Steve Garlick

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AUSTRALIA
Recent Positions:
  • Conjoint Professor, Urban and Regional Studies, University of Newcastle (NSW), Australia
  • Adjunct Professor, Sustainable Regions, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia
Areas and Length of Expertise:
  • Regional Development Theory &Policy;
  • University – Regional Engagement,
  • Regional Development & Applied Ethics, University-regional community engagement benchmarking,
  • University evaluation studies
  • Learning and community engagement
Recent research, development and consultancy and organisations:
  • Advisor to IMHE/ OECD on higher education and regional development
  • Higher education evaluations in Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands and Canada
  • Consultancies for the Australian Government in regional development and higher education.
Recent research/consultancy: 

Injured wildlife rehabilitation

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Applied ethics

Recognitions, positions, memberships: 
  • Masters degree and PhD in regional economics (awarded thesis medal by the Australian and New Zealand Regional Science Association)
  • British Council Award Scholarship 
  • Former senior executive and ministerial advisor with the Australian Government
  • Vice-President of the Australian Universities Community Engagement Alliance (AUCEA).
  • Member of the St James Ethics Centre at the University of Sydney
Selected publications: 
Regional development theory & policy:
  • An Enterprising Human Capital Approach to Regional Growth: Implications for policy and the role of Vocational Education and Training. NCVER, Adelaide. 2007(with M. Taylor and P.  Plummer), ISBN pending

 University-regional and community engagement:

Ethics of regional development and university engagement:
  • Connecting scholarship to places: human capital, learning, enterprising and an ethical approach to communities”. AUCEA Annual Conference, Charles Darwin University, Alice Springs, July, 2007
University benchmarking:
  • Benchmarking the University: Learning about improvement, DEST, Canberra, 2004

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