Faculty of Arts and Education

School of Humanities and Social Sciences


   Prof. Linda Hancock

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Position Personal Chair
Email linda.hancock@deakin.edu.au
Area School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Phone +61 3 924 43871
Campus Burwood
Location Building D 2.07 Burwood
Role and profile Prof. in Public Policy (Personal Chair)
Convenor: CSR and Sustainability Network (2004-2010)
Chief Investigator: Deakin University TravelSmart Project (2007-2010)
Chair Sustainable Transport Working Group (EPSC)
Chair: Sustainable Transport Working Group EPSC (2010-2011)
Member: Carbon and Greenhouse Gas Working Group (2010-2011)
Partnerships Manager: Alfred Deakin Research Institute (2009)
Teaching responsibilities Master of Politics and Policy
-Current/Recent teaching areas:
Public Policy Analysis (AIP740),
European Union (EU) studies (AIP246),
Public Policy Research Project (AIP752),
Accountability and Corporate Social Responsibility (AIP777)
Research interests •Public Policy and good governance analysis
•Regulation and regulatory regimes
•Gambling, policy, international regulation and probity issues
•Comparative federalisms
•Corporate Social Responsibility: partnerships, social and environmental
assessment and reporting
•Community engagement for greenhouse reduction
•Human rights
•Civil society and community engagement
•Social and environmental sustainability
Current research projects Over the last decade Prof. Hancock has been CI on 6 Category 1 ARC projects
and has conducted numerous other research projects for government, NGO
and industry funders.
Current projects include:
- Deakin University Partnerships Participation Program (Higher Education
Partnerships Participation Program-funded) Mixed Method Evaluation
Framework

- ARC project: Community Engagement for Localised Greenhouse Reduction
with industry partners Hobson’s Bay City Council, the Global Greenplan
Foundation and VECCI

- TravelSmart Deakin Burwood Project: Department of Transport, Victorian
Government (2007-09; 2008-10)

- UK Responsible Gambling Fund (RGF) research oversight and research
projects (2007-2011)

- Research partnership with the LHMU (Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous
Union)- Crown Casino and Responsible Gambling Codes of Conduct –how do
they work?

- Research partnership project with United Way, Geelong: Construction of the
United Way Social Index
Service to the University,
discipline or community  		 President: AEUIFA Australian European University Institute Fellowships
Australia (2011)

Research Assessor: ESRC (UK); Australian Research Council (ARC), Alberta
Gaming Research Institute; Ontario Problem Gambling Research Centre;
Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS, UK).

Previous Ministerial Appointments:
- Chair, Independent Gambling Research Panel, Victorian Government
(Ministerial Statutory appointment) (2000-2004)
- Commissioner Law Reform Commission of Victoria, Attorney General’s
Department of Victoria.
- Presiding Member: Social Security Appeals Tribunal

Editorial and journal referee:
Editorial referee including: International Journal of Humanities; Journal of
Comparative Policy Analysis, Australian Bulletin of Labour, Australian Journal
of Public Health, Australian Journal of Political Science; Health Issues Journal;
Just Policy, Journal of Citizenship Studies; Women's Studies International
Forum; Australasian Journal of Public Health; The Australian Sociological
Journal; Women and Violence: an International Journal; Australian and New
Zealand Journal of Criminology; Melbourne Journal of Politics, ECOMMUNITY
International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction.
Awards * Australian & New Zealand Society of Criminology, Best Article published in
1998 and 1999 in the Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology
(international journal) (with Cindy Davids) (2001)

* Postgraduate supervisor of the Year, Deakin University Postgraduate
Association (1997)
Qualifications BA Monash (hons.), PhD Monash
Memberships ISBEE International Society for Business, Economics and Ethics
UACES (UK) University Association for Contemporary European Studies
APSA Australian Political Science Association
WEL- Women’s Electoral Lobby of Australia
VCOSS-Victorian Council of Social Services
Trustee: CEDA Committee for Economic Development
Conferences CONFERENCE CONVENOR
2010 Symposium on Public Health and Gambling; Princess Diana Trust,
Westminster, London (July 2010).

2009 ‘Gambling and the challenges for local authorities in the UK’,
International Transformations-A Seminar for Local Authorities, No 1 Great
George Street, Westminster, February 4, London. ESRC, RIGT and University
of Lancaster.

Session convenor: Responsible Regulation and Consumer Protection:
Gambling in Europe:UACES International Conference, Angers, France,
September 3-6, Exchanging Ideas on Europe.

Session Convenor: ‘Gambling, public policy, (re)regulation: applying dirty
hands theory, ECPR (European Consortium for Political Research), Social
Justice and Varieties of Capitalism, Potsdam, September 8-10

2007 Geelong Forum to launch the Geelong Region Corporate Social
Responsibility Study, Deakin University Waterfront Campus, July 25.

‘CCRU Lawyer’s Forum: Bringing the Latest Research on Pokies Problem
Gambling to the Courtroom: The implications for criminal pleas on sentencing,
in partnership with PILCh (Public Interest Law Clearing House), Clayton Utz,
Collins Street offices, May 24

2006 EGMs: Consumer Protection and Gambling Products, Stonnington
Mansion, CCRU Policy Forum, Deakin University, June 29 (ABC TV Stateline
coverage)

Delivering on Good Corporate Citizenship: Human Rights, Business and Civil
Society, May 2, Stonnington Mansion, CCRU Policy Forum, Deakin University

2005 International Best Practice: Gambling Research from Canada,
Stonnington Mansion, CCRU Policy Forum, November, Roger Horbay and
Tracey Schrans, Canada (ABC Radio feature Terry Lane, November)

Transitions and Risk: New Directions in Social Policy, February 23-25,
Melbourne Park, Conference Organising Committee
Research link View Deakin associated research data
Additional URLs

Regulatory Failure? The Case of Crown Casino, 2011, Australian Scholarly Publishing

Risky Business: Why the Commonwealth Should Intervene in Gambling Regulation: co-authored with Michael O’Neill, Australia Institute; ADRI, Alfred Deakin Working Paper No. 11.

Health Policy in the Market State, Allen and Unwin, Web edition.

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22nd April 2013