RESEARCH
Research Coordinator
Dr Twan Huybers
Email: t.huybers@adfa.edu.au
Room 121
Telephone: 62688075
Research Seminars
Current Surveys
Current High Degree Research Students
Scholarships are available at UNSW@ADFA for postgraduates to sudy in the School of Business. For further information about staff research interests, refer to the research fields below and links to academic research pages from our staff directory.
Our postgraduate student directory provides links to current students and descriptions of postgraduate research currently being undertaken in the School.
For details on how to apply to a PhD program, please click here.
The following are some key research areas pursued in the School.
- Institution building in fragile states
Research in the School in this area is especially focused on applied analysis and the implications of both theory and empirics for the development of public policy. - Leadership
Research in leadership in the School is especially concerned with: strategic leadership, transformational behaviours, and followership. - Defence economics and management
Research in this area includes research on: defence specific procurement, innovation, project management, logistics and supply chains - notably with regard to the market for small arms. - Management of Performance Enhancement in Sport
Research focuses on managing the role of performance enhancing technologies in sport (e.g. doping, swim suits, training techniques) both in terms of athlete responses to the technologies (e.g. decisions to dope) and policy (e.g. the economics of doping). - Economic and management aspects of innovation
Research in the School covers innovation theory as well as applied research and public policy formation. - Decision making analysis
Research in this area encompasses the theory of rational and behavioural decision making, and applied studies in a variety of decision environments. - Public Policy and Public Management
Research in this area focuses on systems thinking and public policy and the analysis of complex policy and management issues. - Human Resource Management and Employment Relations
Research in this area includes public sector human resource practices, such as performance management systems, Defence Force remuneration, enhancing the effectiveness of human resource practitioners, agency bargaining arrangements in the Australian Public Service, diversity management and occupational health and safety issues.