ANZSOG welcomes Academic Fellows Andrew Mycock and Anna Boucher for 2026

ANZSOG is pleased to welcome Dr Andrew Mycock and Associate Professor Anna Boucher as Academic Fellows for 2026.

Dr Mycock and Associate Professor Boucher bring leading expertise in research–policy engagement, migration policy, leadership capability and policy design. They will work with ANZSOG across 2026 through dialogue, collaboration and applied inquiry, contributing to conversations with public sector leaders, policymakers and practitioners on complex contemporary policy challenges.

Dr Andrew Mycock

Dr Mycock, an international Visiting Fellow from the University of Leeds, is a political scientist specialising in research–policy engagement and university–government partnerships.

Dr Andrew Mycock is a widely recognised political scientist specialising in policy engagement and research–government partnerships. He regularly advises the UK government, sits on national and local policy commissions and plays a senior leadership role in the UK’s University Policy Engagement Network (UPEN) — a nationwide initiative connecting more than 120 universities with the public sector to strengthen evidence-informed policymaking.

His fellowship explores how stronger systems of collaboration and knowledge exchange between universities and governments can support evidence-informed policymaking and help enhance policy capability and support effective decision-making in complex and uncertain environments.

Dr Mycock will work with public sector leaders and researchers to examine how these systems operate in practice and the conditions required to sustain effective engagement in the Australian context.

His Issues Paper provides further detail on the policy issues and questions he is exploring.

Associate Professor Anna Boucher

Associate Professor Anna Boucher, from the University of Sydney, is a public policy scholar specialising in migration, citizenship and comparative public policy.

Associate Professor Boucher is a public policy scholar specialising in migration, citizenship and comparative public policy. Alongside her academic work, Anna has

extensive experience advising governments and public bodies on complex policy challenges. She regularly engages with public sector leaders on issues of policy design, implementation and leadership.

Her fellowship explores how trauma-informed approaches can strengthen policymaking and leadership capability, with a focus on how public institutions recognise and respond to the impacts of trauma in complex policy environments.

Her work considers how trauma-informed perspectives can support ethical, resilient and effective policy practice within government. Further detail on the policy issues and questions being explored is set out in her accompanying Issues Paper.

Through her fellowship, Associate Professor Boucher will engage with public sector leaders to explore how these approaches can be applied within Australian public institutions.

Academic Fellows Program

ANZSOG’s Academic Fellows Program strengthens our engagement with universities and allows academics to enrich their work and build their connections to practitioners and fellow academics in the field of public administration and governance.

It is a key part of ANZSOG’s work and continues our history as institution with deep connections to academia as well as the public sector. It allows us to give back to the academic ecosystem to which we are deeply connected, and to showcase exciting work that takes place across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand.

The Academic Fellows selected for 2026 are an outstanding group of scholars whose work spans policymaking, knowledge mobilisation, public management, and evidence use.

Resident Academic Fellows

The Resident Academic Fellows from ANZSOG’s partner universities are:

• Professor Brian Head, School of Political and International Studies, University of Queensland.

• Professor Jo Barraket, Director, Melbourne Social Equity Institute, University of Melbourne.

• Associate Professor Anna Boucher, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney.

• Associate Professor Zareh Ghazarian, School of Social Sciences, Monash University.

International Visiting Fellows

• Professor Giliberto Capano, Department of Political Science, University of Bologna, Italy.

• Professor Arlene Holmes-Henderson MBE, Department of Classics and Ancient History, Durham University.

• Dr Andrew Mycock, Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds

• Professor James Downe and his team Dr Hannah Durrant and Dr Elanor McKillop, Wales Centre for Public Policy, Cardiff University, Wales.

For any inquiries regarding the Academic Fellows Program or the 2026 Fellows, please get in touch with us at insights@anzsog.edu.au.