While They Work 2, an ARC-funded research project led by Griffith University into workplace misconduct and whistle-blower protections in Australia and Aotearoa-New Zealand. Working in a consortium with numerous universities and public, private, and NFP agencies, the project is (to date) that largest piece of research of its kind undertaken.