Encourages students to think critically.
Inspires curiosity and a love for knowledge.
Always supportive and deeply knowledgeable.
Always goes above and beyond for students.
Great Professor!
Dr Stephen Jones is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Business at the University of Queensland, part of the Faculty of Business, Economics and Law. His research specializations encompass public administration and governance, waste management, climate change policy implementation by city governments in federal systems, performance management in federal contexts, behavioural insights in the public sector, circular economy initiatives, flexible working arrangements, and migration policy governance. He has produced 36 research works between 2001 and 2023, as documented in UQ eSpace, contributing to policy analysis in Australia and comparative international contexts.
Jones has authored books including Advancing a circular economy: a future without waste? (2021) and Cities responding to climate change: Copenhagen, Stockholm and Tokyo (2018). Prominent journal articles feature The limits of voluntary measures: Packaging the plastic pollution problem in Australia (2023), Waste management in Australia is an environmental crisis: what needs to change so adaptive governance can help? (2020), Establishing political priority for regulatory interventions in waste management in Australia (2019), Reconceptualising the governance of migration policy in Australia: from centralised to cooperative approaches (2019), Strange bedfellows: federal systems and performance management (2018), Performance for accountability: the case of joint agreements in a federal system (2017), and Flirting with climate change: a comparative policy analysis of subnational governments in Canada and Australia (2014). He has secured grants such as Behavioural insights in the Australian public sector (2017-2019, The Australia and New Zealand School of Government), Performance Federalism in Australia (2013-2015, The Australia and New Zealand School of Government), and Leading the way on climate change? An analysis of the strategies of city governments in federal systems (2009-2010, UQ New Staff Research Start-Up Fund). Jones received the UQ Category 2 Travel Award in 2012 and has supervised PhD completions in 2020 on public participation in environmental impacts and flexible working arrangements.