Professor Rod Rhodes
Professor of Government (Research)

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Professor Rod Rhodes is Professor of Government (Research) within Economic, Social and Political Sciences at the University of Southampton and Emeritus Professor of Politics at the University of Newcastle (UK).
Previously, he was the Director of the UK Economic and Social Research Council’s ‘Whitehall Programme’ (1994-1999); Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the Australian National University (2006-11); and Director of the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University (2007-8).
He is life Vice-President of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom; a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia; and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (UK). He has also been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and he was editor of Public Administration from 1986 to 2011. In 2014 he was awarded the Special Recognition Award by the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom for his outstanding contribution to political science which has ‘increased enormously our understanding of how government works and done much to raise the esteem of the discipline’. In 2015, he was awarded the biennial ECPR's (European Consortium for Political Research) Lifetime Achievement Award for his ‘outstanding contribution to all areas of political science, and the exceptional impact of his work’.