Upcoming Events

Sustainability Discussion - Professor Tony Machin 9 May

Professor Machin will lead a discussion focusing on how to create sustainable performance at 1.00pm on Wednesday the 9th May at the USQ Toowoomba Campus in room T357.  Examples from Professor Machin’s research will be provided. 

Tony has taught in the Psychology Department at the University of Southern Queensland since 1992. He is currently the Head of the Department as well as the Director of the Community and Organisational Research Unit at USQ.

Tony has over 50 refereed publications including several publications in the area of occupational health psychology with a focus on the impact of work-related and other factors on individuals’ subjective well-being, health, and safety. He also has published research into the competing explanations for the deterioration in well-being that accompanies unemployment and the impact of interventions that include skills to enhance ones’ well-being. His PhD was in the area of the impact of training-related factors on individuals’ motivation to learn and transfer their learning to job settings. This research has been cited in leading I/O Psychology textbooks. Further details are available at http://www.usq.edu.au/users/machin. 

Please RSVP to Nicci.Poole@usq.edu.au

Taking Care of Business Conference 2012: 21-22 May

The ‘Taking Care of Business: Sustainable Transformation’ Conference on the Gold Coast this May will bring together leaders in the “green economy” from Australia and New Zealand. The conference will update delegates on a range of effective sustainable business practises from energy saving to carbon pricing. They will examine Governments’ sustainability plans and the relevant grants available, make the “triple bottom line” relevant to your organisation while finding business opportunities and trends in the sector.

Professor John Cole, ACSBD director, is serving as a member of the conference committee as well as presenting at this conference on the topic of “Business in the world of the changing triple bottom line: major themes since 1970 and likely directions to 2050".