I came back from ANZAM a little early, so that I could attend the faculty Xmas bash. Part of the event consisted of the awarding of _Teaching Excellence Awards_. Having been nominated by Peter Boxall, and then spent some considerable time putting my teaching portfolio together, I was hopeful of an “honourable mention”. So, it …
With regards to supervision of PhD and DBA candidates, there seems to be some good ideas at work in Australia. Firstly, only people on the University’s _Research Register_ can supervisor doctoral candidates. The situation is looser for those doing masters thesis. To get on to the registers, one has to: * have PhD, * co-supervise …
One of the workshops I attended whilst at “ANZAM”:http://www.anzam.uts.edu.au/ was entitled _Best practices framework in doctoral education_. It was ‘hosted’ by “Ronel Erwee”:http://apps.usq.edu.au/usqwebsite/aspnet/staffsearch/default.aspx?staffsearchaction=showdetails&staffsearchusername=erwee from the “University of Southern Queensland”:http://www.usq.edu.au/. In principle, the workshop was about the requirements that Australian universities have to meet for their professional (taught?) doctorate programs, namely for DBAs. Being in charge …
For the next few days, I’m in “Dunedin”:http://www.dunedincity.govt.nz/city/?page=search_new attending the 2004 “ANZAM”:http://www.anzam.uts.edu.au/ “conference”:http://www.commerce.otago.ac.nz/mgmt/ANZAM2004/index.html. The main reason for being here is to give a workshop on _Strategising activity and practice_. In fact, I’m running the workshop in conjunction with “Paula Jarzabkowski”:http://www.abs.aston.ac.uk/newweb/staff/detail.asp?sfldStaffID=A0000327 and “Colin Campbell-Hunt”:http://www.business.otago.ac.nz/mgmt/staff/ccampbellhunt.html. “Gerry Johnson”:http://www.gsb.strath.ac.uk/worldclass/research/profiles/showprofile.asp?htmlid=1&subsection=Profile&staffid=11 was going to be here too, but alas he can’t …