Dr Peter Innes
BA Qld., MSocSc Qld., PhD Lond.
Position: Faculty Research Coordinator and Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences
Office: DG.16
Tel: +61 7 5459 4802
Email: pinnes@usc.edu.au
Teaching areas
- Research and data analysis in psychology
- Research methods and methodology
- Using computers to assist in qualitative and quantitative analysis
Research areas
- Social structure and inequality
- Organisational change, restructuring and job insecurity
- Organisational behaviour and human resource management
- Professionals and flexible work practices
- Peripheralisation of work (core ‘full-time’ and peripheral ‘part-time’)
- Neo-institutional theory, isomorphism
- Predictors of sporting error
- Evaluation of programmes
Profile
Dr Peter Innes has worked at a number of Australian universities including Queensland, Southern Queensland and Tasmania, and overseas at the University of London, Royal Holloway. His teaching areas have centred on research methods and methodology, with particular focus in his teaching and experience in the use of computers to assist in both qualitative and quantitative data analysis.
In addition, Dr Innes continues to work with SPSS Australasia as an external consultant. As a consultant he assists public and private organisations and clients across Australian industry in using data analysis as a means to achieving research and development. He has a diverse experience consulting with firms on their research skills in various settings including hospitals, police, justice and corrections, factories, logistics, mining and exploration, stockbroking and insurance.
As well as teaching research methods in Australia and overseas, Dr Innes was statistical adviser to staff and students at the University of Queensland Business School from 2002 to 2006. In his current role he continues to advise and consult with staff and students on research methods and methodology.
Dr Innes' research area of expertise is in organisational change and restructuring. Specifically, he has focused on the structural patterns of job insecurity, the impact of organisational change on professionals, firm skills and knowledge. He has a background in sociology, social structure and change, psychology and human resources.
Publications
Many of Dr Peter Innes' publications are available from the Coast Research Database.
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