Geoff Mulgan, Adelaide - Thinker in Residence

Activities with Flinders University

Geoff Mulgan's Residency focuses on "Social Innovation: Meeting Unmet Needs" and identifies new strategies, concepts, ideas and organisations to meet social needs of all kinds – from working conditions and education to community development and health.

Dr Geoff Mulgan is one of the world's leading experts on social and organisational innovation.

For more information and about his other activities in Adelaide go to Thinker in Residence - Geoff Mulgan

During his first visit Dr Mulgan has worked with Flinders University on three events/activities:

19 April - Public lecture "Social reform in changing times"

The powerpoint presentation and video recording (windows media file) of the lecture is available here.

14 May - Public Policy Forum: "Key issues facing SA"

Presentations by Professor Andrew Beer, Professor Bill Martin, Dr Jo Baulderstone, Professor Fran Baum and Professor Mike Lawson

17 May - Social Innovation Workshop

Thursday, 17 May from 9.00 - 11.00am
at Carnegie-Mellon University's Adelaide Campus
Torrens Building, 220 Victoria Square, Adelaide

The workshop will look at what could be done in South Australia to accelerate innovation in social fields. It will look at the State's strong, and long, history of innovation and ask what could be done in practice to address today's issues and to speed up our ability to innovate new and more effective models. The workshop will focus on the following questions in particular:

1. Where are the areas most in need of innovation - eg, ageing and care, young people's transitions to work and adulthood, water, climate change, etc?
2. How can promising ideas best be funded and supported - by government, foundations, business or partnerships?
3. How can innovations best be assessed and nurtured?
4. How can the best ones then be mainstreamed?

This discussion will be introduced by Lionel Orchard (Head, School of Political and International Studies, Flinders University), Tim Zak (former Director of the Social Innovation Accelerator in Pittsburgh and now Executive Director, Heinz School of Public Policy and Management (Australia), Carnegie-Mellon University, Adelaide) and Geoff Mulgan.