Bligh James Grant
Associate Lecturer & Junior Research Fellow, 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: | W040 805 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 3945 (or +61 2 6773 3945 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 3596 |
Bligh Grant is a contracted Associate Lecturer (fractional) in the School and a Junior Research Fellow attached to Australian Research Council Discovery Grant ‘Alternative Models of Australian Local Government: Classification and Policy’, held by Professor Brian Dollery. He is also Deputy Director of the UNE Centre for Local Government.
Affiliations
Mr Grant is a member of the Australian & New Zealand Academy of Management
Areas of Teaching
Mr Grant currently assists teaching in Economics 143/243 Australian Economic Institutions and Performance, as well as marking for a number of courses in the School, and in particular the Graduate School of Business (GSB) program. He has taught and assisted teaching and marking the areas of Philosophy, Politics, Sociology, Asian Studies, International Relations, as well as International Business, Business Ethics and Australian Political Economy, all at UNE.
Research interests
Current research interests are largely directed by the grant holder, Professor Brian Dollery. Recent work has focussed on:
* 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, and theories of democracy and leadership as they pertain to local government reform;
* Constitutional reform and local government, with a focus on fiscal arrangements between the spheres of government in Australia's federal system.
Mr Grant also 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 and regional NSW more generally.
Publications
Books
Grant, B. (ed.) (1997). Pauline Hanson, One Nation & Australian Politics, UNE Press, Armidale. 1+166pp.
Book Chapters
Grant, B., Dollery, B. E. and Hearfield, C. (forthcoming). 'What follows from regional status? Lessons for New England-Australia from Languedoc-Roussillon, France'. Inaugural Wine Business Research Symposium, Centre for Institutional and Organisational Studies, University of Newcastle, December 7th-8th, 2009.
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. 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. (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.
Grant, B. (1997). ‘Introduction’, in Grant, B. (ed). Pauline Hanson, One Nation & Australian Politics (ed.), UNE Press, Armidale, pp. 7-18. ISBN: 1 875821 38 4.
Refereed Journal Articles
Grant, B. and Dollery, B. E. (forthcoming). 'Place-shaping by local government in developing countries: lessons for the developed world'. International Journal of Public Administration.
Dollery, B. E., Grant, B. and Akimov, A. (forthcoming). 'A typology of shared service provision in Australian local government'. Australian Geographer.
Conway, M-L., Dollery, B. E. and Grant, B. (forthcoming). 'Shared service models in Australian local government: The New England Strategic Alliance model five years on'. Australian Geographer.
Jones, S., Dollery, B. E. and Grant, B. (forthcoming). 'A generic approach to conceptualising economic development in Australian local government'. Journal of Economic and Social Policy.
Grant, B. and Dollery, B. E. (forthcoming). 'Tortoises and hares: The race to shared services across Australian state and territory jurisdictions'. International Journal of Public Administration.
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 ‘Ppace-shapers’: the implications of the Lyons Report for Australian local government’. Australian Journal of Political Science 43(3), pp. 481-494.
Davidson, A. P. and Grant, B. (2001). ‘Rural Australia: neo-liberalism or a “new feudalism”’?’ Journal of Contemporary Asia, 3 (13), pp. 289-305.
Refereed Working Papers
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 Service 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 Reform: 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 and Place-shaping 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.
Conference Papers – Recent and Memorable
‘Local Government in Developing Countries as “Place-shapers”: Three cases of Evidence, paper given on invitation at USQ School of Economics Seminar Series, 2 June, 2009.
‘Leadership Theory in Contemporary Local Government Reform: The Lyons Report in England & Implications for Australasian Local Government’; Australian & New Zealand Management Association (AZAM) Annual Conference Auckland, 2-5 December 2008) (with Brian Dollery and Lin Crase).
‘Social Class & Modes of Production as Borders: A Comparative Analysis of Contemporary Labour Migration Regimes’. RUSSIC ‘Crossing Borders’ Conference, Curtin University, Sarawak, Malaysia, February 2-4 2007.
‘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 2006, University of New England.
‘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 1999 (with Tony Sorensen).
‘The Difference of Difference: Why I Wouldn’t Eat Iris Young’s Blood Sausages’, Sociology Postgraduate Conference on Consumption, August 1998, University of New South Wales.
‘Theorising the New Feudalism’; The Australasian Sociological Association (TASA) Annual Conference, Winter, 1997, University of Tasmania (with Tony Lynch and Andrew P. Davidson).
‘Civil Society, Foucault & Development Studies: Tracking Governance to its Lair’; Philosophy Postgraduate Conference, July 1996, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University.
‘Neo-liberalism or Hyper-Liberalism? The Philosophy of John Gray’; Australasian Political Science Association Annual Conference, Winter, 1995, Wellington, New Zealand.
Recent Industry Publications & Participation
Dollery, B. E. and Grant, B. (forthcoming). 'Shared Services in Australian Local Government' in Councillor. The Quarterly Magazine for Australian Councillors
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).