Research in Business and Law
Research in the School is conducted in three major areas: Regional Economies and Supply Chains, Work, Employment, Regulation and Governance and Sustainable Enterprise Group.
CRESC aims to strengthen regional economies and foster environmental sustainability in Northern Australia through the application of economic frameworks to resource and sustainability issues in the regions. The area also seeks to improve supply chains, particularly in agriculture and other regional industries.
Research Includes:
- Rural and Regional economies
- Resource and Environmental Economics
- Agricultural economics
- Supply, value and block chains
For more information head to our CRESC web page.
WERG focuses on the rapidly changing employment and economic context and emergent social, economic, regulatory and policy challenges this raises for business and society. The area aims to address these challenges and promote ethical leadership, enhancing equity, efficiency and transparency in business and employment. This research area will target particular challenges relating to gender and diversity in employment, business ethics and governance, and the intersection of new technology with new forms of work.
Research includes:
- HRM and employment relations
- Gender and diversity at work
- Ethics in business and government
- Corporate governance
- Labour regulation
- AI and the professions/employment
- Data analytics applications in Auditing and Security
For more information head to our WERG web page.
This group aims to develop business, ethical and legal models and processes that have a positive impact on economic, social, and environmental outcomes for society. It focuses on promoting sustainable use of resources, reducing waste, promoting automation and social innovation in business, government, criminal justice, the legal profession, and the law, and creating just and equitable community outcomes.
Includes:
- Fight Food Waste CRC Engagement program
- Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Community law and justice
- Public law
For more information head to our SEG web page.
Research personnel
Professor Santina Bertone, Deputy Dean (Research)
The School’s research strategy is led by the Deputy Dean (Research), Professor Santina Bertone, with Dr. Cait White, Postgraduate Research Coordinator.
Prof Bertone is a long-standing academic leader, having led 65 externally funded research projects, including Australian Research Council projects and authored/co-authored 132 publications. Her research focusses on the intersection of immigration and employment. She emphasises the value of industry and community-engaged research, and has herself, produced research with a wide range of government, industry and community partners. In 2003 she won the Centenary of Federation medal for contributions to industrial relations, academia and the Ethnic Communities Council of Victoria.
Dr. Catherine (Cait) White (Postgraduate Research Coordinator)
Dr Catherine (Cait) White is the Postgraduate Research Coordinator for the School of Business and Law.
Cait received her BA from the University of California, San Diego in Communication and her MA and PhD from the University of Washington also in Communication.
Her doctoral dissertation focused upon the significance of the use of different modalities of communication within organisational contexts. Her research expertise lies in the areas of organisational communication and qualitative methods specifically discourse and rhetorical analysis.