Senior Lecturer
Phone: (7) 3138 1010
Fax: (7) 3138 1313
E-mail: rl.keast@qut.edu.au
Room: 947, Level 9 , Z Block, G P
Qualifications
Doctor of Philosophy, Queensland University of Technology, Integrated Public Services: The Role of Networked Arrangements, 2004
Master of Arts, James Cook University, 1995
Bachelor of Arts, Curtin University, 1985
Associate Diploma in Community Work, James Cook University, 1981
Career Summary
Dr Keast has an extensive background as a practitioner, policy officer and manager within the Queensland Public Sector. This work experience has also extended to the non-government sector in Queensland, New Zealand and Canada. Her work focus during this time was wide ranging including - corrections and child and youth justice employment services, environment locality capability initiatives’ policy and program development, training and evaluation.
She also established and directed a prominent departmental research unit that provided evaluation and analysis of service interventions, emergent issues as well as the external review of critical incidents within related departments and across the sector.
More recently, as a Senior Research Fellow within the School of Management (QUT) she has worked with the CRC for Construction Innovation, the Institute for Sustainable Resources, Creative Industries and Centre for Social Change to build cross-faculty and interdisciplinary research projects.
Dr Keast is currently employed as a Senior Lecturer within the School of Management.
Teaching Interests
- Negotiation
- Government- Management Interface
- Global Trends in Business Management
- Government/Business Relations
- International Trends in Public Sector Management
Research Interests
- Networked arrangements, (structure, governance, operation, leadership and effectiveness)
- Network analysis and innovation networks
- Business clusters and hybrid organisational arrangements
- Public sector reforms, government–community relations
- Social policy and service delivery models