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Professor Gael McDonald
Present position: Pro Vice-Chancellor (Business and Law)
Campus: Melbourne Burwood Campus
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Responsible for the development of a research performance at Unitec, with particular focus on: enhancing research skills training for staff, ensuring accurate reporting of Unitec research outputs, facilitating internal funding of research projects, increasing advanced practice and consultancy, increasing external research grants, increasing PBRF participation and rankings, facilitating possible commercialisation of research, maintaining a high level of ethics for research activities, and the promotion of Unitec’s research activities.
Responsible for advancing the internationalisation of Unitec through multiple initiatives in such areas as international linkages, curriculum enhancement, off-shore programmes, international recruitment, research consultancy, staff and student exchanges. I also performance-managed seven Heads of School. In addition to the above roles, from April 2005 I was concurrently Acting Vice-President, Research.
|1995-2003||Dean, Faculty of Business, Unitec, New Zealand
The Faculty of Business offered a wide range of business programmes including customised company training, short courses, undergraduate and postgraduate qualifications. Responsibilities included: providing leadership, strategic planning, human resource management, financial and administrative control of the Faculty of Business. The Faculty contained the School of Accountancy, Law & Finance, the School of Information Systems & Computing, the School of Applied Management, the School of Communication, the Business Development Unit and the New Zealand Centre for Innovation & Entrepreneurship.
Asia Pacific International University. A multi-national educational consortium with offices in: Vancouver, Canada; San Francisco, USA; Auckland, New Zealand; Macau and Hong Kong. Responsibilities included undergraduate and postgraduate (MBA) course design, teaching and thesis supervision in Hong Kong, Malaysia, USA, New Zealand and Canada. Undergraduate in-house degree programme teaching for Motorola Sdn Bhd, Malaysia. Research and publications in the areas of Business Ethics, Strategic Planning, International Marketing and Human Resource Management.
School of Business Administration, University of East Asia, Macau. Responsibilities included postgraduate (MBA) and undergraduate teaching and research in the areas of Marketing, Consumer Behaviour, Organisational Behaviour, Management Theory and Human Resource Management.