Nikolas Kirby is a member of Associate Faculty at the School. These are former members of the faculty who retain a link to the School.
He was previously Research Fellow in Philosophy and Public Policy at the School, having been awarded a three-year Early Career Research Fellowship by the Leverhulme Trust. He was also the Director of the Building Integrity Programme.
He was educated at the University of Sydney (BA (Hons), LLB (Hons)) and the University of Oxford (BPhil, DPhil), as a Rhodes Scholar.
He has worked in law, academia and politics in Australia. In the UK, he currently co-convenes the Australia Forum, a public policy group meeting monthly in Oxford and London debating creative ideas for Australia’s future. He is a co-founder of the Good Lad Initiative, a social enterprise that engages boys and men in discussions about masculinity, sexism and lad culture. He is also a Trustee of Aurora UK, an overseas scholarship programme for indigenous Australians to attend Oxford and other universities in the UK; and an Academic Advisor to the Weidenfeld-Hoffman Trust.
Books
Nikolas Kirby, The People's Trust: Trust, Distrust, and the Legitimacy of Government, Palgrave MacMillan (under contract)
Peer Reviewed Articles
Nikolas Kirby, (forthcoming), ‘An Institution-First Conception of Public Integrity,’ British Journal of Political Science.
Nikolas Kirby, (forthcoming), ‘From Anticorruption to Public Integrity,' Handbook on Corruption, Ethics and Integrity in Public Administration, ed. A. Graycar, (Edward Elgar).
Nikolas Kirby and Jo Wolff, (forthcoming),‘Quality of Government: A Philosophical Critique’ in Rothstein, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Quality of Government, (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
Nikolas Kirby, Andrew Kirton and Aisling Crean, (2018), ‘Do Corporations have a Duty to be Trustworthy?, Journal of the British Academy 6(s1), 75–129. DOI https://doi.org/10.5871/jba/006s1.075
Nikolas Kirby, (2018),‘Basic Equality and Social Contract Theory’, E. Etieyibo, ed., Perspectives in Social Contract Theory, (Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy).
Nikolas Kirby, (2018),‘Two Concepts of Basic Equality’, Res Publica, 24, 3, 297-318.
Nikolas Kirby, (2017),‘The Service Conception: Just One Simple Question’, Law and Philosophy, 36(3), 255-278.
Nikolas Kirby, (2016),‘Revising Republican Liberty: What is the Difference Between a Disinterested Gentle Giant and a Deterred Criminal?’, Res Publica, 22(4), 369-386.
Nikolas Kirby, (2009), ‘When Rights Cause Injustice: A Critique of the Vexatious Proceedings Act 2008 (NSW)’, 31 Sydney Law Review 163, cited by Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of NSW in Teoh v Hunters Hill Council (No. 8) [2014] NSWCA 125 (14 April 2014) [43]; and, Supreme Court of NSW in Attorney General of NSW v Wilson [2010] NSWSC 1008, [139-140, 149].
Commissioned reports
Nikolas Kirby and Simone Webbe, (2019) ‘Being a trusted and respected partner: the APS integrity framework,’ Commissioned Research Paper for the Independent Review of the Australian Public Service (26 February 2019)
Nikolas Kirby and Andrew Kirton, (2018), ‘Corporations, Business and Social Trust,’ British Council Social Enterprise Reports
Nikolas Kirby and Simone Webbe, (2018) ‘The Australian Public Service Integrity Regime,’ Commissioned Research Paper for the Independent Review of the Australian Public Service (5 September 2018)
Other publications
Nikolas Kirby, (2019) ‘Distrusted by the Young? Build Integrity,’ Oxford Government Review, 4, 28-9
Nikolas Kirby, (2018) ‘An Institution-First Conception of Public Integrity,’ Building Integrity Programme Working Paper Series, 3.
Nikolas Kirby, Lucinda Cadzow, and Thomas Robinson, (2018) ‘Investigating Integrity: A Multi-Disciplinary Literature Review’ Building Integrity Programme Working Paper Series, 4.
Nikolas Kirby and Anna Petherick, (2018), ‘Corruption,’ World Economic Forum Transformation Maps.
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