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Deputy Vice Chancellor (Education)


Professor Don Markwell

Professor Don Markwell

B.Econ.(Hons) Qld, M.A., M.Phil., D.Phil. Oxon

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Vice-Chancellery - M465
The University of Western Australia
Crawley WA 6009
AUSTRALIA

Email: don.markwell@uwa.edu.au
Telephone: (+61 8) 6488 1717
Facsimile: (+61 8) 6488 1013

Biography

Professor Don Markwell has served as Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) at The University of Western Australia since January 2007. He is responsible for University strategy and policy on academic programs, including international education, with strong focus on enhancing the student learning experience.

Born in outback Queensland, Don graduated from the University of Queensland with the University Medal and a Bachelor of Economics with First Class Honours.

Rhodes Scholar for Queensland for 1981, he secured the degrees of Master and later Doctor of Philosophy in International Relations at the University of Oxford.

After short-term or visiting appointments at the University of Western Australia, the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, the Reserve Bank of Australia, and as a Research Fellow of New College, Oxford, he was from 1986 to 1997 a University Lecturer in Politics at the University of Oxford, and Fellow and Tutor in Politics at Merton College, Oxford. In 1996-97, he was a visiting professor of political science at Melbourne's Victoria University.

From 1997 to January 2007, Don served as Warden of Trinity College in the University of Melbourne, and was a Professorial Fellow of the Department of Political Science and Centre for Public Policy at the University of Melbourne.

His teaching has focused on international politics, comparative government, and other aspects of political science and history. He has supervised over 45 theses successfully submitted in Oxford and Australia.

Don has published widely on international relations, constitutional politics and history, and education. His most recent major works are John Maynard Keynes and International Relations: Economic Paths to War and Peace, Oxford University Press, 2006, and A large and liberal education: higher education for the 21st century, Australian Scholarly Publishing and Trinity College, University of Melbourne, 2007. His recent research has also included assisting in the preparation of A Public Life: The Memoirs of Zelman Cowen, Miegunyah Press, 2006.

A long-standing member of the international advisory board of The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs, he has contributed to a number of professional associations in Australia, Britain, and the U.S. He was appointed by the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth to the Commission on Commonwealth Studies (1995-97), including presenting its final report to the conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers in Gaborone, Botswana.

Don is a member of the international executive of the Association for Commonwealth Studies, the Advisory Council of the Global Foundation, and the International Academic Advisory Committee of the US Studies Centre at the University of Sydney.

He is also a member of the Council of the Anglican Schools Commission (WA), the Board of St George's College, UWA, and the Chapter (governing body) of St George's Cathedral, Perth.

Amongst many other roles, he has served on the Council of Geelong Grammar School (1999-2006) and the governing body of the Melbourne College of Divinity (1998-2005).

Short Curriculum Vitae

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Select publications

Books
Jointly-authored commission reports
  • The Constitutional Structure of the Anglican Diocese of Melbourne (First Report of the Archbishop's Constitutional Commission), Anglican Diocese of Melbourne, August 2003.
  • Learning from Each Other: Commonwealth Studies for the 21st Century (Reports of the Commission on Commonwealth Studies), Commonwealth Secretariat, London: Interim Report, October 1995; Final Report, June 1996.

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Short monographs and papers
Chapters and other contributions to books
  • Eric Laidlaw Robinson, The Australian Dictionary of Biography, forthcoming.
  • Constitutional conventions, in Brian Galligan & Winsome Roberts (eds), The Oxford Companion to Australian Politics, Oxford University Press, 2007.
  • Sir Paul Hasluck (with Geoffrey Browne), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.
  • Sir Alfred Zimmern, in ibid.
  • Foreword, in Henry Speagle, The Road to Gundagai, Prayer Book Society of Australia (NSW and Victorian Branches), 2003.
  • Afterword, in Peter Gebhardt, Their Stories Our History, The Helicon Press, Sydney, 2003.
  • J. M. Keynes, Idealism, and the Economic Bases of Peace, in P. Wilson & D. Long (eds), Thinkers of the Twenty Years Crisis: Idealist International Relations in the Inter-War Period, Oxford University Press, 1995.
  • Bibliography of Hedley Bull's published works, in J. D. B. Miller & R. J. Vincent (eds), Order and Violence, Oxford University Press, 1990; and in Robert O'Neill & David N. Schwartz (eds), Hedley Bull on Arms Control, Macmillan, 1987.
  • British Social Science and Humanities, in T. B. Millar (ed.), The Australian Contribution to Britain, Australian Studies Centre, University of London, 1988.
  • The Conventions of Ministerial Resignations: The Queensland Coalition Crisis of 1983, in D. A. Low (ed.): Constitutional Heads and Political Crises: Commonwealth Episodes, 1945-85, Macmillan, 1988.
  • Hedley Bull as a Teacher, in O'Neill & Schwartz, op. cit.
  • John Maynard Keynes, in David Miller et al. (eds), The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Political Thought, Blackwell, 1987.
  • The Politics of Ministerial Resignations, in Patrick Weller & Dean Jaensch (eds), Responsible Government in Australia, Drummond, 1980.

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Journal articles
  • Australian and Commonwealth Republicanism (with Jonathan Ritchie), The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs, October 2006.
  • Griffith, Barton and the Early Governor-Generals: Aspects of Australia's Constitutional Development, Public Law Review, December 1999.
  • Sir John Kerr: a Reflection The Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences, June-December 1991.
  • Sir Alfred Zimmern Revisited: Fifty Years On, Review of International Studies, October 1986.
  • On Advice from the Chief Justice, Quadrant, July 1985; also letters, June & October 1985, & April 1986.
  • The Dismissal, Quadrant, March 1984.
Journal guest editor
Book reviews
  • The challenge of creative leadership, Pacifica, June 2007.
  • Review article on the U.N. and U.K. in the early cold war, The English Historical Review,January 1993.
  • Closer still and closer, The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs, April 1992 (review of Carl Bridge, Special Relationships': Australia, Britain and the United States since 1941, University of London, 1991).
  • Review of William Deakin et al. (eds), British Political and Military Strategy in Central, Eastern and Southern Europe in 1944 (Macmillan, 1988), in The English Historical Review, April 1992.
  • The defence of Australia, The Round Table, January 1992 (review of Ross Babbage, A Coast Too Long: defending Australia beyond the 1990s, Allen & Unwin, 1990).
  • Review of Hans J. Michelman & Panayotis Soldatos (eds), Federalism and International Relations: The Role of Subnational Units (Oxford University Press, 1990), in The Oxford International Review, Winter 1991-92.
  • Canada's Best, The Round Table, October 1991 (review of Eugene Forsey, A Life on the Fringe, Oxford University Press, 1990).
  • The End of Eden, The Round Table, July 1989 (review of Richard Lamb, The Failure of the Eden Government, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1987). An earlier version was published in Postmaster, October 1988.
  • The Cold War, Old and New, The Round Table, January 1989 (review article).
  • Review of J. D. B. Miller, Norman Angell and the Futility of War: Peace and the Public Mind (Macmillan, 1986), in Political Studies, vol. 35, 1987.
  • Masters of dissolution, The Times Literary Supplement, 12 April 1985 (review of Christopher Cunneen, King's Men: Australia's Governors-General from Hopetoun to Isaacs, George Allen & Unwin, 1983).
  • By reference to the voters, The Times Literary Supplement, 20 April 1984 (review of Sir Garfield Barwick, Sir John Did His Duty, Serendip Press, 1983); also letter, 29 June 1984.
  • The indispensable man, The Economist, 11 September 1982 (review of A. P. Thirlwall (ed.), Keynes as a Policy Adviser, Macmillan, 1982).

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Conference reports
  • The federal state: lessons from North American and European experience, Ditchley Foundation, 1991.
  • A New Generation, Old Institutions and a Middle-Aged Alliance: Is there Room for Innovation in Trans-Atlantic Relationships?, Ditchley Foundation, 1987.
Selected contributions to newspapers and other media
  • Best-practice universities, Saturday Extra interview with Geraldine Doogue, ABC Radio National, 14 October 2006.
  • University challenge, The Australian, 30 August 2006.
  • Review of Ray Monk, Bertrand Russell: The Spirit of Solitude, Jonathan Cape, 1996, in The Age, 25 May 1996.
  • Sir Keith Hancock (obituary), The Independent, London, 24 August 1988.
  • Other articles, obituaries, letters, and book reviews in newspapers, including in Australia, The Age, The Age Monthly Review, The Australian, The Canberra Times, The Courier-Mail, The Sydney Morning Herald, and in Britain, The Daily Telegraph, The Economist, The Guardian and The Guardian Weekly, The Independent, and The Times.
Submissions to public inquiries
  • Inquiry into higher education funding and regulatory legislation by the Senate Employment, Workplace Relations and Education Committee, 2003.
  • Victorian Government review of Melbourne University Privates continued registration as a university, 2003.
  • Crossroads review of higher education, 2002.
  • Higher Education Review Committee, chaired by Mr Roderick West, 1997.
Selected major speeches

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