Australian Parliamentary Fellowship

Australian Parliamentary Fellowship

Since 1971 an annual Political Science/Studies Fellowship has been available in the Commonwealth Parliament. The Australian Parliamentary Fellowship (APF) provides an opportunity to research and write on a broad range of issues and disciplines of interest to the Parliament.

Purpose of the Fellowship

The purpose of the Fellowship is to:
• contribute to scholarship on the Parliament and its work;
• promote knowledge and understanding of the Parliament;
• raise awareness of the role of the Library’s Research service;
• provide a researcher with work experience in the parliamentary environment; and
• support “early career” scholars.

Management of the Fellowship

The Australian Parliamentary Fellow is employed in the Research Branch of the Parliamentary Library in the Department of Parliamentary Services for a period of twelve months. The Fellowship is managed by the Parliamentary Library on behalf of the Parliament through an Australian Parliamentary Fellowship Sub-committee of the Joint Standing Committee on the Parliamentary Library.

Applicants will have a proven research and writing record, a capacity to deliver a quality monograph within the time frame of the Fellowship. Their project should relate to:

• the way that Parliament functions;
• the way that Senators and Members operate; or
• the way a broad issue in national politics is dealt with in Parliament.

Applications are open to individuals who have completed a PhD within the last three years.

Australian Parliamentary Fellowship

How to apply

The documentation may be obtained from our website www.aph.gov.au/dps/employment.htm, by email to dps.recruitment@aph.gov.au or by phoning (02) 6277 5666 (24-hour answering service). Hearing or speech impaired applicants may obtain the documents via the TTY number (02) 6277 7799.

Previous Australian Parliamentary Fellows

Year/Name

Project

2010

Dr Peter Brent

The changing relationship between federal politicians and the media in the internet age.

'Twitter election': use of new media by political players in election year 2010 - Powerpoint presentation MP3 - work in progress.

2009

Dr Scott Brenton

What lies beneath: the work of senators and members in the Australian Parliament [PDF 2.06MB]

2008

Dr Joel Bateman

In the shadows: the Shadow Cabinet in Australia [PDF 1,125]

Work-in-progress Seminar 24 September 2008: Audio, Powerpoint display

2007

Dr Timothy Kendall, BA Hons (Melb), MA (Melb), PhD (La Trobe)

Within China’s Orbit?: China through the eyes of the Australian Parliament [PDF 4.10MB]

Work-in-progress paper: Federation and the Geographies of Whiteness

2005 (March 2005 to March 2006)

Dr Sophia Dimitriadis, BSc (ANU), PhD (ANU)

Water recycling – issues, techniques and technologies - unpublished

2004 (March 2004 to March 2005)

Dr Kate Burton, BA Hons (Macquarie), PhD (ANU)

Scrutiny or Secrecy? Committee Oversight of Foreign and National Security Policy in the Australian Parliament [PDF 326KB]

2003 (March 2003 to March 2004)

Dr Angela Pratt, BA Hons (Wollongong), PhD (Wollongong)

Practising Reconciliation? The politics of reconciliation in the Australian Parliament, 1991-2000 [PDF 706KB]

2002 (February 2002 to February 2003)

Dr Maurice Rickard, BA Hons (Melb), MA Hons (Melb), MEd (La Trobe), PhD (La Trobe)

Principle and pragmatism: A study of competition between Australia’s major parties at the 2004 and other recent Federal elections [PDF 555KB]

2001

The Fellowship was not offered in 2001.

2000 (June 2000 to May 2001)

Dr Jennifer Curtin, BA MA Hons (Waik), PhD (ANU)

The Voice and the Vote of the Bush: The Representation of Rural and Regional Australian in the Federal Parliament (Chapter 1)

1999 (April 1999 to May 2000)

Dr Marion Maddox, BA Hons (Syd), PhD (Flinders), PhD (NSW)

For God and Country: Religious Dynamics in Australian
Federal Politics [PDF 1.20MB]

1998 (February 1998 to February 1999)

Dr Adam Cobb, BA (Syd) MA (ANU) PhD (Cantab).

Tyranny of Insecurity - unpublished

1997 (January 1997 to January 1998)

Dr Trish Payne, BA, MA Qual. (ANU), Dip Ed, PhD (Sydney).

The Canberra Press Gallery and the Backbench of the 38^th Parliament 1996-98 (excerpt)

1996 (Name changed to Australian Parliamentary Fellow)

As a one-off arrangement, the Presiding Officers agreed to the appointment of two Fellows for 1996.

Dr Gianni Zappalà, BEc (Hons) (Sydney), MA (London), PhD (Cantab)

Dr Liz Young, BA (Hons), PhD (Adelaide)

Four Weddings, a Funeral and a Family Reunion: Ethnicity and Representation in Australian Federal Politics (excerpt)

Minor Parties... Major Players? The Senate, the Minor Parties and the 1993 Budget (excerpt)

1995 (January 1995 to January 1996)

Dr Keith Abbott, BA 1991 (Honours, First Class), Deakin University, PhD 1994 (Cantab).

Pressure Groups and the Australian Federal Parliament, (excerpt) Political Studies Fellow Monograph No. 3, 1996.

1994 (21 Jan 1994 to 19 Jan 1995)

Dr James Warden, BA 1982, University of Tasmania, BA (Honours, First Class) 1983, Political Science, University of Tasmania, PhD 1991, ANU.

A Bunyip Democracy, The Parliament and Australian Political Identity, (excerpt) Political Studies Fellow Monograph No. 2, 1995.

1993 (31 May to 31 Jan 1994)

Dr Stephen O'Kane, BBus (Public Admin.), BBus (Local Govt) (RMIT), Grad Dip Pub Pol (Melb), PhD (Deakin).

Senate Select Committees: Effectiveness, Co-operation and Public Accountability for the Perspective of the Loan Council Inquiry
(not published)

1992 (18 June to 24 December 1992))

Dr David W Lovell, BA (Hons), MA (Flinders), PhD (ANU)

The Sausage Makers? Parliamentarians as Legislators, (excerpt) Political Studies Fellow Monograph No.1, 1994.

1991

Dr John Henderson, BA, MA (Hons) (Canterbury), PhD (Duke, Nth Carolina).
University of Auckland, NZ

Parliamentary reform in Australia and New Zealand: the views of the Parliamentarians.
(not published)

1990 (Name changed from Political Science Fellow to Political Studies Fellow)

Peter J Bayne, LL.B (Hons) (Melbourne) J.D. (Chicago).

The Court, the Parliament and the Government, 27 Sept. 1990.

1988-89

Greg McIntosh, BEc, Dip.Ed (Monash), BA (Deakin)

Rounding up the Flock? Executive Dominance and the New Parliament House, APSA-Parliamentary Fellow Monograph, 1989.

1986-87

Kevin N Tuffin, BA (Hons) (Western Australia)

Government Expenditure and Accountability: The Joint Committees of Public Accounts and Parliamentary Scrutiny.

1984-85

Geoffrey I Skene, BA (Otago), MA (Hons) (Canterbury)

Specialties of the House: An Investigation into Subject Specialisation Amongst Australian Senators and Members of the House of Representatives, APSA/Parliamentary Fellow Monograph, Nov. 1988.

1982-83

Patricia Y Smith, BA (Hons) (Queensland)

Did not complete the Fellowship

1980-81

Dr John G Uhr, BA (Hons) (Queensland), MA, PhD (Toronto).

Questions Without Answers: An Analysis of Question Time in the Australian House of Representatives, APSA/Parliamentary Fellow Monograph No. 4, 1982.

1979

Neil J Funston, (John) MA (Monash)

Southeast Asian Issues in the 31st Parliament, APSA/Parliamentary Fellow Monograph no. 3, August 1980.

1978

James A Walter, MA (Hons) (La Trobe)

The Acculturation to Political Work: New Members of the Federal Backbench, APSA/Parliamentary Fellow Monograph, 1979.

1977

Martin S Indyk, BEc (Hons) (Sydney)

Influence without Power: The Role of the Backbench in Australian Foreign Policy, 1976-1977, 22 Dec. 1977.

1976

David B Lundberg, BA (Hons) (Adelaide) Diploma of Social Sciences (Stockholm) Tutor in Political Science, Flinders University.

The Role of the National Parliament in the formulation of Industry Development Policy in Australia.

1975

David H Stephens, MA (Monash)

Influences Upon Specialization in the Australian Senate, Dec. 1975.

1974

Brian L Hocking, BA (Hons) (Bristol), MA (Leicester)

Australian Parliamentarians and Foreign Affairs.

1973

Oliver D. Mendelsohn, BA (Hons), LL.B (ANU), MA (California)

Australia's Foreign Aid: The Perceptions of Parliamentarians, 19 Dec. 1973.

1972

Edward J G Prince, MA (Monash)

Information Supply to the Legislature: Characteristics of Legislative Research Service Written Output, 1968-1971, March 1972.

1971

Kenneth Chan, BA (Hons) (Sydney) PhD

Parliamentarians, their Source of Information, and the Parliamentary Library.

Where are they now?

We would like to reach any former Australian Parliamentary Fellows to hear their reflections on the Fellowship and to catch up with what they are doing now.