Research grant for Management academics

Three academics from the Department of Management received a $25,000 grant from the Go8/DAAD - Australia Germany Joint Research Co-Operation Scheme for a project entitled Diversity and Social Protection among Turkish Residents in Germany and Australia.

Dr Wendy Smith, Dr Ingrid Nielsen and Professor Gary Bouma received the grant for a research network partnership with Professor Claudia Derichs of the Department of Political Science, Institute for Social Science, Hildesheim University. Hildesheim is in the Ruhr industrial area of Germany which has a higher concentration of Turkish guest workers.

Wendy visited Hildesheim University earlier this year and gave a seminar on "Managing Ethnic Diversity in a Japanese Joint Venture in Malaysia." At that time, she discussed the possibility of doing joint research on Muslim communities in their respective countries which led to this grant.