Staff Profiles

Paul Smyth Phone: 8344 9721 Email: smythp@unimelb.edu.au Office: Medley Building Room 505

Background

Paul Smyth is Professorial Fellow in Social Policy and coordinator of the Masters of Social Policy program. Co-funded by the Brotherhood of St Laurence and the University of Melbourne, Paul's chair appointment is to lead research and development policy around partnership solutions to Australia's social problems.

He was the Director of Social Policy in the School of Social Work and Social Policy at the University of Queensland. Prior to this he was senior researcher at Uniya, the Jesuit social research and action centre at Kings Cross, Sydney.

Research

Contemporary Australian social policy; local governance and social inclusion; international perspectives on social inclusion.

Recent Publications

Books

(with Bettina Cass) Contesting the Australian Way(1994).

Australian Social Policy: the Keynsian Chapter(1994).

Edited Books

(with Carolyn Finer), Social policy and the Commonwealth: prospects for social inclusion, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).

Book Chapters

"The British social policy legacy and the "Australian way"," in Carolyn Finer and Paul Smyth (eds.), Social policy and the commonwealth: prospects for social inclusion, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), pp. 167-180.

Journal Articles

(with T. Reddel, A. Jones) "Social inclusion, new regionalism and associational government in Queensland," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 28 (3) 2004, pp. 601-616.