Rate My Professor Jenny Lewis

Lewis's research specializations encompass public policy, governance, policy design, public sector innovation, networked and marketised governance, and policy implementation. She is the author of six books, including Academic Governance: Disciplines and Policy (2013), Innovation in City Governments: Structures, Networks, and Leadership (2017), Networks, Innovation and Public Policy: Politicians, Bureaucrats and the Pathways to Change Inside Government (2009, with M. Considine and D. Alexander), and co-editor of the Handbook on Measuring Governance (2024); she has also co-edited four other books and authored more than 100 journal articles and book chapters. Among her most influential publications are “Bureaucracy, Network, or Enterprise? Comparing Models of Governance in Australia, Britain, the Netherlands, and New Zealand” (2003, Public Administration Review, 630 citations) and “The Rise of Public Sector Innovation Labs: Experiments in Design Thinking for Policy” (2018, Policy Sciences, 553 citations). Her work has garnered over 7,500 citations on Google Scholar. Lewis has received the 2023 IRSPM Routledge Lifetime Achievement Award, two lifetime achievement awards from professional associations, four international journal prizes, and is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences. She served as President of the International Research Society for Public Management and the Australian Political Studies Association.