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Sarah Maddison

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Sarah Maddison CF is an Australian author and political scientist.

Education

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Maddison has a PhD in the Discipline of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney.[1]

Career

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She is a former director of GetUp! and the 2018–19 president of the Australian Political Studies Association. She was awarded a very large grant from the SEROS Foundation which was withdrawn under unclear circumstances.[citation needed][when?]

Maddison has also co-authored two editions of a textbook for students of Australian public policy.[citation needed]

She has been an ARC Discovery Project grant recipient for three completed projects, one considering new possibilities for Indigenous representation (DP0877157), and another considering the evolution of social movements through a study of the Australian women’s movement (DP0878688 with Professor Marian Sawer, ANU), which produced the edited collection The Women's Movement in Protest, Institutions and the Internet: Australia in transnational perspective. The third project 2014, undertaken with colleagues in Melbourne and Canada, explored non-Indigenous attitudes to reconciliation with Indigenous peoples, through focus group research around the country.[citation needed]

In 2010 Maddison was awarded an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship to undertake a four-year, four-country comparative study of reconciliation and conflict transformation in Australia, South Africa, Northern Ireland and Guatemala. A book analysing the results from this research was published in 2015.[citation needed]

Recognition

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She was awarded the 2005 Jean Martin Award by The Australian Sociological Association for her PhD thesis, Collective identity and Australian Feminist Activism: conceptualising a third wave, which examined the role of young women in contemporary Australian women's movements.[1]

In 2009 she was joint winner of the Australian Political Science Association Henry Mayer Award for her book Black Politics: Inside the complexity of Aboriginal political culture. In 2009 she was also part of the Sydney Leadership Program run by Social Leadership Australia at The Benevolent Society.[2]

Maddison received a 2009 Churchill Fellowship to study models of Indigenous representation in the United States and Canada in 2010.[citation needed]

Interests and current role

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Maddison's research interests include Indigenous-settler relations, settler colonialism, reconciliation and conflict transformation, Indigenous politics, agonistic democracy, dialogue, and Australian social movements, including research on the Indigenous rights movement and the women’s movement.[citation needed]

She is Professor of Politics in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, where she also co-directs the Indigenous Settler Relations Collaboration.[when?][citation needed]

Publications

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References

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  1. ^ a b Maddison scoops sociological award Archived 28 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine. UNSW News. Retrieved 2009-07-04.
  2. ^ "Australia's first charity". www.benevolent.org.au. Retrieved 2 July 2020.