MOBTS Oceania's 3rd Annual Conference

Conference Event Options

The MOBTS Oceania Team is putting together experiential options for you to add on to your conference registration. The options below are currently preliminary and will be committed to should a sufficient level of interest be present. All prices and times are tentative, though accurate as of this posting.

MOBTS Professional Development Day

When: Tuesday, 30 January 2024
Cost: $15 AUD (includes lunch)

Option 1: Beyond Cookbooks, Auctions, and Claptrap Cocoons Professional Development Workshop

This PDW is intended for those who are struggling to innovate to meet challenges associated with their classroom. The session will provide space for you work with talented educators to innovate your tricky course. Bringing together expertise from a panel of renowned educators, you will receive the benefit of direct mentoring to problem-shoot the challenges you are facing and identify pedagogical approaches for creating a classroom experience to the benefit of your students and their learning.

Host: Dr Stuart Middleton (University of Queensland)

Stuart Middleton is recognised for his innovative teaching practice, as acknowledged in national and international awards for the MOBTS Distinguished Mid-Career Educator (2023), and the Australia New Zealand Academy of Management Innovative Management Educator of the Year (2020). He is Associate Editor at the Journal of Management Education (JME) and the Academy of Management Learning and Education (AMLE).

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Option 2: Writing For Journals in Management Education

This workshop provides participants the opportunity to hear from Associate Editors at the Journal of Management Education (JME) on the wider field of journal in the field, and to consider how your work might fit into it. The session will also comprise insights on the flaws which often hold manuscripts back and how to ensure you overcome these. The workshop concludes with a writing session for you to test your ideas and developmental manuscripts with the Associate Editors.

Hosts: Dr Ann Wallin (University of Queensland) and Dr Sandra Seno-Alday (University of Sydney)

Ann Wallin is Associate Editor at Journal of Management Education (JME) and is the recent author (with colleagues) of the Guest Editorial Common Methodological Issues in Qualitative Management Education Research and Recommendations for Authors. Ann has also been recognised with a best reviewer award at the journal and has been integral to the implementation of JME’s online write-athon.

Sandra Seno-Alday is Associate Editor at Journal of Management Education (JME) and is the recent author (with a colleague) of the Guest Editorial acknowledging Jerry Harvey’s lasting impact award for the article Learning To Not Teach. Deeply committed to excellence and innovation in higher education, Sandra has received awards for outstanding teaching, including a 2011 Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning.

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Option 3: Academic Identity in Management Education: building your SoTL practice without increasing your workload.

Developing your academic career can take many pathways and this session will focus on ways you can leverage your teaching and learning activities to build a career that brings joy.  By exploring different ways to develop various types of scholarship, the session will consider how to best turn your current activities into outputs for impact. From how to set goals in your career, to making best use of your time in building your scholarship of teaching profile, this session will build your academic career for future success. In just 3.5 short hours you will leave with

• A concrete practice to commence or build your SoTL output;
• 3 possible places to ‘publish’; and
• A step wise plan to create outputs with impact over the next two years.

Hosts: Dr Lynn Gribble (University of NSW) and Dr Janis Wardrop (University of NSW) and Dr Lynn Gribble (University of NSW)

Janis Wardrop is Associate Professor at University of New South Wales. Janis is a winner of the Vice Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence and a leading educator in the School of Management and Governance.  She specialises in developing student's learning capabilities to meet the challenges of the 21st century workplace, through innovative curriculum and course design.

Lynn Gribble is Associate Professor at University of New South Wales. Lynn has used her keen interest in transformative learning through engagement, belonging and personalisation of each student’s learning experience. Over the past three years she has extensively considered how to develop authentic assessment and has worked on University wide feedback projects to enhance the student experience.

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Cultural tour to Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island)

When: Monday, 29 January until Tuesday, 30 January
Cost: Single attendee: $260 USD, $395 AUD, $423 NZD; Couples: $451 USD, $685 AUD, $733 NZD

This overnight trip provides a unique cultural and tourist experience. Showcasing a problem-based learning approach adopted by the UQ Business School in partnership with and support of the Quandamooka Yoolooburrabee Aboriginal Corporation (QYAC). Delegates will be asked to engage in ‘deep listening’- 'Dadirri'- when they are presented with current opportunities and challenges for business on the island and provided with a variety of cultural, economic, and political lenses for thinking through these issues.   * Important – to participate on this trip, you must be available for pickup on the afternoon of Monday 29 January, 2024. Delegates can be picked up and returned to University of Queensland or at our preferred conference accommodation provider which is conveniently located within walking distance of the city and easy bus access to the St Lucia campus

Hosts: Dr Jonathan Staggs (University of Queensland) and Dr. Sharlene Leroy-Dyer (University of Queensland). Jonathan Staggs is an entrepreneurship and innovation scholar who has been published in top-tier journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly and Organization Studies. Jonathan researches issues of place, and is the Associate Director (Teaching and Learning) on the UQ Business School’s United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) Directorate. He also serves on the Editorial Board of Management Teaching Review.

Dr Sharlene Leroy-Dyer is a Saltwater woman, with family ties to the Dharug, Awabakal, Garigal and Wiradyuri nations.  She is a Senior Lecturer in employment relations and the inaugural Director of the UQ Business School Indigenous Business Hub. Sharlene’s current research areas include Closing the Gap on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander disadvantage in Education, Employment and Economic Development, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander labour history, and Aboriginal involvement in the trade union movement.