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Marian Jane Simms (14 December 1951 – 28 April 2021) was an Australian political scientist, and was a full professor at the University of Otago, and Deakin University. She specialised in gender studies in leadership and political science.
In 2002, Simms was appointed as the Chair of Political Studies at the University of Otago in New Zealand, where she was the first woman professor of political science. She was Head of Department from 2002 until 2007, and remained at Otago until 2009. Simms left Otago to join Deakin University as Head of the School of History, Heritage and Society. From 2011 to 2016, Simms was the Executive Director for Social, Behavioural and Economic Sciences at the Australian Research Council. Following this, she was at the Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis at the University of Canberra, where she worked on the "50:50 by 2030 initiative", a programme to achieve gender equity in public service and government leadership across Australia.
Simms was president of the Australian Political Studies Association in 1992–3, and was an editor of the Australian Journal of Political Science. Simms chaired the International Political Science Association's Research Committee on Gender, Globalization and Democratization for three years, from 2003.
Simms authored or co-authored six books, and edited or co-edited another ten.
Simms died suddenly on 28 April 2021.
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