Our Team
Associate Professor Paul Maginn
Director
Associate Professor Paul Maginn is the Director of the UWA Public Policy Institute and co-ordinator of the Administration and Governance stream of the Masters of Public Policy at UWA.
Paul is an urban planner/geographer and has been at UWA since February 2007. He previously held positions at the University of South Australia and Edith Cowan University, having migrated to Australia in 2003.
He has co-edited a number of books, his latest—Suburbia in the 21st Century: From Dreamscape to Nightmare? alongside Professor Katrin Anacker (George Mason University, USA)—published in 2022 by Routledge. Paul is also Editor-in-Chief of Urban Policy and Research.
Clare Feenan
Senior Program Coordinator
Clare Feenan is the Senior Program Coordinator at the UWA Public Policy Institute and Program Manager for Pathways to Politics for Women UWA. She provides strategic planning, research, and project management for the Institute and is responsible for the Pathways program's curriculum and operations.
Before working at UWA, Clare worked in operations and analytics in the private sector. In previous managerial roles in business and in research she led large teams, implemented change, and reported on theoretical and empirical analysis. Her research outputs relate to human services and are intended to provide tools for advocacy and policy change by providing insight to decision makers.
Clare holds a Bachelor of Science (Statistics) from RMIT University, a Postgraduate Certificate of Business (Economics and Econometrics) from Monash University, and a Master of Economics from The University of Western Australia.
