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Overview

Helen Sullivan is affiliated with the Australian National University in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences, with a significant body of work in sociology and political science, management science and operations research, urban studies, finance, and political science and international relations.

The scientist's main research topics include evaluation and performance assessment, community development and social impact, mining and resource management, public policy and administration research, urban planning and governance, wildlife conservation and criminology analyses, and corporate law and human rights.

Recent publications by Helen Sullivan include:

  • "Countering Corporate Power Through Social Control: What Does a Social Licence Offer?" (2021), The British Journal of Criminology
  • "Guest editors' introduction: the power of now. Reimagining the future of local government through studies of 'actually existing' practice" (2020), Local Government Studies
  • "Research and education in public sector practice: a systems approach to understanding policy impact" (2021), Policy Design and Practice
  • "Playing by the rules? How community actors use experts and evidence to oppose coal seam gas activity in Australia" (2021), Energy Research & Social Science
  • "Roundtable: How do We Connect Public Administration and Human Rights?" (2023), Perspectives on Public Management and Governance

Helen Sullivan has collaborated extensively with several co-authors, including Hayley Henderson, Steven Griggs, Ismael Blanco, Adrián Bua, and Ioannis Chorianopoulos.

Their publications appear frequently in the Australian Journal of Public Administration, Bristol University Press eBooks, and the Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, among other venues.

Helen Sullivan has multiple book publications with Bristol University Press eBooks, including four editions of "New Developments in Urban Governance" released in 2022, as well as a 2022 edition published by Policy Press.

Best Publications

  • Working Across Boundaries: Collaboration in Public Services

    Helen Sullivan;Chris Skelcher

  • Public Participation and Collaborative Governance

    Janet Newman;Marian Barnes;Helen Sullivan;Andrew Knops

  • Power, Participation and Political Renewal: Case studies in public participation

    Marian Barnes;Janet Newman;Helen Sullivan

  • Constituting ‘the public’ in public participation

    Marian Barnes;Janet Newman;Andrew Knops;Helen Sullivan

  • How low can you go? Rationales and challenges for neighbourhood governance

    Vivien Lowndes;Helen Sullivan

  • Like a Horse and Carriage or a Fish on a Bicycle: How Well do Local Partnerships and Public Participation go Together?

    Vivien Lowndes;Helen Sullivan

  • Evidence, Understanding and Complexity: Evaluation in Non-Linear Systems

    Marian Barnes;Elizabeth Matka;Helen Sullivan

  • Working Across Boundaries

    Chris Skelcher;Helen Sullivan

  • Power, participation and political renewal

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  • Theory-driven approaches to analysing collaborative performance

    Chris Skelcher;Helen Sullivan

  • Leadership for Collaboration: Situated agency in practice

    Helen Sullivan;Paul Williams;Stephen Jeffares

  • Modernisation, Democratisation and Community Governance

    Helen Sullivan

  • Towards a General Theory of Collaborative Performance: The Importance of Efficacy and Agency

    Helen Dickinson;Helen Sullivan

  • Faces of integration

    Paul Williams;Helen Sullivan

  • Promoting Social Change: The Experience of Health Action Zones in England

    Linda Bauld;Ken Judge;Marian Barnes;Michaela Benzeval

  • Situating the local in the neoliberalisation and transformation of urban governance

    Ismael Blanco;Steven Griggs;Helen Sullivan

  • Building Collaborative Capacity through `Theories of Change': Early Lessons from the Evaluation of Health Action Zones in England

    Helen Sullivan;Marian Barnes;Elizabeth Matka

  • Building collaborative capacity through theories of change: early lessons from the evaluation of Health Action Zones in England

    H. Sullivan;Marian Barnes;E. Matka

  • Who Owns the Theory of Change

    Helen Sullivan;Murray Stewart

  • Law enforcement and public health: recognition and enhancement of joined-up solutions

    Auke J van Dijk;Victoria Herrington;Nick Crofts;Robert Breunig

  • The predictive value of daily vs. retrospective well-being judgments in relationship stability

    Shigehiro Oishi;Helen W. Sullivan

  • What Is My Cancer Risk? How Internet-Based Cancer Risk Assessment Tools Communicate Individualized Risk Estimates to the Public: Content Analysis

    Erika A Waters;Helen W Sullivan;Wendy Nelson;Bradford W Hesse

  • Peer-Generated Health Information: The Role of Online Communities in Patient and Caregiver Health Decisions

    Douglas J Rupert;Jennifer Gard Read;Jacqueline B Amoozegar;Rebecca R Moultrie

  • Cancer prevention information-seeking among Hispanic and non-Hispanic users of the National Cancer Institute's Cancer Information Service: trends in telephone and LiveHelp use.

    Erika A. Waters;Helen W. Sullivan;Helen W. Sullivan;Lila J. Finney Rutten

  • Do Prescription Drug Ads Tell Consumers Enough About Benefits and Side Effects? Results From the Health Information National Trends Survey, Fourth Administration

    Helen W. Sullivan;Miriam Campbell

  • Consumer understanding of the scope of FDA's prescription drug regulatory oversight: A nationally representative survey.

    Helen W Sullivan;Kathryn J Aikin;Kathleen T David;Jennifer Berktold

  • What is my cancer risk? Identifying how Internet-based cancer risk calculators convey individualized risk estimates to the public.

    Erika A Waters;Helen W Sullivan;Wendy Nelson;Bradford W Hesse

  • Consumers' experience with and attitudes toward direct-to-consumer prescription drug promotion: a nationally representative survey.

    Kathryn J. Aikin;Helen W. Sullivan;Jennifer Berktold;Karen L. Stein

  • Protecting privacy and confidentiality in online health communities: (546872013-122)

    Jacqueline Amoozegar;Douglas Rupert;Jennifer Gard Read;Rebecca Moultrie

Frequent Co-Authors

Marian Barnes
Marian Barnes University of Brighton
Chris Skelcher
Chris Skelcher University of Birmingham
Janet Newman
Janet Newman The Open University
Brian G. Southwell
Brian G. Southwell Duke University
Alexander J. Rothman
Alexander J. Rothman University of Minnesota
Bradford W. Hesse
Bradford W. Hesse National Institutes of Health
Linda Bauld
Linda Bauld University of Edinburgh
Brendan Gleeson
Brendan Gleeson University of Melbourne
Shigehiro Oishi
Shigehiro Oishi University of Chicago

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