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Associate Professor Siobhan O'Sullivan

Associate Professor Siobhan O'Sullivan

Honorary Associate Professor

PhD

Arts, Design & Architecture
School of Social Sciences

Dr. Siobhan O'Sullivan undertakes research into the delivery of contracted employment services in Australia, the UK, and around the world. She has a broad interest in the welfare state and 'mission drift'. She also has an ongoing interest in animal welfare policy and environmental ethics. You can listen to Siobhan podcast 'Knowing Animals' by clicking here: http://knowinganimals.libsyn.com. 
Phone
(02) 938 50689
E-mail
siobhan.osullivan@unsw.edu.au
Location
Morven Brown 126
  • Books | 2021
    2021, Buying and Selling the Poor: Inside Australia's privatised welfare-to-work market, Sydney University Press, http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv23g7wjt
    Books | 2021
    2021, Buying and Selling the Poor, Sydney University Press, http://dx.doi.org/10.30722/sup.9781743327869
    Books | 2015
    Considine M; Lewis JM; O'Sullivan SS; Sol E, 2015, Getting Welfare to Work: Street level governance in Australia, the UK and the Netherlands, Oxford University Press, Oxford, http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198743705.do
    Books | 2015
    Considine M; O'Sullivan S, 2015, Introduction: Contracting-out Welfare Services: Comparing National Policy Designs for Unemployment Assistance, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781119016458.ch0
    Books | 2011
    O'Sullivan S, 2011, Animals, Equality and Democracy, Palgrave Macmillan
  • Book Chapters | 2016
    O'Sullivan S, 2016, 'Animals and the Politics of Equity', in Garner R; O'Sullivan S (ed.), The Political Turn in Animal Ethics, Rowman & Littlefield International, http://www.rowmaninternational.com/books/the-political-turn-in-animal-ethics
    Book Chapters | 2015
    2015, 'Introduction', in Contracting-out Welfare Services, Wiley, pp. 1 - 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781119016458.ch0
    Book Chapters | 2013
    Hadley J; O'Sullivan S, 2013, 'Utilitarianism for the Dog that had Everything', in Hales S (ed.), What Philosophy Can Tell You about Your Dog, Open Court, pp. 285 - 294, http://www.opencourtbooks.com/books_n/what_philosophy_dog.htm
    Book Chapters | 2013
    Ross S; O'Sullivan S, 2013, 'The World Trade Organisation (WTO)', in Linzey A (ed.), The Global Guide to Animal Protection, University of Illinois Press
    Book Chapters | 2011
    2011, 'Animal Inconsistencies', in Animals, Equality and Democracy, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 9 - 24, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230349186_2
    Book Chapters | 2011
    2011, 'Animal Visibility', in Animals, Equality and Democracy, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 60 - 110, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230349186_4
    Book Chapters | 2011
    2011, 'Introduction', in Animals, Equality and Democracy, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 1 - 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230349186_1
    Book Chapters | 2011
    2011, 'Out of Sight, Out of Mind', in Animals, Equality and Democracy, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 111 - 158, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230349186_5
    Book Chapters | 2011
    2011, 'The Politics of Being a Nonhuman Animal', in Animals, Equality and Democracy, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 25 - 59, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230349186_3
    Book Chapters | 2011
    2011, 'What’s Good for the Goose Should Also be Good for the Gander', in Animals, Equality and Democracy, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 159 - 171, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230349186_6
    Book Chapters | 2009
    O'Sullivan S, 2009, 'Australasian Animal Protection Law and the Challenge of Equal Consideration', in Animal Law in Australasia: A New Dialogue, Federation Press, pp. 108 - 127
    Book Chapters | 2007
    O'Sullivan S, 2007, 'Legislation – History (International) of Animal Welfare Policy', in Encyclopaedia of Human-Animal Relations: a global exploration of our connections with animals, Greenwood, pp. 1000 - 1007
  • Edited Books | 2016
    Garner R; O'Sullivan S, (ed.), 2016, The Political Turn in Animal Ethics, Rowman and Littlefield, September 206, http://www.rowmaninternational.com/books/the-political-turn-in-animal-ethics
    Edited Books | 2015
    O'Sullivan S; Considine M, (ed.), 2015, Contracting-out Welfare Services: Comparing National Policy Designs for Unemployment Assistance, Wiley, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781119016458
  • Journal articles | 2022
    McGann M; O’Sullivan S; Considine M; O'Sullivan S, 2022, 'Good Clients and Hard Cases: The Role of Typologies at the Welfare Front Line', Social Service Review, 96, pp. 435 - 464, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/721056
    Journal articles | 2021
    Gelber K; O’Sullivan S, 2021, 'Cat got your tongue? Free speech, democracy and Australia’s ‘ag-gag’ laws', Australian Journal of Political Science, 56, pp. 19 - 34, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10361146.2020.1799938
    Journal articles | 2020
    Considine M; O'Sullivan S; McGann M; Nguyen P, 2020, 'Contracting personalization by results: Comparing marketization reforms in the UK and Australia', Public Administration, 98, pp. 873 - 890, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/padm.12662
    Journal articles | 2020
    Haigh Y; O’Sullivan S; O'Sullivan S, 2020, 'Introduction to the special issue of teaching public policy in Australia', Teaching Public Administration, 38, pp. 3 - 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0144739419879481
    Journal articles | 2019
    Considine M; O'Sullivan S; McGann M; Nguyen P, 2019, 'Locked-in or Locked-out: Can a Public Services Market Really Change?', Journal of Social Policy, 49, pp. 850 - 871, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0047279419000941
    Journal articles | 2019
    McGann M; Danneris S; O'Sullivan S, 2019, 'Introduction: Rethinking welfare-to-work for the long-term unemployed', Social Policy and Society, 18, pp. 577 - 582, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1474746419000265
    Journal articles | 2019
    O'Sullivan S; McGann M; Considine M, 2019, 'The category game and its impact on street-level bureaucrats and jobseekers: An australian case study', Social Policy and Society, 18, pp. 631 - 645, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1474746419000162
    Journal articles | 2019
    O'Sullivan S; Watt Y; Probyn-Rapsey F, 2019, 'Tainted Love: The Trials and Tribulations of a Career in Animal Studies', Society and Animals, 27, pp. 361 - 382, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685306-00001677
    Journal articles | 2019
    Probyn-Rapsey F; O’Sullivan S; Watt Y, 2019, '‘Pussy Panic’ and Glass Elevators: How Gender is Shaping the Field of Animal Studies', Australian Feminist Studies, 34, pp. 198 - 215, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08164649.2019.1644605
    Journal articles | 2018
    Fawcett P; Legrand T; Lewis JM; O'Sullivan S, 2018, 'Governance, public policy and boundary-making', Australian Journal of Political Science, 53, pp. 480 - 489, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10361146.2018.1519776
    Journal articles | 2018
    McCausland C; Pyke S; O'Sullivan S, 2018, 'The Ethics and Politics of Drones in Animal Activism', Animal Studies Journal, 7, pp. 78 - 103, http://ro.uow.edu.au/asj/vol7/iss1/5/
    Journal articles | 2018
    Watt Y; O'Sullivan S; Probyn-Rapsey F, 2018, 'Should we eat our research subjects? advocacy and Animal Studies', Animal Studies Journal, 7, pp. 178 - 205, http://ro.uow.edu.au/asj/vol7/iss1/9/
    Journal articles | 2018
    2018, 'From the interpersonal to the internet: social service digitisation and the implications for vulnerable individuals and communities', Australian Journal of Political Science, 53, pp. 1 - 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10361146.2018.1519064
    Journal articles | 2017
    Considine M; Nguyen P; O'Sullivan S, 2017, 'New public management and the rule of economic incentives: Australian welfare-to-work from job market signalling perspective', Public Management Review, 20, pp. 1 - 19, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2017.1346140
    Journal articles | 2017
    Considine M; O'Sullivan S; Nguyen P, 2017, 'The Policymaker's Dilemma: The Risks and Benefits of a ‘Black Box’ Approach to Commissioning Active Labour Market Programmes', Social Policy and Administration: an international journal of policy and research, 52, pp. 229 - 251, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/spol.12309
    Journal articles | 2017
    O'Sullivan S; McCausland M; Brenton S, 2017, 'Animal Activists, Civil Disobedience and Global Responses to Transnational Injustice', Res Publica: a journal of legal and social philosophy, 23, pp. 1 - 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11158-017-9361-6
    Journal articles | 2016
    Cochrane A; Garner R; O'Sullivan S, 2016, 'Animal ethics and the political', Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2016.1194583
    Journal articles | 2016
    Nguyen P; Considine M; O’Sullivan S, 2016, 'Welfare-to-work: experience in the emerging Vietnamese welfare state', Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration, 38, pp. 270 - 280, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23276665.2016.1253957
    Journal articles | 2016
    Sima Y; O'Sullivan S, 2016, 'Chinese Animal Protection Law and the Globalisation of Welfare Norms', International Journal of Law in Context, 12, pp. 1 - 23, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1744552315000348
    Journal articles | 2015
    Considine M; O'Sullivan S; Nguyen P, 2015, 'Governance, Boards of Directors and the Impact of Contracting on Not-for-profits Organizations - An Australian Study', Contracting-Out Welfare Services: Comparing National Policy Designs for Unemployment Assistance, pp. 55 - 74, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781119016458.ch3
    Journal articles | 2015
    Gallet W; O'Flynn J; Dickinson H; O'Sullivan S, 2015, 'The Promises and Pitfalls of Prime Provider Models in Service Delivery: The Next Phase of Reform in Australia?', Australian Journal of Public Administration, 74, pp. 239 - 248, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-8500.12120
    Journal articles | 2014
    Considine M; O'Sullivan S; Nguyen P, 2014, 'Governance, Boards of Directors and the Impact of Contracting on Not-for-profit Organizations - An Australian Study', Social Policy & Administration, 48, pp. 169 - 187, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/spol.12055
    Journal articles | 2014
    Considine M; O'Sullivan S; Nguyen P, 2014, 'Mission drift?: The third sector and the pressure to be businesslike: Evidence from job services Australia', Third Sector Review, 20, pp. 87 - 108, http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=535390979767726;res=IELHSS
    Journal articles | 2014
    Considine M; O'Sullivan S; Nguyen P, 2014, 'New public management and welfare-to-work in Australia: Comparing the reform agendas of the ALP and the Coalition', Australian Journal of Political Science, 49, pp. 469 - 485, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10361146.2014.931343
    Journal articles | 2014
    Considine M; O'Sullivan S, 2014, 'Introduction: Markets and the new welfare - buying and selling the poor', Social Policy and Administration, 48, pp. 119 - 126, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/spol.12052
    Journal articles | 2014
    O'Sullivan S; Creed B; Grey J, 2014, ''Low down dirty rat’: popular and moral responses to urban wildlife living in suburban Melbourne', Relations. Beyond Anthropocentrism, 2, http://www.ledonline.it/index.php/Relations/article/view/673
    Journal articles | 2013
    McCausland C; O’Sullivan S; Brenton S, 2013, 'Trespass, Animals and Democratic Engagement', Res Publica, 19, pp. 205 - 221, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11158-013-9214-x
    Journal articles | 2012
    Considine M; O'Sullivan S, 2012, 'Les réformes de l’activation des aides aux chômeurs en Australie', Informations sociales, 3, pp. 148 - 148, http://www.cairn.info/resume.php?ID_ARTICLE=INSO_171_0028
    Journal articles | 2012
    Ellis C; McKay R; O'Sullivan S; Twine R; Weller K, 2012, 'The animals & society institute fellowship: Catalyzing work in human-animal studies', Society and Animals, 20, pp. 117 - 122, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853012X631333
    Journal articles | 2012
    Otter C; O'Sullivan S; Ross S, 2012, 'Laying the Foundations for an International Animal Protection Regime', Journal of Animal Ethics, 2, pp. 53 - 72, http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/janimalethics.2.1.0053
    Journal articles | 2012
    2012, 'Les réformes de l'activation des aides aux chômeurs en Australie', Informations sociales, n° 171, pp. 28 - 37, http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/inso.171.0028
    Journal articles | 2011
    Considine M; Lewis JM; O'Sullivan S, 2011, 'Quasi-markets and service delivery flexibility following a decade of employment assistance reform in Australia', Journal of Social Policy, 40, pp. 811 - 833, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0047279411000213
    Journal articles | 2011
    O'Sullivan S; Bennison R, 2011, 'Riding the crest of a human-animal studies wave', Society and Animals, 19, pp. 333 - 336, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853011X589990
    Journal articles | 2009
    Hadley J; O'Sullivan S, 2009, 'World poverty, animal minds and the ethics of veterinary expenditure', Environmental Values, 18, pp. 361 - 378, http://dx.doi.org/10.3197/096327109X12474739376578
    Journal articles | 2008
    O'Sullivan S, 2008, 'Transparency in Australian animal research regulation – How are we doing?', Australian Animal Protection Law Journal, 1, pp. 15 - 35
    Journal articles | 2007
    O'Sullivan S, 2007, 'Advocating for animals equally from within a liberal paradigm', Environmental Politics, 16, pp. 1 - 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09644010601073390
    Journal articles | 2006
    O'Sullivan S, 2006, 'Transparency and Animal Research Regulation: An Australian Case Study', Journal of Critical Animal Studies, 4, pp. 1 - 15, http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/volume-iv-issue-i-2006/
  • Other | 2020
    O'Sullivan S, 2020, Should animals have political rights?, ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, , http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2020.1810418
    Reports | 2019
    2019, Symposia: Sentientist Politics Theory of Global Inter-Species Justice, Politics and Animals, https://journals.lub.lu.se/pa/article/view/18819
    Other | 2018
    O'Sullivan S, 2018, [Review] Stray: Human-Animal Ethics in the Anthropocene Barbara Creed, Stray: Human- Animal Ethics in the Anthropocene, , https://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&user=89hhalsAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate&httpsredir=1&article=1350&context=asj
    Reports | 2018
    2018, Areas of Research Interest: Response to DWP Research Priorities and Objectives
    Reports | 2018
    2018, Enhancing employment services for the ‘hardest-to-help’: Report on case studies with high performing jobactives
    Reports | 2018
    2018, From Entitlement to Experiement: Industry report on case studies of high providing providers, University of Melbourne, https://arts.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/2947379/from-entitlement-to-experiment-industry-report-2018.pdf
    Reports | 2018
    2018, From Entitlement to Experiment: Industry Report on Case Studies of High Performing Providers, https://arts.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/2947379/from-entitlement-to-experiment-industry-report-2018.pdf
    Reports | 2018
    2018, Improving Outcomes for Disadvantaged Jobseekers: The Next Generation of Employment Services Response to Discussion Paper, https://arts.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/2947382/Improving-Outcomes-for-Disadvantaged-Jobseekers-2018.pdf
    Reports | 2017
    Lewis JM; considine M; O'Sullivan S; Nguyen P; McGann M, 2017, From Entitlement to Experiment: the new governance of welfare to work. UK Report Back to Industry Partners, University of Melbourne
    Conference Papers | 2016
    Brenton S; McCausland C; O'Sullivan S, 2016, 'Piracy, Animals and Democratic Engagement: The Limits of Civil Disobedience at Sea', in Australian Political Studies Association (APSA) Conference 2013, Australian Political Studies Association (APSA) Conference 2013, Murdoch University, presented at Australian Political Studies Association (APSA) Conference 2013, Murdoch University, 30 September 2016 - 02 October 2013
    Reports | 2016
    Lewis JM; Considine M; O'Sullivan S; Nguyen P; McGann M, 2016, From Entitement to Experiment: the new governance of welfare to work. Australian Report back to Industry Partners, http://arts.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0010/2165878/2016-Australian-Industry-Report.pdf
    Conference Papers | 2016
    O'Sullivan S, 2016, 'Animal Research Policy, Public Perceptions, and the Problem of Transparency', in Beyond Fragmented Government: Governance in the Public Sector, Beyond Fragmented Government: Governance in the Public Sector, Victoria University, presented at Beyond Fragmented Government: Governance in the Public Sector, Victoria University, 04 April 2016 - 07 April 2005
    Reports | 2014
    O'Sullivan S; O’Flynn J; Dickinson H; Gallet W; Currie K; Pettit M; Pagan A, 2014, The Prime Provider Model: An opportunity for better public service delivery?, Brotherhood of St Laurence, http://servicedelivery.dss.gov.au/2014/05/26/working-paper-released-on-prime-provider-model/
    Reports | 2009
    O'Sullivan S; Considine M; Lewis J, 2009, Activating States: transforming the delivery of ‘welfare to work’ services in Australia, the UK and the Netherlands. Report to Australian Providers, http://ssps.unimelb.edu.au/sites/ssps.unimelb.edu.au/files/report_industry_partners_australia.pdf
    Conference Papers | 2009
    O'Sullivan S; Considine M; Lewis JM, 2009, 'John Howard and the Neo-liberal Agenda: The regulation and reform of Australia’s privatised employment services sector between 1996 and 2008', in Australian Political Studies Association (APSA) Conference 2009, Australian Political Studies Association (APSA) Conference 2009, Macquarie University, presented at Australian Political Studies Association (APSA) Conference 2009, Macquarie University, 28 September 2009 - 30 September 2009
    Reports | 2009
    O'Sullivan SB; Considine M; Lewis J, 2009, Activating States: transforming the delivery of ‘welfare to work’ services in Australia, the UK and the Netherlands. Report to UK Providers, http://ssps.unimelb.edu.au/sites/ssps.unimelb.edu.au/files/report_industry_partners_UK.pdf
    Theses / Dissertations | 2008
    O'Sullivan S, 2008, Animal Visibility and and Equality in Liberal Democratic States, University of Sydney, http://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/2441
    Conference Papers | 2006
    O'Sullivan S, 2006, 'Conflict and Coherence within the Australian Animal Protection Movement', in Australian Political Studies Association (APSA) Conference 2006, Australian Political Studies Association (APSA) Conference 2006, Monash University, presented at Australian Political Studies Association (APSA) Conference 2006, Monash University, 25 September 2006 - 27 September 2006

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