Dr Scott Prasser
BA(Hons) Qld., MPubAdmin Qld., PhD Griff.
Position: Senior Lecturer Management
Office: K2.42
Tel: +61 7 5459 4494
Email: sprasser@usc.edu.au
Teaching areas
- Project and Event Management
- Managing Workplace Relations
Research areas
- Best practice policy advice
- Regional development and 'Seachange' regions
- Seniors and regions
- Public inquiries and royal commissions
Profile
Prior to joining USC, Scott worked in senior policy advisory positions in federal and state governments including departments State Development and Premier and Cabinet.
Scott has written extensively on public policy, regional economic development and project management and has edited/co-edited and written 16 books/monographs including Royal Commissions and Public Inquiries in Australia and was a contributor to the 2007 Oxford Companion to Australian Politics. Scott also provides frequent analysis on policy issues in The Courier-Mail, The Australian and The Age, and on ABC radio and television. In 2007, he gave presentations on policy issues to the Productivity Commission, Australian Institute of Criminology, Institute of Public Affairs, Sydney Institute and the National Gamblers’ Regulation Conference.
Scott founded the annual State of the Region Conference and was co-founder of the Sustainable Economic Growth for Regional Australia national conference. During 2006 Scott proposed and developed the Bachelor of Business (Property and Asset Management) degree.
Scott is co-convening, with Dr Geoff Cockfield of the University of Southern Queensland, the annual national Public Policy Network Conference to be held at Caloundra, Queensland, on 31 January to 1 February 2008.
During the first half of 2008 Scott will be on professional development leave at the University of Queensland Law School.
Scott can be contacted at 0402 381 736.
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