Staff Profiles

Dr Tom Davis   PhD (Pol Sci) (Melb), MA (Int Relations) (Monash), BA(Hons) (Melb) Phone: 8344 0157 Email: tdavis@unimelb.edu.au Location: Room 507, John Medley Building, Parkville Campus

Background:

Tom was educated at the University of Melbourne and Monash University. He worked for the Refugee Review Tribunal and the Department of Immigration before completing his PhD on Governance & Uncertainty: The Public Policy of Australia’s Official Development Assistance to Papua New Guinea. He has been researcher/program manager at the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, Monash University, and taught Politics and Development at the School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University. Tom currently lectures in Public Policy at the University of Melbourne.

Research

• Foreign aid and foreign policy making
• International NGO advocacy and the World Bank
• Human rights and development
• World Bank Multi Donor Trust Funds
• Australia’s aid relationship with Asia and the Pacific

Tom is currently on the advisory/supervision group for the The Impact of Harm Reduction Programs on Law Enforcement in Southeast Asia Australian Development Research Award, run out of the Nossal Institute for Global Health & Australian International Health Institute, University of Melbourne.

Subjects taught

166-022/672-372 Public Policy Making
166-043 Public Affairs Internship
166-039 Public Affairs Internship (International)
166-453 Executive Internship
166-089 Sociology Internship (2nd Semester)
166-522 Individual Research Project (co-taught with Dr Lauren Rosewarne)
Co-ordinator Washington-Capitol Internship Program

Supervision

• Foreign aid and development policy
• International organisations
• Foreign policy
• Australian public policy making

Recent Publications - 2004-2008

2008. World Bank ‘Post-Crisis’ Multi Donor Trust Funds. Oxfam Australia Occasional Paper Series No.1.

2008. ‘The World Bank and International NGOs: The Meaning of “Partnership”.’ Article submitted to Global Governance.

2007. World Bank ‘Post-Crisis’ Multi Donor Trust Funds: Oxfam Australia Briefing Paper.

2007. ‘The Real World of “Community Empowerment” in International Development’, Refereed paper for the Australian Political Science Association Conference. 24-26 September 2007, Monash University, Australia.

2007. ‘Aid Policy’ in B. Galligan & W. Roberts eds. The Oxford Companion to Australian Politics. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.

2007. ‘The Politics of Human Rights and Development: The Challenge for Official Donor Agencies’. IPSA Research Committee for Comparative Judicial Studies, “The Politics and Politicization of Rights Protection”, University of Melbourne, Australia, 17-18 January 2007.

2006. ‘International Non-governmental Organisations and Influencing Development Bank Policy on Participatory Development.’ Australian Political Science Association Conference. 25-27 September 2006, University of Newcastle, Australia.

2006. ‘International Development Banks and Rights Based Development: Resolving Rights Dilemmas through International Public Policy’. 20th International Political Science Association World Congress, 9-13 July 2006, Fukuoka, Japan.

2006. ‘Does Australia have an international development assistance policy?: National interest and foreign aid policy making”, Refereed paper for the Oceanic Conference on International Studies, 5-7 July 2006, University of Melbourne.

2005. ‘The Public Policy of Human Rights and the World Bank’, Refereed paper for the Australian Political Science Association Conference Proceedings. 28-30 September 2005, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.

2005. ‘Why I Quit the Department’, Eureka Street , September-October 2005.

2004. ‘Human Rights-Based Development and World Bank Privatisation Initiatives’. Refereed paper for The Annual Governance Network and Regulatory Institutions Network Conference, 6-8 December 2004. The Australian National University.

2004. ‘War on Terror: The dilemma of Guantanamo Bay.’ Alternative Law Journal. Vol 29(5). October 2004.

2004. With D. Kinley. Human Rights Criticism of the World Bank’s Private Sector Development and Privatisation Activities. World Bank Internal Discussion Paper. February 2004.

2004. Editor. Human Rights 2003: The Year in Review. Castan Centre for Human Rights Law. (Monash University, 2004)

2004. ‘The Year in Review’ in Human Rights 2003: The Year in Review. Castan Centre for Human Rights Law. (Monash University, 2004)