Bligh James Grant
Research Lecturer, Faculty of The Professions, School of Business Economics and Public Policy
Qualifications
1995: Bachelor of Arts with Honours, First Class (Politics) University of New England.
Contact
| Email: | bgrant5@une.edu.au |
| Room: | W40, Room 805 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 3945 (or +61 2 6773 3945 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 3596 |
Bligh Grant is Research Lecturer in Local Government Studies and Deputy Director of the UNE Centre for Local Government. He is also a PhD candidate in the Centre and School of Business, Economics and Public Policy and is completing his dissertation in journal article format. The title of his thesis is Local Governments as 'Place-shapers': Exposition, Critique and Investigations in Australian Politics. It was submitted 12 December 2011 and is available here.
Affiliations
Australasian Political Studies Association
Australia New Zealand Regional Science Association International
Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society
Australian & New Zealand Academy of Management
Areas of Teaching
Mr Grant was Course Coordinator for GSB 680 Local Government in Trimester 3 2011. In 2010 he assisted teaching in MM322/422 Managing Ethics in Organisations, as well as GSB 751 Business & Professional Ethics.
Mr Grant has recently returned to UNE after a period as Associate Lecturer in Political Economy at the University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba. He has taught and assisted teaching and marking in the areas of Philosophy, Politics, Sociology, Asian Studies and International Relations, as well as International Business, Business Ethics and Australian Political Economy, at UNE and USQ Toowoomba.
Research interests
Current research interests are largely determined by the Centre Director, Professor Brian Dollery. Recent work has included:
- Responses to structural reform programs across Australian local government jurisdictions;
- Shared services as a means of achieving efficiencies in both local and state government bureaucracies;
- Contemporary models of local government, in particular the 'place-shaping' approach developed in the United Kingdom by the Lyons Inquiry, and its applicability to Australian local government;
- Theories of democracy and leadership as they pertain to local government reform,
- Constitutional reform and local government, and
- Community engagement and local government.
Mr Grant has a long-standing interest in the hospitality sector in the Australian economy, and the wine industry as an element of Australia's rural restructuring, in particular in the New England North-West region. He was a co-convenor of New England branch of Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (AARES) and School of Business, Economics and Public Policy (BEPP) Wine Symposium 2010, University of New England, Armidale. 13 August, 2010. Several papers from the Symposium have recently been published in Volume 19 of Australian Agribusiness Perspectives.
Publications
Books and Edited Collections
Dollery, B. E., Grant, B. and Kortt, M. (2012). Councils in Cooperation: Shared Services and Australian Local Government. Federation Press (forthcoming).
Dollery, B. E. and Grant, B. (eds). (2011). Journal of Economic and Social Policy 14(2) Special Edition: Local Government & Local Government Policy in Australia.
Grant, B. (ed.) (1997). Pauline Hanson, One Nation & Australian Politics, UNE Press, Armidale. i+166pp. ISBN: 1-875821-38-4.
Book Chapters
Dollery, B. E., Kortt, M. and Grant, B. (2011). ‘Tackling the Australian Local Infrastructure Backlog: The Case for a National Bond Bank’, in van der Hoek, M. P. (ed.). A Global Economy, Forum of Economists International, Papendrecht, Netherlands, pp. 116-130. ISBN: 978-90-817873-0-7.
Grant, B. and Sorensen, T. (2000). ‘Marginality, Regionalism and the One Nation Vote: Exploring Socio-Economic Correlations’, in Howard’s Agenda: The 1998 Federal Election, Simms, M. & Warhurst, J., (eds.), UQP, pp. 193-211. ISBN: 0 7022 3163 0.
Grant, B. (1997). ‘Introduction’, in Grant, B. (ed). Pauline Hanson, One Nation & Australian Politics. UNE Press, Armidale, pp. 7-18. ISBN: 1 875821 38 4.
Refereed Published Conference Proceedings
Grant, B., Dollery, B. E. and Kortt, M. (2012). 'The governance of grapes: The NSW Legislative Council's Wine Grape Market and Prices Inquiry (2010): An assessment'. Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society 56th Annual Conference Proceedings.
Grant, B. and Dollery, B. E. (2011). 'Regrets? He's had a few: The implications of Gerry Stoker's volte face for Australian local government reform'. In Australian Political Studies Annual Conference Proceedings, Crisis, Uncertaintly and Democracy, ANU, 26-28 September.
Fisher, J. and Grant, B. (2011). 'Strengthening business ethics pedagogy: The case for Mark Moore's theory of public value'. Australasian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics 18th Annual Conference, School of Philosophy, University of Tasmania, 7-9 June.
Dollery, B. E., Crase, L. and Grant, B. (2011). 'The local capacity, local community and local governance dimensions of sustainability in Australian local government'. Commonwealth Local Government Conference 'Energising Local Economies: Partnerships for Prosperous Communities', Cardiff City Hall, Wales, 15-18 March.
Grant, B. and Fisher, J. (2010). 'Public Value: Conjecture and refutation, theory and ethics'. In Gurd, B., Australian New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM) 24th Annual Conference Managing for Unknowable Futures, Adelaide, December 6th-10th: 1-15. Published by Tour Hosts Pty Ltd. ISBN: 1-877040-82-7.
James, K. and Grant, B. (2010). 'Catholicism and Alcoholism: The Irish Diaspora lived ethics of the Dropkick Murphys punk band'. In Migrant security 2010: Citizenship and Social Inclusion in a Transnational Era. Public Memory Research Centre, Faculty of Arts, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, 16 July 2010: 107-144.
Grant, B., Dollery, B. E. and Hearfield, C. (2009). 'New England Australia: What follows from regional status? A comparative, political economy approach'. Inaugural Wine Business Research Symposium, Centre for Institutional and Organisational Studies, University of Newcastle, December 7th-8th: 167-187. ISBN: 978-0-646-52468-9. WINNER: BEST PAPER AT SYMPOSIUM AWARD.
Grant, B., Dollery, B. E. and Crase, L. (2008). ‘Leadership in Contemporary Local Government Reform: The Lyons Report and Its Implications for Australasian Local Government’. Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM) 22nd Annual Conference, Managing in the Pacific Century, 3 December 2008. ISBN: 1 8630 8148 8.
Grant, B. (1998). ‘Governing and Regulating the Social: A Positive Reconstruction of the Social in the Context of Community Development’, in Greenhill, A., Fletcher, G. & de la Feunte, (eds.) Rethinking the Social, Griffith University Press, 1998, pp. 179-192. ISBN: 0 86857 781 2.
Refereed Journal Articles
Smith, G. and Grant, B. (2012). 'Reply to Friedman'. Discussion Paper, Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics and Business Law, 1(3): (in print).
Gow, J., Grant, B. and Colvin, M. (2012). ' Socio-economic characteristics of HIV in a South African prison'. International Journal of Business and Management, 7(5): (in print).
Kortt, M., Dollery, B. E. and Grant, B. (2012). 'Protestantism and work ethic: Evidence from Australia.' Applied Economics Letters (in print).
Fisher, J, and Grant, B. (2012). 'Strengthening business ethics teaching: The case for Moore's (1995) Public Value'. Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics (in print).
Dollery, B. E., Kortt, M. and Grant, B. (2012). 'Harnessing private funds to alleviate the Australian local government infrastructure backlog'. Economic Papers (in print).
Mounter, S., Grant, B, Fleming, E. and Griffith, G. (2011). 'Latecomers: Charting a course for the New England Australia wine region'. Australasian Journal of Regional Studies 17(3) (in print). WINNER, John Dickinson Memorial Prize for the best article in AJRS in 2011.
Dollery, B. E., Crase, L. and Grant, B. (2011). 'The local capacity, local community and local governance dimensions of sustainability in Australian Local Government'. Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance 8/9 May/November: 162-183.
Dollery, B. E. Kortt, M.K. and Grant, B. (2011). 'A normative model of local government de-amalgamation in Australia'. Australian Journal of Political Science, 46(4): 601-616.
Smith, G. and Grant, B. (2011).'Thermodynamics and the economics of sustainability'. Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics and Business Law 1(1): 42-50.
James, K., Walsh, R. and Grant, B. (2011). 'Poverty in Paradise City: When the Jester has a broken heart'. Journal of Peace, Gender and Development Studies, 1(4): 138-154.
Grant, B. and Dollery, B. E. (2011). 'Political geography as public policy? 'Place-shaping' as a mode of local government reform'. Ethics, Policy and Environment 14(2): 1-17 (FEATURE ARTICLE).
Dollery, B. E. and Grant, B. (2011). 'Financial sustainability and financial viability in Australian local government'. Public Finance and Management, 11(1): 28-47.
Dollery, B. E., Grant, B. and Crase, L. (2011). 'Love thy neighbour: A social capital approach to local government partnerships'. Australian Journal of Public Administration 70(2): 156-166.
Dollery, B. E. and Grant, B. (2011). 'Introduction', in Journal of Economic and Social Policy, 13(3): Article 1.
Grant, B. and Fisher, J. (2011). 'Public Value: Positive ethics for Australian local government'. In Journal of Economic and Social Policy, 13(3): Article 7.
Conway, M-L. Dollery, B. E. and Grant. B. (2011). 'The construction of regional development in the boardroom: Evidence from NSW and Western Australia'. Journal of Economic and Social Policy, 13(3): Article 8.
Conway, M-L., Dollery, B. E. and Grant, B. (2011). 'Shared service models in Australian local government: The New England Strategic Alliance model five years on'. Australian Geographer 42(2):183-199.
Keleher, D., Dollery, B. E. and Grant, B. (2011). 'Trade liberalisation in Indonesian health services: prospects and policies'. International Journal of Public Administration 34(8): 528-538.
Grant, B., Dollery, B. E. and Hearfield, C. (2011). 'New England Australia: What follows from regional status? A comparative, political economy approach'. International Journal of Wine Business Research 23(1): 83-98.
Grant, B. Dollery, B. E. and Gow, J. (2011). 'Local democracy and local government efficiency: The case of elected executives in Australian local government'. Australian Journal of Political Science 46(1): 51-67.
Dollery, B. E. and Grant, B. (2011). 'Economic efficiency versus local democracy? An evaluation of structural change and local democracy in Australian local government'. Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, 23(1): 1-20.
Dollery, B. E., Grant, B. and Crase, L. (2010). 'Not what they seem: An analysis of strategic service delivery partnerships in local government'. Australasian Journal of Canadian Studies 28(2): 59-74.
Dollery, B. E., Goode, S. and Grant, B. (2010). 'Structural Reform of local government in Australia: A sustainable amalgamation model for country councils'. Space & Polity 14(3): 289-304.
Gow, G. and Grant, B. (2010). 'South African forestry companies’ human resource management strategies toward HIV/AIDS'. African Journal of AIDS Research 9(3): 285-295.
Grant, B. and Dollery, B. E. (2010). 'Constitutionalism, federalism and reform? Pape v Commissioner of Taxation and Anor -- A conversation with Bryan Pape'. Public Policy 5(1): 53-63.
Gow, G. and Grant, B. (2010). 'Grape-grubbers: The case against wine industry re-regulation'. Policy 26(3): 26-31.
Dollery, B. E., Grant, B. and Akimov, A. (2010). 'A typology of shared service provision in Australian local government'. Australian Geographer, 41(2): 217-231.
Grant, B. and Dollery, B. E. (2010). 'Place-shaping by local government in developing countries: lessons for the developed world'. International Journal of Public Administration, 33(5): 251-161.
Dollery, B. E. and Grant, B. (2010). 'Tortoises and hares: The race to shared services across Australian state and territory jurisdictions'. International Journal of Public Administration, 33(1): 43-54.
Dollery, B. E. and Grant, B. (2009). 'Australian alternatives to amalgamation: A critical evaluation of the Western Australian regional model of local government'. Public Policy, 4(2): 87-103.
Jones, S., Dollery, B. E. and Grant, B. (2009). 'A generic approach to conceptualising economic development in Australian local government'. Journal of Economic and Social Policy, 31(1): Article 8.
Grant, B., Dollery, B. E. and Crase, L. (2009). ‘The implications of the Lyons Report in England for structural reform in Australian local government. International Journal of Public Administration, 32(10): 852-867.
Kelly, A., Dollery, B. E. and Grant, B. (2009). 'Regional development and local government: Three generations of federal intervention’. Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, 15(2): 171-193.
Dollery, B. E., Grant, B. and O’Keefe, S. (2008). ‘Local councils as ‘Place-shapers’: the implications of the Lyons Report for Australian local government’. Australian Journal of Political Science 43(3): 481-494.
Davidson, A. P. and Grant, B. (2001). ‘Rural Australia: neo-liberalism or a “new feudalism”’?’ Journal of Contemporary Asia, 3 (13): 289-305.
Non-Refereed Articles
Grant, B. (2011). 'From grape-grower and winemaker to wine tourism operator: An interview with Shaun Cassidy of Merilba Estate Wines, Kingstown', Australasian Agribusiness Perspectives, 19: paper # 91.
Wright, S. with Grant, B. (2011). ‘Niche-marketing organic wines: Ethical dilemmas and the importance of stewardship as the foundation of sustainable business’, Australasian Agribusiness Perspectives, 19: paper # 92.
Grant, B., Gow, J. and Dollery, B.E. (2011). ‘The proposed “Wine Restructuring Action Agenda” and alternative policy options for the Australian wine industry’, Australasian Agribusiness Perspectives, 19: paper # 93.
Dollery, B. E. and Grant, B. (2011). 'Innovation in Tasmania: A conversation with Ron Sanderson, General Manager Brighton Council, Tasmania'. Australian Local Government Voices, UNE Centre for Local Government: June.
Dollery, B. E. and Grant, B. (2011). 'A conversation with Geoff Lake, immediate Past-President of the ALGA'. Australian Local Government Voices, UNE Centre for Local Government: March.
Refereed Working Papers
Grant, B., Dollery, B. E. and Kortt, M. (2011). 'Australian local government and community engagement: Are all our community engagement plans the same? Does it matter?' Working Paper 05-2011, Centre for Local Government, University of New England.
Grant, B., Dollery, B. E. and and van der Westhuizen, G. (2011). Local government and community engagement: A case study of Geraldton, Western Australia. Working Paper 04-2011, Centre for Local Government, University of New England.
Grant, B. and Dollery, B. E. (2011). 'Symbolism and tokenism in Constitutional reform of Australian local government'. Working Paper 03-2011, Centre for Local Government, University of New England.
Grant, B. and Dollery, B. E. (2011). 'The contribution of Gerry Stoker to the theory and practice of local government reform: A critical overivew'. Working Paper 02-2011, Centre for Local Government, University of New England.
Grant, B. and Dollery, B. E. (2011). 'Principles of American local government autonomy and the implications for Australian local government'. Working Paper 01-2011, Centre for Local Government, University of New England.
Grant, B., Dollery, B. E. and Gow, J. (2010). 'An assessment of alternative leadership models for Australian local government'. Working Paper 04-2010, Centre for Local Government, University of New England.
Dollery, B. and Grant, B. (2009). 'Australian alternatives to local government amalgamation: A critical evaluation of the Western Australian regional model of local government'. Working Paper 01-2009, Centre for Local Government, University of New England.
Dollery, B. E., Grant, B. and Akimov, A. (2008). 'Shared services in Australian local government: A proposed taxonomy'. Working Paper 09-2008, Centre for Local Government, University of New England.
Dollery, B. E., Grant, B. and Crase, L. (2008). 'Strategic service delivery partnerships in contemporary Australian local government'. Working Paper 08-2008, Centre for Local Government, University of New England.
Grant, B. and Dollery, B. E. (2008). 'Devolution and leadership in contemporary local government: A critique of the Lyons Report in England'. Working Paper 06-2008, Centre for Local Government, University of New England.
Grant, B. and Dollery, B. E. (2008). 'Efficiency and democracy in Australian local government'. Working Paper 05-2008, Centre for Local Government, University of New England.
Grant, B. and Dollery, B. E. (2007). 'Civic virtue in the Lyons Report on local government in England'. Working Paper 16-2007, Centre for Local Government, University of New England.
Dollery, B. E., Grant, B. and O’Keefe, S. (2007). 'The Lyons Report and its ramifications for Australian local government'. Working Paper 12-2007, Centre for Local Government, University of New England.
Working Papers
Grant, B. and Dollery, B. E. (2010). Political economy as public policy: Place-shaping as a mode of local government reform. School of Business, Economics and Public Policy Working Papers Series.
Grant. B. and Fisher, J. (2010). 'Public Value: Conjecture and refutation, theory and ethics'. School of Business, Economics and Public Policy Working Papers Series.
Grant, B. Gow, B. E. and Dollery, B. E. (2010). 'The proposed Wine Restructuring Action Agenda and alternative policy options for the Australian wine industry'. School of Business, Economics and Public Policy Working Papers Series.
Conference Papers – Forthcoming, Recent and Memorable
Grant, B., Dollery, B. E. and Kortt, M. (2012). 'The governance of Grapes: An assessment of the NSW Inquiry into Wine Grape Market and Prices (2010).' Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society Annual Conference, Freemantle, 7-1- February, 2012.
Grant, B., Mounter, S., Griffiths, G. and Fleming, G. (2012). 'Losing their competitive edge: Australian wine exports in the noughties'. Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, New England Branch Seminar Series, University of New England, 17 January.
Grant, B. (2011). 'Leadership in Australian local government reform: Institutional and ethical approaches.' Australian Centre for Excellence in Local Government Researchers Forum, University of Technology, Sydney, December 14-15.
Grant, B. and Dollery, B. E. (2011). 'Regrets? He's had a few: The implications of Gerry Stoker's volte face for Australian local government reform'. Australian Political Studies Annual Conference Old Parliament House, Canberra, 26-28 September.
Grant, B. and Dollery, B. E. (2011). 'Autonomy versus oversight in local government reform: The implications of "Home Rule" for Australia'. Paper presented on invitation USQ School of Accounting, Economics and Finance Seminar Series, 21 July, 2011.
Mounter, S., Grant, B., Fleming, E. and Griffith, G. (2011). 'Latecomers: Charting a course for the wine industry in the New England Region of Australia'. American Association of Wine Economists 5th Annual Conference, Bolzano, Italy, 23-25 June.
Fisher, J. and Grant, B. (2011). 'Strengthening business ethics pedagogy: The case for Mark Moore's theory of public value'. Australasian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics 18th Annual Conference, School of Philosophy, University of Tasmania, 7-9 June.
James, K., Griggs, S. and Grant, B. (2011). 'Back in a New York groove: Remembering Kiss'. International Conference of Critical Accounting, New York, April 28-30.
Grant, B. and Fisher, J. (2010). 'Public Value: Conjecture and refutation, theory and ethics'. Australian New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM) 24th Annual Conference Managing for Unknowable Futures, Adelaide, December 6th-10th.
James, K. and Grant, B. (2010). 'Valorising Catholicism? The Irish Diaspora lived ethics of the Dropkick Murphys punk band'. Presented at Migrant security 2010: Citizenship and Social Inclusion in a Transnational Era. Hosted by the Public Memory Research Centre, Faculty of Arts, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, 16 July 2010.
Grant, B. (2010). 'The Good Councilor? Leadership in Australian Local Government'. Presented at the 15 Biennial Conference of the Association for Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand (ACSANZ), University of New England, Armidale NSW, 4 July.
Grant, B., Dollery, B. E. and Hearfield, C. (2009). 'New England Australia: What follows from regional status? A comparative, political economy approach'. Inaugural Wine Business Research Symposium, Centre for Institutional and Organisational Studies, University of Newcastle, December 7th-8th, 2009: WINNER: BEST PAPER AT SYMPOSIUM AWARD.
Grant, B. (2010). ‘Local Government in Australia as “Place-shapers”: Theory and Evidence'. Presented on invitation at USQ School of Accounting, Economics and Finance Seminar Series, 2 June.
Grant, B., Dollery, B. E. and Crase, L. (2008). ‘Leadership Theory in Contemporary Local Government Reform: The Lyons Report in England & Implications for Australasian Local Government’. Presented at the Australian & New Zealand Management Association (ANZAM) Annual Conference Managing in the Pacific Century, Auckland, 2-5 December.
Grant, B. (2007). ‘Social Class & Modes of Production as Borders: A Comparative Analysis of Contemporary Labour Migration Regimes’. Presented at RUSSIC Crossing Borders Conference, Curtin University, Sarawak, Malaysia, February 2-4.
Grant, B. (2006). ‘Malaysia, Singapore & Australia: Contemporary Migration Regimes Compared’. BOUNDARIES AND SHIFTING SOVEREIGNTIES: MIGRATION, SECURITY ISSUES AND REGIONAL COOPERATION. Malaysia-Singapore Society 14th Colloquium, 30 November – 1 December, University of New England.
Grant, B. and Sorensen, T. (1999). ‘Marginality, Regionalism and the One Nation Vote: Exploring Socio-Economic Correlations’. Paper given on invitation to Academy of Social Sciences in Australia Workshop, ANU (John Warhurst & Marion Simms), University House, February.
Grant, B. (1998). ‘The Difference of Difference: Why I Wouldn’t Eat Iris Young’s Blood Sausages’, Sociology Postgraduate Conference on Consumption, August, University of New South Wales.
Grant, B., Davidson, A. P. and Lynch, T. (1997).‘Theorising the New Feudalism’; The Australasian Sociological Association (TASA) Annual Conference, Winter, 1997, University of Tasmania.
‘Grant, B. (1996). Civil Society, Foucault & Development Studies: Tracking Governance to its Lair’; Philosophy Postgraduate Conference, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University.
Grant, B. (1995). ‘Neo-liberalism or Hyper-Liberalism? The Philosophy of John Gray’; Australasian Political Science Association Annual Conference, Winter, Wellington, New Zealand.
Recent Media Publications & Industry Participation
Dollery, B.E. and Grant, B. (2011). 'Communities able to shape themselves', Sydney Morning Herald [Local Government], Tuesday 24 May.
Invited Speaker, New England Annual Wine Show, Glenn Inness, NSW, 15 October 2010.
Grant, B, Gow, J. And Dollery, B.E. University of Southern Queensland, AEF & University of New England, CLG. Submission No. 40, NSW Legislative Council Standing Committee on State Development Inquiry into Wine Grape Prices. Mr Grant also appeared as a witness to the Inquiry, NSW State Parliament House, 13 October 2010.
Co-convenor, New England Branch of Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (AARES) and School of Business, Economics and Public Policy (BEPP) Wine Symposium 2010, University of New England, Armidale. 13 August, 2010.
Dollery, B. E. and Grant, B. (2010). 'Shared Services in Australian Local Government' in Council Manager. The Magazine for Senior Managers in Local Government, February/March: 42-44.
Keynote Speaker,Wellington/Blayney/Cabonne (WBC) Strategic Alliance Annual Staff Forum. 'What's happening in local government: the impact on the future of the WBC Alliance'. October 21, 2009, Wellington, NSW.
Invited Chair, 100th Local Government Managers Association (LGMA) Annual Conference, 'DUDE, WHERE'S MY STATE GONE?', Westin Hotel, Sydney, 16 September 2009.
Grant, B. (2009). Constitutional Challenge: The Pape Case & Implications for Local Government’. Councillor. The Quarterly Magazine for Australian Councillors, June/July: 41-42.
Grant, B. (2008). Local Councils as “place-shapers”: An alternative model of reform’ in Councillor. The Quarterly Magazine for Australian Councillors, Nov/Dec: 4.
Dollery, B. E. (2008). 'The case for issuing bonds to fund council infrastructure renewal’ in Councillor. The Quarterly Magazine for Australian Councillors, Sept/Oct:6-7. (Ghost-written for Professor Brian Dollery in his absence, on request from the magazine).