2024 UC Aitkin Lecture by Professor Chris Wallace

The annual UC Aitkin Lecture brings distinguished scholars, artists, critics, and our University community together for discussion and debate.

This annual lecture is named in memory of the late Emeritus Professor Don Aitkin AO, former Vice-Chancellor and President at the University of Canberra, and valued contributor to our community.

The 2024 UC Aitkin Lecture, entitled Seen and Heard, will be delivered by Professor Chris Wallace.

Citizens sense a drift to low performance in a number of organisations and institutions important to their lives. Who gets to be seen and heard in three key settings – caucus, the courtroom and the common room – is explored to consider how inclusion affects performance, and how significant that is to social and economic outcomes. Even small system changes can stimulate renewed high performance. Opportunities for doing so in politics, the justice system and universities are well within reach.

Chris Wallace is a professor in the University of Canberra's School of Politics Economics and Society, and Academic Director of the Centre for a Better Canberra.

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