Professor Drum is the Executive Dean for the Faculty of Arts, Sciences, Law and Business, and Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Notre Dame Australia.
He has taught and researched on a range of issues including public policy, voting, elections, and Australian politics. He has also supervised Higher Degree by Research students in these areas.
He has previously held senior roles at the University, including Chief-of-Staff and Director of Public Policy.
He has collaborated with the following WA State Government agencies: Western Australian Electoral Commission, Department of Premier and Cabinet, Department of Education, and Public Sector Commission. He has also partnered with the City of Fremantle and Shire of Christmas Island on various projects.
He has been a WA Convenor of the Electoral Regulation Research Network since 2017 and is a member of Australasian Studies of Parliament Group.
He has participated in a range of Commonwealth and Western Australian parliamentary government inquiries, including 2016 and 2019 Federal Elections (Cwth), 2017 WA State election (WA), Governance on Christmas Island (Cwth), Foreign Donations to political parties (Cwth), Lowering the Voting Age (Cwth), WA Local Government Act (WA). He also participated in the parliamentary inquiry into Political Donations in 2020 (WA).
Professor Drum was appointed to the Ministerial Expert Committee on Electoral Reform in 2021. Its recommendations led to the reform of the voting system for the Legislative Council in Western Australia.
