Professor NITA CHERRY
PhD (RMIT), MA (Occup Psych) (Melb), BA (Melb)
Ph +61 3 9214 5901
Fax +61 3 9819 2117
Room BA1126
ncherry@swin.edu.au
Nita Cherry has over 35 years' experience as senior executive, organisation consultant, organisational psychologist, researcher and educator. Australia and the Asia- Pacific region, in the private and public sectors.
Senior executive appointments include National Manager Employment for Australia Post; National Manager Executive Development for the same organisation; and Chief Psychologist, Commonwealth Employment Service.
Statutory appointmentshave included Director on the Boards of the Victorian Accident Compensation Commission, the Victorian Accident Rehabilitation Council and the Victorian Cytology Service.
Nita has been a major contributor to leadership development in Australia for many years and continues to work with individuals and teams undergoing significant change.
Professional Memberships
- Australian Psychological Society Member
- Australian Society of Hypnosis Associate Member
- Academy of Management (USA) Member
Research Profile
Research Interests
- The development of professional practice under conditions of uncertainty
- Policing practices in hard to reach communities
Research Grants
Australian Research Council Grant - Exploring the experience of security in the Australian
Vietnamese community: practical implications for policing
With Prof DL Meredyth; Prof TN Thomas; Prof MD Gilding; Dr L Weber; Mr G Jamieson
2007-2011: $447,000
Partner Organisations: Victoria Police Centre and
Australian Vietnamese Women's Welfare Association
Publications and Papers
Cherry, N.L. (1999), Action Research: A Pathway to Action, Knowledge and Learning, RMIT University Press, Melbourne
Cherry, N.L. (2005), Preparing for practice in the age of complexity, Higher Education, Research and Development, 24,4,309-320
Cherry, N.L. (1974), Clients’ experience of vocational guidance, Journal of Vocational Behaviour, 4:67-76.
Cherry, N.L. (2008), Symbolic self curation: A reflexive activity for practice, life and scholarship, Creative Approaches to Research, 1, 1, 19-37.
Cherry, N.L. (1993), “Performance Management: The Challenge of the 1990’s”. In M. Gardner (Ed.) Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations in the Public Sector, Macmillan, Melbourne
Cherry, N. (2005), 'Phenomenography as seen by an action researcher'. In J. Bowden & P. Green (Eds.), Doing Developmental Phenomenography, RMIT University Press, Melbourne
O’Connor, A., Cherry, N. and Buckley, P. (2006) “Defining entrepreneurship as a ‘domain of practice’: Implications for theory and research for policy and education”, International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 4, 5, 654-678
Cherry, N.L. (1980), Specific Learning Difficulties, Australian Government Printer, Canberra
Cherry, N.L. (1977),Evaluating the Helping Services, Australian Government Printer, Canberra
Cherry, N.L. (1976), Identifying and Teaching the Skills of Helping, Australian Government Printer, Canberra