Research Events

04/12/2013 Australasian Conference on Information Systems
The Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS) is the premier conference in Australasia for Information Systems academics and professionals, covering technical, organisational, business, and social issues in the application of Information Technology. Its status has been recognized as an ERA-ranked A-conference.

29/11/2013 Drivers of competitive advantage for women owned fast-growth SMEs
Dr Carol Tan and Dr Afreen Huq from RMIT University presents Drivers of competitive advantage for women owned fast-growth SMEs

25/10/2013 Value focused assessment of social networking technologies in organisations: An Australian study
Professor Mohini Singh and Dr Konrad Peszynski from RMIT University presents Value focused assessment of social networking technologies in organisations: An Australian study.

27/09/2013 Business, government and society in a shifting geopolitical order
Associate Professor Sharif As-Saber from RMIT University presents Business, government and society in a shifting geopolitical order.

26/07/2013 Blokes, masculinities and gender equality: Redefining the 'Ideal Worker' in a digital economy
Dr Sheree Gregory from Swinburne University of Technology presents Blokes, masculinities and gender equality: Redefining the 'Ideal Worker' in a digital economy

18/07/2013 New Generation Learning Spaces
This one day symposium will focus on research into New Generation Learning Spaces (NGLS). PechaKucha presentations on the experience of working in NGLS will be followed by a research workshop to assist successful writing for journal publication.

28/06/2013 A RARE treat: Exploring the state's response to bushfire
Dr Richard Phillips from RMIT University presents A RARE treat: Exploring the state's response to bushfire.

13/06/2013 Living with complexity: Agility, sensemaking and distributed cognition
Join Welsh researcher, Dave Snowden, as he takes you on a journey to understand the impact of complexity on business.

05/06/2013 Asia@RMIT seminar
Associate Professor Sharif As-Saber on Bangladesh and Bani Singh on the Khalsa Museum

04/06/2013 Qualitative Interest Group - Literature Reviews: the good, the bad and the ugly!
At this meeting, we confront a question that has haunted many previous discussions:   apart from the thesis requirement, what is the purpose of a literature review?

03/06/2013 Citations Workshop
The Research Capacity Building Team invites all members of the College to a workshop on increasing your citations.

03/06/2013 The RMIT Accounting for Sustainability Conference, 2013
The School of Accounting is pleased to be hosting the RMIT Accounting for Sustainability Conference, 2013 on Monday, 3 June.

31/05/2013 Trade unions: Development actors or victims?
Professor Peter Fairbrother and Dr Ruth Barton from RMIT University presents Trade unions: Development actors or victims?

07/05/2013 Qualitative Interest Group: Qualitative Research Design
Collaborative project management for qualitative researchers – into the cloud? A demonstration and discussion of the Quadrant software.

18/04/2013 Ports, hinterland connectivity and freight corridor bottlenecks
Dr Victor Gekara from RMIT University presents Ports, hinterland connectivity and freight corridor bottlenecks.

10/04/2013 Asia@RMIT seminar
Paul Battersby on Securing Australia’s Business Future in Asia and Heinrich Schmidt at eResearch Platforms and Collaboration with India

09/04/2013 Qualitative Interest Group: Qualitative Research Design
The next meeting has a different date! It will be on the second Tuesday of the month, 9th April.

04/04/2013 Excel for Research and Presentation - Data Sources and Presentation
Visiting Professor Humberto Barreto will conduct a three-day workshop on using Excel for Research and Presentation for economists in March.

22/03/2013 Waves of desire: Writing assemblages of nature
Dr Robin Canniford from the University of Melbourne presents Waves of desire: Writing assemblages of nature

21/03/2013 Excel for Research and Presentation - Statistical Analysis
Visiting Professor Humberto Barreto will conduct a three-day workshop on using Excel for Research and Presentation for economists in March.

21/03/2013 Sexuality in Southeast Asia: Past, Present and Future
This interactive workshop will draw upon Tom Boellstorff’s extensive work in Southeast Asia and presentations by other scholars to explore the past, present and future of sexuality and gender research in the region.

21/03/2013 What we talk about when we talk about 'alternative economies'
In the wake of the global financial crisis that began in the summer of 2008, many commentators, critics and visionaries have looked anew at contemporary and historical alternatives to dominant financial paradigms.

19/03/2013 The awkward history of payment technology and financial inclusion
Despite their importance and ubiquity, payment infrastructures are little studied outside the payments industry, and within the industry the rapid development of new systems of value transfer exceeds the ability even of experts to keep up.

18/03/2013 Workshop on Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion
This workshop will include presentations by visiting Professors Bill Maurer and Tom Boelstorff (University of California, Irvine).

18/03/2013 George Higinbotham Annual Lecture
RMIT University celebrates the legacy of politician and chief justice George Higinbotham (1826-1892) through an annual public lecture which explores topical legal issues and in particular the interaction between the law and society. The guiding principal for the series is enhancing our understanding of the law and the role of legal and political innovation in helping create a more just society.

18/03/2013 The unbearable persistence of binarisms: On the ontology of the digital
In this talk Tom Boellstorff conducts a meta-analysis of his research in Indonesia and in virtual worlds, as well as the research of a number of other scholars, to make a big claim: the most fundamental issue in all of social theory is the unbearable persistence of binarisms.

14/03/2013 Excel for Research and Presentation - Numerical Methods
Visiting Professor Humberto Barreto will conduct a three-day workshop on using Excel for Research and Presentation for economists in March.

21/02/2013 12 Weeks Writing Challenge! Information Session
Are you a great researcher but a terrible finisher? Then this is the challenge for you. Write a paper in 12 weeks! ….Yes it can be done.

20/02/2013 CBER Ideas Unconference
The CBER ‘Unconference’ is designed as an organic, participative opportunity to bring together people from across the College who are interested, passionate and knowledgeable about business education research.

05/02/2013 Qualitative Interest Group: 'Handling Qualitative Data – tasks and topics, concerns and challenges'
The next meeting, and the first one for the year, will be on Tuesday, 5 February 2013

04/12/2012 Qualitative Interest Group - Unstructured Interviews, BYO interview questions!
The Qualitative Research Group is an informal and supportive discussion group that meets monthly, convened by Adjunct Professor Lyn Richards.

21/11/2012 RMIT Business IT & Logistics Industry Symposium
Join colleagues from academia, industry and professional associations to debate, scrutinise conventional wisdom, create new ideas, and develop understanding about the profound, complex and interconnected challenges facing the ICT and logistics sector.

19/11/2012 The RMIT Accounting Educators’ Conference, 2012
This is a forum for accounting educators to share their research findings in addressing key issues and developments in accounting education.

16/11/2012 Keynote Address by Professor Gerda Gemser
This lecture will give insight into the various ways in which design can create value, both at a broader industry level, and the more specific firm level.

16/11/2012 Research Excellence Awards
The Research Excellence Awards acknowledge outstanding research achievements by academic staff (individuals and research groups) and HDR candidates in the College of Business. The Awards will be presented by Industry Advisory Board member, Dr Chris Behrenbruch after his keynote address. The Recipients will receive a certificate with their award.

16/11/2012 Keynote Address by Dr Chris Behrenbruch
High quality business research has had tremendous impact on industry best practices for the better part of a century. Whether grounded in economics, organisational behavior, applied psychology or law, academics have often brilliantly distilled the obvious stupidities of the business world into manageable bite-sized chunks. But times are changing.

15/11/2012 Designing Better Corporate and Social Governance
The Graduate School of Business and Law will run a half-day event showcasing current research activities in the School. The event will include a range of presentations including research activities within the Smart Services CRC, an introduction to the new Centre for Innovative Justice, an inside view of ARC Discovery research, short presentations by PhD scholars as well as a selection of current research being undertaken by School staff.

14/11/2012 Design, Intelligent, Ubiquitous and Social Information Systems, Sustainability and Emerging Technology
The School of Business Information Technology and Logistics (SBITL) is organising an “all day” research day. The day will include presentations from both HDR candidates as well as School staff members. All presentations will be centered on four themes -

14/11/2012 Centre for Business Education Research (CBER) Symposium
Re-imagining a brave new world for business education: design for learning, embedding standards and developing pathways

14/11/2012 Asia@RMIT seminar
Dr Nattavud Pimpa on 'Poverty alleviation: CSR approaches' and Julian CH Lee on 'Banning of the Malaysian Sexuality Rights Movement'.

13/11/2012 Market, Behaviour and Strategy (MBS) Group Symposium
The MBS group will present an overview of theory and practise of evaluation methods – including case-based analytic approaches and varieties of experimental techniques. The group will also present a number of particular cases and topics that individual members of the group have undertaken or are presently involved with.

13/11/2012 Frontier of research in Economics, Finance and Marketing
The School of Economics, Finance and Marketing will run a half-day event centered on the above theme. The event will comprise of presentations on topics ranging from industry engagement, share price dynamics, ARC grants to future challenges in HDR supervision, managerial career concerns and risk preferences, and many more.

12/11/2012 Managing a Sustainable Future
School of Management together with the Centre for Sustainable Organisations and Work (CSOW) will run an all-day event. The day will consist of staff presentations, expert panel discussions and workshops on grant-writing and journal publication.

09/11/2012 Keynote Address by Professor Max King
Professor Max King will present the vision for the new Monash PhD with its coursework/training component and discuss the difficulties of making such a change to a university-wide degree.

09/11/2012 Keynote address by Principal Research Fellow Jason Potts
Associate Professor Jason Potts will present research on the new approach to the study of innovation that emphasises the often significant extent to which shared contributions and voluntary cooperation occurs in the development of new technologies.

08/11/2012 Keynote Address by Professor Erica McWilliam
In this presentation, Professor Erica McWilliam makes a case for examining the thinking that is used to design postgraduate research. She argues that this century is demanding more of knowledge creators than routine research questions and standard methodologies.

08/11/2012 HDR Poster presentation competition
Come along to hear HDR candidates, College of Business present a poster based on their research thesis and their findings!

07/11/2012 Business Research Academic Staff 3MT Presentations
Come and hear the College of Business academic staff present their research projects in 3 minutes. A great opportunity to explore new ideas and possible collaborations!

07/11/2012 Keynote address by Professor Aidan Byrne, CEO of Australian Research Council
Professor Aidan Byrne will share his views on the ARC’s priorities and programs – both past and present – and the role they play in the current national research agenda.

02/10/2012 Qualitative Interest Group - Unstructured Interviews, when are such interviews useful?
The next meeting of this informal group continues a series on making qualitative data - this time, discussing what’s normal about this most normal way of making qualitative data, is it possible for interviews to be ‘unstructured’ and how best to design and conduct them?