Research

• Public policy processes – particularly ideation and influence
• New forms of governance and administration, especially networks and partnerships
• Research and higher education policy
• Health politics and policy
• Professions

   

  Recent Research Grants:

   

• 2008-10	Australian Research Council Discovery Grant ($276,000) ‘Academic networks and research performance: A comparison across disciplines and countries’, Sole Chief Investigator
  2006-8	Australian Research Council Linkage Grant ($380,000 plus $130,000 from the industry partners: VicHealth and four municipal governments), ‘Connecting government to community: a study of social and political connectivity at the municipal level’ (Considine, Lewis & Barraket)
  2004-9	Australian Research Council Network Grant ($1.5 million) ‘ARC Network for Spatially Integrated Social Sciences’ (one of 50 Named Investigators)
  2004-8	National Health and Medical Research Council Capacity Building Grant ($2.5 million): ‘Building capacity in social analysis and research in Indigenous health policy’ (Cunningham, Anderson, Baillie, Lewis & Barnes)
  2002-6	Australian Research Council, Discovery Project Grant ($456,000): ‘Fostering innovation inside government: the role of structural and personal networks in improving innovation performance among politicians and bureaucrats’ (Considine & Lewis)

  Further information on some of these projects can be found on the ‘Networks: governance, partnerships and connectivity’ website: http://www.politics.unimelb.edu.au/networks/index.html

   

  Subjects Taught

  • 166-301 Political Analysis: Ideas and Strategies
  • 166-517 Minor Thesis – Public/Social Policy
  • 166-536 Advanced Policy Design
  • 166-537 Health Politics, Policy and Governance

   

  Supervision

  • Public policy and public administration
  • Policy networks and social networks
  • Collaboration and partnerships
  • Health policy and politics
  • Research and higher education policy

   

  Recent Publications

  
  Books

  Lewis, JM (2005) Health policy and politics: networks, ideas and power, Melbourne: IP Communications.

  
  Book Chapters

  Lewis, JM (2006) ‘Health policy in Australia: mind the growing gaps’, in (A McLelland and P Smyth, eds) Social policy in Australia: understanding for action, 195-208. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
  
  Considine, M and Lewis, JM (2005) ‘Explaining the normative underpinnings of local governance: Comparing, governments, politicians and bureaucrats and their approach to innovation’, in (P Smyth, T Reddel and A Jones, eds) Community and Local Governance in Australia. Sydney: UNSW Press, 205-225.
  
  Lewis JM (2003) ‘Evidence based policy: a technocratic wish in a political world’, in (V Lin and B Gibson, eds) Evidence-based health policy: problems and possibilities, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 250-259.

  
  Journal Articles

  Considine, M and Lewis, JM (2007) ‘Innovation and innovators inside government: from institutions to networks’, Governance 20(4): 581-607.

  Lewis, JM (2006) ‘Being around and knowing the players: networks of influence in health policy’, Social Science and Medicine 62: 2125-2136.

  Lewis, JM (2005) ‘A network approach for researching partnerships in health’, Australia and New Zealand Health Policy 2:22 (11 pp).

  Lewis, JM (2004) ‘Partnerships, primary health care and health inequalities: problems and possibilities’, Australian Journal of Primary Health 10(3): 38-45.
  
  Lewis, JM, Marjoribanks, T and Pirotta, M (2003) ‘Changing professions: General Practitioners’ perceptions of autonomy on the frontline’, Journal of Sociology 39(1): 44-61.
  
  Lewis, JM and Marjoribanks, T (2003) ‘Challenging autonomy through financial constraints and incentives: reforming general practice in Australia’, International Journal of Health Planning and Management 18(1): 49-61.
  
  Marjoribanks, T. and Lewis, JM (2003) ‘Reform and autonomy: perceptions of the Australian general practice community’, Social Science and Medicine 56: 2229-2239.
  
  Considine, M and Lewis, JM (2003) ‘Bureaucracy, network or enterprise? Comparing models of governance in Australia, Britain, the Netherlands, and New Zealand’, Public Administration Review 63(2): 131-140.
  
  Considine, M and Lewis, JM. (2003) ‘Networks and interactivity: making sense of front-line governance in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Australia’, Journal of European Public Policy 10(1): 46-58.

  Lewis, JM (2002) ‘Policy and profession: elite perspectives on redefining general practice in Australia and England’, Journal of Health Services Research and Policy 7(Suppl 1) S1: 8-13.

  
  Fully written refereed conference papers

  Lewis, JM (2007) ‘Intellectual curiosity, disciplinary traditions and performance frameworks: Understanding academic networks’, The Australian Sociological Association / Sociology Association of New Zealand, Joint Conference, Auckland, 4-7 December. Published in: Curtis, B, Matthewman, S and McIntosh, T (eds) Public sociologies: lessons and trans-Tasman comparisons. TASA / SAANZ Joint Conference Proceedings, Department of Sociology, The University of Auckland.

  Considine, M, Lewis, JM and Alexander, D (2007) ‘Understanding innovation inside government: The networking behaviour of politicians and bureaucrats’, refereed paper presented to the Australasian Political Studies Association Conference (published on the APSA website), Melbourne, 24-26 September.