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ItemMeasurement properties of the dispositional measure of employability in Australian university students(SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, 2024-04)Dispositional employability can be understood as a psychosocial process that facilitates the enactment of behaviors directed toward career self-management. This investigation aimed to test the validity of a measure of dispositional employability to predict salient career outcomes in university students. Two studies using distinct samples of students at a multi-campus university in Australia deployed surveys containing measures of dispositional employability, career adaptability, and job search self-efficacy. The measures’ properties were tested using principal axis factoring in Study 1 and confirmatory factor analysis in Study 2. Furthermore, hierarchical regression analyses in Study 2 found that dispositional employability has distinctive relations with measures of career adaptability and job search self-efficacy. Our findings inform recommendations for higher education institutions to measure the psychosocial aspects of employability.
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ItemRetomando Freire: uma Perspectiva Australiana das Epistemologias Indígenas e do Currículo Universitário(Pedro & João Editores, 2024-03-12)
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ItemNo Preview AvailableHow artists can help us perceive organizational dysfunction and broken-ness differently(The Art of Management and Organization, 2024)This paper considers what organizations might learn from artists and the aesthetic devices they employ in the production of art that deals with dysfunction and broken-ness. By introducing these conditions as central to the redrawing of art’s remit following the existential crises and traumas of the 20th and 21st Centuries, it positions them as central to the critical contestation of what defines ‘functionality’ at an organisational level. From problematising the binarism of (and, consequently, the drawing of the boundary between) dysfunctional|functional and broken|fixed, I offer an organizational alternative as presented by artists. The work of German artist Joseph Beuys (1921–1986) and Venezuelan artist Alejandra Ghersi (1989–) has been selected for the insights they offer to support this task. This paper explores their re-constitution of aesthetic registers (such as harmony, beauty, rhythm, and tone) as an organizational act, and positions the resulting ‘transformative dissonance’ as metaphor for a condition of post-binary organization. By focusing on each artist’s determined non-binarism and the associated aesthetic construct of their respective work, this paper presents approaches to dysfunction and broken-ness that accept dissonance as a natural organizational phenomenon, that then, from this (dis)position of acceptance, avail themselves to the pursuit of organizational transformation.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableBrain structure in subjective cognitive decline: A replication study(Wiley, 2021-12)Background Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is an incurable neurodegenerative disorder, which disproportionately affects women (Erol et al., 2015). Given that the current treatments for AD aim to prevent symptom progression, the primary objective of emerging research is to identify pre‐clinical biological markers. Investigating such biomarkers would be appropriate in those experiencing subjective cognitive decline (SCD). Individuals with SCD are thought to be the earliest along the cognitive continuum between healthy aging and AD, as their reported change in cognition is not yet measurable using standard neuropsychological assessment measures. Previous research has found differences to exist in brain function, but not structure between healthy controls and those with SCD (Parker et al., 2020). The current study represents a preliminary analysis of structural brain images in healthy women compared to women with SCD; no structural differences between groups were hypothesized. Method The 3T T1 anatomical magnetic resonance images (MRI) used in this analysis was a subset of participants obtained from the Women’s Healthy Ageing Project collected in 2012 (N = 170). This subset included 30 healthy women (mean age = 71.4; SD = 3.12) and 30 women with SCD (mean age = 70.5; SD = 2.23). Voxel‐based morphometry (VBM) analyses were conducted using FMRIB’s Software Library to examine cross sectional differences between healthy women and women with SCD. Result Whole brain VBM analyses did not reveal any significant differences in grey matter tissue density between healthy women and women with SCD at p < 0.05 level with threshold free cluster enhancement (corrected for multiple comparisons). Conclusion Although the current findings did not reveal differences in grey matter between healthy women and women with SCD, this result replicates our previous findings and other reports in the literature that structural differences may not be detectable between healthy individuals and those with SCD. Follow‐up work will include investigation of differences in functional connectivity between these two groups using resting‐state functional MRI with the total sample collected in 2012 (N = 170). Identifying changes in brain function prior to structural atrophy and measurable decline on neuropsychological measures would represent a major advance in AD biomarker research.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableThe Women’s Healthy Ageing Project: A pattern of cognitive decline after brain injury(Wiley, 2021-12)Abstract Background It is well recognised that damage sustained by traumatic brain injury (TBI) initiate injury mechanisms that continue to develop long after insult. Increasing evidence suggests TBI may lead to chronic cognitive decline and the development of dementia later in life. However, due to the low rate of TBI in the general community, there is a paucity of data on the impact of cognitive decline in community TBI. We examined longitudinal cognitive changes over a 12‐year period to determine if there was any relationship with community reported TBI. Method The Women’s Healthy Aging Project is an ongoing longitudinal cohort study of community‐dwelling Australian women. Assessments included an extensive range of measures, including neuropsychological testing of multiple cognitive domains and questions relating to head injury. In total, 110 women had complete neuropsychological testing at all three time points; from 2002, 2012 and 2014. Of these women, nine (aged 56‐65 in 2002) had a history of moderate to severe TBI. Composite cognitive scores were compared to 18 healthy controls randomly selected from the complete dataset individually matched for age, education, and APO4‐genotype. Analyses were conducted in five datasets drawn from the complete dataset and results were averaged. Result Median scores for executive function were similar for both the TBI group and healthy controls in 2002, lower in the TBI group by 2012 and this difference increased further in 2014. Median scores for verbal episodic memory were slightly lower in the TBI group than controls in 2002 and 2012, and this difference increased in 2014. Although this initial pilot study with small samples in mid‐aged healthy women did not show statistically significant results, the observed relationships were constant over the five datasets, warranting further exploration. Conclusion In our small pilot study, we observed greater rate of decline of both executive function and verbal episodic memory in women with a history of TBI. Findings warrant a need for larger studies to explore this relationship as it indicates that community‐based reported TBI may impact cognitive performance even in early ageing. Further work will continue to explore cognitive trajectories in women with a mean age 80 at next follow‐up.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableThe Importance of Institutional Capacity and Negotiation Capacity in Affordable Housing Agreements: The Potential for Collective Action in Melbourne, Australia(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2023-01-01)
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ItemThe Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science at 50: A historical analysis(Springer, 2023-01)The Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science (JAMS) is completing 50 years of publication in 2022. This paper attempts to pay homage to this milestone, demonstrating that JAMS has remained true to its mission, while simultaneously staying current by adapting to the rapidly changing times. Using a multi-method approach (Latent Dirichlet Allocation, Semantic Analysis, and Bibliometric Analysis), we analyze topics and thematic areas, research communities, and their evolution. We identify fifteen main research topics over time (including Firm Performance, Survey Research, Models and Analytical Approaches, Marketing Theory, Sales Management, Marketing Mix, Customer Service, Firm Strategy, Branding, Social Issues and Ethics, Customer Relationship Management, Shopping and Distribution, Channels, Consumer Behavior, and Marketing Communications), along with three central research communities (Advertising, Marketing Strategy, and Customer Satisfaction), which characterize the intellectual structure of the journal. Our analysis also looks at both declining and emerging research interests, suggesting where JAMS could be heading in the future.
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ItemExperimentalism as Aesthetic Entrepreneurialism: a (sonic) pedagogical offering(The Art of Management and Organization, 2023)(Hear…) Here, my sonic practice[1] navigates the nexus between aesthetics, organization and pedagogy. It does so in a curious entrepreneurial spirit. Upon encountering the essay ‘How art becomes organization: Reimagining aesthetics, sites and politics of entrepreneurship’ (Holm & Beyes, 2022), I was taken by the authors’ comparison (or conflation) of art and entrepreneurialism; particularly the reading of their “power to experiment with how the social is apprehended, organized and inhabited” (Holm & Beyes, 2022, p. 227). I considered the place of sonic experimentation in this entrepreneurial context, with apprehending, organizing, and inhabiting as necessarily pedagogical pursuits.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableExamining the influence of professional development on tutors' teaching philosophies(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2023-08-18)This paper reports the findings of a qualitative study examining the influence of professional development (PD) on tutors’ teaching philosophies. It found that tutors construe their role in three ways: as transmitter, facilitator, or reflexive practitioner. The findings suggest most tutors, prior to a PD program, hold a teacher-focused conception of teaching and learning (that is, as transmitter) but shift toward a student-oriented conception following the completion of the PD program (facilitators or reflexive practitioners). Epistemic shifts among tutors were attributed to three specific features of the PD program: workshops, peer mentoring, and peer networking. This study provides insights into PD features that cultivate student-oriented teaching philosophies reflecting contemporary pedagogical strategies that promote experiential and constructivist teaching approaches.