Dr Bligh Grant

Dr Bligh Grant
Senior Lecturer

Ba (UNE), BA (Hons-1) (UNE), PhD (UNE)

Email: [email protected]
Ph: +61 2 9514 4901

Dr Bligh Grant is Senior Lecturer in Local Government Studies at the UTS Centre for Local Government.

Graduating with a B/A (Hons-1) in Political Studies in 1995, Bligh completed his PhD in Local Government Studies in 2012. His thesis was titled: 'Local governments as "place-shapers": Exposition, critique and investigations in Australian politics'. 

As a research-intensive academic for several years he has published in a broad range of fields, in particular local government studies.

Prior to his current appointment Bligh held positions as Lecturer in Business Ethics, Professional Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility at the UNE Business School, Research Lecturer in Local Government Studies at the UNE Centre of Local Government and Associate Lecturer in Political Economy in the School of Accounting, Economics and Finance at the University of Southern Queensland (2010). He has also taught in the areas of Philosophy, Politics, Sociology, Asian Studies and International Relations, all at UNE.

Dr. Bligh Grant can supervise postgraduate research students. He has worked in research-intensive environments in several Australian universities working closely with graduate students to achieve their scholarly and professional goals. Supervision areas include, but are not limited to:

  • Local government studies, in particular:
    • Political theory of local government
    • Future of local government
    • Political economy of local government
    • Comparative local government
    • Strategic management studies
  • Public sector reform, in particular applied ethics in public management
  • Australian politics, in particular localism and regionalism and intergovernmental relations.
     
Publications
For a full list of publications by Dr Bligh Grant, see the UTS Website »
 
Research Interests
As a research-intensive academic for several years he has researched and published in a range of fields, including:
  • local government studies, in particular comparative systems of local government, intergovernmental relations and local public finance;
  • strategic management theory, in particular leadership in public sector organisations, the public value approach developed by Mark Moore (1995) and the ensuing debate;
  • regional economic development, in particular that pertaining to the wine industry; 
  • business education, in particular the application of new modes of learning to teaching business and business ethics.
 
Teaching Areas
Bligh presently teaches political studies and applied ethics to in the Elected Members Executive Certificate Course run by UTS CLG. In Semester 2 2014 he will coordinate Local Environmental Management as part of the CLG's Short Course Professional Development Program.
 
Prior to his current appointment Bligh held positions as Lecturer in Business Ethics, Professional Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility at the UNE Business School, Research Lecturer in Local Government Studies at the UNE Centre of Local Government and Associate Lecturer in Political Economy in the School of Accounting, Economics and Finance at the University of Southern Queensland (2010). He has also taught in the areas of Philosophy, Politics, Sociology, Asian Studies and International Relations, all at UNE.
 
He has also taught as Visiting Lecturer at Henan Agricultural University and Harbin Engineering University, People's Republic of China.
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