Our Research
The School of Business, Economics and Public Policy has an active research culture and a strong record of postgraduate completions, scholarly publications, and competitive research grants. Many of the projects undertaken in the School are in collaboration with leading researchers both nationally and internationally.
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Research Strengths
The research strengths of the School lie in the following areas:
Economics: Applied microeconomics and public economics; Agricultural and resource economics, Economic history; and Development economics
Business Development and Sustainability: International marketing and branding; Accounting legislation, Leadership, Small business management and entrepreneurship; and Gender and rural governance.
Policy and Governance: Administrative studies; Policy studies; Higher education management and governance
Research Centres and Groups
Our Research Centres and Groups provide an efficient framework for assembling or managing project teams. As well as those housed within the Faculty, our researchers work through the many cooperative research centres and other research centres to which UNE is a party.
The Centre for Local Government provides an umbrella for support, service, education and leadership to all sectors of local government in Australia through education, professional development, consultancy and research.
Publications
The School has an impressive track record when it comes to the dissemination of research outcomes. In line with UNEs long academic tradition our staff publish in national and international refereed journals. In addition, many of the fruits of our research feature as books, book chapters, and commissioned reports.
For up to date listings on research across the School visit the Faculty of The Professions Research Publications website.
Postgraduate Research
Our research masters and PhD students have explored and are currently exploring a wide variety of topics in the areas of Economics, Business and Public Policy.
Economics: Staff possess a wide range of research interests in Economics, applied Econometrics and Economic History. Postgraduate students wishing to pursue research in any of these broad areas should consult the detailed curriculum vitae of staff members on this website.
Business: examples include marketing of organic foods, intuitive decision making in management, the role of Australian Vice-Chancellors, transformational leadership behaviours, complexities in implementing a native vegetation policy, adoption of innovations in agriculture, gender differences in performance among small business owners, performance of SMEs in Thailand, career development in the accounting profession, cross-cultural implications of innovation adoption, integration of the Malaysian equity market.
Public Policy: Given the expertise and interests of our staff, we offer postgraduate opportunities for research on School Leadership and Higher EducationManagement and Policy, both in the Australian and comparative perspective.
School Research
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