ASSA - Key Persons
Jubilee Fellow - 2016 Emeritus Professor Colin Hughes MA (Columbia), PhD (London), FASSA Discipline: Political Science Year Elected: 1976 2016 Reflections When Australian political science began to coalesce in the 1950s and 1960s, one common concern was the paucity of reliable material on Australian politics and government. Anyone wanting to find out exactly what happened [...]
John Philip Keeves has committed a lifetime career to education in the fields of Science, Mathematics and capabilities as well as stochastic analysis across all levels of operation in many countries of the world and was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences on Australia in 1977. He is a life member of the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA), and was Chairman of the Committee of Inquiry into Education in South Australia in 1980-81. He was Director of the Australian Council for Educational Research from 1977 to 1984, and Associate Director of the ACER from 1972 to 1977, following a Research Fellowship in the School of the Social Sciences at the Australian National University from 1967 to 1971. He has also been a Senior Visiting Scholar at the Institute of International Education in the University of Stockholm for 1971 and 1972, and was a visiting professor at the Institute in 1987-1989. In Stockholm he defended a disputation on Educational Environment and Student Achievement that was a pioneering study in 1972 in path analysis as well as multilevel analysis. He subsequently returned to Stockholm to prepare the reports of the Second IEA Science Study in the late 1980s, following retirement from the ACER in Melbourne.
In his earlier year he had been a student at Prince Alfred College in Adelaide from 1934 to 1942 and had graduated from the University of Adelaide with an Honours Degree in Physics and had returned to the school to teach for several years, and was in charge of the boarding house of the school. He subsequently went to teach for two years at Radley College in England from 1949-1951, where he discussed ‘on understanding science' in classes of students who were non-specialists in Science, and then moving to Lincoln College, Oxford to undertake a Diploma in Education using this work in a minor thesis for his diploma.
He also read extensively in the field of education and experienced the richness of the university life, as well as travelling widely in Europe and later working at the University of Hamburg on the IEA Science Study.
He had developed an enthusiasm for hiking and walking in the Lake District of England, and in South Australia in the Flinders Rangers as well as the Fleurieu Peninsula, in spite of the difficulties encountered. In the later years of his active life he has been a visiting professor at both Flinders University and the University of Adelaide, where he has lectured to and supervised both higher degree and doctoral students.
Jubilee Fellow - 2017 Dr John Keeves AM BSc (Adelaide), DipEd (Oxford), MEd (Melbourne), PhD (ANU), Fil Dr (Stockholm), FACE Discipline: Education Year Elected: 1977 2017 Reflections John Philip Keeves has committed a lifetime career to education in the fields of Science, Mathematics and capabilities as well as stochastic analysis across all levels of operation [...]
Frank was George Gollin Professor of Economics from 1968 - 88. His research interests covered quantitative agricultural economics and development economics, particularly the economics of production and of agricultural research. Frank was editor of the Australian Journal of Agricultural Economics from 1962 to 1964 and vice-president, Roseworthy Agricultural College Council from 1973 to 1980. He was a member of the CSIRO Wool Research Advisory Committee (Weickhardt Committee) in 1970.
Frank was also a member of the Aquinas College Council (Adelaide) and a member of the Catholic Archbishop of Adelaide's finance committee, for many years. Frank was a Member of the University of Adelaide Council from 1978 to 1988.
A subsequent paper entitled "The Baulderstone Papers" which Frank presented to the Australian Rural Adjustment Unit Conferences in 1983, was widely acclaimed.
In the 1980's, Frank co-wrote The Economics of Bushfires: The Southern Australian Experience, with Derek Healey and Innovation in Papua New Guinea Agriculture (1985) and collaborated with Kym Anderson on Growth, structural change and economic policy in Papua New Guinea - Implications for Agriculture (1989). He also wrote Educating Overseas Students in Australia - Who Benefits?, with Geoff Harris and The Evolution of Australia's Aid Program.
Jubilee Fellow - 2016 Emeritus Professor Francis Jarrett BScAgr (Sydney), PhD (Iowa), FASSA Discipline: Economics Year Elected: 1976 2016 Reflections Born in Toowoomba Queensland, Frank is a fifth generation Australian with convict and free settler forebears on his father's side. His father, George, served at Gallipoli and on the Western Front, where he was seriously [...]
Emeritus Professor Geoffrey Blainey AC is a prominent Australian historian, academic, philanthropist and commentator with a wide international audience. He is the author of many books on the economic and social history of Australia, including The Tyranny of Distance. He has published over 35 books, including world histories such as A Short History of The World (2000), A Short History of the Twentieth Century (2005) and A Short History of Christianity (2012) - and has written for newspapers and television.
Emeritus Professor Jim Perkins is an Emeritus Professor in Economics at the University of Melbourne. His specialisation has been in macroeconomic policy, and the Australian financial system.
was appointed to the foundation Chair of History at Monash University in 1960. From 1964 till 1986 he chaired the Monash Centre of Southeast Asian Studies. In 1969-70 he was Director of the Singapore Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. From 1978 to 1986 he was Dean of the Monash Faculty of Arts. In 1987-93 he was an Executive Member on the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Board.
His main area of interest has been Indonesian history. His written work includes a study of regionalism and local government in Indonesia (1962), a biography of Sukarno (1972, 1985, and 2003), and Intellectuals and Nationalism in Indonesia (1988), an examination of the group which formed about Sutan Sjahrir during the Japanese occupation and became the core of the Indonesian Socialist Party during the evolution. He is also a Fellow of the Academy of the Humanities.
Jubilee Fellow - 2019 Professor John Pollard AM BSc (Sydney), PhD (Cambridge), FIA, FIAA Discipline: Demography Year Elected: 1979 2019 Reflections Looking back over 40 years, I realize that I have not been very active in Academy matters. I have however maintained an interest in what the Academy and its Fellows are doing. What is [...]
Jubilee Fellow - 2021 Professor Richard Blandy BEc (Adelaide), MA, PhD (Columbia) Discipline: Economics Year Elected: 1981 2021 Reflections I wish to thank the Academy very much for awarding me a Jubilee Honour. In 1962, the year after gaining First Class Honours in Economics at the University of Adelaide, I was appointed as a full-time [...]
Jubilee Fellow - 2018 Professor Robert O'Neill AO BA, BEd, PhD (Melbourne), FASSA Discipline: History Year Elected: 1978 2018 Reflections When I was elected to the Academy in 1978 I had been an academic for ten years, in the controversial field of strategic studies. I had decided in late 1966, half way through my time [...]
Jubilee Fellow - 2017 Emeritus Professor Ken Wright BMetE, DCom (Melbourne), FCPA Discipline: Accounting Year Elected: 1977 2017 Reflections Ken Wright arrived in Melbourne with his mother as a refugee from Vienna in 1939 at the tender age of fourteen. Matriculating into the University of Melbourne in 1942 he commenced studies in Metallurgical Engineering but [...]
Jubilee Fellow - 2017 Emeritus Professor Louis Waller AO LLB (Melbourne), BCL (Oxford), Barrister and Solicitor (Victoria), Hon LLD (Monash) Discipline: Law Year Elected: 1977 2017 Reflections When I was elected as a Fellow of the Academy in 1977, I considered that it was a significant mark of recognition by my peers. Forty years later, I haven't changed [...]
Jubilee Fellow - 2017 Professor Max Corden AC MCom (Melbourne), PhD (London), MA (Oxford), HonDCom (Melbourne), FBA Discipline: Economics Year Elected: 1977 2017 Reflections In 1977 I returned to the ANU after nine years in Oxford, and in this year I was elected to a Fellowship in the Academy. After another nine years I moved [...]
Jubilee Fellow - 2018 Mr Bob Wallace BCom (hons) (Melbourne), BPhil (Oxford) Discipline: Economics Year Elected: 1978 2018 Reflections The President in the letter informing me of this award suggested possible topics for reflections. One was for accounts of my work prior to and after becoming a fellow. That was helpful as they were quite [...]
Percy Partridge became Chairman of the SSRC in 1966. He was a quiet man, spoke slowly and was very distinguished. When he spoke people listened. He was a powerful and important Chairman of the SSRC. The fifty-six members of the Council, generally unaware of what was happening in other Australian universities, decided to find out the research interests of each social science discipline in those universities. Percy asked me to assist. Although some departments replied immediately to my request for information many did not. I spent a lot of time chasing up responses. Eventually we had a comprehensive list that enabled Partridge (and members of the executive council) to appreciate the research parameters and territory.
Jubilee Fellow - 2019 Professor Peter Lloyd AM MA (Victoria University of Wellington), PhD (Duke) Discipline: Economics Year Elected: 1979 2019 Reflections First, I must state my gratitude for receiving one of the honours for 40 years of Fellowship in ASSA. I have not really deserved it. For the first 4 years of my fellowship, [...]
Jubilee Fellow - 2018 Emeritus Professor Peter W. Sheehan AO BA, PhD (Sydney). Honorary Fellow Discipline: Psychology Year Elected: 1978 2018 Reflections Together with others, I have been invited to pass comment on five issues. I chose to consider them separately, but they represent a special "whole" when considered together. My Research When a [...]
Jubilee Fellow - 2019 Emeritus Professor Philip Brown AM FASSA FCPA BCom (UNSW), MBA, PhD (Chicago) Discipline: Accounting Year Elected: 1979 2019 Reflections It doesn't seem that long since I became a member of the Academy, in 1978. Nonetheless I feel greatly honoured to have reached this milestone and I thank the Academy for acknowledging [...]
Jubilee Fellow - 2018 Emeritus Professor Richard Selleck BA, BEd, PhD (Melbourne), FASSA Discipline: Education Year Elected: 1978 2018 Reflections Richard Selleck is an Emeritus Professor from Monash University, and is also a Professorial Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne. He has recently completed The Shop, The University [...]
Emeritus Professor Robert Gregory AO BCom (Melbourne), PhD (London) Discipline: Economics Year Elected: 1979 2019 Reflections I thank the Academy for this honour which requires two unusual qualifications, admittance to the Academy at an early age and then not dying too soon afterwards. Both qualifications, at a personal level, seem important, and another forty years
Professor Ross Day was born in Albany, WA in 1927. He completed his secondary education at Albany High School in 1945 and then started a BSc (Hons) at the University of Western Australia (1946-49). While in his third year, he was offered a Graduate Assistant position in Psychology, which he held throughout his honours year. In 1950 he moved to the University of Bristol, first as an Assistant Lecturer (1950-51) and then Research Fellow (1951-55). Whilst at the University of Bristol, he completed a PhD in Psychology (1952-54).
Professor Day returned to Australia and the University of Sydney as Lecturer (1955-59), then Senior Lecturer (1959-61) and finally Reader (1962-64). Monash University then offered him the Foundation Chair of the Department of Psychology, which he accepted. He was at Monash from 1965 to 1992 and, as well as establishing a strong experimental psychology department, he served as Associate Dean of the Faculty of Science from 1981-83. Professor Day was elected to Fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia in 1967 and the Australian Academy of Science in 1990. After retirement Professor Day became Adjunct Professor in Psychology at La Trobe University.
Jubilee Fellow - 2021 Professor Yew-Kwang Ng BCom (Nanyang), PhD (Sydney) Discipline: Economics Year Elected: 1981 2021 Reflections A mentor of mine, Professor Max Corden, an ASSA Jubilee fellow, named his autobiography: Lucky Boy in the Lucky Country (Springer 2018). I may not be as lucky. However, for those born around 1942 in Malaysia (Malaya