Emeritus Professor Marian Sawer
Room:
1201, Haydon-Allen Building 22
Phone:
+61 2 61250130
Email:
marian.sawer@anu.edu.au Research interests:
Democratic theory and practice, electoral administration, gender politics and policy, social liberalism, social movements, new institutionalism
Qualifications:
MA, PhD
Awards:
•Australian Political Studies Assocation, Lifetime Achievement Award, 2009
•Member of the Governance Stream, 2020 Summit, 2008
•Co-Winner, Wilma Rule Award 2000
•Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, 1996-
•Officer of the Order of Australia, 1994-
Biography and Interests:
Former Head of the Political Science Program, RSSS, currently Vice-President of the International Political Science Association and Director-ANU of the Democratic Audit of Australia.
•Professor, Political Science Program, RSSS, ANU, 2003-05
•Head, Political Science Program, RSSS, ANU, 2000-03
•Chair, IPSA Research Committee 19, 2003-06
•President of the Australasian Political Studies Association, 1985-86
Marian Sawer was born in New Zealand and moved to Australia for her secondary education. She is married to James Jupp and has three grown-up daughters.
Professional responsibilities:
•Emeritus Professor, ANU; Adjunct Professor, School of Political Science and International Relations, ANU
•Vice-President, International Political Science Association 2009-
•Member Executive, International Political Science Association 2006-
•Editor, Participation, 2010-
•Leader, Democratic Audit of Australia 2002-08, ANU Director, Democratic Audit of Australia 2008-
Current research projects:
One of Marian's major roles has been leading the ARC-funded Democratic Audit of Australia 2002-08. The capstone book, Australia: The State of Democracy, was launched in October 2009. She then won ARC-funding (2008-10) for a project with Sarah Maddison on the evolution of social movements. It involves the construction of institutions and protest event databases for the Australian women's movement and showing the relationship between events, institutions and online discourses (AWM website).
Another international project for which Marian won an International Research Linkage grant in 2009 is on gender and multilevel governance. Workshops were held on the project in Ottawa in 2009 (participants) and the book, was published in 2010 (see below).
In the centenary year of International Women's Day (2011) there has been considerable interest in milestones such as the abolition of the Commonwealth Marriage Bar. Marian's Removal of the Commonwealth Marriage Bar: A Documentary History can be found in the National Library's Pandora Archive website.
In 2010 Marian won funding for a project on women and leadership in movements for social change (part of a larger ARC Linkage project headed by Pat Grimshaw of University of Melbourne). In 2011, together with colleagues in History, Philosophy and Sociology, she won funding from the RSSS interdisciplinary research scheme for a comparative project on gender in the social sciences.website
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