Faculty of Law, Business and Arts

Governance program

This is an interdisciplinary program with teaching, learning, research and development activities ranging across and beyond the faculty. It recognises that governance concerns the existence, exercise and efficacy of power in and through a complex array of institutions and related arrangements involving the state, market and civil society, domestically and internationally. As such, it seeks to engage and collaborate with a range of institutions, organisations, groups and individuals in the active and responsible pursuit of significant public purposes at community, territory/state, national and international levels.

The program is responsible for a Master of Public Governance; other accredited and non-accredited courses in governance and leadership development; and various assessments of organisational performance and change. All of these initiatives are within the scope of the Good Governance schedule of the Northern Territory Government - Charles Darwin University Partnership Agreement (2007 - 2012).

The program, in collaboration with the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Hong Kong, is responsible for publishing The Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration.

The head of the program is Professor Ian Thynne, who is also presently the President of the Northern Territory Division of the Institute of Public Administration Australia: www.nt.ipaa.org.au

Governance symposia, workshops and seminars

  1. Why fire engines are red: tales of modern governance - by Ian Thynne, 2005 (streaming movie, minimum requirements: quicktime 7, high speed internet access)
  2. SAIKS and Governance Program Occasional Seminar Series 2006 and 2007
  3. Charles Darwin Symposium Series 2007
  4. Policy in the pressure cooker - 2008 NT IPAA workshop

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