National Fellows

• Professor Boris Frankel

Borisfrankel Professor Boris Frankel is a Principal Fellow in acsis. He was previously Professor of Citizenship Studies at the Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University. His research interests span across Australian and comparative economic and social policy, globalisation, the knowledge economy, alternative industry and environmental policies, community development, social change movements and issues of democratic governance. His books include Beyond the State?; The Post Industrial Utopians; From the Prophets Deserts Come; When the Boat Comes In: Transforming Australia in the Age of Globalisation; and Zombies, Lilliputians and Sadists: The Power of the Living Dead and the Future of Australia. His recent publications include ‘The State’, in G.Ritzer (ed.), Encyclopedia of Sociology, Blackwell, Oxford 2006. Professor Frankel can be reached via email at bfrankel@unimelb.edu.au

• Associate Professor Greg Hampton

Associate Professor Greg Hampton is a Senior Fellow in acsis. His PhD is in Psychology and he has extensive experience in processes for public consultation in relation to controversial technological projects. He currently heads the Centre for Educational Development and Interactive Resources at the University of Wollongong, and also is Director of the Technology, Community and Environmental Strategies Research Consultancy Group.

• Dr Bill Hall

Dr Bill Hall is a Senior Fellow in acsis. He is currently assisting acsis in researching the formation of virtual enterprise networks in the area of project lifecycle knowledge management and the application of network approaches to sustainable transport. Dr Hall holds a PhD in Evolutionary Biology from Harvard University and is Documentation & Knowledge Management Systems Analyst at Tenix Defence. In September 2006 he wrote the first paper in the acsis Occasional Papers Series: "Forming new ICT clusters in Victoria".

• Professor Michael Berry

Professor Mike Berry holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne and a Senior Doctorate in Social Science from RMIT University, where he is Professor of Urban Studies and Public Policy. During his more than 30 years of academic career Prof. Berry has undertaken a wide range of university tasks including duties as Head of the Department and Dean, and the member of the senior management team. He has gathered strong teaching and supervision experiences at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Prof. Berry was Foundation Executive Director of the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute, is widely published and is an internationally recognised academic in the field of urban studies. He has worked as a visiting Professor at the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics at Lund University in Sweden, at the University of Sussex (UK) and at Rutgers University (USA). He is a regular commentator on radio and other media in relation to housing and urban affairs. Prof. Berry is continuing his important research into affordable housing provision and the role of innovation in driving uneven regional economic development. He has extensive policy-related experience in urban and environmental studies.

• Mr Mike Waller

Mike Waller Mike is a Senior Fellow in acsis and director of Heuris Partners, a consulting company specialising in strategy development. Prior to establishing Heuris, he spent nearly six years with BHP Ltd, as Chief Economist and head of environment and community relations policy. Before that, Mike held senior positions in the UK Treasury and Australian public service. He holds an honours degree in economics and has undertaken executive training at the London Business School.

• Dr Barrie Pittock

Dr Barrie Pittock has been involved in climate research for many decades, and was founding leader of the CSIRO’s Climate Impact Group in the late '80s. He made major contributions to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Third Assessment Report, and was a lead author of the chapter on key vulnerabilities in the panel’s 2007 Fourth Assessment Report. He has been on the editorial board of several scientific journals, and remains on the board of the journal Climatic Change. As well as his 2005 book Climate Change: Turning Up the Heat, he has over 250 scientific publications to his name. In 2007 he became a Senior Fellow in acsis.

• Assoc Prof Don Garden

Associate Professor Don Garden is a Senior Fellow in acsis. He is an environmental historian who taught for many years in the History Department and the History & Philosophy of Science Department at the University of Melbourne. He is currently completing an Australian Research Council funded project on the effect of three El Niño periods in Australia, New Zealand and Oceania. His latest book is Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific: an Environmental History, ABC-CLIO, 2005. He is a Council Member of the Australian Conservation Foundation. He can be contacted on d.garden@ unimelb.edu.au.

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