Profile

Professor Adrian Little is Pro Vice Chancellor (International) at the University of Melbourne. He is also Professor of Political Theory and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA). Prior to his current position, he spent a decade as the Head of the School of Social and Political Sciences and part of the executive team in the Faculty of Arts.

Born and raised in Belfast, Adrian was awarded his PhD in Politics by Queens University Belfast before joining Melbourne in 2004 from the University of London. He is the author or editor of ten books including, most recently, Temporal Politics: Contested Pasts, Uncertain Futures (Edinburgh University Press, 2022).

Adrian has been a visiting professor at the University of Witwatersrand (South Africa), Universitas Gadjah Mada (Indonesia), and the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at Queens University Belfast.

Adrian is a former President of the Australian Political Science Association (APSA) and in 2017 he won the APSA Prize for Outstanding Academic Leadership in Political Science after being cited for his mentoring of early career academics and support for Indigenous scholars and women in the profession.

As a ‘first-in-family’ university graduate, Adrian has a passion for creating opportunities for marginalised groups in the tertiary sector. He is the founder and co-chair of the Indigenous and First Nations Knowledges Network in the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU).