Faculty flexes its research muscle

Congratulations to Professor Mark Gabbott who has been appointed as a member of the “Economics, Commerce and Management” RQF Panel. Mark is one of five Monash scholars to serve on one of the 13 panels that will be assessing the nation’s university research.

The faculty also congratulates our staff who were successful in round 1 ARC Linkage Project grant applications. The successful applications were two of eight ARC Linkage Project grant applications awarded to Monash.

A total of 47.6% applications were approved nationwide. Within the Social, Behavioural and Economic Sciences discipline group, the success rate was higher (50%).  Congratulations also to those staff who are investigators on successful applications submitted through other faculties/institutions.

Associate Professor Michael Dempsey, Professor Robert Faff, Associate Professor Paul Lajbcygier and Associate Professor Madhu Veeraraghavan from the Department of Accounting and Finance received ARC funding of $165,000 over three years for their project: An Empirical Examination of Non-Market Capitalisation Weighted Indices in Australia.

Associate Professor Cherrie Zhu, Professor Helen de Cieri, Associate Professor Kate Hutchings, and Professor Chris Nyland from the Department of Management received ARC funding of $213,000 over three years for their project: Constructing a Chinese International Human Resource Management System in Regional Australia.