Following a successful pilot with regulators across the APS, we are proud to be offering this course for officers who lead regulatory portfolios and projects in government agencies, or who will do so in the future.
Delivered by ANU’s Crawford School of Executive Education and RegNet, the course will help regulatory executives understand and better navigate an environment where new forms of complexity, risk and technology are multiplying challenges for regulators.
The course consists of 8 modules:
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Who regulates
How do we define contemporary regulation? What are the (differential) aims and objectives of regulation? What does it mean to be a regulator or a regulatory actor? Mapping regulatory actors and stakeholders and their relationships. Relationship between regulation and administrative law. Regulation as Public Service. Legal and public oversight of regulators. Regulation as Professional Practice. Regulatory Ethics and Unintended Consequences.
- The regulatory toolkit
Range of regulatory instruments. Strengths and weaknesses of different regulatory instruments including: voluntarism, informational regulation, command and control, meta-regulation, self-and co-regulation, civic regulation, restorative practice.
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Choosing the right regulatory approach
Adapting regulatory instruments for different regulated entities: small and medium sized businesses, large businesses, transnational business actors, vulnerable communities. Indigenous governance. Which tool for which situation? (a decisional matrix).
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Authorising environment and social licence
What is an authorising environment? Who confers (or withdraws) a social licence to operate? How do regulators respond to shifts in the authorising environment? Recent examples of social licence conferral/withdrawal in Australia.
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Applying behavioural insights to compliance and enforcement
Compliance as a process in practice. Different responses to authority and what cognitive psychology tells us about them. Applying the wheel of social alignments. Learning from COVID-19.
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Compliance and defiance
Different approaches to ensuring compliance and understanding defiance. Evaluating compliance systems, including their trade-offs and consequences. Designing for compliance in a diverse and complex world.
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Digital, technological and social transformation
Understanding the scope of digital transformation and implications for Australia. Review of current regulatory approaches in Australia. Anticipating future change through international comparison. Disruptive technologies: Review of trends in innovation and their impacts on industry and everyday life, identifying disruptive technologies and strategies for regulation, anticipating the changing role of government intervention in different contexts.
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Case-study workshop: regulatory choices in context
Participants read a selected case-study in advance and prepare for group discussion (some discussion roles are pre-assigned) to analyse: Whether and how the regulatory approaches chosen in the case-study could or should have been different? Unanticipated consequences of regulatory choices. Authorising environment and salient political factors. Learnings for regulatory organisations and duty-holders.
Designed with busy schedules in mind, participants will have access to live learning sessions and guided discussions, resources and self-paced learning to build knowledge, skills and valuable networks.
We have a limited number of spaces available in both our SES cohort and EL2 cohorts so be among the first to secure a position in our upcoming 2023 courses.
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