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Q&A: 2026 Harkness Fellow – Adam Allington
1. What is the central question behind the fellowship? My starting point is: how do public management systems shape leadership behaviour, organisational performance and state capability in practice? Put simply, I am interested in whether the current “rules of the…
Read MoreThe Harkness Fellowship journey begins well before departing for the US
By Jacob (Hākopa) Ashdown Why I applied for a Harkness Fellowship: Legacy, service, and going all-in I was motivated to apply for the Harkness Fellowship because of the inspiring 100-year legacy built by many esteemed leaders who have set out…
Read MoreHarkness@100: Culture shock and curiosity – A Harkness Fellow’s journey across America
By Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy (former Professor of Linguistics at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch) I was awarded a Harkness Fellowship by the UK Harkness Committee in 1969. This funded me for 21 months as a PhD student in linguistics at the…
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