FACULTY OF BUSINESS
RESEARCH NEWSLETTER
ISSUE 11 – MAY 2016
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Welcome
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Did You Know?
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Current Projects
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Staff Profiles
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Vale PK Basu
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Recent Appointments
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Engineering Opens
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Congratulations
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Awards
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Research Updates
WELCOME
Welcome to the May edition of the Faculty of Business Research Newsletter. This issue
is jam packed with research related information. Notably, it features a story about Dr
Philip Charlton’s work as part of the LIGO collaboration which made astronomical history
by identifying and measuring a gravitational wave resulting from the collision of two black
holes. Prior to this gravitational waves were just a theoretical construct.
There are also updates about Dr Zahid Islam’s new project on predicting hospital readmission using data mining, which is being conducted with Murrumbidgee Local Health
District, and Associate Professor Oliver Burmeister’s work on encouraging social
connectedness among seniors through ICT training, and the community service award
that this lead to. Also read about Prof Terry Bossomaier’s latest activities.
Learn about the new faculty staff, including in-depth profiles about two staff members –
Ken Ang from Computing and Maths, and Mony Sok from Management and Marketing.
There is a great story about our new Engineering Building that was opened recently,
including some photos if you have not yet visited. Having visited a few times, I can vouch
for how innovative it is and what a credit it is to the Faculty and University.
There is also a piece about our friend and colleague PK Basu, who sadly died recently.
He was hard working and always cheerful, helpful, and caring. Having worked closely
with PK on a couple of projects, I found him to be thoroughly reliable and fun to work and
travel with. I will miss PK a great deal, and I am sure many of you will too.
This is our final edition of the Faculty of Business newsletter, as the Faculty of Business
will soon become the Faculty of Business, Justice and Behavioural Studies. I am looking
forward to getting to know better our colleagues in Psychology and Justice Studies, and
all of the opportunities that our closer connections within one faculty with bring.
My sincere thanks go to Deborah Munns for her creativity and energy in preparing this
and all previous newsletters. I think that they have been outstanding, and I wish her well
in her new role as a Faculty Research Liaison Officer based in the Faculty of Science.
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Professional
Development
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Professor Mark Morrison
Sub-Dean Research
Research Data
Management
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Ethics
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Publications
Final issue: This is the final issue of the Faculty of Business Research Newsletter in its
current format. A new form of communication will be announced after the establishment
of the Faculty of Business, Justice and Behavioural Sciences.
DID YOU KNOW?
CSU Policy Library – Locate that Policy
The new CSU Policy Library replaces the Academic
Manual and Administrative Manual. The Policy Library
is the sole authoritative source of official academic and
administrative policies, procedures, guidelines, rules
and regulations of the University.
CSU Policy Library has been developed to provide
easy access for students, staff and other stakeholders
to current and past University rules, policies,
procedures and guidelines.
The Policy Library is being constantly updated. Some
recently added policies of relevance to researchers
include the Remote Work
Policy and the Social
Media Policy for Staff.
The library has a handy AZ listing of all policies that
enable users to find them
easily.
The Policy library can be
accessed by the following
link: http://www.csu.edu.au/about/policy
CSU Research Office – Internal Deadline 10 days
All research grant and consultancy applications, unless
otherwise stated by the Research Office, must be
submitted a minimum of ten (10 working days)
prior to the external submission date.
Fully completed
applications (including
required number of
copies) should be
forwarded to the
Research Office with any
source documents
(guidelines, terms and
conditions or letters of
invitation - either in hard copy or web reference) for
general review and authorisation by DVC (Research,
Development & Industry).
Applications for research or consultancy funding must
be submitted through the Research Office and must be
accompanied by a signed and completed Notice to
Submit form.
If you are seeking leverage funding this also needs to
have been signed off prior to submitting the application
to the Research Office.
ORCID – (Open Researcher or Contributor iD)
ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier that
distinguishes you from every other researcher and
through integration in key research workflows such as
manuscript and grant submission, supports automated
linkages between you and your professional activities
ensuring that your work can be recognised.
An ORCID is becoming essential for all researchers.
The National Health and Medical Research Council
(NHMRC) and the Australian Research Council (ARC)
encourage all researchers
applying for funding to have an
ORCID ID.
http://libguides.csu.edu.au/c.php?
g=139595&p=912981
CURRENT PROJECTS
Gravitational Waves Research – Enormous Collaborative Effort
Dr Philip Charlton,
Senior Lecturer in
Mathematics, in the
School of Computing
and Mathematics (SCM)
is a member of an
Australian research group that recently played a key
role in a historic gravitational astronomy discovery.
Dr Charlton worked at LIGO for five years from 2000.
Since his return to Australia, he has continued to work
with LIGO on gravitational waves data analysis. He
specifically contributed to the discovery by conducting
detector characterisation, validation of the calibration
of the instruments and development of the detection
pipeline for stochastic background of gravitational
waves.
Philip is a member of the Australian Consortium for
Interferometric Gravitational Astronomy (ACIGA) which
has members from The Australian National University
(ANU), University of Adelaide, The University of
Melbourne, University of Western Australia (AWA) and
Monash University. ACIGA formed part of a larger
collaboration of over a thousand researchers in 83
institutions across 16 countries to work on aspects of
the gravitational wave research.
The discovery of gravitational waves is only the
beginning of the data analysis work for Dr Charlton
and the work will continue for some time into the
future.
The discovery of gravitational waves represents the
first steps into studying the universe through the
gravitational-wave spectrum, which exists
independently from light. The discovery opens a new
way of examining the universe.
The discovery used data from two giant measuring
devices in different parts of the USA called LIGO
(Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory)
which caught a passing gravitational wave from the
collision of two vast black holes in a distant galaxy.
If you are interested in more information about the
discovery, the following paper was recently published
in Physical Review Letters:
B. P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and
Virgo Collaboration), Observation of Gravitational
Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger, Phys. Rev.
Lett. 116, 061102 – Published 11 February 2016
Dr Philip Charlton
Reducing Hospital Readmission Rates
Dr Zahidul Islam,
of SCM, and
Professor Mark
Morrison, of
SMM, are
working with the
Murrumbidgee
Local Health
District (MLHD) to identify patients at risk of avoidable
hospital readmission.
The tool will in turn be used to improve the prospects
of those types of patients in order to reduce expensive
and time consuming readmissions.
In December 2015, Dr Islam met with the NSW
Minister for Health, the Hon. Jillian Skinner, who has
taken a keen interest in the project and its outcome.
The project is in its initial stages with analysis of
existing patient data. The tool will be developed by
mid-2016 with extensive testing to follow.
The project involves developing a predictive tool that
uses data mining techniques to discover the types of
patients who are most likely to require readmissions.
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Senior Social Connectedness through ICT – Leads to Rewards
Two CSU researchers, Associate Professor Oliver
Burmeister of SCM and Dr Maree Bernoth of the
School of Nursing, have worked with colleagues from
Griffith University and the University of Tasmania to
examine social connectedness among older people in
rural/regional areas using ICT training.
The project followed seniors who participated in
weekly computer training sessions at the Wagga
Wagga Seniors Citizen’s Club over a four month
period. The participants were supplied with iPads for
the duration of the study and they kept a weekly diary
recording their engagement in the sessions.
Participants were also interviewed twice during the
project about maintaining their independence, social
connectedness and communication strategies.
The participants who ranged in age from 60 to 80
years enjoyed learning about communication
applications, particularly email with photo attachments,
and Skype.
The study illustrated that ICT can enhance social
connectedness amongst older people who live in rural
and regional areas. Social connectedness has been
shown to lead to increased wellbeing for older people,
which can in turn lead to greater independence.
The research team will have an article published in the
upcoming issue of the journal of ‘Issues in Mental
Health Nursing’ that focuses on person-centred care.
Update: The classes were conducted by Geoff
Fellows, who is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer with the
School of Computing and Mathematics. Geoff has
continued with the training even after the research
project finished.
In early April, Geoff was awarded a 2016 Wagga
Wagga Community Service Award by Daryl Maguire,
the NSW MP for Wagga Wagga. The award was for
‘‘recognition of his exceptional commitment as an
educator and facilitator in teaching iPad lessons over
the past two years to the Senior Citizens Centre".
Congratulations Geoff.
Above: CSU Adjunct Geoff Fellows conducting a training class – Photo courtesy of Wagga Wagga Senior Citizens’ Club.
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Professor Terry Bossomaier – Busy Summer
Professor Terry Bossomaier has been busy over the
summer period with the release of a book and
participation in a number of research workshops. Terry
is Strategic Professor in Computing and Information
Technology based on the Bathurst Campus. Terry is a
computational scientist with interests in the theory and
applications of complex systems.
Terry is a principal investigator in the cyberspace
research program at NCS. The program was launched
in 2014 and includes Australian and many international
and interdisciplinary program partners. Participants
travelled from the United States, United Kingdom and
Canada for the conference.
In December Terry was a keynote speaker at the IEEE
Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence in
Cape Town, South Africa. His keynote was titled
‘Complex Behaviour in Artificial Life’ and was well
received by the international audience.
Terry released his book, Online GIS and Spatial
Metadata which he co-authored with Dr Anthony Hope,
a spatial information expert with NSW Land and
Information Services in Bathurst. The book is a major
rewrite of an earlier volume that was published in 2002
but remained in demand.
Above: Delivering a presentation at the cyberspace conference.
Terry held a small launch for his book where he also
took the opportunity to thank his long-time research
assistant, Carolyn Leeder, who had extensivley helped
with the editing and proofing process for the book.
Above: Anthony Hope, Carolyn
Leeder and Terry Bossomaier at the
book launch.
In February, Terry also participated in an invitationonly research workshop series during the week-long
‘Securing our Future in Cyberspace Conference’ at
The National Security College (NSC) in Canberra.
NSC is a joint initiative of the Australian Government
and The Australian National University.
Above: Terry with the other principal researchers on the cyber
security program
Terry also spent time over the summer contributing
and mentoring other CSU researchers in their
Australian Research Council (ARC) and CRC
applications.
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STAFF PROFILES
Keo Mony Sok – School of Management and Marketing
Keo Mony Sok has recently
joined the School of
Management and Marketing
as a Lecturer in Marketing
based in Albury. Mony is
familiar with CSU as she has
worked as a casual lecturer at
CSU for the past two years.
Mony was recently awarded her PhD from the
University of Tasmania. Her PhD project was titled
‘Unlocking the Roles of Product Innovation and
Branding in Driving Customer Value Creation and Firm
Value Appropriation’. Her PhD was supervised by
Professor Aron O’Cass.
and Masters qualifications in Management and in
Professional Accounting.
Her research focuses on a wide range of themes
including project/service innovation and
entrepreneurship, marketing interaction and branding.
Mony is currently collaborating on a number of projects
including one on product innovation and marketing
with Professor Luigi de Luca of Cardiff University.
Outside of the university, Mony is kept busy by her
toddler son. She also enjoys walking, reading and
cooking – a skill she says she would like to improve.
Please welcome Mony to CSU.
Mony has an extensive list of qualifications with
Bachelor Degrees in Accounting and Finance and in
Education (Teaching English as a Foreign Language)
Dr Li-minn Ang (Kenneth) – School of Computing and Mathematics
Dr Li-minn Ang, Ken, has
recently joined the School of
Computing and Mathematics
as a senior lecturer based on
the Wagga campus.
Ken received his Bachelor of
Engineering and PhD
qualifications from Edith Cowan University (ECU) in
Western Australia. He has worked at three universities
including ECU and the Malaysian campuses of
Monash and Nottingham University. He also worked in
the software industry in Malaysia.
Ken’s research interests are in computer,
communications and systems engineering with
particular emphasis on image processing and machine
learning, embedded and wireless sensor systems, and
the development of real-world computer systems. Ken
is currently working on audio-visual information
processing and data collection/analytics for big data
sensor-based systems.
Dr Ang has published two books and over a hundred
papers in journals, book chapters and international
refereed conference proceedings.
Away from work, Ken enjoys football, squash, chess
and spending time with his family.
Ken and his family would like to express their deepest
thanks to Professor Irfan Altas , Dr Tanveer Zia and
his other SCM colleagues at Wagga and other
campuses for making the transition to CSU so easy.
Please welcome Ken to CSU.
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VALE PK BASU
A leading business and economics academic at Charles Sturt University (CSU) will
be remembered for his generosity of spirit and time for his colleagues and friends at
CSU, in Bathurst and around the world.
Associate Professor Parikshit Basu, known to all as PK, passed away on Friday the
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18 of March after a long illness.
The academic's good friend, close colleague and former Dean of the Faculty of
Business at CSU, Professor John Hicks, remembers PK as an extremely generous
person who enjoyed working with others.
"PK approached research projects with great enthusiasm, they were never a chore,
and he was always willing to initiate and drive them," Professor Hicks said.
"As a collaborator, he had a happy knack of finding uses for data, particularly where it helped drive economic
development in the regions.
"PK believed passionately in the important place of regional economic development, whether it be in Australia, India or
China."
Professor Basu was a successful researcher in applied economics and applied finance and had numerous books,
books chapters, journal articles and reports as a sole and co-author. He was a member of three large multi-university
research projects funded by the Australian Research Council and AusAID. He also successfully supervised a number
of doctoral research students.
PK touched the professional careers of many people at CSU.
"PK had time for everyone. He made a difference in many lives and supported everyone in the Faculty of Business."
Professor Hicks stated that PK generated much love and affection, even having a colleague visit from Switzerland to
see him in his last months.
Professor Basu left the corporate world and joined CSU in 2001. A respected teacher of finance and economics, he
effectively engaged with his students. His easy rapport with students was recognised when he was appointed Faculty
Subdean of Students in 2011, while his last promotion was to Associate Professor in 2013.
Professor Hicks said PK never missed the business world. "He loved teaching and expanding minds to the business
world. To that end, he organised overseas trips for our business students to India, China and Europe to present them
experiences that would widen their horizons."
Professor Basu travelled extensively and loved immersing himself in different countries and cultures, "especially their
sweets!" Professor Hicks said.
Well known in the Bathurst community, he also often acted as Head of Campus as required between 2007 and 2013,
and so made many local contacts.
A strong family man, Professor Basu was devoted to his wife and son and daughter. "I think he was the happiest I had
seen him for years at his daughter's recent wedding, when he already knew he was dying. He just wanted to be there.
Professor Basu is also remembered for seeing the importance of social activities for his work colleagues.
"So many people, from professors to general staff, from Bathurst and most other CSU campuses, have said to me,
'What a great guy'."PK will be sorely missed at CSU.
Written by Wes Ward of CSU Media.
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RECENT STAFF APPOINTMENTS
Dr Larissa Bamberry – Senior Lecturer in Human Resource
Management (Albury)
Larissa brings extensive industry and public sector policy experience in HR and IR.
Larissa is currently researching in regional development, gender relations in the
workplace and public sector reforms. She has worked on three projects totalling $390,000 on regional skills and
employment in regional Victoria and was involved in an ARC Grant in the role of unions in regional regeneration.
Larissa has also worked in the Centre for Sustainable Organisations and Work with RMIT and the Workplace
Research Centre with the University of Sydney. In among this is a strong teaching background across many HR, IR
and management subjects.
Dr Michael Mehmet – Lecturer in Marketing (Bathurst)
Michael is well known to many of the School through his recent contract role with SCCI. Michael brings to the School
leading edge research and expertise in social media marketing. He utilises a thematic and social semiotic framework
in strategic digital IMC. Michael has also worked in the UOW Business Research Laboratory and brings strong
teaching and research expertise into the School and marketing discipline.
Mony Sok – Lecturer in Marketing (Albury)
Mony may be known to many in the School having worked as a casual lecturer for the past few years. Mony brings to
the School a recently completed PhD and accompanying publications in the linkage of marketing and innovation in
entrepreneurial activities in SMEs. Mony also has done some research in marketing motivations. She has taught for
the School in several PG marketing subjects and will bring great expertise and depth to the marketing discipline.
Dr Nick Pawsey – Senior Lecturer Accounting (Albury)
Nick previously worked at CSU on the Bathurst campus but most recently has been at La Trobe University. He
completed his PhD on IFRS adoption in 2013. In addition to publishing from his PhD, Nick has been actively
researching in water pricing.
Jennifer Hodges – Lecturer Accounting (Albury)
Jennifer has been teaching on a sessional basis on the Albury campus since July 2013. She has an MBA, is a CPA
and has current industry experience.
Emmett Berry - Scholarly Teaching Fellow Accounting (Bathurst)
Emmett has been teaching as a sessional staff member in Bathurst since July 2012. In 2015 he also taught CSU
students at our partner universities in China. Emmett is a CPA and also has recent industry experience.
Mona Nikidehaghani - Associate Lecturer Accounting (Bathurst)
Mona is completing her PhD at the University of Wollongong (UoW) investigating the role of accounting in social
benefits for the physically disabled from 1901 to 2015. She had significant industry experience in Iran and more
recently was engaged as a tutor at UoW.
Mohammad Jahanzeb Khan (Jahan) – Lecturer Accounting (Wagga)
Jahan is completing his PhD at UNSW examining the influence of traits and beliefs on the judgements of auditors. He
has also been teaching casually at UNSW since 2011.
Dr Ashad Kabir – Lecturer in Computing (Wagga)
Ashad has joined CSU after teaching at Swinburne University of Technology and Chittagong University in
Bangladesh. Ashad will lecture in mobile applications.
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ENGINEERING OPENS IN BATHURST
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On Thursday the 18 of February, CSU Bathurst staff were treated to a special house-warming party for the new
$15.6 million engineering building. Staff and visitors were able to inspect the state-of-the-art facilities and ask
questions of the engineering staff. The facilities quickly became the envy of all visitors.
The building is an adaptive reuse of an existing U-shaped building which includes a pitch space, hexagonally
clustered collaboration zones, maker studio, multi-purpose labs and an engineering lounge for students and staff to
engage with Bathurst’s iconic Mount Panorama race circuit. It can house up to 100 students and 20 staff, with
anticipated future growth catered for in the design .
The CSU Engineering degree has been developed specifically for regional areas, with 4 years of the 5.5 year course
being delivered by distance mode whilst the students are employed as Student Engineers in regional communities.
The first cohort of 29 students commenced on Tuesday 29 February.
Above: Engineering building from Village Drive.
Left: Collaboration zone
Above: The red laboratory
Left: Foundation Professor of Engineering, Euan Lindsay (R), talking with Trevor
Lui of NSW Public Works.
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Left: Main lobby, with interactive smart board
Right: Courtyard
Above: Rear of building
Above: The maker studio, with one of the 3D printers in the background.
Right: Staff office space
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CONGRATULATIONS
Our congratulations go to the following students and their supervisors within the Faculty of Business who have been
advised that their thesis has passed. It is a tremendous achievement to have reached completion.
Name
Degree
Topic
Supervisors
Stacey Jenkins
PhD
Work-life balance responsiveness in
Australian small and medium enterprises.
Fenglu Ge
PhD
Application of learning from demonstration to
a simulated mining inspection task.
Nusrat Shahani
PhD
HRM practices and their impact on
organisational citizenship behaviour in the
public sector universities of Pakistan.
Dr Pamela Lockhart
A/Prof Bhanugopan Ramudu
Linda Dalton
DBA
An investigation of the cultural diversity
competencies of managers in the Victorian
energy industry.
Prof Brian D’Netto
A/Prof Bhanugopan Ramudu
Daniel Guilfoyle
PhD
How do the key motivations of Aboriginal
Australians influence their education in
management?
A/Prof Geoff Bamberry
Dr Pamela Lockhart
Ayhan Kiskanc
DBA
The impact of culture-specific variables on
pre-purchase decisions of minorities in a host
country.
Prof Christian Zich
Dr Felicity Small
Amanda McStay
DBA
Teaching business: a phenomenological study
of expatriate tertiary level educators’
experiences in Dubai.
Dr Pamela Lockhart
Dr Dawn Edwards
Mohammad
Zavid Parvez
PhD
Epileptic seizure detection and prediction by
analysing EEG signals.
Amadeus
Kubicek
DBA
Psychometric and organisational predictors of
perceived risk in a multi-country perspective.
Christoph Karon
PhD
Adoption and acceptance of innovation in
location based services.
A/Prof Bhanugopan Ramudu
Dr Pamela Lockhart
Dr Michael Antolovich
Prof Junbin Gao
Dr Wayne Moore
Dr Manoranjan Paul
Dr Michael Antolovich
A/Prof Bhanugopan Ramudu
A/Prof Geoff Bamberry
Prof Wolfgang Dorner
Prof Terry Bossomaier
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AWARDS AND OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS
Best Paper in Australian Journal of Agriculture and Resources Economics
Congratulations to Professor Kevin Parton, who with his co-authors, was recently awarded the
AJARE Award for 2015 for their paper titled ‘Valuing seasonal climate forecasts in a Statecontingent manner’. The AJARE Award, which is sponsored by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing,
recognises the most outstanding paper published in the AJARE during that year. The authors
received a certificate, a $500 cheque and a $500 Wiley-Blackwell book voucher at the recent
conference dinner held in Canberra.
Dr Bede Harris Presents at Prestigious Seminar
Congratulations to Dr Bede Harris, who in early March presented a seminar titled 'Too much law
and not enough theory - A critique of the Commonwealth Constitution' at the Centre for
Comparative Constitutional Studies (CCCS) at the University of Melbourne Law School. The
CCCS undertakes and promotes research on constitutional law and government and provides a
focal point for scholars and practitioners interested in these areas. The CCCS invites leading
scholars in constitutional law and government in Australia and other countries to present at its
monthly seminars. Congratulations to Bede on receiving this invit ation.
Best Paper at 2015 ANZMAC-GAMMA Joint Symposium
Congratulations to Dr Abhishek (Abbey) Dwivedi, of SMM, who with his co-author Professor Bill Merriless of Griffith
University, was awarded the best paper award at the ANZMAC and GAMMA (Global Alliance of Marketing and
Management Associations) Joint Symposium at the 2015 ANZMAC
Conference at UNSW. The paper titled ‘Holistic consumer evaluation
of retail corporate brands and impact on consumer loyalty intentions’
was one of only four papers from the 25 high quality papers from the
symposium to be published in the Australasian Marketing Journal.
Highly Commended Paper in Young Consumers
Congratulations to Professor Steve D’Alessandro of SMM, who with his co-author Jakob
Cakarnis, received the 2015 Highly Commended award for their paper published in the journal
Young Consumers. The paper titled ‘Does knowing overcome wanting? The impact of
consumer knowledge and materialism upon credit card selection with young consumers’ is
available through Emerald.
**Steve has recently being appointed as the co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Consumer
Behaviour which is an international journal of marketing – Congratulations Steve.
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Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Sustainability
Congratulations to Simon Wright, a lecturer in SMM on receiving the Vice-Chancellor’s 2015
Award for Excellence in Sustainability. Simon is currently teaching postgraduate sustainability
and strategic management topics, whilst also doing his PhD in the field of corporate
sustainability. Simon is Chair of the Bathurst Campus Environmental Committee, and a member
of the University's Sustainability Advisory Group and MBA Advisory Committee respectively.
Volunteer Judge in IEEEXtreme 9.0 Programming
Competition
Dr Ashad Kabir, of the School of Mathematics and Computing, recently
participated as a judge in the IEEEXtreme 9.0 programming competition.
IEEEXtreme is a global challenge in which teams of IEEE Student members
compete in a 24-hour time span against each other to solve a set of
programming problems. Team members must solve and complete the
problems without assistance from others. Judges must be technical experts
in programming.
RESEARCH QUICKLINKS
National Innovation and Science Agenda
The National Innovation and Science Agenda was released by the Federal Government in
2015. One of the key ideas is increasing industry – research collaboration. New research
funding arrangements are being announced which are intended to link industry and
universities.
http://www.innovation.gov.au/start/research-and-universities?tid=3
CSU Research Bulletin
The Research Office produces a monthly bulletin which brings together a range of information from across the CSU
Research Community.
https://www.csu.edu.au/research/home
The Research Whisperer – Blog dedicated to the topic of doing research in academia. Managed by Jonathan
O’Donell and Tseen Khoo. Great tips and discussions about funding, research culture and collaborating.
https://theresearchwhisperer.wordpress.com/about/
Women and Research – Dr Angela Dobele, of RMIT, produces the Women and Research newsletter which
contains articles by female researchers at a wide variety of Australian universities. The newsletter highlights new
research and new researchers, and showcases the efforts, contributions and tips of experienced researchers.
http://angeladobele.com/WomenAndResearch.php
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RESEARCH AND GRANTS – NEW DEVELOPMENTS
ARC Linkage Grants – Continuous Rounds from 1 July 2016
The Australian Research Council (ARC) has announced that the Linkage Project scheme will
open to continuous rounds, instead of annual rounds, from 1 July 2016. Decision-making on
applications will take no more than six months from lodgement.
The Linkage Projects scheme involves collaboration between researchers and business to
benefit the business, the economy and broader society. The change is intended to remove all
barriers to collaboration.
Online Submission of Grants – Who Presses the Submit Button?
In recent years there has been a marked increase in the number of funding bodies accepting grant
applications via online grants management systems, such as SmartyGrants. The question has
arisen as to the submission process, is it the CSU Research Office or the researcher who presses
the submit button?
Online grants management systems usually enable applicants to save all entered information prior
to submitting the grant. Applicants should enter the information following the guidelines and print a PDF document of
the final version of their application. This final PDF version should be sent to the Research Office with a
completed NTS form 10 days prior to the external submission date.
The Research Office will provide the okay for the researcher to submit, on DVCI approval.
Defence Control Act 2012 – Specific Training for Researchers
From 2 April 2016, the offence provisions of the Commonwealth’s Defence Trade Control
Act 2012 will come into force. The Act regulates dealings in certain goods, services and
technologies that could potentially have applications in matters of defence.
Some researchers will be required to undertake specific training designed to inform and
educate researchers about the Act.
Who will be required to take the training modules?
A requirement of the CSU policy is that the following researchers and administrators will be required to undertake
Defence Trade Controls Act training:
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All staff in the School of Engineering having “research” in their position description.
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All staff in the School of Computing and Mathematics having “research” in their position description.
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All Heads of Schools, all Research Centre Directors and all Laboratory Managers.
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Chairs, Human Research Ethics and Animal Care & Ethics Committees.
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All staff who self-identify as conducting activities that may be determined as being “at risk” of falling under the
scope of “the Act”.
For further information and enquiries email: [email protected]
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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
ACSPRI Winter Program
Bookings are now open for the 2016
ACSPRI Winter Program. The
Winter Program will be taking place
at University of Queensland 27th
June to 8th July.
All courses are intensive and run
from 9am to 5pm for the week (with breaks throughout
and an early finish on Friday). Throughout the year,
ACSPRI will offer courses that cover topic ranging
from General Statistics, Multiple Regression, Structural
Equation Modelling, Experimental Design, Survey
Research, Social Networks, Qualitative Research,
Mixed Methods, Program Evaluation and many more.
ACSPRI courses cover a variety of levels, ranging
from Fundamentals (Level 1 Introductory) to very
Advanced (Level 5). Instructors are experts in their
respective fields and bring with them their research
experiences from the field.
Bookings must be made on-line via the Winter
Program page. Full Program details and a list of
course descriptions can be found on the ACSPRI
website.
https://www.acspri.org.au/winter-program-2016
Save the Date: FoB HDR students and supervisors invited to DocFest
Faculty of Business HDR candidates and staff have
been invited to participate in DocFest 2016 which is
being organised by the Faculty of Education and
Faculty of Arts with the help of CSU Library, ALLANs
and the CSU Research Office.
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DocFest will be held from the 27 to 29 of June and
will include research candidates from all four Faculties.
DocFest will feature guest speakers and a range of
workshops. Keynote speakers include Professor
Rowena Murray, Director of Research, University of
Western Scotland and Professor James Arvanitakis,
Dean, Graduate Research School at Western Sydney
University.
DocFest 2016 will be totally online in real time. They
might be calling it DocFest Lite, but there’ll be nothing
‘lite’ about the content!
For more information email: [email protected]
Managing Research Funds and Budgets and Other On-line Sessions
The Research Office coordinates a
variety of professional development
programs for HDR Candidates,
HDR Supervisors and Researchers.
Sessions are delivered on-line and
are approximately 90 minutes in
length.
The Managing Research Funds and Budgets is a
session has been tailored for researchers. It offers
participants the chance to learn about systems and
tools used and available at CSU to manage research
funds and budgets, about relevant policies and
procedures, and about how to streamline the
management of research budgets and funds.
Topics can also be tailored to particular needs.
For more information:
http://www.csu.edu.au/research/professionaldevelopment/program-calendar
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Mid-Career Researcher Workshops – CSU Research Office
The Research Office
Professional Development
Program is pleased to
announce the launch of the
Mid-Career Researcher
training workshops. These
workshops are designed for
research active staff looking to take the next step in
developing their research career. The workshops are
being presented by four Professorial research leaders
within CSU with substantial experience in their topic
area. The planned workshops are as follows:
Tues 7th June – Prof Linda Shields – “Opportunities
and challenges to transitioning from professional
practice to a research career”
Tues 13th September – Prof Robyn Watts –
“Establishing and managing research projects with
multiple partners, particularly government agencies”
Tues 11th October – Prof Sharynne McLeod –
“Balancing research capacity and excellence with
professional engagement”
Tues 18th October - Prof Lee Baumgartner –
“Establishing and managing large international
research projects in developing countries”
For more information:
http://www.csu.edu.au/research/professionaldevelopment/program-calendar
FACULTY OF BUSINESS LUNCH TIME SEMINAR SERIES
The lunch time seminar series continue into the second half of 2015. A range of internal and
external guest speakers are scheduled, please check the Faculty of Business webpage
http://www.csu.edu.au/faculty/business/faculty-research/activities/seminar-series for up-to-date
information.
Business Seminar Series usually run from 1pm – 2pm on a Wednesday in the School Meeting Rooms on
each campus (1411 - 431 in Bathurst, 764-205 in Thurgoona and 28-214 in Wagga). A light lunch is provided
starting at 12:30pm on each campus.
Date
Presenter
Topic
1 June
Robert Tierney
Climate variability and public service: Tragedy of the Lower Lachlan 19251950.
29 June
Mony Sok
Unlocking the roles of product innovation and branding in driving the
dual outcomes of customer value and firm value.
13 July
Heather Crawford
Segmenting global consumers through individual values assessment.
21 Sept
Michael Mehmet
B2B social media semantics: Analysing multimodal online meanings in
marketing conversations.
Enquiries about the Seminar Series should be directed to the convenor: Professor Steve
D’Alessandro, on ext 84286 or [email protected] or Dr Yapa Bandara on ext 32960 or
[email protected]
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School of Computing and Mathematics Seminars usually run from 12 – 2pm on
Wednesdays in the School Meeting Rooms on each campus (771 in Bathurst, 780 in Albury and
766 in Wagga). A light lunch is served prior to the seminar.
Date
Presenter
Topic
University
June (date to
be advised)
Dr Ferdous Sohel
Computer Vision
Murdoch University
9 June 2016
Professor Reinhard
Klette
Monocular vision-based driver assistance
University of Technology
Sydney(UTS)
July
Professor Jinjun Chen
Big Data
UTS
July
Professor Yi Yang
Predicting Health Status
UTS
Enquiries about the Computing and Mathematics Seminar Series should be directed to the convenor:
Dr Manoranjan Paul on 6338 4260 or [email protected]
CSU LARGE FILE SENDING – CLOUDSTOR
CSU’s Large File Sending service (called Cloudstor) is
provided by AARNet. Cloudstor provides you with a
secure way to share large files with anyone. Files can
be accessed by recipients from anywhere they have
an Internet connection.
Once the file is uploaded each recipient is emailed a
link so they can download it. The file remains available
for 20 days. When a recipient downloads the file an
email notification is sent to you (as the sender) and to
the recipient.
This service can also be used by non CSU staff to
send you a file. You can grant them access by creating
and sending them a Guest Voucher.
For more information refer to the Division of
Information Technology’s web pages.
http://www.csu.edu.au/division/dit/services/servicecatalogue/large-file-sending
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RESEARCH DATA MANAGEMENT AND ORCID – 2016 UPDATE
Robyn Kirk, from Intersect, is working closely with Karin Smith from the CSU library to oversee the RDM
implementation pilot in the Faculty of Science and university wide adoption of
ORCiD, including required system changes.
For more information contact Robyn on [email protected] or Karin Smith
[email protected]
Cloud Compute Services on NeCTAR
The Nectar Cloud provides flexible computing power to Australian researchers,
with computing infrastructure, software and services that allow the research
community to store, access and run data remotely, rapidly and autonomously. Nectar Cloud self-service structure
allows fast, efficient desktop access to data and a powerful platform for collaboration.
Nectar provides a free allocation to researchers. For more compute power you can access Intersect OwnTime or
apply for an allocation on Intersect High Performance Computing platform.
How to Access Nectar
A new training package has now been released at http://training.nectar.org.au/. These videos take researchers right
from the basics of how to access Nectar.
Learn what Nectar services are available, how they can be applied to your research, and how to work on the Nectar
Cloud. Need more information? Contact [email protected]
Intersect Free Training
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FOB HUMAN RESEARCH ETHICS COMMITTEE (BFHREC)
2016 BFHREC Meeting and submission closing dates. Note: Submissions must be received by 5pm on the date of
closing.
Submission Deadline
Meeting Date
Meeting time
Venue
Thursday 26 May
Thursday 9 June
1pm – 3pm
Videoconference
Thursday 30 June
Thursday 14 July
1pm – 3pm
Videoconference
Thursday 28 July
Thursday 11 August
1pm – 3pm
Videoconference
Thursday 25 August
Thursday 29 September
1pm – 3pm
Videoconference
Thursday 29 September
Thursday 13 October
1pm – 3pm
Videoconference
Thursday 27 October
Thursday 10 November
1pm – 3pm
Videoconference
Thursday 24 November
Thursday 8 December
1pm – 3pm
Videoconference
For queries regarding your submission please contact:
BFHREC Office: Wendy Smee or Michelle Westman
Phone: +61 2 6338 6680
Email: [email protected]
Postal Address: Panorama Avenue
Bathurst NSW 2795 Australia
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PUBLICATIONS
Al-Saggaf, Y., Burmeister, O.K., and Weckert, J.
(2016) Perceptions of incompetence in the ICT
workplace, ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society, 45
(3), 11-17.
Bhattacharya, M,. Islam, R and. Abawajy, J.
“Evolutionary Optimization: A Big Data Perspective”,
The Journal of Network and Computer Applications,
Elsevier, Vol. 59, 416-426.
Burmeister, O. K., & Marks, E., (2016) Rural and
remote communities, technology and mental health
recovery, Journal of Information, Communication &
Ethics in Society. 14(2).
Teipel, S., Babiloni, C., Hoey, J., Kaye, J., Kirste, T.
and Burmeister, O.K. (2016) Information and
communication technology solutions for outdoor
navigation in dementia. Alzheimer's & Dementia, 1-13.
Whitehouse, D., Duquenoy, P., Kimppa, K.K.,
Burmeister, O.K., Gotterbarn, D., Kreps, D., and
Patrignani, N. (2016) Twenty-five years of ICT and
society: codes of ethics and cloud computing, ACM
SIGCAS Computers and Society, 45 (3), 18-24.
Harris, B (2015) ‘Representative Democracy and
Responsible Government – Two Australian
Constitutional Myths’, Canberra Law Review 13(3).
Harris, B. (2015) ‘Third Party Suspicion of Lack of
Authority on the Part of Company Agents – A
Comparative Study and a Suggested Rule’, Journal of
Politics and Law, 8 (2).
Rahman, M. G., and Islam, M. Z. (2016):
Discretization of Continuous Attributes Through Low
Frequency Numerical Values and Attribute
Interdependency, Expert Systems with Applications
(ESWA), Vol. 45, pp. 410-423.
McGrath, D., & Murphy, D. (2016). Understanding
accounting as a career: an immersion work experience
for students making career decisions, Accounting
Education, Vol. 25 (1), 57-87.
contingent manner, Australian Journal of Agricultural
and Resource Economics, 59 (1), 61-77.
West, J. and Bhattacharya M. (2016), “Intelligent
Financial Fraud Detection: A Comprehensive Review”,
Computers & Security, Elsevier, Vol. 57, 47-66.
Accepted and forthcoming
Burmeister, O. K. (accepted and forthcoming) The
development of assistive dementia technology that
accounts for the values of those affected by its use,
Ethics and Information Technology.
Burmeister, O.K., Bernoth, M., Dietsch, E., and
Cleary, M. (accepted & forthcoming) Enhancing
connectedness through peer training for community
dwelling older people: A person centred approach,
Issues in Mental Health Nursing.
Bernoth, M., Burmeister, O.K., Morrison, M., Islam,
M.Z., Onslow, F., and Cleary, M. (accepted &
forthcoming) The impact of a participatory care model
on work satisfaction of care workers and the
functionality, connectedness and mental health of
community-dwelling older people, Issues in Mental
Health Nursing
Miao Li, Hong Guan; Hong Zhang (accepted &
forthcoming) Transient dynamic analysis of pile
foundation responses due to ocean waves using the
scaled boundary, Journal of Ocean Engineering and
Marine Energy.
Keo Mony Sok, Phyra Sok, and Luigi De Luca (2015 –
In Press) “The effect of ‘can do’ and reason to’
motivations on service-sales ambidexterity” Industrial
Marketing Management.
Book
Kabir, M. A., Han, J. and Colman, A. (in press).
Pervasive Social Computing -- Socially-Aware
Pervasive Systems and Mobile Applications, New
York, NY: Springer.
Giles, O. & Murphy, D. (2016). SLAPPed: the
relationship between SLAPP suits and changed ESG
reporting by firms, Sustainability Accounting,
Management and Policy Journal, Vol. 7(1), 44-79.
Crean, J., Parton, K.A., Mullen, J. and Hayman, P.
(2015), Valuing seasonal climate forecasts in a state-
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Book Chapter
Burmeister, O.K. (2016) Information access and use
by older people – The role of ICT in keeping older
people connected to families and community, Healthy
Ageing, Bernoth, M. and Winkler, D. (Eds), Oxford
University Press.
Conference papers
Chutikulrungsee, T., Burmeister, O.K., Al-Saggaf,
Y., and Bhattacharya, M. (2016) Denial of Choice:
Group Level Disclosure of Private Information,
Proceedings of 12th IFIP TC9 Human Choice and
Computers Conference, Salford, UK, Sep.
Harvie, G.K., Burmeister, O.K., and Eustace, K.
(2016) Assistive Technology Devices for The Oldest
Old: Maintaining Independence For The Fourth Age,
Proceedings of 12th IFIP TC9 Human Choice and
Computers Conference, Salford, UK, Sep.
Kreps, D., Burmeister, O.K., and Blaynee, J. (2016)
Skeuomorphic Reassurance: Personhood, Dementia,
and Gerontechnology, Proceedings of 12th IFIP TC9
Human Choice and Computers Conference, Salford,
UK, September.
Wilcox, H.and Bhattacharya Maumita. “A Framework
to Mitigate Social Engineering through Social Media in
Enterprises”, accepted for publication in Proceedings
th
of The 11 IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics
and Applications (ICIEA 2016)
Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning
(ESANN 2016), Bruges, Belgium, April 27 - 29, 2016
West, J. and Maumita Bhattacharya. “An
Investigation on Experimental Issues in Financial
Fraud Mining”, accepted for publication in Proceedings
th
of The 11 IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics
and Applications (ICIEA 2016), IEEE Press
West, J. and Bhattacharya, M. “Some Experimental
Issues in Financial Fraud Mining”, accepted for
publication in Proceedings of The International
Conference on Computational Science (ICCS 2016).
Research Report
Collins, J. and Krivokapic-Skoko, B. ‘New Immigrants
Improving Productivity in Australian Agriculture:
Summary Report’, Rural Industries Research and
Development Corporation (RIRDC), Project no.: PRJ007578, ISBN: 978-1-74254-864-7, Publication
number: 16/018.
The report can be downloaded from the RIRDC
website - http://www.rirdc.gov.au/about-rirdc
This project was reported in Issue 9, July 2015 of the
FoB Newsletter which can be downloaded from the
FoB Research pages.
Adnan, M. N. and Islam, M. Z. (2016): Forest CERN: A
New Decision Forest Building Technique, In Proc. of
the 20th Pacific Asia Conference on Knowledge
Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD) 2016, April 1922, Auckland, New Zealand.
Beg, A. H. and Islam, M. Z. (2016): Genetic Algorithm
with Novel Crossover, Selection and Health Check for
Clustering, In Proc. of the 24th European Symposium
on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational
Intelligence and Machine Learning (ESANN 2016),
Bruges, Belgium, April 27 - 29, 2016.
Mubin, O., Mahmud, A. A., Kabir, M. A. (accepted and
forthcoming). Alcohol Behaviour Change: Lessons
Learned from User Reviews of iTunes Apps, 11th
International Conference on Persuasive Technologies,
Springer.
Siers, M. and Islam, M. Z. (2016): RB Clust: High
quality class-specific clustering using rule-based
classification, In Proc. of the 24th European
Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks,
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