Newcastle Business School
Research conducted by Associate Professor Jim Psaros and Dr Michael Seamer indicates that the corporate governance practices of Australia's listed public companies have slipped in the last twelve months.
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The Newcastle Business School would like to congratulate Christiaan McComb and Marcus Rodrigs for being recognised in the Australian College of Educators Teacher Recognition Awards.
Johanna Macneil has received a VC citation for successfully integrating problem-based learning into graduate and executive Human Resource Management courses, thereby enhancing student engagement, professional knowledge and an appreciation for plural perspectives.
Congratulations Johanna.
Congratulations to Po-Yu Wang PhD(Leisure and Tourism) student in the Newcastle Business School for his student scholarship award for the Conference paper: "Values Congruity in Tourism and Protected Areas Policy: A Case Study of Adventure Tourism Supply in New South Wales Australia".
The paper presented at the 15th International Symposium on Society and Resource Management, ISSRM 2009 in Vienna Austria was jointly authored with his supervisor Dr Kevin Lyons, Senior Lecturer from the Newcastle Business School.
Dr Anthony McDonnell's paper titled: "Swimming against the tide: Outward staffing flows from multinational subsidiaries" has been chosen for the best paper award at the 2009 meeting of the International Human Resource Management Conference in Sante Fe, New Mexico. Joint authors were: David Collings, Patrick Gunnigle and Jonathan Lavelle.
Senator Christine Milne visited the Faculty in June, to meet with Dr. Kala Saravanamuthu to discuss her research on a Sustainability Toolkit.
The Sustainability Toolkit is designed to assist local communities to minimise the impact of their activities on nature and the larger society. In particular the toolkit uses the UN's Precautionary principle to integrate combine footprint data pertaining to a particular catchment in a way that is meaningful to local stakeholders. This integrated feedback encourages stakeholders to transcend their individual wants in the interest of shared environmental concerns. Image
The 2009 Faculty research higher degree student award winners are:
Arief Budiman: Best Thesis Award (received on his behalf by Rita Pidani, current PhD(Management) candidate.
Md. Akhtaruzzaman: Best Publication Award
Kalsitinoor Set: Best RHD Research Poster Award
Siqiwen LI: Distinguished RHD Service Award
Professor Bai, Head of the Education Office of the Chinese Consulate General visited the Faculty of Business and Law to discuss the Faculty's research and teaching collaborations in China.
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