Leading and Managing a University Research Centre: Some Lessons Learned from the US
Professor Margaret Hallock - Director, Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics
Seminar: 10.30am-11.30am, March 17th 2009, room DB 3-17
What contribution can social science research centres make? How can
researchers undertake research and policy that makes a difference?
We will discuss issues such as the structure of centres, strategy, dealing
with the university as an institution and external supports that can help.
Professor Margaret Hallock has experience in leading two centres at the
University of Oregon (UO), one of which she founded and co-directs.
She is an economist who has been active in economic and labour policy in
Oregon since 1974. As the founding director of the Wayne Morse Center for
Law and Politics, she has been coordinating the Wayne Morse Chair since 1988
when she was director of the UO's Labor Education and Research Center. She
also was a member of the faculty in the department of economics at the UO.
Professor Hallock has extensive experience in labour relations and state
policy matters. She was the chief economist for the Oregon Public Employees
Union, Service Employees International Union 503. Appointed to chair the
state's Pay Equity Task Force, she led the successful pay equity campaign
for state employees in the 1980s.
Professor Hallock served as senior policy advisor to Oregon Governor,
Theodore Kulongoski, during 2003 and 2004 and has been a member of numerous
boards and commissions. She has published papers on tax reform, labour
unions, women and the economy, and workforce education and training.