Seminar/Forum

Developing a PhD intellectual project
29 May

Developing a PhD intellectual project

Adjunct Professor Peter Ackers (WOW), will take students through the PhD journey, from building research ideas into a literature review and finding the allusive 'gap', developing questions to underpin the project, what kind of data you'll need and how and where to find it, the feasibility of your project in a three-year, one person timeframe, how to sustain your interest for this period, and your options post-PhD.
Griffith Asia Institute Research Seminar: Conflicting, Competing and Ambiguous Values in Contemporary Chinese Society
24 May

Griffith Asia Institute Research Seminar: Conflicting, Competing and Ambiguous Values in Contemporary Chinese Society

In this presentation, Adjunct Professor David Schak will focus identify some values in Chinese culture that are not part of the Chinese Great Tradition virtues and discuss the behaviour that they engender.
Entrepreneurship Seminar:  Diversity in business
22 May

Entrepreneurship Seminar: Diversity in business

This unique seminar investigates the inner culture of your business and highlights best practice in fostering diversity to improve morale and commercial outcomes for small to medium businesses.
Double header - 'A systematic review of the high-performance paradigm' & 'The formality and informality of performance management'
22 May

Double header - 'A systematic review of the high-performance paradigm' & 'The formality and informality of performance management'

WOW HDR student members Safa Riaz and Qian Yi Lee will deliver a short presentation from their PhD research in this double header seminar from the Centre for Work, Organsation and Wellbeing.
Griffith Asia Institute Research Seminar: Deng Xiaoping and China's Foreign Policy
17 May

Griffith Asia Institute Research Seminar: Deng Xiaoping and China's Foreign Policy

This presentation will focus on Professor Ronald Keith's 2018 Routledge, London book publication, Deng Xiaoping and China's Foreign Policy which is the sequel to the earlier Macmillan/St. Martin's publication, The Diplomacy of Zhou Enlai. Professor Keith will elaborate on why Deng can be regarded as having one of the most sophisticated and constructive foreign policies of the twentieth century.
Workers with intellectual disability and developing career-related outcomes
15 May

Workers with intellectual disability and developing career-related outcomes

Using a theoretical framework for inclusion, and following interviews with 64 participants, Drs Jillian Cavanagh and Amie Shaw will discuss research findings from a study that sought to identify how organisational support contributes to the development of workers with intellectual disability and their "career calling', in this seminar.