Prof Terry Stokes

Head of School,
School of Government

Qualifications

BA (Hons) Macquarie University 1978 , PhD University of Melbourne 1984.

Profile

My career has focused on higher education. I was educated at Macquarie University and the University of Melbourne and have taught and held a postdoctoral fellowship at Deakin University, and was a lecturer and senior lecturer at the University of Wollongong. Following a stint as Counsellor to the Australian Research Council (ARC), I became Director of Research Services at Monash University (and for some of that period also a Special Adviser to the ARC).  I was then an Assistant Secretary in the Office of the National Health and Medical Research Council, before taking up an appointment as Pro-Vice-Chancellor at Central Queensland University.

Moving back into government, I became General Manager, Higher Education and Regulation in the Victorian Office of Training and Tertiary Education. Just prior to coming to the School of Government I established a practice as a tertiary education consultant.

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Research Interests

My research interests include the development, implementation and evaluation of government science and technology policy, as well as government procurement.

Publications

For some years, Dr Stokes� responsibilities have not allowed him to maintain an active program of publication. Of course, as a public servant and statutory officer, much of what he has written does not appear under his own name. However, post-academic employment publications include:

Stokes, T., Anderson D., Arthur R. �Qualifications of Australian Academics: Sources and Levels 1978�1996�, Evaluations and Investigations Program, Higher Education Division, Department of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs, 1997.

Stokes, T. and Grigson, D., �The use of peer review to evaluate research outcomes�, Research Evaluation, vol. 3, no 3, December, 1994, pp.173-177.

Stokes, T., "The ARC at five: a view from the inside", in F Q Wood and V L Meek (eds), Research Grants Management and Funding: Symposium Proceedings, Bibliotech ANUTECH, Canberra, 1994,  pp. 169-74

Stokes, T. and Grigg, L., Foreword to Research Performance Indicators Survey, National Board of Employment, Education and Training Commissioned Report No. 21, AGPS, 1993.

Stokes, T.,Research and Research Training in a Quality Higher Education System, National Board of Employment, Education and Training Occasional Paper, AGPS, 1992.

Stokes, T., �Can we staff the universities?�, in John Anwyl (ed.), CSHE 1991 Spring Lectures on Higher Education, Centre for the Study of Higher Education, University of Melbourne, 1992, pp.85-92.

Stokes, T.,�The Qualifications of Academic Staff: A Sample Study�, National Board of Employment, Education and Training, AGPS,1991

The major publication associated with Dr Stokes postdoctoral work was:

Stokes, T., Charlesworth, M.J., Farrall, L.A. and Turnbull, D.G., Lifeamong the scientists: An anthropological study of an Australian scientific community, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1989; reprinted by Deakin University Press, 1992.

Other, related publications include:

Stokes, T. and Turnbull, D. "Generating data: manipulable systems and laboratory strategies in a biomedical research institute", in H.E. Le Grand (ed.) Experimental Inquiries, Dordrecht, Kluwer, 1990, pp. 167-192.

Stokes, T., "Is that a fact, or is it an artefact? Scenes from the lives of scientists", in Rosaleen Love (ed.), If atoms could talk: an anthology of popular Australian science, Richmond, Greenhouse 1987, pp.129-136.

Research undertaken at the University of Wollongong led to several publications:

Stokes, T. and Hartley, J.A., "Co-authorship, social structure and influence within specialties", Social Studies of Science, vol 19, no.1, 1989, pp. 101-125.

Stokes, T., "The Briggs Enquiry", Search, vol.20, no.2 (1989), pp.38-40.

Stokes, T., "Curiosity-driven research", in Ruth Dirks (ed.) Disease and society: a resource book, Australian Academy of Science, 1988, pp.5.4-5.5.

Stokes, T., "Of Rats and Cattle Prods", in T.R. Kuchel(ed.) Animal experimentation ethics committees - philosophy and function, Adelaide, Australian Society for Laboratory Animal Science, 1988, pp.38-48.

Stokes, T., "Promoting biotechnology or parochialism?", Search, vol.18, no.2 (1987), pp.60-61.

Stokes, T. and Jevons, F.R., Winner take all, 2nd edn, Deakin University, 1987.

Doctoral Research Publications:

Stokes, T., "Methodology as a normative conceptual problem: the case of the Indian 'warped zipper' model of DNA", in J.A. Schuster and R.R. Yeo (eds.), The politics and rhetoric of scientific method: historical studies, Dordrecht, Reidel, 1986, pp.139-165.

Stokes, T., "Reason in the zeitgeist", History of Science vol.24 (1986), pp.111-123.

Stokes, T., "The Double Helix and the Warped Zipper: An Exemplary Tale", Social Studies of Science, vol 12, 1982, pp. 207-240.