Teaching and training

We build the skills and capabilities of social change practitioners and organisations through the delivery of bespoke professional development programs in areas such as political economy analysis; adaptive programming; monitoring, evaluation and learning for complex adaptive programming; and partnership design, management and brokering. 

Recent examples include:

• In 2016/17 we partnered with the Australian Council for International Development to deliver Making Change Happen, a 12-module face-to-face professional development program for emerging NGO leaders.
• In 2021/22 we partnered with the BHP Foundation to design and deliver Enabling Transformational Change, a 10-module face-to-screen professional development program for their entire staff cohort.
• In 2023 we adapted the research from the Developmental Leadership Program into a 5-module professional development course for DFAT staff on Developmental Leadership.
• In 2024, we delivered training on developmental leadership to emerging Pacific leaders as part of the Women Leading and Influencing program.
• In partnership with The Asia Foundation, we regularly deliver training to DFAT and development partners on political economy analysis and adaptive programming.

We also support the next generation of development practitioners through supervising PhD and Masters students. Our current higher degree research students are listed in the table below.