Principal speaker
Associate Professor Keith Townsend
Abstract: Research can be divided in to two types – good research, and bad research. Or is it qualitative research and quantitative research. Or perhaps the two types are ‘PUBLISHED’ research and not-published research.
In research that is focussed around people management – regardless of the discipline, OB, IR, HRM or others, there are many common exclamations heard from flustered academics – but when it comes to publishing, some include:
“But all the journal rankings favour journals from other disciplines”; and
“But those big US journals only publish quantitative work”; and
“My research isn’t seen as a ‘sexy’ topic for editors”
Sure, all of these might be true, but let’s face it – a big part of our job is to do research and get it published.
This seminar will focus on what it takes to get qualitative, case study research published in good journals. If you want theory – stay in your office. If you want answers – stay in your office. If you want morning tea – come to the seminar and listen to some practical ideas about publishing that really interesting little case study you’ve left in the second drawer for far too long.
Speaker: Associate Professor Townsend has published more than 50 refereed journal articles and book chapters since he started his PhD ten years ago. Around forty of these publications have been workplace based, case studies. He has completed more than 500 interviews with employees and managers, performed countless hours of job observation, engaged in workplace training programmes as data collection, and even been forced to sit in pubs to discuss data collection with research participants. Associate Professor Keith Townsend is a Certified Professional of the Australian Human Resource Institute (CAHRI) and has been the Vice President of the Industrial Relations Society of Queensland (IRSQ) for three years. He is active on the National Council of the Australian Labour and Employment Relations Association. In 2010 he was the sole recipient of the Griffith University’s Vice Chancellor Research Excellence Award for Early Career Researchers.
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