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Published: 02 Mar 2020 under Industry and Society; Research

Making workplaces better for everyone

New University of Melbourne conference highlights cutting edge research around gender harassment, LGBTIQ+ people, and women of colour in the workplace.

Published: 11 Feb 2020 under Finance

Brain-bending economics

Dr Elizabeth Bowman uses neuroscience to solve complex economic problems.

Published: 24 Dec 2019 under Economics

The hidden secrets of the gender gap

Behavioural economist Dr Maria Recalde uses experimental methods to investigate the oftentimes hidden factors that contribute to gender gaps in the workforce. Here she discusses what drives her to do her research.

Published: 24 Dec 2019 under Marketing

Questioning consumerism

How Dr Michal Carrington’s unique childhood and former career as a marketing executive inspired her research of the modern world’s most tricky problems.

Published: 03 Dec 2019 under Accounting

Accounting for the future

Prof Naomi Soderstrom has always been interested in environmental issues. Her research uses mainstream accounting to address climate change.

Published: 16 Oct 2019 under Research

Podcast: Workplace bullying in the #MeToo era

Workplace bullying creates a toxic environment, but the #MeToo movement is highlighting the drivers of abuse that women experience at work

Published: 30 Sep 2019 under Research

Work or Family?

Many Australian couples are finding it tough to balance work and family commitments, especially if they work long hours

Published: 30 Sep 2019 under Research

Breaking the workplace code of silence

The code of silence around gender equity damages men and women by confining both to traditional gender roles

Published: 11 Sep 2019 under Management

Hope in Simple Packages

Sneha Chrispal returned to her home country of India to undertake research towards her PhD with the Department of Management and Marketing. Her experience is one that revealed another side of Indian society, and showed her the depth of what her research could achieve.

Published: 22 Aug 2019 under Management

Innovation

Innovation involves implementing new or enhanced products, services, processes, management methods or business models. All sizes and types of organisations can benefit from innovation, when it is done well.

Published: 02 Aug 2019 under Research

Gender reshaping the traditional Australian household

Couples with children still dominate Australia but the HILDA Survey 2019 shows women working and earning more is creating a subtle and sometimes difficult rebalancing at home

Published: 02 Aug 2019 under Research

Warning on struggle street

The HILDA Survey 2019 shows Australia is still a land of opportunity, but poverty is on the rise and income classes are becoming more entrenched – which isn’t good for equality

Published: 02 Aug 2019 under Research

Behind the numbers on illicit drug use

Being the victim of violence is strongly linked to illicit drug use in Australia, and having parents who use cannabis significantly increases the likelihood of a child growing up to use them

Published: 02 Aug 2019 under Research

Work or Family?

Many Australian couples are finding it tough to balance work and family commitments, especially if they work long hours

Published: 02 Aug 2019 under Research

Is wages growth really as weak as we think?

This year’s HILDA Survey shows that hourly wages of the median full-time worker have been rising well head of the cost of living

Published: 02 Aug 2019 under Research

Can your personality be good or bad for your health?

The HILDA 2019 Survey finds intriguing links between dominant personality traits and the onset of serious illness – but it’s more likely to do with the behaviours linked to those traits

Published: 12 Jun 2019 under Economics

Early years education program

Results from an Australian early years education program finds that delays in development and learning for children living with significant adversity can be reduced or reversed through participation in the targeted program.

Published: 08 May 2019 under Economics

The Econometric Game

This year, for the first time ever, graduate researchers at the Faculty of Business and Economics competed in the Econometric Game in Amsterdam, taking out an incredible win amongst a collection of 30 international universities, including the likes of Harvard, UCL, Oxford, and Cambridge

Published: 16 Apr 2019 under Economics

Tax incentives that strengthen charitable behaviour

The Melbourne Institute provides insight on how the tax treatment of charitable donations can encourage greater giving and increase support for communities in crisis following natural disasters.

Published: 29 Mar 2019 under Economics

Closing the gap in the Indigenous business sector

The Indigenous business sector has seen huge growth in recent years, but there are large gaps the Federal Budget could fill.

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