As part of the Write. Review. Publish. Webinar Series on Academic Publishing, the United Nations University Operating Unit on Policy-driven Electronic Governance (UNU-EGOV) is organizing the seventh webinar of the series, dedicated to discussing the "academic toe-dips", the actual research output, and the value of cross-disciplinary chats.
The session will take place on July 7th, at 14h00 (Lisbon Time | UTC+1). The guest is Kimberly Moloney, an Associate Professor in the College of Public Policy at Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Doha, Qatar.
Seminar Overview
For more than fifteen years, most of Kim Moloney's academic research focused on global policy, development administration, and international organizations. But, for reasons shared on July 7th, she dipped her "academic toe" into a new area: quantum computing and its interaction with public policy. The output is a co-authored article in Science & Public Policy, with more than 2100 reads in six months, and a second article (under review) in an academic journal. Both are co-authored with a scholar trained in cryptology and computational forensics. If you had asked Moloney about both sub-fields four years ago, she might have jokingly (and naively) associated them with "Bond, James Bond" and not public policy research. This Webinar will be a conversation about "academic toe-dips", its clear non-relationship to Bond, the actual research output, and the value of cross-disciplinary chats.
Agenda
Speaker Bio
Kim Moloney is an Associate Professor in the College of Public Policy at Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Doha, Qatar. On a normal day, she uses the disciplines of public administration and public policy to engage global policy, international organizations, social equity, intellectual histories, and development administration. This includes her solo-authored book, "Who Matters at the World Bank" (Oxford University Press, 2022) and her co-editing (with Diane Stone, EUI) of the "Oxford Handbook on Global Policy and Transnational Administration" (Oxford University Press, 2019). She has worked as an academic at universities in Qatar (5+ years), Australia (4.5 years), South Korea (2 years), Jamaica (3+ years), and her home country: the United States (3+ years). Before entering graduate studies in the Fall of 2003, she had also worked in Kenya, Zambia, Peru, the UK, and New Zealand for periods ranging from 3 months to 1 year. Starting in mid-October 2026, she will return to Australia to become the Academic Director of Programs at the Australia New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG) in Melbourne.
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