Professor Dennis C. Grube

Dennis C. Grube is a Professor of Politics and Public Policy. His research interests span public policy, political rhetoric, political and administrative leadership, and British political history. He was Acting Director of the Bennett Institute for Public Policy in 2022–23, where he is also the research lead on political decision-making. He teaches across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, and was awarded the Aaron Rapport Teaching Prize in 2023.

Prior to joining POLIS in September 2016, Dennis was Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow with the Institute for the Study of Social Change at the University of Tasmania. In 2013 he spent six months as a Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford and was Director of Griffith University's Master of Public Administration Program from 2010–2013. He retains adjunct professorial appointments at the University of Tasmania and at Griffith University.

• Grube, D.C., Why Governments Get it Wrong, (Pan Macmillan 2022).

• Weller, P., Grube, D.C. and Rhodes, R.A.W. Comparing Cabinets: Dilemmas of Collective Government. (Oxford University Press, 2021).

• Corbett, J., Grube, D.C., Lovell, H. and Scott, R.J. Institutional Memory as Storytelling (Cambridge University Press, 2020).

• Grube, D.C. Megaphone Bureaucracy: Speaking Truth to Power in the Age of the New Normal (Princeton University Press, 2019).

• Grube, D.C. Prime Ministers and Rhetorical Governance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).

• Grube, D.C. At the Margins of Victorian Britain: Politics, Morality and Britishness in the Nineteenth Century (Bloomsbury, 2013).