B Comm (Hons) (Melb), PhD (Pub. Finance) (ANU)
Professor
School of Management & Policy
Division of Business, Law & Information Sciences
University of Canberra
Phone: 02 6201 5061
Fax: 02 6201 5384

Email: Meredith.Edwards@canberra.edu.au

Research interests:

• Public and corporate governance
• Public sector boards
• Policy development processes

Major Publications

The Income Unit in the Australian Tax and Social Security System, Institute of Family Studies , Melbourne, 1984 (book )

Financial Arrangements Within Families, A research report for the National Women's Advisory Council , February 1981

Social Policy, Public Policy:   From Problem to Practice , Allen and Unwin, 2001

Edwards, Meredith and Langford, John, eds. New Players, Partners and Processes:   A Public Sector Without Boundaries?, 2002

Review of New Zealand Tertiary Education Institution Governance, The Ministry of Education, May 2003

Recent Publications (not above)

Governance: Meaning and Issues, Canberra Bulletin of Public Administration , June 2000

University Governance: A Mapping and Some Issues , ATEM Website : http://www.atem.org.au

Participatory Governance into the Future:   Roles of the Government and Community Sectors, Australian Journal of Public Administration , September 2001

Public Sector Governance – Future Issues For Australia, Australian Journal of Public Administration , June 2002  

Ministerial Advisers and the Search for Accountability, Canberra Bulletin of Public Administration , September 2002

Boundary Spanning and Public Sector Reform in Australia and Canada, (written with John Langford), Optimum online, The Journal of Public Sector Management , December 2002

Current Governance Issues, Current Issues in Public Sector Governance , University of Canberra, 2003

Conflicts and Tensions in Commonwealth Public Sector Boards (with Geoff Nicoll and Robyn Seth-Purdie), University of Canberra, 2003

Participatory Governance, Canberra Bulletin of Public Administration , March 2003

Corporate Governance and Performance (with Robyn Clough),  Issues Paper no. 1, Corporate Governance ARC Project, January 2005.

Social Science Research and Public Policy: Narrowing the Divide,  Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, Occasional paper, 2,2004 with abridged version in Australian Journal of Public Administration, March 2005.