• HRM/HRD topics
• Organisational change & agility / Complex Adaptive Systems
• Workforce Development & Workforce Futures
• AI, Ethics, and Algorithmic HRM
• Skilled Migration & Migrant Entrepreneurship
• Specialist in Mixed Methiods Research (MMR) & Inter-Methodology Mixing (I-MM)
• Leadership development
• Career Development, Career Transitions & Career Trajectories

Prior to joining academia, I was a senior HRM professional having worked in Australia, Fiji islands and the Middle East. I have worked at three public universities in Australia (Southern Cross University; CQUniversity and Curtin University) and a private higher education provider (Australian Institute of Business) prior to joining Torrens University. I am a Fellow of AHRI and a member of the AHRI Advisory Research Panel. I am a foundational convenor of the ANZAM Mixed Methods Research SIG (2011-2024), a past Board member of the Mixed Methods Research International Association (MMIRA) and Conference Chair for the next Global MMIRA Conference to be held in Brisbane 24-27th August 2026 . Current research interests are focused on the Fourth & 5th Industrial Revolutions and the impact of AI technologies on sectors and professions, AI and Ethics, Algorithmic HRM, skilled migration, migrant entrepreneurship, regional workforce development, complex adaptive systems and advances in Mixed Methodologies.

Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Mixed Methods Research (Q1) and Humanities & Social Sciences Communications (Q1)

Member of the Australian Human Resources Institute (AHRI) Research Advisory Panel

Conference Chair: MMIRA 2026 Global Conference, Brisbane, 24th-27th August 2026

Research Grant Income: $1.9M + and over 90 publications

HDR SUPERVISION: I have supervised many MPhil, PhD and DBA students who have used a variety of methodologies inlcuding: mixed methods research (MMR), multi-level analysis MMR, grounded theory, multi-method case studies, MMR action research, critical realism, quantitative approaches and qualitative approaches (ethnography and phenomenology). Topics that students researched included: Leadership in VET, performance management in elite sports, work-life balance and social networking, organisational change, governance in charities, coaching in the workplace, learning transfer in workplace learning, leadership development in not-for-profits, complex adaptive systems in Defence and health management, the use of blockchain in HRM, Workplace Integration of Professional Vietnamese Skilled Migrants and Organisational Support for the Bereavement in the Workplace. Current students are researching highly skilled migrant women from Europe, SE Asia and African nations, graduate employability, the impact of AI technolgies in project management, new workforce needs of the Australian renewable energy sector (green hydrogen), training & development needs of seafarers in relation to coastal autonomous shipping, Women of Colour in IT and the role of Generative leadership in public sector workforce attraction and retention in the Canadian Arctic.