FACULTY OF BUSINESS
RESEARCH NEWSLETTER
ISSUE 8 – APRIL 2015
Page 1
Welcome
Page 2
Did You Know?
Page 3 - 4
Current Projects
Page 5
Staff Profiles:
Jane Maley
Samir Thapa
Page 6 - 7
Congratulations
Page 8 - 10
Professional
Development
Page 11
Funding News
Page 12
FoB Ethics Calendar
Page 13 - 14
Publications
WELCOME
Most of you would be aware that over the past six months we have been working through
our Excellence in Research Australia (ERA) Submission. It has now been completed, and
I would like to thank you all for your support in submitting your publications and
responding to many different queries. Thanks also the team of people who helped me
with selecting peer review items and writing the narratives: Manoranjan Paul, Steve
d’Alessandro, Rod Duncan, Junbin Gao and Terry Bossomaier. Thanks also to Paul
Forbes for tremendous administration support through the process. While ERA is a lot of
work, it is helpful in many respects. Though we already have our Faculty Research
Areas, seeing all of our publications data over six years and synthesising it gives us a
much clearer perspective of what we are doing, where our strengths lie and where we
need to further develop certain areas.
In March we held a two day research planning workshop in Wagga. This was attended by
the Dean, Heads of School, Faculty Research Area leaders, the acting Director of the
Research Office Professor Alain Deloire and the new Director of Major Grants and
External Links, Dr Mary Kelly. Dr Mary Kelly presented on her background in the ARC
and the Fulbright Commission and her current role and we will be looking to work with Dr
Mary Kelly wherever possible to help develop grants in the Faculty. The DVC-R
Professor Sue Thomas also made a presentation on the research agenda for the
university, research performance and areas to work on for the Faculty. On the first day,
half of those present worked on the operational plan for our recently approved Faculty
Research Unit in Applied Machine Learning which is being led by Professor Bernard
Pailthorpe with support of the new business manager Dr Nicole Bordes. We hope to have
a launch for this research unit in the next few months. The other half worked on plans for
developing our research in the area of Regional Entrepreneurship and Development. On
the second day we worked on plans for Faculty Research Areas for 2015. Over the next
few months you should begin to see the outcomes of these meetings, starting with some
get togethers of researchers working in entrepreneurship and human resource
management, as well as various externally-focused workshops being held.
I hope that you enjoy reading about the various research activities occurring in the
Faculty of Business, and my thanks as
always to Deborah Munns for preparing
this newsletter.
Professor Mark Morrison
Sub-Dean Research
I hope that you all have a very Happy
Easter.
Next Issue: The next issue will be published in June 2015. To contribute or suggest a
story, please email Deborah Munns of the Faculty of Business Research Office at
[email protected]
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DID YOU KNOW?
HERDC deadline is approaching fast!
The Higher Education
Research Data Collection
(HERDC) is an annual
government reporting
requirement, comprising
research data (income
and publications) from all
Australian tertiary institutions. If you are an academic
staff member you will have received an email from the
CSU Research Office containing a list of the
publications that are currently entered into the
repository against your name. This will assist you to
identify any missing publications so you can enter
them into MyResearch before the HERDC
submission deadline of 27th March.
Publications support and resources information are
available at:
http://www.csu.edu.au/myresearch/support
Get your publications out into the world
Upload your publications
to CSU’s CRO, the open
access
institutional
repostitory, to ensure
your
publication
is
available to the world.
To do this put the final
accepted draft into MyResearch via the documents link
on the left side of the screen and follow the instructions
to ‘Upload the Document to Repository’. It will go
across to CRO, and if the publisher agrees, it will be
unlocked so that it can be accessed by anyone
throughout the world.
Already entered your publication into MyResearch? It
is not too late – you can still enter your publication into
CRO by going back into MyResearch and selecting the
Documents link on the left side of the screen.
If you have any questions please contact Karin Smith
via [email protected]
Contributed by Karin Smith, Division of Library
Services
Resources and equipment within the Faculty for your next project
Did you know that there is a variety of equipment that
has been purchased for previous research that may be
available for your future research project?
Before rushing out to buy a new piece of equipment –
check with the FoB Research Office as it may already
be available for you to use. The equipment ranges
from a video camera, digital voice recorders, iPads,
laminator to the more specialised 3D printer, EEG
machine and eyetracker.
Contact Kerry Madden of the FoB
Research Office for more
information about the availablity and
use of equipment: ext: 57500 or
[email protected]
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CURRENT PROJECTS
Youth homelessness report released
Professor Adam Steen, from the School of Accounting
and Finance, along with Associate Professor David
MacKenzie from Swinburne Institute for Social
Research and Professor Paul Flatau from the
University of WA Centre for Social Impact, have
released The Costs of Youth Homelessness in
Australia report.
The report outlines the results of a three year study
funded by an Australian Research Council Linkage
grant, and in partnership with Mission Australia, The
Salvation Army and Anglicare Canberra-Goulburn. The
study is the first longitudinal study done in Australia on
a national level that focuses on the economic cost of
providing services for youth homelessness.
The study of close to 400 young people around
Australia, including some from regional areas such as
Orange, found that more than half of the respondents
had ‘slept rough’ before the age of 18. The study found
that homeless youth are more likely to experience
mental health conditions and other physical health
problems.
The majority of the
homeless youth
sample reported
leaving home
because of violence
between parents or
guardians. The
study also
confirmed the very
strong relationship between homelessness and some
form of out-of-home care.
The study confirmed that one of the earliest signs of
homelessness was couch surfing where young people
stayed with non-immediate family and friends as they
had nowhere else to live.
The data collected during the study should enable
governments to effectively plan their intervention
services to prevent entry into adult homelessness.
A further report on the economics of youth
homelessness will be released later in 2015.
Academics are happiest working on weekends
Research by three Faculty of Business Academics, Dr
Rod Duncan, Dr Kerry Tilbrook and Associate
Professor Branka Krivokapic-Skoko has found that
academics are happiest working on weekends when
they have no interruptions.
The research involved surveying a small sample of
research and teaching academics at lecturer and
senior lecturer levels at a large regional university.
Each academic was asked to complete a time diary for
one teaching session. The diaries recorded an hourby-hour breakdown of their activities and self-reported
emotional well-being and work effectiveness.
The team found that the academics were happiest
when they considered that their time had been used
effectively. Academics juggling teaching,
administrative and research roles often had a
fragmented workday which made them unhappy due to
negative feelings of productivity. Indeed, the
participants were
happiest on the
weekends when they
had more unregulated,
less fragmented time
and could devote large
amounts of time to
research tasks.
The team intend to
continue this research
and seek a larger
sample of academics.
The report is published
in the Australian
Universities’ Review (Vol 57, no. 1, 2015).
For more information about this project please contact
Dr Rod Duncan on [email protected]
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Constitutional Reform – Frozen in time
Dr Bede Harris, Senior Lecturer in Law in the School of
Accounting and Finance has published a survey on
Australian voters’ attitudes to constitutional reform the first on multiple reform issues conducted in more
than 30 years. The results appear in a book titled
Exploring the Frozen Continent – What Australians
Think of Constitutional Reform (2014, Vivid Publishing,
Fremantle). The research was funded by the Faculty of
Business at Charles Sturt University.
The survey consisted of 26 questions asked of a
representative sample of 616 registered voters,
covering a range of possible reforms, relating to the
electoral system, a Bill of Rights, the accountability of
the government to Parliament, federalism and an
Australian Republic. Dr Harris mentioned that “the
survey had unique aspects - it was the first survey to
canvass views on multiple reform issues - as opposed
to single-issue surveys - conducted in the past 30
years. Furthermore, the fact that background
information was given in many of the questions meant
that it was the first fully-informed survey as well.”
Parliament in proportion to their share of the national
vote, and 25% did not know whether this was true or
not. Only 43% realised that this was not true, so there
is a mismatch between how things are and how voters
believe them to be.”
“Clearly voters feel a need to know more about the
Constitution – 95% of respondents said that they
thought that school children should be taught more
about it”
In conclusion, Dr Harris said “My hope is that my
research will generate discussion about constitutional
reform although I feel that the impetus for reform will
need to come from voters. In fact, the survey indicates
that voters are far more amenable to reform than has
previously been supposed - but reform will be
achieved only if voters demand it, as they did in New
Zealand in the 1990s”.
One of the most significant findings of the survey was
that 75% of voters thought that the electoral system
should ensure that parties are represented in
Parliament in proportion to their share of the national
vote, while only 25% were opposed. A majority (58%
vs 42%) still remained in favour of proportional
representation even after being told that that system
would almost always result in a government being
formed by a coalition of parties. “This is significant”
said Dr Harris “because electoral reform is really the
key to reform of the rest of the Constitution. Apart from
giving us a Parliament which truly reflects the will of
the voters, as distinct from one where a party can win
20% of the votes nationwide and yet win no seats, it
would also break the current Coalition - Labor
duopoly.”
Bede can be emailed on [email protected]
Dr Harris also noted that voters were unaware of the
fundamentals of the Constitution: “For example, 33%
of voters thought that parties were represented in
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STAFF PROFILE
Dr. Jane Maley
Dr Jane Maley has recently
joined CSU as a Senior
Lecturer
in
Management,
based
on
the
Bathurst
campus.
Jane has had a diverse
working career having had
three major career changes to
date. She started her working
life as a nurse and midwife. This involved a two year
spell in the Albert Schweitzer hospital in Haiti.
Amongst many responsibilities, Jane helped to run the
hospital’s nutrition clinic.
When Jane first migrated to Australia from England,
obstetricians performed all midwifery services. Hence,
Jane started her second career as a technical
representative travelling throughout NSW selling
radioactivity to hospital nuclear medicine departments.
She trained in marketing and eventually held
managing director roles for multinational corporations
including, GE, Fujifilm and Medtronic.
In 2006, Jane gained a Doctorate from Macquarie
Graduate School of Management, Macquarie
University, Sydney. She then commenced on her third
career, this time in academia. She has worked as a
lecturer at Macquarie University and Australian
Catholic University and performed extensive
consultancy assignments prior to joining CSU in 2014.
Jane’s key research interests are globalisation and its
impact on strategic global human resource
management. This research stream aims to highlight
the evolution of global HR practices through the use of
various staffing approaches such as expatriation,
inpatriation, and flexpatriation.
This year, Jane plans to submit a number of journal
articles on the topics of uncertainty and HR
sustainability in uncertain times. Her collaborators are
as far afield as Linkoping in Sweden, Helsinki, Finland,
Manchester, UK and as close as Brisbane and North
Sydney.
Away from academia, Jane is an amateur piano player
and opera fan. She is currently learning Spanish with
the hope of walking the Camino route, a six week hike,
across North Western Spain in the near future.
Jane has also had her touch of fame. When she first
qualified as a midwife she worked at a private nursing
home in Windsor, UK and had the pleasure of bringing
a baby ‘Beatle’ into the world. George Harrison and his
wife Olivia were delivered a healthy baby boy courtesy
of Jane!
Samir Thapa
Mr Samir Thapa, a PhD student,
has recently moved to Bathurst
to begin his research within the
School of Management and
Marketing. Samir is completing
his PhD under the supervision of
Professor Kevin Parton and Dr
Rod
Duncan.
Samir
is
conducting research on the
equitable and efficient distribution of carbon revenues,
with the aim that this could lead to scaled up energy
access in developing countries.
Samir, originally from Nepal, has previously studied at
Bangalore University, India and Flensburg University,
Germany. His research specialities include the study of
socioeconomic and environmental impacts of energy
systems towards livelihood enhancement, especially
the impact on household income, health and
education.
Samir’s current research interest is developing
appropriate policy and program frameworks for scaling
up the modern energy access by analysing the political
economy of the renewable energy sector in developing
countries, especially through analysis of linkages with
the carbon finance, micro finance and energy
enterprises.
Samir also has over 15 years industry experience in
the areas of renewable energy and environment. He
worked as the Assistant Director in the Alternative
Energy Promotion Centre (AEPC) of the Ministry of
Science, Technology and Environment in Nepal. Samir
managed the Solar Energy and Waste to Energy
components of the Nepalese Government’s National
Rural and Renewable Energy Program. Samir’s area
of work at AEPC included energy access, energy
enterprises, micro finance and carbon finance.
Away from CSU, Samir enjoys hiking, playing soccer,
reading books; and spending time with his kids.
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CONGRATULATIONS
Academic promotions
Congratulations to Dr Tanveer Zia and Dr Oliver Burmeister, both from the School of Computing and Mathematics,
who have been promoted to Associate Professor. Additionally, Dr Rafiqul Islam, also of the School of Computing and
Mathematics, has been promoted to Senior Lecturer. Ana Torres Ahumada, of the School of Accounting and Finance,
was also promoted to Level B lecturer with a full teaching role.
The promotions recognise academic leadership and outstanding contributions to the work of the University and their
discipline.
Dr Tanveer Zia
Dr Oliver Burmeister
Dr Rafiqul Islam
Professor Junbin Gao – Record amount of publications
Congratulations to Professor Junbin Gao,of the School of Computing and Mathematics, who
had 23 journal papers and 17 conference papers published or accepted in 2014. This prolific
publication rate equates to approximately one publication per week (allowing for annual
leave).
Dr Abhishek Dwivedi – Top three downloaded article
Congratulations to Dr Abhishek Dwivedi who has been notified that his paper ‘Self-Brand Connection With Service
Brands: Examining Relationships With Performance Satisfaction, Perceived Value, and Brand Relationship Quality’,
published in Services Marketing Quarterly has been included in an online article collection featuring the most
downloaded articles published in Routledge Social Sciences journals in 2014. The collection features the top three
most downloaded articles that were published and downloaded in 2014 in each Routledge Social Sciences journal.
The article is freely available until the 30th June 2015, via the collection homepage here: http://bit.ly/social-sciencesmost-read
PhD student publishes several papers in premier publications
Congratulations to Mr Jason Traish, a PhD student in the School of Computing and
Mathematics, who has recently been notified of the acceptance of a journal paper and
two conference papers. Jason’s journal paper ‘Optimization using Boundary Lookup
Jump Point Search’, co-authored with his supervisor, Dr Jim Tulip, was accepted into the
prestigious journal, ‘IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games’.
The journal is considered to be a premier publication in the area of AI and Games.
Jason’s conference papers were accepted at the AI & Games Convention 2015 which is
run by the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour at
the University of Kent, UK, on April 20 – 22. Jason will travel to the conference to
present his papers.
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ANZAM Best paper Award 2014
Congratulations to Joanna Carlisle, who is conducting research on the
factors impacting the job performance for nurses in public hospitals in
Australia, as part of her PhD, under the supervision of Dr Ramudu
Bhanugopan and Dr Pamela Lockhart. Forming part of this research is the
development of a new scale to measure the effectiveness of training
carried out in hospitals. The General Training Effectiveness Scale was
developed by Joanna and Dr Bhanugopan and the paper written about the
scale was presented at the 2014 Australian and New Zealand Academy of
Management (ANZAM) conference in December.
It was at this conference that Joanna was awarded the ANZAM Best
Doctoral Paper Award sponsored by QUT Business School for the paper
titled ‘Development and Initial Validation of General Training Effectiveness
Scale for Nurses in Australia.
Honours student publishes in top-ranked journal
Congratulations to Mr Michael Siers who has had a paper based on his honours study
accepted for publication in the prestigious journal, Information Systems, which is
published by Elsevier. The paper was co-authored with his supervisor, Dr Md Zahidul
Islam. The paper is in addition to a conference paper published earlier in his studies.
Michael has now started work on a PhD.
Academy of International Business (USA) - ANZ Chapter Annual Symposium
The Academy of International Business (USA) – Australia New Zealand Chapter symposium was held on 14
November 2014 in Sydney. The symposium saw more than 75 delegates from across Australia, New Zealand, Chile
and the UK join to discuss and debate innovation in research on Global economy and finance, international business
management and changing global workforce. The symposium was hosted by CSU’s School of Management and
Marketing, and was convened by Dr Ramudu Bhanugopan.
Presenters included Professor Elizabeth Rose, of the University
of Otago, Professor Mark Morrison, CSU, and a keynote
address from Professor Tim Devinney, University of Leeds.
Throughout the day there were numerous concurrent sessions
which explored issues from International business sustainability
leading to global HRM, corporate social responsibility,
organizational change and innovation. The previous day AIBANZ hosted two creative and well attended paper development
workshops. The first was on Global Business Strategies and
the second was on International HRM. Top papers were
selected by the symposium committee and three best paper
awards including the best doctoral paper award were presented.
Prof. Mark Morrison presenting the best paper award to Dr
Faith Hatani, Manchester Business School, The University of
Manchester, UK.
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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Faculty of Business lunch time seminar series
The lunch time seminar series are continuing. A range of internal and external guest speakers
are scheduled for 2015, 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.
March 25
April 1
April 21
(Tuesday)
May 5 – 6
May 13
May 27
PhD student
School of
Accounting &
Finance, CSU
Bernd Schmidt
Demographic banking: The impact of demographic
change on the financial constraints of borrowers at
Bavarian savings banks.
Rod Duncan
The defence of bricks and mortar retailing
School of
Accounting and
Finance, CSU
Linda Hellebeek
Consumer community engagement practice in a virtual
brand community: a typology
Department of
Marketing,
University of
Auckland
Cynthia Webster
Workshop on social network analysis
(more details to be announced)
Department of
Marketing and
Management,
Macquarie
University
Mark Morrison
Topic to be confirmed
School of
Management &
Marketing, CSU
Kishor Sharma
Do policy reforms improve productivity? The case of
the Australian passenger motor vehicle industry.
School of
Accounting and
Finance, CSU.
Enquiries about the Seminar Series should be directed to the convenor: Dr Rod Duncan, on 6338 4982 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.
March 25
April 1
April 8
April 22
April 29
May 27
Rui Xiao
Zahidul Islam
Fazley Rabbi
Saira Syed and
Ben Davis
Hyperspectral Imaging
Clustering
School of
Computing and
Mathematics,
CSU
School of
Computing and
Mathematics,
CSU
School of
Computing and
Optimal Test Data Generation using Swarm Intelligence
Mathematics,
Technique
CSU
Cloud readiness assessment tool
Large scale analytics within cloud environments.
School of
Computing and
Mathematics,
CSU
Dr Mehrtash Harandi
Dictionary learning
NICTA &
Australian
National
University
Professor Yun Yang
Cloud Computing
Swinburne
University
Enquiries about the Computing and Mathematics Seminar Series should be directed to the convenor:
Dr Manoranjan Paul on 6338 4260 or [email protected]
Dr Allen Benter of the mining lab with 3D printer
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Data Mining Conference (AusDM 2015) – Invitation for papers
Dr Zahid Islam, of the School of Computing and Mathematics, is serving as the Co-Chair of
the Program Committee of the 13th Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 2015) The
conference will be at the University of Technology, Sydney on August 8 – 9, 2015. The
committee is inviting all academics to submit any data mining or application of data mining
related paper by the submission deadline of 20 April 2015.
The conference proceedings will be published under the Conferences in Research and Practice in Information
Technology series for distribution at the conference.
For more information about the conference refer to the conference website: http://ausdm15.ausdm.org/
Cyber Security Symposium – Wagga Wagga – 10 - 11 June 2015
The School of Computing and Mathematics is busy organising a two day Cyber Security
Symposium on 10 – 11 June 2015 at the International Hotel, Wagga Wagga. The
program will comprise of three technical sessions, two keynote sessions and one industry
session. A range of both internal and external speakers from both academic and industry
backgrounds have already confirmed their attendance at the symposium.
Professor Jemel Abawajy of Deakin University has been confirmed as one of the key note
speakers. Additionally, Dr Steve Versteeg, Vice president of CA Labs (the research arm
of the CA Techologies, based in Melbourne), will give a talk about ‘The Risk Adaptive
Security Perimeter’.
For more information about the symposium please contact Dr Rafiqul Islam via [email protected]
Special Thesis Writing Bootcamp for Research Students
Applications are now open for a special free hard-core thesis-writing bootcamp for
research students. It will take place from the afternoon of Friday, 1st of May to
Sunday, 3rd of May. Participants can join either online, via Adobe Connect, or in
person in Canberra.
This is a pilot in collaboration with the Faculty of Arts, Office for Students and ANU
Research Training. Applications are open to everyone enrolled in a higher degree by
research. However, places are very limited and participants will be selected on the basis of their application.
Applications close on Friday, 27th of March.
The bootcamp facilitators will be Inger Mewburn, Director of Research Training at ANU and the Thesis Whisperer, and
Cassily Charles, Academic Writing Coordinator (HDR)/ALLAN Coordinator (PG). ANU and CSU research students will
be taking part together.
*Word count is the focus of this bootcamp. It will only be suitable for people who are at an intensive writing stage,
including anyone who may be at risk of not completing on time, or who wants to boost the speed and quantity of their
thesis writing.
The application form can be found at the following link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CanberraOnlineBootcamp
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FUNDING NEWS
To Submit or Not to Submit – NTS forms with Expression of Interest (EOI)?
With an increasing number of external funding agencies requesting an Expression of Interest
(EOI) as the first step in their funding process there has been some confusion amongst
researchers as to when a Notice to Submit (NTS) form should be sent to the Research Office.
An EOI process asks participants to submit a summary of their proposed research and budget,
these summaries are then assessed by the funding body. Only selected participants are invited
to complete a full application.
The Research Office suggests that the completed NTS form be submitted with the EOI. If the researcher is invited to
submit a full application another NTS form is not required. A completed NTS ensures that support from the School and
University is ‘locked in’.
Research Infrastructure Block Grants (RIBG) – Now open
Research Infrastructure Block Grants (RIBG) is a Research Block Grant scheme that provides funds to eligible higher
education institutions to maintain and strengthen Australia’s knowledge base and research capabilities by developing
an effective research and research training system.
The objectives of RIBG are to:

Remedy deficiencies in current research infrastructure;

Enhance support for areas of research strength; and

Ensure that areas of recognised research potential, in which institutions have taken steps to initiate high
quality research activity, have access to the support necessary for development.
Applications to Faculty Office close on 22 April 2015
If an application is strongly aligned with a Research Centre, comments and confirmation of any financial support from
the Research Centre Director should be obtained before submission to the Faculty Office. Faculties to return
complete, ranked applications to the Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) by 6 May 2015.
For information and guidelines refer to: http://www.csu.edu.au/research/support/researchers/funding/internal/ribg
John Stocker Postdoctoral Fellowships
The Science and Industry Endowment Fund (SIEF) has funding available for up to 6 fellowships
commencing in 2016. SIEF is seeking applications that include a diverse range of Early Career
Researchers in order to ensure that it has the strongest field of candidates and projects from which to
select.
The proposal, which must be submitted via the University Research Office (or equivalent), will identify
the eligible Candidate, the proposed project, Lead supervisor and any other collaborating partners.
Proposals will be assessed by a panel of experts drawn from universities, publicly funded research
agencies and industry representatives.
For more information please refer to: http://www.sief.org.au/FundingActivities/Fellowships.html
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BFHREC MEETING DATES AND SUBMISSION DEADLINES
2015 BFHREC Meeting and Submission Closing Dates
Note: Submissions must be received by 5.00 pm on the date of closing.
Business Faculty Human Research Ethics Committee
Meeting Dates for 2015
Submission Deadline/Agenda Closes
Meeting Date
Meeting Time
Venue
Thursday 29 January
Thursday 12 February
1:00pm –
3:00pm
Videoconference
Thursday 26 February
Thursday 12 March
1:00pm –
3:00pm
Videoconference
Thursday 26 March
Thursday 9 April
1:00pm –
3:00pm
Videoconference
Thursday 30 April
Thursday 14 May
1:00pm –
3:00pm
Videoconference
Thursday 28 May
Thursday 11 June
1:00pm –
3:00pm
Videoconference
Thursday 25 June
Thursday 9 July
1:00pm –
3:00pm
Videoconference
Thursday 30 July
Thursday 13 August
1:00pm –
3:00pm
Videoconference
Thursday 27 August
Thursday 10 September
1:00pm –
3:00pm
Videoconference
Thursday 24 September
Thursday 8 October
1:00pm –
3:00pm
Videoconference
Thursday 29 October
Thursday 12 November
1:00pm –
3:00pm
Videoconference
Thursday 26 November
Thursday 10 December
1:00pm –
3:00pm
Face-to-face location
tba
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PUBLICATIONS
Peer reviewed papers
Crawford, H. J., & Gregory, G. D. (2014). Humorous
advertising that travels: A review and call for research.
Journal of Business Research, 68 (3), 569-577.
Duncan, R, Tilbrook, K, and Krivokapic-Skoko, B.
(2015) “Does academic work make Australian
academics happy?”, Australian Universities’ Review,
57(1): 5-12.
Dwivedi, A. (2015) A higher-order model of consumer
brand engagement and its impact on loyalty intentions,
Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, Vol 24,
100 -109.
Evans, M., and Sinclair, A., (2015) Navigating the
territories of Indigenous leadership: Exploring the
experiences and practices of Australian Indigenous
arts leaders, Leadership, 1 – 21.
Fletcher, S., and Islam, M. Z. (2015): Measuring
Information Quality for Privacy Preserving Data Mining,
International Journal of Computer Theory and
Engineering, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 21-28.
Accepted and forthcoming papers
J. West and Maumita Bhattacharya, “A
Comprehensive Investigation on Intelligent Financial
Fraud Detection Practices”, Computers & Security,
Elsevier,
Carkins, J. and D’Alessandro, S. (accepted and
forthcoming) Does knowing overcome wanting? The
impact of consumer knowledge and materialism on
credit card selection, Young Consumers.
D’Alessandro, S, Johnson, L, Gray, D and Carter, L
(in press) The market performance indicator: A macro
understanding of service provider switching, Journal of
Services Marketing.,
Stewart-Loane, S., Webster, C., and D’Alessandro, S.
(accepted and forthcoming) Empowered and
knowledgeable health consumers: the role of online
support groups in self-care for chronic disease,
Australasian Marketing Journal
Rahman, M. G., and Islam, M. Z. (accepted and
forthcoming): Missing value imputation using a fuzzy
clustering based EM approach, Knowledge and
Information Systems.
Siers, M., and Islam, M. Z. (accepted and
forthcoming): Software Defect Prediction Using a Cost
Sensitive Decision Forest and Voting, and a Potential
Solution to the Class Imbalance Problem, Information
Systems.
Small, F. and Attree, K. (2015 – available online)
Undergraduate student responses to feedback:
expectations and experiences, Studies in Higher
Education.
Conference papers
J. West and Maumita Bhattacharya. Mining Financial
Statement Fraud: An Analysis of Some Experimental
Issues”, in Proceedings of The 10th IEEE Conference
on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA
2015), IEEE Press.
H. Wilcox and Maumita Bhattacharya. “Countering
Social Engineering through Social Media: An
Enterprise Security Perspective”, in Proceedings of
The International Conference on Computational
Science (ICIEA 2015)
Adnan, M., and Islam, M. Z. (2015): One Vs All
Binarization Technique in the Context of Random
Forest, In Proc. of the 23rd European Symposium on
Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence
and Machine Learning (ESANN 2015), Bruges,
Belgium, April 22 - 24, 2015
Adnan, M., and Islam, M. Z. (2015): Improving the
Random Forest Algorithm by Randomly Varying the
Size of the Bootstrap Samples for Low Dimensional
Data Sets, In Proc. of the 23rd European Symposium
on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational
Intelligence and Machine Learning (ESANN 2015),
Bruges, Belgium, April 22 - 24, 2015
Beg, A. H., and Islam, M. Z. (2015): Clustering by
Genetic Algorithm - High Quality Chromosome
Selection for Initial Population, In Proc. of the 10th
IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and
Applications (ICIEA 2015), Auckland, New Zealand, 15
-17 June, 2015. (ERA 2010 Rank A) (Accepted on 05
March, 2015)
Chan, A. and Prasad, P.W.C. (2014) "An Early Report:
Integration and Subject Content Assembly with
Mindmap Learning System," 7th International
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Conference of Education, Research & Innovation,
5339 - 5443.
Prasad, P.W.C., Alsadoon, A, Beg, A.and Chan, A.
(2014) “Incorporating Simulation Tools in the Teaching
of Digital Logic Design,” 2014 IEEE International
Conference on Control System, Computing &
Engineering (ICCSCE), 18 - 23.
Singh, N. B, Alsadoon, A., Prasad, P. W. C, Singh, A.
K, and Shrestha, A. K., (2014) “Impact of Shared
Attributes and Methods in Calculation of ObjectOriented Inheritance Metrics,” The 2nd IEEE
International Conference on "Emerging Technology
Trends in Electronics, Communication and Networking
(ET2ECN-2014), pp. 292 - 298.
Smith, P., Prasad, P.W.C, and Singh, A. K. (2014)
“Cyber Schooling: A Revolution for the Education
System,” The 2nd IEEE International Conference on
"Emerging Technology Trends in Electronics,
Communication and Networking (ET2ECN-2014), 338342,
Books
Ling, P., D’Alessandro, S., and Winzar, H. (2015)
Consumer Behaviour in Action, Oxford University
Press, Melbourne, Australia.
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