Anthony Elliott Email Address

Dean of External Engagement and Executive Director of the Hawke EU Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence and Network

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Anthony Elliott is Bradley Distinguished Professor and Dean of External Engagement at the University of South Australia. Professor Elliott is an internationally distinguished social scientist who fosters universities’ public engagement and service to society. A sociologist by training, Professor Elliott received a BA (Hons.) from University of Melbourne. He then won a Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Packer Scholarship to the UK, where he completed a PhD in Social Theory at Cambridge University under the supervision of Lord Anthony Giddens. Professor Elliott is one of the most influential and widely published social theorists in the world, with some 50 books translated in 15 languages. The New Republic has described his research breakthroughs as “thought-provoking and disturbing”. He has secured competitive research funding from, among other agencies, the Australian Research Council, the Erasmus+ Jean Monnet Programme, the Toyota Foundation, the Australia-Japan Foundation, and the Japan Foundation. He currently serves as a member of the Australian Research Council’s College of Experts. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the UK, Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, a Fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust, and a Senior Member of King’s College, Cambridge. He also holds appointments as Super-Global Professor of Sociology (Visiting) at Keio University, Japan, and Visiting Full Professor of Sociology at University College Dublin, Ireland. He is Executive Director of UniSA's Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence. Professor Elliott was previously Associate Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) and Head of the Department of Sociology at Flinders University (2006-2012) and Director of the Hawke Research Institute at UniSA (2012-2016). He was previously Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. In recent years, he has turned his scholarly focus to artificial intelligence. From 2017 to 2019, he served as a member of the Expert Working Group of the Australian Council of Learned Academies on AI at the request of the Prime Minister’s Commonwealth Science Council, and with support from the Australian Research Council (ARC), the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, and the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science. In 2017, he served as a member of ACOLA’s Artificial Intelligence Scoping Project Committee. His latest books in this area are The Culture of AI (Routledge, 2019) and Making Sense of AI: Our Algorithmic World (Polity, 2021).