ANZSOG is strengthening its important and longstanding interface with academia, integral to its unique positioning at the intersection between universities and public services.
From 2025, ANZSOG will be offering leading emerging and established scholars the opportunity to enrich their research and build their connections to practitioners and fellow academics in the field of public administration and governance, through the creation of a series of new Fellowships to be in place by the second half of the year.
The new Resident Academic and Visiting Academic Fellowships will help deepen ties and collaboration between ANZSOG, our partner universities and the academic sector more broadly, and help us continue to produce research relevant to the work of government.
Dean and CEO, Professor Caron Beaton-Wells has highlighted ANZSOG’s distinctive approach to education and research harnessing its extensive connections to both practitioners and academia.
“ANZSOG collaborates with both academia and the public sector to develop and deliver innovative research and professional education in public governance, leadership and capability,” she said.
“Consistent with ANZSOG’s 2030 Strategy, we are focused on the transformation of governance to meet the challenges of the 21st century. It is integral to this goal that we strengthen our academic ecosystem and relationships.”
“These fellowships will attract talented researchers to contribute to ANZSOG’s work in a range of ways. The program will also make an important contribution to supporting the next generation of public administration scholars.”
The announcement of the Fellowships is a key element of ANZSOG’s new Faculty Engagement and Experience framework, underpinned by principles of flexibility, mutuality and collaboration with academics and universities.
The Fellowships program will provide opportunities for academics to develop and undertake research and related engagement activities that anticipate and address the knowledge needs of governments across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand.
ANZSOG Academic Fellows will benefit from the opportunity of having cross-disciplinary peer exchange with other ANZSOG faculty, and career development that maintains continuity with, and provides benefit back to, their home institutions.
The inaugural fellowship round will commence in the second half of 2025 with ANZSOG offering short term fellowship opportunities in two streams: Resident Academic Fellows, open to ANZSOG Partner Universities, and Visiting Academic Fellows, open to academics from other Australian and New Zealand universities and internationally.
Guidelines relating to applications for the Fellowships, as well as an application form, can be found on our website. Applications for the first round close on 19 February.
More information on the Fellowships is found below.
Resident Academic Fellows
ANZSOG will provide a financial contribution to support a flexible academic residency for a dedicated period of up to six months for this category of fellows. Financial contributions are modelled on a teaching buyout approach up to a specified amount Fellows would be engaged on a secondment arrangement, meaning they would remain substantively under the conditions of their home institution. Academics that are ‘research only’ or otherwise not engaged in substantial teaching or administration can also apply, with the expectation of a similar agreed time buyout.
Amount: up to $36,000
This sum can include buyout of time, anticipated at 0.4FTE plus any necessary travel to ANZSOG. Additional funds for necessary travel to ANZSOG may be available upon request.
Visiting Academic Fellows
ANZSOG Visiting Fellowships are tailored for academics who are undertaking a planned (university-funded or supported) mobility scheme, including sabbaticals and special studies programs. ANZSOGs contribution will be mostly in kind.
Fellows would be able to apply for a visit spanning 1 to 3 months to situate some or all of their study program with ANZSOG, contributing to the intellectual environment by connecting with ANZSOG faculty, staff and fellows, sharing and advancing their research and scholarship.
ANZSOG offers sector engagement that academics can harness to ground their own research and build opportunities to collaborate. We can provide connection with individual public service professionals through a range of agreed learning, engagement and research activity, building links for two-way transfer for the Fellow and between universities and the sector more broadly.
Visiting fellows will be able to access desk/meeting space in ANZSOG locations, access to our teaching and research support, including support for agreed engagement and outreach activities, guest lectures, seminars and workshops.
Visiting Fellows will also have access to a small fund to support attendance at a conference or industry event, or to assist in hosting such an event, or for a field site visit.