Prof Anthony Elliott
Dean: Ext Engmt, Exec Dir:Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence & Network
School of Society and Culture
College of Education, Behavioural and Social Sciences
Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.
Professor Anthony Elliott AM is Dean of External Engagement at the University of South Australia, where he is Bradley Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Executive Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence in UniSA: Justice and Society.
In June 2023, Professor Elliott was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia for significant service to education, social science policy and research.
Professor Elliott is an internationally distinguished social scientist who fosters universities’ public engagement and service to society. A sociologist by training, Professor Elliott received a BA (Hons.) in Political Science from the University of Melbourne. He then won a Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Packer Scholarship to the UK, where he completed a PhD in Social Theory at Cambridge University under the supervision of Lord Anthony Giddens.
Professor Elliott is one of the most influential and widely published social theorists in the world, with over 50 books translated in 17 languages. The New Republic has described his research breakthroughs as “thought-provoking and disturbing”. He has secured competitive research funding from, among other agencies, the Australian Research Council, the European Commission’s Erasmus+ Jean Monnet Programme, the Toyota Foundation, the Australia-Japan Foundation, and the Japan Foundation.
He currently serves as a member of the Australian Research Council’s College of Experts. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the UK, Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, a Fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust, and a Senior Member of King’s College, Cambridge. He also holds appointments as Super-Global Professor of Sociology (Visiting) at Keio University, Japan, and Visiting Full Professor of Sociology at University College Dublin, Ireland.
He is Executive Director of UniSA's Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence and Network - which spans universities and enterprises in Germany, Denmark, Ireland, Poland, Finland, Estonia, Japan and New Zealand. He is also Research Professor of Sociology in UniSA: Justice and Society.
Professor Elliott was previously Associate Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) and Head of the Department of Sociology at Flinders University (2006-2012) and Director of the Hawke Research Institute at UniSA (2012-2016). He has held visiting academic positions in the UK, USA, France, Ireland and Japan, and from 2004 to 2006 was Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
In recent years, he has turned his scholarly focus to the digital revolution and artificial intelligence. From 2017 to 2019, he served as a member of the Expert Working Group of the Australian Council of Learned Academies (ACOLA) on AI at the request of the Prime Minister’s Commonwealth Science Council, and with support from the Australian Research Council (ARC), the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, and the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science. In 2017, he served as a member of ACOLA’s Artificial Intelligence Scoping Project Committee, Academy of Science and the Academy of Technology and Engineering. He has devoted his time to advising many new and aspiring technology leaders, mentoring students interested in careers in AI, teaching in executive education programs, and writing and speaking on salient topics resulting from the AI revolution – innovations in enterprise, the transformation of universities, the impact of digital technologies on society, and business governance and leadership, among others. His latest books in this area are The Culture of AI (Routledge, 2019) and Making Sense of AI: Our Algorithmic World (Polity, 2021).
Professor Elliott is strongly interested in shared leadership principles and has completed an executive leadership course at the Judge Business School, Cambridge University in 2014.
- ARC Discovery Grant, 2016-2020: “Enhanced Humans, Robotics and the Future of Work”, with Dr. David Bissell, Dr. Thomas Birtchnell and Prof. John Urry, $429,401.
- Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, 2016: "Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of Work", with Dr. Thomas Birtchnell and Prof. Bob Holton, $18, 270.
- Japan Foundation Sydney, 2016: “Mobile Cultures of Disaster”, with Dr. Eric Hsu, $22, 000.
- ARC Discovery Grant, 2012-14: 'Investigating international work-related travel, global airports and transnational networks: innovation, shape and boundaries of mobile lifestyles', with Prof. John Urry, Mobilities Laboratory, Lancaster University, UK, $150,000.
- ARC Linkage Grant, 2012-13: 'Trust makers, breakers and brokers: building trust in the Australian food system', with researchers from Flinders University, Adelaide University; City University, London; University of Kent, UK; Department of Health (SA) and Food Standards Australia and New Zealand, $209,580.
- ARC Discovery Grant, 2008-12: 'Australian global identities: images of globalization, transnationalism and individualism among new expatriates', with Professor Charles Lemert, Yale University, USA, $250,000.
- Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, 2011: 'The paradox of melancholia', with A/Prof J. Rutherford and Prof. B. Castro.
- International Science Linkage Grant, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, 2010: 'The new individualism and Japanese economy and society', $7500.
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Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on Digital Transformations, Erasmus+ - Jean Monnet Projects, 01/11/2025 - 31/10/2028
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UniSA Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, Erasmus+ - Jean Monnet Projects, 01/07/2022 - 30/06/2025
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Enhanced Humans, Robotics and the Future of Work, ARC - Discovery Projects, 09/06/2016 - 30/04/2022
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Industry 4.0 ecosystems: a comparative analysis of work-life transformation, ARC - Discovery Projects, 10/05/2018 - 30/04/2022
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Hawke EU Centre for Mobilities, Migrations and Cultural Transformations, European Commission, 01/07/2014 - 28/02/2018
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Mobile Cultures of Disaster, The Japan Foundation, 01/06/2016 - 15/03/2017
| Date | Role | Research Topic | Program | Degree Type | Student Load | Student Name |
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| 2025 | Co-Supervisor | Exploring the Integration of Immigrants in Japan: A Multidimensional Approach | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Miss Tingting Chen |
| 2025 | Co-Supervisor | 420-National Identity and Its Formation of Newcomer Chinese Residents in Japan | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Miss Shupu Yan |
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