Meet our Business team

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Our business team integrate cutting-edge research with practical insights, ensuring that students have the skills and knowledge to navigate the complexities of tomorrow’s business world. 

Discipline Lead and Course Coordinators Academic Staff Adjunct Staff Contact the Faculty of Business, Law and Arts

Discipline Lead and Course Coordinators

John Haw

Associate Professor John Haw

Chair of Discipline (Management)

John is a teaching scholar with a strong background in teaching statistics and research design across multiple disciplines. He also teaches gaming management, service quality and organisational management. His most recent research has focussed on the scholarship of teaching and improving student experiences with their education.

Owen Hogan

Dr Owen Hogan

MBA (On-Campus) Course Coordinator, and Lecturer

Following a career as a professional musician, business owner and senior administrator, Owen now lectures in, strategy, innovation, and design thinking. Owen has published research in fields such as entrepreneurship, strategy, education policy and small business innovation. Owen has founded two successful creative industries businesses and is currently researching digital connectivity in agriculture, and the implementation of circular economy principles within meat processing industry.

Head and shoulders - Jackie Liu

Dr Jackie Liu

MPA Course Coordinator, and Lecturer

Jackie's research interests cover securities market supervision, carbon emissions, corporate governance, corporate reporting and earnings management.

Dr Scott Niblock

Dr Scott Niblock

BBus Course Coordinator, BBA Course Coordinator, and Senior Lecturer.

Scott teaches Investments and Portfolio Management, Finance for Business, and Behavioural Finance and Client Relationships. His research interests include behavioural finance, financial advice seeking, financial well-being, and responsible investing.

Head and shoulders - Dr Sharen Nisbet

Dr Sharen Nisbet

MBA (Online) Course Coordinator, MPM (Online) Course Coordinator, and Senior Lecturer

Sharen's research interests are focused on how tourism industry employers and employees can work together to develop and achieve shared goals, and the factors that facilitate or mitigate this.

Academic Staff

Head and shoulders - Professor Yvonne Brunetto

Professor Yvonne Brunetto

Professor

Yvonne was identified as a high impact researcher in management by the Australian Research Council in 2019. Her research is in examining antecedents and outcomes of work performance. Her teaching is in leadership and human resources management.

Head and shoulders - Dr Julia Caldicott

Dr Julia Caldicott

Senior Lecturer

Julia is a Work Integrated Learning (WIL) specialist teaching professional development and internship units. Her research focuses on the personal and professional development opportunities afforded through WIL. Julia is a committee member for the NSW/ACT Chapter of the Australian Collaborative Education Network.

Dr Holly Cooper

Dr Holly Cooper

Senior Research Fellow

Holly's research spans consumption myths, AI predicted personality and the impact of artificial intelligence on firm performance. She has extensive experience in qualitative methods, particularly narrative research. She has had her work published in the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, European Journal of Marketing, Industrial Marketing Management, Psychology & Marketing and the Journal of Marketing Communications, among others.

Head and shoulders - Michael Charles

Associate Professor Michael Charles

Associate Professor

Michael's research focuses on infrastructure policy, public values and infrastructures, research policy, collaboration and engagement between industry and academia, and history.

Head and shoulders - Dr Patrick Gillett

Dr Patrick Gillett

Lecturer

Patrick teaches in the discipline areas of management and organisational behaviour. His research interests include student engagement and instructional design.

Head and shoulders - Jennifer L Harrison

Dr Jennifer Harrison

Senior Lecturer

Jennifer's current research interests are focused on financial literacy, financial well-being, financial advisor anxiety and, in the context of accounting and finance education, maths anxiety.

Head and shoulders - Professor Robyn Keast

Professor Robyn Keast

Professor

Robyn has an extensive research portfolio, covering governance, government/community relations, social and public policy, police-corruption, interest-based negotiation and asset management.

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Associate Professor Pascal Scherrer

Associate Professor

Pascal has strong sustainability expertise applied to areas including plastic waste, regional development, tourism and visitor management. He is the ZeroWaste Cluster Faculty Lead and has successfully worked on a wide range of research projects and consultancies across several levels of government and with universities. He also teaches across a range of undergraduate and postgraduate business and tourism units and supervises PhD research students.

Professor Darshana Sedera

Professor Darshana Sedera

Associate Dean (International and Engagement)

Darshana has published over 300 articles in major refereed journals and conferences on the broader topic of digital business transformation. His publications have appeared in journals such as JAIS, JSIS, I&M, IT&P, and CAIS. He has also served as the CI in several Australian Research Council Grants.

Head and shoulders Dr Simon Wilde

Dr Simon Wilde

Senior Lecturer

Simon teaches a variety of undergraduate and postgraduate units including Digital Marketing, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and Competitive Strategy. Simon's broader research focus is in the areas of marketing (especially challenges faced by Non-Government Organisations) and general regional development issues.

Adjunct Staff

Dr Christopher (Kit) Bennetts

Adjunct Fellow

Kit has been associated with Southern Cross University since 1997. Currently, he teaches primarily into the field of aviation management at the Gold Coast campus, and also delivers business units for the University in Papua New Guinea and China. Kit plays a major role in developing and marketing the University’s Aviation Management program.

Dr Michael Bryant

Adjunct Fellow

Michael completed both a Bachelor of Applied Computing and a PhD at Southern Cross University. He has taught in units such as Web Development 1, and his recent research includes topics such as the influence of trust when using artificial intelligence applications, consumer trust in social media advertising, and electronic retail store image.

Dr Kay Dimmock

Adjunct Senior Lecturer

Kay has taught across tourism, management and business units at Southern Cross University, and supervised numerous higher degree research student projects involved with marine leisure, livelihoods and dive tourism, climate change and coastal destinations, marine wildlife and tourism, sustainability in tourism education, women and tourism in small islands, older women divers and ageing, management competencies and the economic value of marine parks.

Dr Barbara Kinder

Adjunct Fellow

Barbara’s research interests include addictive consumption, gambling, global value chains, and public health policy. She is a Southern Cross University PhD graduate.

Professor Kevin Markwell

Adjunct Professor

Kevin has been teaching, supervising higher degree research students and undertaking research in tourism studies for 30 years. His research is multi-disciplinary social science focused on: animal-human relations in tourism; tourism, leisure and sexual identity; social constructions and experiences of nature within tourism/leisure.

Associate Professor David Noble

Adjunct Associate Professor

David focusses on public policy and administration for university-industry collaboration, innovation and national systems of innovation. He has more than 30 years of experience in middle and senior management roles in the for-profit, not-for-profit, and tertiary education sectors. He has taught into project management and risk management units at Southern Cross University.

Contact the Faculty of Business, Law and Arts

Executive Dean of Faculty Associate Dean (Education) Associate Dean
(International & Engagement)		 Associate Dean
(Research)		 Professional Experience Coordinator
Professor Mike Ewing Ms Helen Walsh Professor Darshana Sedera Associate Professor Pascal Scherrer Mrs Joanne Cooper
T: +61 7 5589 3207
E: michael.ewing@scu.edu.au		 T:  +61 2 6620 3848
E: helen.walsh@scu.edu.au		 T:  +61 7 5589 3036
E: darshana.sedera@scu.edu.au		 T:  +61 2 6620 3024
E: pascal.scherrer@scu.edu.au

T:  +61 2 6620 3154
E: wil@scu.edu.au