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Research areas
Accounting
- accounting for investments
- accounting for joint ventures
- aspects of commercial law
- conflict management
- corporate equity, debt and profitability
- corporate governance
- economics of technological change
- economics, finance and accounting issues
- ethics and cultures in auditing
- evaluation of student teaching methods
- financial accounting
- financial sector instruments
- information systems
- international accounting
- labour economics and industrial relations
- legal frameworks for management practice
- legal issues and accounting
- management education
- mediation / alternative dispute resolution
- small business and regional issues
- strategy
- student attrition
- superannuation reform
- taxation
- the impact of technology on retail banking
- the sport-media nexus and the internationalisation of sport
- university teaching and learning
- viability of segmentation in financial services
Art and digital design
Research in the field of art and digital design includes studies of Aboriginal, Asian and contemporary art, arts administration and curatorship as well as a range of contemporary design fields such as graphic design, 3D design, e-media design, digital aesthetics, fabrication, imaging and video technologies, information design and visualisation, visual communication, virtual navigation and virtual tourism.
Creative writing
Research of, and within, creative writing covers a broad range of genres such as adult fiction, crime writing, and youth fiction, Indigenous, Australian, Canadian and post-colonial literature. Research in the field of creative writing includes the production of a fictional work and an exegesis.
Education research
Education researchers in the faculty are particularly concerned with questions of social justice, cultural diversity and contemporary social change. Research expertise includes: antiracist and multicultural education, LOTE policy, critical pedagogy, globalisation and education, international education, peace education and refugee education, sustainability and education.
Entrepreneurship
- entrepreneurial attitudes, abilities and intentions
- risk recognition, risk reduction and investor readiness
- work motivation theory
- workaholism and work enthusiasm
Environmental and planning studies
Research in this interdisciplinary field spans geography, environmental planning, heritage, interpretation, eco-tourism and studies of architectural theory and includes cultural geography, regional and urban design, policy and planning, water planning, environmental ethics, interpretation, natural resource management, community participation, management and Indigenous people, conflict and mediation, water, avian ecology, conservation and sustainable development.
Historical studies
Expertise in historical research includes: education, exhibitions and museums, gender relations, heritage studies, labour history, world history, Indigenous history, macrohistory and social change, migration, race relations, social and cultural history and oral history.
Information Systems
- automated assessment
- business analytics
- business value of information technology
- change management
- electronic business
- electronic commerce and the digital economy
- end-user computing training and support
- feral systems
- information Systems (IS) management especially with regard to information system planning and strategy formulation, and effectiveness measures
- knowledge discovery in databases
- knowledge management
- mobile data technologies and adoption by SMEs
- modern heuristic techniques
- visual programming
Journalism
Research in journalism address issues such as: computer-assisted journalism, freedom of information, journalism education, law, professional writing, media convergence, media studies, on-line journalism and internet news.
Management
- Australian higher education history
- corporate entrepreneurship
- cultural change
- employment equity
- environmental management systems
- higher education management
- innovation and entrepreneurship
- leadership
- organisational and professional commitment
- organisational behaviour (organisational culture, organisational climate, and organisational socialisation) and work-related values / value congruence
- organisational conflict
- organisational development
- organisational learning
- performance measures
- regional development
- small business management
- social and environmental accounting
- strategic management
- strategy
- team dynamics
- total quality management
- work stress and emotions
Marketing / International Business
- advertising regulation
- advertising self-regulation in Australia, overseas, and across boundaries
- business networks
- company turnarounds - reviving sick firms
- consumer behaviour
- e-business / e-marketing
- foreign market participation with a focus on Hong Kong
- history of economic thought
- international education
- international marketing and purchasing
- Islamic economics and finance
- marketing communications
- marketing education
- marketing higher education in Australia
- marketing of new technology to small and medium-sized enterprises
- marketing orientation and growing business
- marketing research methods
- realist research philosophy and qualitative methods
- relationship marketing
- sales force management
- services marketing
- social marketing issues
- strategic management
- student attrition
- the first year university experience
- the quality of business to business relationships
Political and international politics
Australian politics and foreign policy, citizenship, social movements, electoral policy, public policy and public sector management, ethnic-nationalism and revolutionary nationalism, governance, human rights, Indonesia-Australia relations, Japan-Australia relations, Japanese politics, low intensity conflict and terrorism, peace and conflict issues, security in the Pacific and US foreign policy.
Psychology
Research in psychology addresses the mental process of human social and cultural behaviour. Expertise in psychology includes: Aboriginal reconciliation, adult lifespan, especially emerging and middle adulthood, alcohol and other drug use, body image, diet and exercise, cognition, incl. attention and memory, cognitive development, cross-cultural tolerance, cultural and cognitive perspectives on hope, cultural competence, health psychology across the lifespan, mental imagery, physical activity for health, positive psychology factors as predictors of health, work-life balance etc., professional ethics, racism, refugee mental health and wellbeing, relationships and communication between mothers and daughters, social inclusion, social psychological determinants of protective health behaviour, sport and exercise psychology.
Social sciences
Social science research encompasses studies in sociology, social work, counselling, community work and welfare and is fundamentally concerned with human social relations. Research in this area is orientated towards issues of social inclusion, inequality and justice, and research expertise includes: alcohol and drugs, Australian racism and anti-racism, child protection, counselling (child, adolescent and family) and therapeutic practice frameworks, welfare and public policy, young people, families, gender, health, mental health, aged care, disabilities, cultural diversity, environmental sustainability, gambling, globalisation, grief and loss, migration, organisational change, religion, futures studies, work, employment, state policy and Indigenous issues, social theory and research methodology, violence and crime prevention.
Tourism
- coastal tourism
- community tourism development
- ecotourism management
- education needs in tourism
- Olympics, sport and tourism
- physical self-concept
- small business tourism
- sociocultural impacts of tourism
- special interest tourism and marketing
- sport psychology
- sport, festival and event marketing and management
- sustainable tourism
- technology and tourism
- tourism decision making
- tourism policy and planning
- water-based tourism and recreation
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