RC32 - Public Policy and Administration

The University of Queensland (Australia) is looking for a postdoc to work on organisational and governance responses to scientific knowledge on rising sea levels and their ecosystem impacts.

This new collection is edited by Ann Marie Bissessar from the University of the West Indies, with contributions by several RC32 members. For full details

The Berlin Conference Steering Committee and its partners invite papers for this year’s ‘Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change ’. The 2012 conference, which will be held in Berlin from 5-6 October, 2012, will be the 11th event in the series of annual European Conferences. With this year’s conference theme “Evidence for Sustainable Development” we address the knowledge basis of political decisions required for sustainable development, the construction of evidence, and the ways evidence is used in decision-making.

Public Dialogue and Deliberation: A communication perspective for public engagement practitioners By Oliver Escobar Public Policy Network (University of Edinburgh)

This free booklet seeks to speak to people involved in creating public forums for meaningful conversations. It provides an understanding of face-to-face communication that will prove invaluable to public engagement practitioners on the ground.

Shaping innovation in governance? Inducements, opportunities and limitations for engaging with governance in the making 31 May – 1 June 2012, Berlin

The Third Berlin Forum Innovation in Governance is pivoted on the question of whether and how innovations in governance can be deliberately shaped. This suggests a focus on the relation between knowledge and politics in processes of advancing new forms of governance. More specifically, we are interested in discussing the relation between, on the one hand, a discourse of innovation in governance, theoretical models of change, the articulation of designs and strategies, and, on the other hand, the agency of innovation, actual practices of forging alliances, softening established orders, configuring and evaluating new arrangements, and linking up with broader transformation processes as they unfold. The Forum will open with a public keynote dialogue between Frank Fischer (Rutgers University) and Andrew Stirling (University of Sussex) on challenges of innovating governance for sustainable development.

160 Ph.D. Grants to Be Awarded for Academic Year 2012-13

The EUI offers one of the world’s largest and most distinguished graduate programmes

in Social Sciences.

Exploring borders: new realities, challenges and solutions 17-20 May, South Padre Island, Texas, US

The School of Management and Public Administration at the University of the South Pacific, based in Suva, Fiji is recruiting two academic staff at Lecturer, Senior Lecturer or Associate Professor level.

The Policy Studies Organization and Wiley-Blackwell are delighted to announce that the PSO journals will be available online-only beginning in January 2012.

This new book, edited by Anne Marie Bissessar of the University of the West Indies, aims to present a set of perspectives that are sound and useful and it seeks to stimulate scholars and students and at the same time to inform practitioners of the myth that governance is a perfect method of administration to be applied in all countries, irrespective of their levels of development or the impact and experience of globalization in various countries . This book will certainly bring a conclusion to the ongoing debate of whether “Governance Is for Everyone.” (Imprint: Nova)