Deirdre O'Neill

Associate Professor Deirdre O'Neill is Director, Public Policy Graduate Programs in the Faculty of Arts at Monash University. In this capacity, she is the Course Director of the Master of Public Policy, and the Course Director of the Master of Public Policy and Management taught at Monash Indonesia. 

As Academic Director, she led the internationally renowned Executive Master of Public Administration at the Australia and New Zealand School of Government for six years. While at ANZSOG she also established a major senior public sector leadership program for the Pacific for AusAID, the Australian government's international aid agency.

Her current research focus includes declonising pedagogy, prisons privatisation, public sector reform and accountability. She has numerous publications, including an edited book (The Contract State: Public Management and the Kennett Government), book chapters and articles in refereed Australian and international journals. She is the co-author of Business, Government and Globalization (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). She is an Academic Fellow of ANZSOG and chairs the ANZSOG Human Research Ethics Committee.  

Her Ph.D - The Challenge of Administrative Reform: Public Service Reform Under the Hamer and Kennett Governments in Victoria - was awarded by Monash University in 2000.

Decolonising pegagogy

Prisons privatisation

Accountability

Public sector reform