Bligh Grant

Bligh is a leading scholar of interdisciplinary and trans-disciplinary research in Australian local government. He completed his PhD in 2011 at the University of New England, Australia. His thesis was titled: 'Local governments as "place-shapers": Exposition, critique and investigations in Australian politics'. He also holds a BA (Hons) in Politics from UNE.

As a research-intensive academic for several years he has published in a range of fields, in particular local government studies, including several books and edited volumes on local government and metropolitan government. From 2017 to 2020 inclusive he was Coordinator of the Master of Local Government program at UTS. Having recently taken up a full-time role in industry, he continues to supervise several PhD students at UTS.

Bligh has held positions as Lecturer in Business Ethics at the UNE Business School, Research Lecturer in Local Government Studies at the UNE Centre of Local Government and Associate Lecturer in Political Economy in the School of Commerce at the University of Southern Queensland. He has also taught in the areas of Philosophy, Politics, Sociology, Asian Studies and International Relations, all at UNE and its partner institutions in China.