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Biography

 

Name:   

• Steve Garlick:           

 

Nationality:

•  Australian

 

Recent Positions:

• Professor of Regional Engagement, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia
• Professor of Regional Development, Swinburne University of Technology in Victoria

 

Areas and Length of Expertise:

• Regional Development Theory &Policy;
• University – Regional Engagement,
• Regional Development & Applied Ethics, University-regional community engagement benchmarking,
• University evaluation studies
• Learning and community engagement

 

 

Recent research, development and consultancy and organisations:

• Advisor to IMHE/ OECD on higher education and regional development
• Higher education evaluations in Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands and Canada
• Consultancies for the Australian Government in regional development and higher education.

 

Qualifications, Recognitions, Positions, Memberships

• Masters degree and PhD in regional economics (awarded thesis medal by the Australian and New Zealand Regional Science Association)
• British Council Award Scholarship 
• Former senior executive and ministerial advisor with the Australian Government
• Vice-President of the Australian Universities Community Engagement Alliance (AUCEA).
• Member of the St James Ethics Centre at the University of Sydney

 

Selected Publications in:

 

Regional development theory & policy:

• An Enterprising Human Capital Approach to Regional Growth: Implications for policy and the role of Vocational Education and Training. NCVER, Adelaide. 2007(with M. Taylor and P.  Plummer), ISBN pending

 University-regional and community engagement:

• Creative Associations in Special Places: Enhancing the partnership role of universities in building competitive regional economies. DEST EIP No: 98/4. Canberra. 1998
• Engaging Universities and Regions: Knowledge contribution to regional economic development in Australia. DEST EIP No: 00/15. Canberra 2000.
• OECD Peer Review Evaluation Report for the Atlantic Canada Region. 2007. www.oecd.org/edu/higher/regionaldevelopment
• OECD Peer Review Evaluation Report for the Sunshine and Fraser Coast Region, Australia, 2006. www.oecd.org/edu/higher/regionaldevelopment
• OECD Peer Review Evaluation Report for the Oresund Science Region, Sweden and Denmark. 2006. www.oecd.org/edu/higher/regionaldevelopment
• OECD Peer Review Evaluation Report for the Varmland Region, Sweden. 2006. www.oecd.org/edu/higher/regionaldevelopment
• OECD Peer Review Evaluation Report for the Twente Region , Netherlands. 2006. www.oecd.org/edu/higher/regionaldevelopment

 

Ethics of regional development and university engagement:

• “Connecting scholarship to places: human capital, learning, enterprising and an ethical approach to communities”. AUCEA Annual Conference, Charles Darwin University, Alice Springs, July, 2007

 

University benchmarking:

• Benchmarking the University: Learning about improvement, DEST, Canberra, 2004

History

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