Dominic O’Sullivan is a New Zealand Maori scholar whose research influence encompasses the disciplines of political science, education and public theology, with indigeneity providing a unifying scholarly theme. The international comparative focus of his work has led to it being influential in shaping indigenous policy in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Malaysia.

Dominic is vastly experienced in translating research into practical public policy. An Australian Research Council independent assessor has said that he is ‘particularly adept at showing the mutual relevance of research in normative political theory and research on public policy – a link often gestured at, but rarely made as consistently and as effectively as O’Sullivan does’. As an example of his translation of research into policy practice Dominic has been a key note speaker to groups including the New Zealand Health Promotion Forum, the New South Wales Aboriginal Education Consultative Group, Wiradjuri Council of Elders and the New Zealand Human Rights Commission. Dominic’s board and statutory authority appointments also emphasise his attention to relationships between research and policy. He was a member of Charles Sturt University’s Academic Senate for five years between 2014 and 2019, and served four years on its Human Research Ethics Committee. Dminic has served on the Bathurst Health Council (NSW Health), the Board of Caritas New Zealand and was appointed by the Minister of Health as a lay member of the Osteopathic Council of New Zealand, where he chaired the Council’s education committee. Dominic has also held senior administrative positions at Charles Sturt University, is a former school acting Principal and member of a school Board of Trustees.

Dominic is an experienced independent political commentator for the ABC and a number of other news outlets. Additionally, Dominic has over 60 quality assured research publications including 8 books and more than 40 journal articles and book chapters. Influential publications and consultancies are briefly described below; and a full list of publications is available on his LinkedIN page; and an article, recently posted on the University of Canberra’s Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis’ blog site, The Policy Space, can be found here: http://www.thepolicyspace.com.au/2017/31/160-citizenship-democracy-and-the-political-determinants-of-indigenous-health.

An example of Dominic’s presentation of his research to a general audience can be found at this link to an interview on Fijian Indigenous politics with Radio Australia’s Pacific Beat programme http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-16/laws-affecting-fiji-village-life-get-a-make-over/8029256

The National Assembly of Québec’s examination of New Zealand’s electoral system draws on Dominic’s work on Maori parliamentary representation and he has publications listed in the select bibliography to the report of the New Zealand Government’s Constitutional Advisory Panel. His work has been cited to support proceedings in the High Court of New Zealand, the Australian Commonwealth Parliament’s Joint Select Committee Report on Constitutional Recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, and the Commonwealth Productivity Commission’s Better Indigenous Policies: the role of evaluation.

A full and up to date list of Dominic's publications can be found at 

https://au.linkedin.com/in/professor-dominic-o-sullivan-8733169

https://arts-ed.csu.edu.au/schools/humss/staff/profiles/lecturers/dominic-osullivan