Chris’s disciplinary research interests are in the areas of practice, knowing and learning within organisations. In his PhD dissertation and some related publications, he examined the effects of changing organizational discourse and organizational knowledge in Australian community services organizations. Chris has recently been involved in several national research projects in the area of learning and teaching funded by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council and documented in several publications. The research Chris has undertaken has necessitated the use of a range of qualitative methodologies including collaborative and participative action research and ethnography. Before commencing his PhD in 2003, Chris was employed in various capacities as a manager and leader within several community service organisations. More recently, Chris taught at the University of Western Sydney. After completing his PhD at the University of Sydney, he worked as ALTC project coordinator for the Australian Business Deans Council Learning and Teaching Network before joining the School of Management and Marketing at UoW in 2008.
Articles
Improving learning and teaching through a multi-institutional, discipline-specific project (with Mark Freeman, Lyn Simpson, and Phil Hancock), Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management (2010)
Despite repeated calls to improve the quality of Australian business higher education, sector-wide improvement has...
Partnership and participation: contradictions and tensions in the social policy space (with Lesley Treleaven and Lynne Keevers), Australian Journal of Social Issues (2008)
Partnerships and participation seem to be the order of the day. Yet, for many community...
Loss of organisational knowledge: from supporting clients to serving head office (with Lesley Treleaven), Journal of Organizational Change Management (2005)
This paper seeks to explore the loss of organizational knowledge during organizational change processes from...