Dr. Robert Goodin

Biography

Robert Goodin completed his D.Phil. in Politics at Oxford in 1975. He spent a decade teaching Government at the University of Essex before joining the Australian National University (ANU) in 1989. After a period of leave from ANU between 2011 and 2014, he retired in 2021, holding the position of Distinguished Professor jointly in Philosophy and Social & Political Theory at the Research School of Social Sciences. Goodin has been elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. His notable lectures include the Dewey Lecture at the University of Chicago Law School in 2008 and the Edmund Burke lecture at Trinity College, Dublin in 2009. In 2022, he was awarded the prestigious Skytte Prize in Political Science, sometimes described as the ‘Nobel Prize of Political Science’. In 2021, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Turku in Finland. Goodin has published extensively and coedited significant reference books in political philosophy, including 'Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy'. He founded and edited the Journal of Political Philosophy for thirty years and has served as General Editor for the Oxford Handbooks series on Political Science. His coauthored book 'Discretionary Time' was awarded the Stein Rokkan Prize in 2009 for Comparative Social Science Research.

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