Rate My Professor Peter Quiddington

Dr. Peter Quiddington is an adjunct lecturer in the School of Humanities at the University of New England, specializing in Politics and International Studies. He holds a PhD from the University of New England, an SM from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a BA from the Australian National University. In addition to academia, Quiddington serves as director at Science Media in Canberra. For over two decades, he has worked as a writer and commentator on science, technology, and higher education, with contributions featured in leading magazines and newspapers in Australia, the United States, and Britain. His academic research has been published in journals including Public Policy and Higher Education Research and Development.

Quiddington's research interests encompass innovation policy, higher education policy, ecology, and the environment. Prominent among his publications is the book Knowledge and Its Enemies: Towards a New Case for Higher Learning (Cambria Press, 2010). Key articles include The new politics of Australian higher education: Why universities get rumbled in the budget (Higher Education Research & Development, vol. 29, no. 4, 2010, 15 citations); Capturing the Academy: Australian higher learning and the exceptional powers of the regulatory state (Public Policy, vol. 3, no. 1, 2008, 4 citations); and Policy: Changes of government and their economic policies have meant a rough ride for Australian scientists over the past decade (Today's Life Science, 1999, 2 citations). Further works are Comments on Davydd Greenwood's review article (Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education, 2011); Higher learning and the pursuit of a democratic regionalism (2008); and Capturing the academy: Australian higher education and the hidden hand of the regulatory state (Armidale, NSW, 2006). These contributions examine political, budgetary, and regulatory influences on Australian higher education and scientific endeavors.