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- Annual Research Higher Degrees (RHD) conference a success
- ARC Linkage Grant success for FBE
- Best paper award for Swinburne academics at premier Australasian conference
- Dr Shrivastava's work to be published in top HR journal
Annual Research Higher Degrees (RHD) conference a success
August 2009
Annual Research Higher Degrees (RHD) conference a success
The second Annual Research Higher Degrees (RHD) Mini Conference was held on 6 and 7 August at the TAFE Conference Centre at the Hawthorn campus.
Forty RHD candidates provided updates on their research progress. These presentations included research for the degrees of Master of Business (by Research); Professional Doctorate of Business Administration and Doctor of Philosophy.
Each of the Candidates spoke passionately about their research. Candidates described their studies at the proposal stage, the mid-candidature stage and those close to completing their thesis.
There was lively audience interaction as experienced researchers and RHD Candidate Supervisors provided support with constructive feedback.
The impassioned exchange of ideas continued through the refreshment breaks.
ARC Linkage Grant success for FBE
May 2009
The Faculty of Business and Enterprise (FBE) has been successful in the latest Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Grant round. A team including Phil Taylor, Libby Brooke, Nita Cherry, Janet Gregory and Margaret Steinberg has secured $330,000 (excluding industry funding) to study the work-life transition issues facing older women. The partner organisations involved are ESS Super, Westpac Banking Corporation and UniSuper.
There are significant gaps in knowledge in relation to the later life experiences of work and retirement among older women, whose career opportunities and trajectories, experiences of balancing work and personal aspects of life, social relationships both at work and in the community, financial security, and lived experience of ageing, may differ from those of men. As a consequence of such gaps, public policymaking and that of employers is based on an incomplete understanding of older women's orientations and attitudes. The study will develop policy and practice recommendations for structuring and enriching women's later job and retirement opportunities.
Best paper award for Swinburne academics at premier Australasian conference
January 2009
Congratulations to Alex Maritz and Mehdi Salaran who won the best paper award in the Management Education and Development Stream at the ANZAM conference in Auckland in December for a paper titled "Networking, Entrepreneurship and Productivity in Universities". ANZAM is the premier Australasian conference for management researchers in all management disciplines and a best paper award from ANZAM is a significant achievement.
Dr Shrivastava's work to be published in top HR journal
December 2008
Dr Samir Shrivastava has had his manuscript "Normal Accident Theory versus High Reliability Theory: A Resolution and Call for an Open Systems View of Accidents" (HR-2007-0485.R2), accepted for publication in the Special Issue 'Socially constructing safety' forthcoming in Human Relations, a top journal.
His manuscript generated significant interest from the reviewers, and one reviewer in particular (Charles Perrow) will be providing a short rebuttal, and Samir will have an opportunity to respond. Perrow's rebuttal and Samir's response will also appear in the Special Issue. This is a significant honour for Samir as such debates in the literature are not common.