Professor NITA CHERRY
BA (Melb), MA (Occup Psych) (Melb), PhD (RMIT)
Ph +61 3 9214 5901
Fax +61 3 9819 2117
Room AGSE 323
ncherry@swin.edu.au
Nita supervises doctoral students within the Faculty of Business and Enterprise, and teaches first and third level leadership, enterprise and governance subjects in the MBA, Master of Strategic Foresight and Master of Entrepreneurship and Innovation.
Nita has over 35 years' experience as senior executive, management consultant, director, psychologist, educator, and researcher. She has worked in many parts of Australia and Asia-Pacific, in the private and public sectors, in large corporations, small entrepreneurial businesses and not-for-profit organisations.
Her statutory appointments have included Director on the Boards of the former Victorian Accident Compensation Commission, the former Victorian Accident Rehabilitation Council, and the Victorian Cytology Service.
Nita has been a major contributor to executive development in Australia; designing and implementing development programs; building management competency models; and undertaking executive coaching for the leading Australian banks, major mining and energy companies, and many government departments and agencies. Much of her concern has been how people perform under conditions of uncertainty, and what derails high potential people.
Nita is also an Adjunct Professor at Charles Sturt University.Professional Memberships
- Australian Psychological Society Member
- Australian Society of Hypnosis Associate Member
- Academy of Management (USA) Member
Research Profile
Research Interests
- The development and application of qualitative research methods
- Professional practice under conditions of uncertainty
- The development of professional practice in adults
- Developing leadership capacity
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: $665,000
Partner organisations: Victoria Police Centre and
Australian Vietnamese Women's Welfare Association
Retiring women: Understanding older female labour market transitions
With Prof. Philip Taylor, Dr Elizabeth Brooke, Dr Margaret Steinberg, Dr Dianna Olsberg and Dr Janet Gregory
2009-2011: $330,000
Partner organisations: ESS Super, Westpac Banking Corporation and UniSuper
Publications and Papers
Higgs, J., Cherry, N.L., Macklin, R. and Aijawa, R. (Eds.) (In press), Researching Practice: A Discourse on Qualitative Methodologies, Sense Publishers, The Netherlands.
Cherry, N.L. (2008), Symbolic self curation: A reflexive activity for practice, life and scholarship, Creative Approaches to Research, 1, 1, 19-37.
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. (2005), Preparing for practice in the age of complexity, Higher Education, Research and Development, 24,4,309-320
Cherry, N.L. (1999), Action Research: A Pathway to Action, Knowledge and Learning, RMIT University Press, Melbourne
Cherry, N.L. (1989), Appraisal: How to Kill it and How to Make it Work, Australian Government Printer, Canberra
Cherry, N.L. (1989), Performance Appraisal: Putting Appraisal Into Place – A Design Manual for Appraisal Programs, Canberra, Australian Government Publishing Service.
Cherry, N.L. (1981), Investigation of the Performance of Local Water and Sewage Authorities in Victoria, Public Bodies Review Committee, Melbourne.
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
Cherry, N.L. (1974), Clients’ experience of vocational guidance, Journal of Vocational Behaviour, 4:67-76.
Book Chapters
Cherry, N. and Grace, S. (2009), Writing for audiences. In Higgs, J, Horsfall, D and Garce, S (Eds), Writing Qualitative Research in Practice, Sense Publishers, Rotterdam.Higgs, J and Cherry, N. (2009) Doing qualitative research on practice.
Cherry, N. (2005), 'Phenomenography as seen by an action researcher'. In J. Bowden & P. Green (Eds.), Doing Developmental Phenomenography, RMIT University Press, Melbourne
Bowden, J., Green, P., Barnacle, R., Cherry, N. & Usher, R. (2005). 'Academics' ways of understanding success in research activities'. In J. Bowden & P. Green (Eds.), Doing Developmental Phenomenography, RMIT University Press, Melbourne
Boucher,C., Cherry, N.L. & Smyth, A. (1993), JobDesign, In R.Collins (Ed.) Effective Management, CCH International, Auckland
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
Articles in Refereed Journals
Cherry, N.L. (2008), Symbolic self curation: A reflexive activity for practice, life and scholarship, Creative Approaches to Research, 1, 1, 19-37.
Yang, H.O. and Cherry, N.L. (2008), Human Resource Management Challenges in the Hotel Industry in Taiwan, Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research, 13, 4, 399-410.
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. (2005), Preparing for practice in the age of complexity, Higher Education, Research and Development, 24,4,309-320
Smyth, A, & Cherry, N. (2005), Reflective conversations about supervision: when things go awry, Reflective Practice, 6,2, 271-275
Cherry, N.L. (1974), Clients’ experience of vocational guidance, Journal of Vocational Behaviour, 4:67-76