Prof Aynsley Kellow
Emeritus Professor Aynsley Kellow
Senior Associate
Aynsley Kellow is Emeritus Professor of Government at the University of Tasmania. During his time at the University of Tasmania he has been Head of School, Acting Dean in the Faculty of Arts, Member of the Research College Board, and a Member of the University Senate. He was Interim Director of the Tasmanian Institute of Law Enforcement Studies (TILES), taking this from establishment to development and recruitment of Director as the premier research institute of its kind in Australia, while also managing the establishment of an innovative teaching collaboration with the Tasmanian Police Academy.
Aynsley has been awarded six ARC Discovery grants, together with the first research grant for TILES, a $176,000 grant from the National Drug Law Enforcement Research Fund. He has held fellowships at the Australian National University, Clemson University and in 2004 a prestigious William Evans Fellowship at the University of Otago, his alma mater.
He has published 13 authored and co-authored research monographs, five edited collections and more than 100 short monographs, book chapters and refereed journal articles. His research has ranged across environmental politics and policy, climate change, the science-policy interface, business and politics, theories of the policy process, global policy and the OECD. He has published three co-authored books on the OECD, the most recent, commissioned by the OECD for its 60th anniversary, was a critical survey of the Organisation covering 2011-2021.
He has wide experience consulting to business, government agencies and community groups, including: MIM Holdings Ltd; the Electricity Development Strategy Consultative Panel, Department of Industry, Technology and Resources, Victoria; Tasmanian Public Service Association; Department of Water Resources, Victoria; Northern Midlands Environment Protection Committee; Solicitor-general of Tasmania; WMC Resources Ltd; South Carolina Water Resources Commission; South Carolina Sea Grants Consortium; Public Service Board, Victoria; Ampol Petroleum; Sinclair Knight Merz; Australian Environmental Health Council; New Zealand Dairy Board; and CSIRO.
He has also been a member of the Minerals and Energy Policy Committee of the Australian Labor Party (Tasmanian Branch) and the Ipswich City Council Environment Committee. He was an member of a Commonwealth interdepartmental committee establishing the national response to the OECD Program on Risk Reduction for Existing Chemicals and was a member of the Australian delegation to two OECD workshops on the matter.
Aynsley is a former President of the Australian Political Studies Association and Chair of Research Committee 38 on Politics and Business of the International Political Science Association. He was also Tasmanian State President of the Australian Institute of International Affairs and Member of the National Committee. He represented the Academy of Social Sciences on the Joint Academies Committee on Sustainability and has presented invited addresses to several Joint Academies Forums, the Academy of Science Annual Symposium, a conference of the Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering and a conference of the Australian Institute of Political Science that played a major role in reforming the administration of the Murray-Darling Basin.