Professor Lisa Hill
Professor
School of Social Sciences
Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics
Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.
My research interests are in political theory, history of political thought and issues in electoral law and behaviour. My most recent work explores political exclusion and inclusion, voter behaviour and correlates of voter turnout and issues in liberal democracy. My other projects focus on the history of the western political tradition, political corruption, human rights and the Scottish Enlightenment.
I welcome inquiries from Masters and PhD candidates interested in: The history of political thought, Thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment, Voting inclusion (particularly of the disadvantaged), Compulsory voting and informal voting, Political Corruption, Human Rights, Classical Stoicism and Epicureanism and Liberal democracy, its history, character and challenges.
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Current projects include:
Assessing epistemic democracy: normative and applied perspectives
This project has three broad aims:
- To test empirically the epistemic claim that high-turnout elections yield a) higher levels of ‘bad voting’, which in turn yield b) worse political outcomes than do low-turnout elections.
- To use the findings of the applied study to explore and evaluate the normative implications and validity of epistemic democracy.
- To assess whether or not voting in mass elections has a future. or whether we should cede more power to ‘the wise’.
Raising Voter Turnout Among People Experiencing Homelessness
We wish to explore how electoral commissions, academics, community sector organisations, and individuals with lived experience can work together to develop appropriate interventions and measures to identify the scope of non-voting among the homeless and to test and measure the effectiveness of potential remedies.
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Appointments
Date Position Institution name 2006 - ongoing Associate Professor/Professor of Politics University of Adelaide 2001 - 2006 Senior Research Fellow University of Adelaide -
Awards and Achievements
Date Type Title Institution Name Country Amount 2011 Fellowship Elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Science of Australia Academy of the Social Sciences Australia Australia - -
Education
Date Institution name Country Title 1994 University of Oxford United Kingdom D.Phil. in Politics 1984 University of Tasmania Australia Bachelor of Arts (Hons First Class) -
Certifications
Date Title Institution name Country 2011 Elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Science of Australia Academy of the Social Sciences Australia - -
Research Interests
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Report for External Bodies
Year Citation 2024 Koch, C., Grenfell, L., Spyrou, P., Hill, L., & Owens, R. (2024). Submission on the Inquiry into the potential for a Human Rights Act for South Australia. 2023 Koch, C., Grenfell, L., Hill, L., Louth, J., Olijnyk, A., Stubbs, M., & Sumner AM, U. M. M. (2023). Submission on the draft Bill for a First Nations Voice to South Australia’s Parliament. 2021 Hill, L., Baltutis, R., & Douglass, M. (2021). South Australia’s Truth in Election Advertising Laws: Basis for a Model for the Rest of Australia?. L. Hill. 2020 Grenfell, L., Hill, L., Koch, C., McIntyre, J., Neudorf, L., Olijnyk, A., . . . Spyrou, P. (2020). Submission to the COVID-19 Response Committee. Adelaide. 2020 Grenfell, L., Hill, L., Koch, C., McIntyre, J., Neudorf, L., Olijnyk, A., . . . Spyrou, P. (2020). Submission to the Select Committee on COVID-19. 2019 Hill, L., Coram, V., & Louth, J. (2019). An Exploration of Homelessness and Electoral Participation. A major report prepared for the Australian Electoral Commission.. South Australia: AEC.
Date | Project Number | Investigators | Funding Body | Amount |
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2022-2024 | DP220100002 | Jacqueline Broad, Lisa Hill and Diana Barnes | Australian Research Council | $275,000 |
2021-2025 | LP200200073 | Lisa Hill, Rodrigo Praino and the Victorian Electoral Commission | Australian Research Council | $260,000 |
2011 - 2017 | - | Associate investigator Lisa Hill | Centre of Excellence in the History of Emotions in Europe 1100-1800 | $24,250,000 |
2014 - 2016 | DP140102011 | Lisa Hill and Han Baltussen | Australian Research Council | $300,000 |
2012 - 2014 | DP120100940 | Lisa Hill | Australian Research Council | $115,000 |
2009 - 2010 | DP0985074 | Lisa Hill | Australian Research Council | $61,000 |
2008 | - | Lisa Hill and Ian Hall | University of Adelaide Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Hosting Conference Scheme | $3,900 |
2007 - 2009 | DP0770499 | Lisa Hill, Bruce Buchan, Wilf Prest | $170,000 | |
2007 | - | Lisa Hill, Ian Hall and Wilf Prest | Academy of Social Sciences Workshop Grant | $6,400 |
2003 - 2006 | - | Lisa Hill | ARC Large Industry Linkage Grant | $160,000 |
2001 - 2006 | - | Lisa Hill | ARC Five Year Discovery Fellowship | $470,000 |
Date | Course Title | Course Level / Code |
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2022 |
Passions and Interests: the history of the legitimation of greed | 2/3 POLI 2107 |
2022 | Politics and Ethics in Public Policy: Masterclass in Public Policy | |
2022 | POLIR Honours Common Course | |
2022 | Justice, Virtue and the Good | 2/3 POLI 2106 |
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Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name 2024 Principal Supervisor Militant Democracy in Australia Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Matthew James Bracken Nicoll 2023 Principal Supervisor The Influence of Religion on the Voting Attitudes and Behaviour of Educated Middle-Class Electors in Bangladesh Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Arefa Sultana 2022 Principal Supervisor Understanding and addressing invalid voting in Victoria Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Katharina Kretschmer 2021 Principal Supervisor Classical Philosophy in Adam Smith's Political and Economic Thought Doctor of Philosophy under a Jointly-awarded Degree Agreement with Doctorate Full Time Mr Philip Argenio 2018 Principal Supervisor Epicureanism in the Enlightenment: The Influence of Epicurean Political Thought on the Western Political Tradition Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mr Eden Blazejak -
Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name 2020 - 2024 Principal Supervisor THE AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY 2013-2019: RECKONING WITH SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC CHANGE Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Nicholas Allan Falcinella 2019 - 2024 Principal Supervisor An Investigation into the Factors Influencing Women’s Descriptive Representation in the Republic of Maldives Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Fathimath Shafeega 2016 - 2020 Principal Supervisor Future Benefits, Future Burdens: Age, Policy Attitudes and Values in Australia Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Veronica Coram 2015 - 2020 Co-Supervisor Philanthropy and Social Justice: Examining the Social Impact of Grant-Making by Philanthropic Institutions in Australia Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mrs Zurina Simm 2014 - 2018 Principal Supervisor NETWORK HOMOGENISATION & PARTY DISENGAGEMENT
THE POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY OF POST-INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACIES:
AN AUSTRALIAN CASE STUDYDoctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Jesse Erich Schultz Clark 2013 - 2019 Principal Supervisor Cross–Party Collaboration in the Australian Federal Parliament: Testing the Limits of Institutional Constraints and Enabling Factors Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Miss Adele Klara Lausberg 2012 - 2017 Principal Supervisor Honneth's Theory of Recognition: A More Hospitable Asylum Seeker Policy Master of Philosophy Master Part Time Mr Paul Relf-Christopher 2011 - 2015 Principal Supervisor "Maore Farantsa": The Self Determination of Mayotte to become a Departement of France Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Robert William Alexander Crabtree 2011 - 2018 Co-Supervisor Following in Scottish Footsteps: The Amalgamation Movement in English and Welsh Banking, 1870-1920 Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Philip Ritson 2011 - 2019 Principal Supervisor Proportional Representation in Theory and Practice: The Australian Experience Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mr Glynn Evans 2006 - 2011 Co-Supervisor Isaiah Berlin and the Problem of Counter-Enlightenment Liberalism Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mr Mark Bode 2006 - 2010 Co-Supervisor The Utilitarian Imagination: An Inquiry into the Relationship between Character Formation, Moral Freedom and Social Reform in John Stuart Mill's Moral Science Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Alan Goldstone 2006 - 2010 Principal Supervisor The Upper House Question: South Australian Bicameralism in Comparative Perspective Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Jordan Bastoni 2005 - 2017 Principal Supervisor Beyond a Master or Slave Morality: An Engagement with Feminist Conceptions of Power Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Ms Kylie Heneker 2005 - 2007 Principal Supervisor The Dilemma of Praxis, Anarchism and Education: A Comparative Approach to Theory and Practice Master of Arts Master Full Time Mr Luke Trenwith 2002 - 2005 Co-Supervisor Fairness and Unfairness in South Australian Elections Master of Arts Master Part Time Mr Glynn Evans
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Committee Memberships
Date Role Committee Institution Country 2018 - ongoing Co-Chair Rhodes Scholar of South Australia Selection Committee Rhodes Scholarships Australia 2016 - ongoing Co-Founder Electoral Regulation and Research Network University of Adelaide Australia -
Editorial Boards
Date Role Editorial Board Name Institution Country 2017 - ongoing Board Member Australian Journal of Political Science - Australia
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