Anne Tiernan

Professor Anne Tiernan is from Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Tiernan is a writer, educator, political scientist, and consultant in areas of public administration, public policy and research analysis. She is known for her research expertise in policy and has presented at conferences both nationally and internationally. She has a regular weekly radio slot on 'Weekends with Tim Cox' on 612 ABC Brisbane. Tiernan is currently the Professor at the Centre for Governance and Public Policy at Griffith University and Fellow of ANZSOG.[1][2][3]

Education

Professor Anne Tiernan attended high school at St Rita's College, Clayfield, and studied Politics and Government at Griffith University.

Career

Tiernan began her early career working in government both at a Commonwealth and Queensland level in both consultancy and teaching capacities. Some of her roles have included Commissioner at the Queensland Crime and Corruption Commission, and Member of the Board of Commissioners of the Queensland Public Service Commission.

Tiernan was a member of the Board of Directors, St Rita's College between 2013 and 2015.

Tiernan was appointed as Professor of Australian Government and Politics at The University of Melbourne between July 2015 and November 2016.

Tiernan is due to appear at an event for the 2017 Brisbane Writers Festival in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.[4][5]

Writing

Tiernan is the author of The Gatekeepers: Lessons from Prime Ministers' Chiefs of Staff (both with R.A.W. Rhodes, MUP 2014), which included information about 11 former chiefs of staff ; Lessons in Governing: A Profile of Prime Ministers’ Chiefs of Staff and Learning to be a Minister: Heroic Expectations, Practical Realities (with Patrick Weller, MUP 2010) ; and Caretaker Conventions in Australasia: Minding the Shop for Government (ANU Press 2014) (with Jennifer Menzies).[6]

Articles have included the following:

  • Tiernan, A. (2015). The dilemmas of organisational capacity. Policy and Society, 34(3), 209-217.
  • Rhodes, R. A. W., & Tiernan, A. (2015). Focus groups and prime ministers’ chiefs of staff. Journal of Organizational Ethnography, 4(2), 208-222.
  • Dickinson, H., Katsonis, M., Kay, A., O'Flynn, J., & Tiernan, A. (2015). Looking to the Past and the Future of the Australian Journal of Public Administration. Australian Journal of Public Administration, 74(1), 1-4.
  • Tiernan, A. (2015). Craft and Capacity in the Public Service. Australian Journal of Public Administration, 74(1), 53-62.
  • Tiernan, A. (2015). Reforming Australia's Federal Framework: Priorities and Prospects. Australian Journal of Public Administration, 74(4), 398-405.
  • Rhodes, R. A. W., & Tiernan, A. (2014). Prime Ministers’ Chiefs of Staff: Coping with wild treachery and weirdness. In D. Alexander and J. Lewis (eds), Making Public Policy Decisions: Expertise, skills and experience. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, p. 146-165.
  • Tiernan, A. & Menzies, J. (2015). Caretaker Conventions. In B. Galligan, B. & S. Brenton (eds), Constitutional Conventions in Westminster Systems: Controversies, Changes and Challenges. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 91-115.[3]
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References
  1. "Professor Anne Tiernan". Griffith University. Archived from the original on 4 September 2017. Retrieved 4 September 2017.
  2. "What does the PM's chief of staff really do?". ABC Between the Lines. Retrieved 4 September 2017.
  3. "Anne Tiernan". Australian and New Zealand School of Government. Retrieved 4 September 2017.
  4. "Professor Anne Tiernan". Brisbane Writers Festival 2017. Archived from the original on 5 September 2017. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
  5. "The last man in Europe". Brisbane Writers Festival 2017. Archived from the original on 4 September 2017. Retrieved 4 September 2017.
  6. "The gatekeepers : lessons from prime ministers' chiefs of staff". State Library of Queensland. Retrieved 4 September 2017.
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