Name:  Tehila Baruchi

Work Address:  The Department of Public Policy and Administration, Guilford Glazer School of Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, P.O. Box 653, Beer-Sheva, 84105, Israel

Tel: 972-8-6477903

Mobile Phone No.: 972 – (0)52 – 8109912

Email: amur@bgu.ac.il

Education:

2010 -  Ph.D Student,  Department of Public Policy and Administration, Guilford Glazer School of Business and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer- Sheva, Israel.

Advisors: Prof. Shlomo Mizrahi and Dr. Fany Yuval.

Thesis:" Citizens' Participation and the policy of public participation in the decision-making processes in local government: Theory and Practice"

2005-2009- M.A. (Cum Laude), Public Policy and Administration, Guilford Glazer School of Business and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.

Advisor: Dr. Fany Yuval, Thesis: "The role of the elected public representatives in local government in Israel – components, obstacles and impact."

2002-2004- B.A,  Management Science (Human Resources course), Guilford Glazer School of Business and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.

Educational activities:

2007 – Present  Junior Staff, Ben-Gurion University

1) Course teaching in the Masters Degree program at the School of Public Policy and Administration, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Course title: "Internal and Public Auditing, Theory and Practice".    

2) Teaching assistant at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in the following departments: Public Policy and Administration (M.A. degree ) for the courses on "Research Principles in Public Administration"; "Local Government and Local Development; "Issues in government and politics in Israel"; "Public Administration".

Politics and Government (B.A. degree): Frontal exercises for a year-long course: "Approaches and Methods in Political Research".

3) Research Assistant – Dr. Fany Yuval - Collecting and analyzing data, conducting and analyzing interviews.

Awards, Prizes and Fellowships

2010 - The "Negev Fellowship" for Exceptional Ph.D Students, Kreitman School of Advanced Graduate Studies, Ben-Gurion University, for a period of four years   

2010 –Commendation Certificate for Masters Degree research work for the academic year 2009/2010, awarded by the Israeli Political Science Association.

2007 – A research grant (for the sum of 15,000 NIS) to encourage research on local government from the Sapir Fund of Mifal Hapayis.

Accepted for publication:

"The role of the elected public representative in the local government in Israel - components, obstacles and impacts". Internet publication, Floersheimer Institute for Policy Studies, Jerusalem.

Presentation of papers at conferences and meetings:

Tehila Baruchi, 2010, " social capital, local democracy and political participation in local authorities". Presented at the annual conference of the Israeli Political Science Association,  Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, Israel, May.

Tehila Baruchi, 2009,"The role of the elected public representatives in the local authority in Israel - components, obstacles and impacts". Presented at the Fifth National Conference for Young Research Students in Political Science, International Relations and Public Policy, in memory of the late Yitzchak Rabin, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, December. 

Tehila Baruchi, 2009, " New measuring tool for evaluating the work of the elected public representatives in local government in Israel". Presented at the annual conference of the Israeli Political Science Association, Academic College of Emek Yezreel, Israel, May.

Tehila Baruchi, 2008, " Measurement and evaluation of the efficiency and effectiveness of the work of elected public representatives in local government – initial findings".  Presented at the annual conference of the Israeli Political Science Association, Beit Berl College, Israel, May the