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Dr Christiane Gerblinger
SRW Scholarship Graduated 2021

Dr

Christiane Gerblinger

Department of the Treasury

Australian National University

PhD title: The language of the rebuffed: a critical appraisal of how policy advisers communicate

Christiane joined the Treasury as a speechwriter in 2012. Before that, she worked across a range of areas in the APS, from analysing financial intelligence to providing advice on counter-proliferation, energy, health and rural policy. Along the way, and partly as a result of completing her first PhD in film and literature in 2000, Christiane continued to critically analyse discourse—but, instead of closely reading literary texts, her attention turned to analysing how public policy is communicated to governments and the public.

Christiane's Sir Roland Wilson thesis examined the language of rejected policy advice, with a focus on how policy knowledge is constructed inside public administrations and communicated to governments during controversy. Her analysis drew on three Australian policy case studies: the taxation of investment properties, the role of renewables in the national energy mix, and the Iraq war. A gap in methods with which to dissect the phenomenon of rebuffed language led her to construct a new framework informed by rhetorical, organisational and comparative analyses. She uncovered three different language typologies that: fixated on one strand of enquiry but sidestepped wider context; expunged complexity, thereby imparting an appearance of certainty and solid evidence; and routinely raised the presence of uncertainty, leaving advice unusable as evidence. When publicly released, the advice accompanying each proved problematic as means with which to account for political decisions. Her thesis returned outstanding examiners’ reports due to its unique contribution to political science, public administration, intelligence and policy studies, and communication.

Christiane returned to the APS in 2020 and is now a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science in ANU's College of Science.

Supervisor:
Professor Joan Leach

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Dr Camille Goodman
SRW Scholarship Graduated 2019

Dr

Camille Goodman

University of Wollongong (formerly Attorney-General’s Department)

Australian National University

PhD title: The nature and extent of coastal State jurisdiction over living resources in the exclusive economic zone

Dr Camille Goodman is an Associate Professor at the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS) at the University of Wollongong, where her research applies the law of the sea to address policy-relevant challenges with a focus on fisheries, offshore renewable energy, and the impacts of climate change. Camille teaches into a wide range of courses on the law of the sea, maritime regulation, fisheries and ocean governance, and is the convenor of the Women in Maritime Security Network, funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Camille is also a Visiting Fellow at the ANU College of Law and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Sea Power Centre Australia. Prior to joining ANCORS in 2021, Camille worked at the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department for 15 years, providing legal and policy advice to the Australian Government on a wide range of public international law issues, with a particular focus on law of the sea and international fisheries. She acted as the Australian Government legal adviser at international meetings and negotiations, and managed litigation before international courts and tribunals.

Camille undertook her doctoral research at the ANU College of Law between 2015 and 2018 as a Sir Roland Wilson Scholar, focusing on the nature and extent of coastal State jurisdiction over living resources in the exclusive economic zone. While the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea clearly gives coastal States ‘sovereign rights’ to explore, exploit, conserve and manage the living resources of the 200 nautical mile exclusive economic zone, the nature and extent of these rights—and the way in which coastal States can employ them—is not well understood. Camille’s research addressed this gap, reviewing and analysing the practice of 145 coastal States to articulate and justify a contemporary statement regarding the nature and extent of coastal State jurisdiction over living resources in the exclusive economic zone. This research formed the basis of Camille’s first book, Coastal State Jurisdiction Over Living Resources in the Exclusive Economic Zone, published by OUP in November 2021.

Find Camille's University of Wollongong profile here or you can get in touch with Camille directly - cgoodman@uow.edu.au

Supervisor:
Professor Donald Rothwell
  • Campbell B and Goodman C (2009) ‘Litigation against foreign States: the Foreign States Immunities Act 1985 (Cth)’, Judicial Officers’ Bulletin, 21(9):71-72.
  • Goodman C (2009), ‘The Regime for Flag State Responsibility in International Fisheries Law - Effective Fact, Creative Fiction, or Further Work Required?’ Australian and New Zealand Maritime Law Journal 23:157-169.
  • Goodman C (2013) ‘ “Strength through Cooperation”: A 21st Century Treaty for Multilateral Maritime Enforcement in the Pacific’ Australian Year Book of International Law, 31:12-39.
  • Goodman C (2017) ‘Striking the right balance? Applying the jurisprudence of international tribunals to coastal state innovations in international fisheries governance’. Marine Policy, 84:293-299..
  • Goodman C (2017) ‘Australian Jurisdiction and International Law’, in Crawford E and Rothwell D R (eds), International Law in Australia 3rd edition, Thomson Reuters, Sydney.
  • Goodman C (2017) ‘The Cooperative Use of Coastal State Jurisdiction with Respect to Highly Migratory Stocks: Insights from the Western and Central Pacific Region’, in Martin L, Salonidis C, Hioureas C G, Laird I, Sabahi B and Whitesell A M (eds), Natural Resources and the Law of the Sea Exploration, Allocation, Exploitation of Natural Resources in Areas Under National Jurisdiction and Beyond, Juris, New York.
  • Goodman C and Matley H (2018) ‘Law Beyond Boundaries: innovative mechanisms for the integrated management of biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction’. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 75(1):402-404.
  • Goodman, C (2018), ‘Rights, Obligations, Prohibitions: A Practical Guide to Understanding Judicial Decisions on Coastal State Jurisdiction over Living Resources in the Exclusive Economic Zone’. The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law, 33(3):558-584.
  • Goodman C (2019) The nature and extent of coastal State jurisdiction over living resources in the exclusive economic zone [PhD Thesis], The Australian National University, Canberra.
  • Goodman C (2021) Coastal State Jurisdiction over Living Resources in the Exclusive Economic Zone, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
  • Goodman C, Davis R, Azmi K, Bell J, Galland G, Gilman E, Haas B, Hanich Q, Lehodey P, Manarangi-Trott L, Nicol S, Obregon P, Pilling G, Senina I, Seto K and Tsamenyi M (2022) ‘Enhancing Cooperative Responses by Regional Fisheries Management Organisations to Climate-Driven Redistribution of Tropical Pacific Tuna Stocks’, Frontiers in Marine Science. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2022.1046018.
  • Goodman C (2022) ‘Winds of Change: Australia’s Offshore Electricity Infrastructure Act 2021’ Asia-Pacific Journal of Ocean Law and Policy, 7(1):37-150. doi: 10.1163/24519391-07010011.
  • Goodman C, Davis R, Azmi K, Bell J D, Galland G, Gilman E, Haas B, Hanich Q, Lehodey P, Manarangi-Trott L, Nicol S, Obregon P, Pilling G, Senina I, Seto K and Tsamenyi M (2022) ‘Enhancing cooperative responses by regional fisheries management organisations to climate-driven redistribution of tropical Pacific tuna stocks’ Frontiers in Marine Science, Article 2432.
  • Wuwung L, Croft F, Benzaken D, Azmi K, Goodman C, Rambourg C and Voyer M (2022) ‘Global Blue Economy Governance: A Methodological Approach to Investigating Blue Economy Implementation’ Frontiers in Marine Science, Article 2388.
  • Goodman C (2022) ‘The Lotus Case (France v Turkey) in Letts D and McLaughlin R (eds), Maritime Operations Law in Practice: Key Cases and Incidents, Routledge, London.
  • Goodman C and Voyer M (2022), Submission to the Senate Environment and Communications Leglislation Committee Inquiry into the Offshore Electricity Infrastructure Legislation Amendment Bill 2022, Australian Parliament House, Canberra.
  • Goodman C (2023) ‘Compulsory Settlement of EEZ Fisheries Enforcement Disputes under UNCLOS: “Swallowing the Rule” or “Balancing the Equation”?’, Goettingen Journal of International Law 13(1):27-80.
  • Anggadi C, Goodman C, Klein N and Rothwell D (2023), ‘Alleged Violations of Sovereign Rights and Maritime Spaces in the Caribbean Sea: Implications for the Customary International Law of the Sea’, Ocean Development and International Law, 54(3):277-303.
  • Goodman C (2023), ‘Harnessing the wind down under: applying the UNCLOS framework to the regulation of offshore wind by Australia and New Zealand’, Ocean Development and International Law, 54(3):253-276.
  • Haas B, Goodman C, Hussain S and Davis R (2023), ‘Fact or Fiction? Unpacking the Terminologies used in Allocation Discussions’, Marine Policy, 152, Article 105630. 
  • Voyer M, Christopher T, Ahmed A, Carr C, Croft F, Davis A, Goodman C et al (2023), ‘Illawarra Offshore Wind Zone Proposal’, Submission to the Public Consultation, 4 October 2023 (University of Wollongong, Australia).

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Dr Angelia Grant
SRW Scholarship Graduated 2015

Dr

Angelia Grant

Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

Australian National University

PhD title: Three essays on the US business cycle, expectations formation and model comparison

Angelia was one of the 2012 Sir Roland Wilson Scholars. She researched business cycles and economic fluctuations, with a particular focus on comparing conclusions based on different economic models. She examined the role of particular structural shocks during the 2001 US slowdown and Great Recession, and whether the assumption of rational expectations or adaptive learning in a large macroeconomic model for the US economy provides a better model fit. Angelia's thesis also proposes a new econometric method for computing a model selection criterion that is rarely used in applied work given its computational burden.

Angelia returned to the Treasury in 2015 after submitting her thesis. She held positions as the Principal Adviser (Forecasting) in the Macroeconomic Conditions Division and as the Head of the Macroeconomic Conditions Division. She also worked as a Principal Economic Adviser to a former Treasurer and served as an Alternate Executive Director on the Board of the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC, where she represented the Asia and Pacific Constituency. Angelia is currently Australia’s G20 Sherpa and Head of the Multilateral Economic Engagement Division in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.

Supervisor:
Professor Warwick McKibbin
  • Grant A (2015) Three essays on the US business cycle, expectations formation and model comparison [PhD Thesis], The Australian National University, Canberra.
  • Chan J C and Grant A (2016) ‘Modeling energy price dynamics: GARCH versus stochastic volatility’, Energy economics, 54:182-189.
  • Chan J C and Grant A (2016) ‘On the Observed-Data Deviance Information Criterion for Volatility Modeling’. Journal of Financial Econometrics, 14(4):772-802.
  • Chan J C and Grant A (2016) ‘Fast computation of the deviance information criterion for latent variable models’. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 100:847-859.
  • Grant A and Chan J C (2017) ‘Bayesian Model Comparison for Trend-Cycle Decompositions of Output’. Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 49(2-3):525-552.
  • Grant A (2017) ‘The Early Millennium Slowdown: Replicating the Peersman (2005) Results’. Journal of Applied Econometrics, 32(1):218-233.
  • Grant A and Chan J C (2017) ‘Reconciling output gaps: Unobserved components model and Hodrick–Prescott filter’, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 75:114-121.
  • Grant A (2018), ‘The Great Recession and Okun’s Law’. Economic Modelling, 69:291-300.
 
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