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ProfessorLinda Hancock

Honorary Professor

Faculty of Arts and Education/Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation

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  • Honorary Professor
    Faculty of Arts and Education/Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation
  • +61 3 924 43871 (Work)
  • Off-Campus (Home)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Public Policy and good governance analysis
Regulation and regulatory regimes
Gambling, policy, international regulation and probity issues
Comparative federalisms
Corporate Social Responsibility: partnerships, social and environmental
assessment and reporting
Community engagement for greenhouse reduction
Human rights
Civil society and community engagement
Social and environmental sustainability

Projects
Over the last decade Prof. Hancock has been CI on 6 Category 1 ARC projects
and has conducted numerous other research projects for government, NGO
and industry funders.
Current projects include:
Deakin University Partnerships Participation Program (Higher Education
Partnerships Participation Program-funded) Mixed Method Evaluation
Framework
ARC project: Community Engagement for Localised Greenhouse Reduction
with industry partners Hobsons Bay City Council, the Global Greenplan
Foundation and VECCI
TravelSmart Deakin Burwood Project: Department of Transport, Victorian
Government (2007-09; 2008-10)
UK Responsible Gambling Fund (RGF) research oversight and research
projects (2007-2011)
Research partnership with the LHMU (Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous
Union)- Crown Casino and Responsible Gambling Codes of Conduct how do
they work?
Research partnership project with United Way, Geelong: Construction of the
United Way Social Index

GRANTS

  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Evaluation of Leaders for Geelong Program - Impact and Social Return on Investment
    2 Jul 2014 - 30 Sep 2014
    People funded by this grant:
    • Linda Hancock
    Committee for Geelong - $30,000.00
  • GRANT
    ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science
    30 Jun 2014 - 30 Jun 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    • Wallace GG,
    • Forsyth M,
    • MacFarlane D,
    • Officer D,
    • Cook M
    ARC CRE - Centres of Excellence - CE140100012 - $4,696,872.05
  • GRANT
    Mechanisms of Influence: How do tobacco, alcohol and gambling corporations influence government policy?
    1 Jul 2013 - 31 Dec 2016
    People funded by this grant:
    • Miller P,
    • Hancock L,
    • Wakefield M,
    • Kypri K,
    • Livingstone C
    ARC Linkage - Projects - LP130100046 - $161,594.30
  • GRANT
    Mechanisms of Influence: How do tobacco, alcohol and gambling corporations influence government policy?
    1 Jul 2013 - 31 Dec 2016
    People funded by this grant:
    • Miller P,
    • Hancock L,
    • Wakefield M,
    • Kypri K,
    • Livingstone C
    Cancer Council Victoria Grant - Research - $15,000.00
  • GRANT
    Mechanisms of Influence: How do tobacco, alcohol and gambling corporations influence government policy?
    1 Jul 2013 - 31 Dec 2016
    People funded by this grant:
    • Miller P,
    • Hancock L,
    • Wakefield M,
    • Kypri K,
    • Livingstone C
    Alcohol Education & Rehabilitation Foundation Ltd (also Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education Ltd ) - $60,000.00
  • GRANT
    Scoping a United Way Social Index
    15 Dec 2009 - 30 Sep 2010
    People funded by this grant:
    • Linda Hancock
    United Way Australia Grant - Research - $20,000.00
  • GRANT
    Gambling venue codes of practice in operation. The effectiveness for employees and customers in gaming venues
    24 Sep 2009 - 30 Sep 2010
    People funded by this grant:
    • Hancock L,
    • Petterson T
    Liquor, Hospitality & Miscellaneous Union - $3,000.00
  • GRANT
    An evidence base for prevention and treatment of problem gambling
    1 Jul 2009 - 22 Sep 2009
    People funded by this grant:
    • Linda Hancock
    Responsible Gambling Fund - UK - $9,532.59
  • GRANT
    Deakin University TravelSmart Travel Plan - Burwood Campus
    1 Jul 2007 - 30 Jun 2009
    People funded by this grant:
    • Linda Hancock
    DOI Grant - Research - Department of Infrastructure - $90,909.45
  • COLLABORATIVE GRANT
    Community Engagement for Localised Greenhouse Reduction: a local government demand-management model for business and household water, energy and waste reduction
    21 May 2007 - 30 Dec 2010
    People funded by this grant:
    • Linda Hancock
    ARC Linkage - Projects Rnd 2 - LP0776979 - $87,869.00
  • COLLABORATIVE GRANT
    Community Engagement for Localised Greenhouse Reduction: a local government demand-management model for business and household water, energy and waste reduction
    21 May 2007 - 30 Dec 2010
    People funded by this grant:
    • Linda Hancock
    Hobsons Bay City Council - $25,227.00
  • GRANT
    From disability support pension to paid work: What works?
    28 Jun 2006 - 15 Feb 2008
    People funded by this grant:
    • Hancock L,
    • Barbara J
    Aust Human Resource Institute Grant - Research - $20,000.00
  • GRANT
    Ageing Workforce in a Multicultural Society: Identifying Vulnerability in post war mature age Southern European (Italian and Greek) Australian Communities
    22 May 2006 - 25 Jun 2006
    People funded by this grant:
    • Linda Hancock
    DEWR Grant - Research - Department of Employment and Workplace Relations - $224,900.00
  • GRANT
    MacroMelbourne Initiative
    1 Sep 2005 - 28 Jul 2006
    People funded by this grant:
    • Linda Hancock
    Melbourne Community Foundation Grant - MacroMelbourne Initiative - $20,000.00
  • GRANT
    Labour Matters: The Recomposition of Trade Union Action in a Globalising Era
    1 Jan 2004 - 30 Dec 2006
    People funded by this grant:
    • Lipsig-Mumme C,
    • Hancock L,
    • Lambert R
    ARC - Discovery Projects - DP0453146 - $25,000.00