Dr Geoff Sharrock
PhD, MA, DipAppSci, DipEd
Program Director of the Master of Tertiary Education Management at LH Martin Institute, Dr Geoff Sharrock has extensive experience in public administration, private consulting and management education. His research interests focus on tertiary education policy, university strategy, workplace culture, change leadership, professional management practice, and ideas and images of the university as a social institution.
Prior to joining LH Martin Institute, Geoff worked as an adviser on the ‘Growing Esteem’ strategy development project at the University of Melbourne(2005-2006) and project manager on the Baker-IDI medical research institute merger in Melbourne (2007-2008).
Selected publications:
Sharrock, G. ‘Two Hippocratic Oaths for higher education’ Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management Vol 32 (4) 2010, pp. 365 – 377.
‘Leadership of the Modern University’ (Glyn Davis and Geoff Sharrock) in Kane, Patapan and ‘t Hart (eds), Dispersed Democratic Leadership: Origins, Dynamics & Implications, Oxford University Press 2009
‘After Copernicus: Beyond the crisis in Australian Universities’ in Australian Universities Review, Vol 49 (1 & 2) 2007
‘Rethinking the Australian University’ in Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management Vol 26 (2) 2004
‘The University and its Metamorphoses’ in Cooper, Hinkson and Sharp (eds), Scholars and Entrepreneurs: The Universities in Crisis, Arena Publications 2002
‘Media Representations of the Melbourne IT Story’ in Australian Quarterly, March 2001
‘Why Students Are Not (Just) Customers’ in Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management Vol 22 (2) 2000