FBLA Research Seminar Series: Research Skills

Welcome to the Faculty of Business, Law and Arts (FBLA) monthly Research Seminar Series. 

This seminar will be delivered by Professor Mike Ewing, FBLA Executive Dean.  

This seminar has a research skills focus and will cover:

1. Developing a personal research strategy.
2. Making time for research.
3. The teaching-research nexus.
4. Conducting multi-disciplinary research.
5. Targeting journals and responding to reviewers.
6. How the research game has changed: A 30-year retrospective.
7. Rigor vs Relevance

This seminar is intended to be highly interactive.

About Mike’s research career

Mike published his first journal article in 1995 and joined Curtin University (as a lecturer on a one-year contract) in February 1996. He was appointed full professor at Monash in February 2002. His H-index is 63 (M-index >2). Stanford/Elsevier list him in the top 1% worldwide on career citations, the AD Scientific Index ranks him 8th in Australia (and 95th in the world) in Marketing while Scholar GPS place him in the top 0.34% of the world’s 29m scholars. He has been awarded 4 ARC grants and supervised 18 PhDs to completion – all while being in university leadership roles since 2007 (including >11 years as Executive Dean). Mike has published in business journals, including Information Systems Research twice (ranked 2 in IS and on the prestigious UT Dallas list), the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science (FT50, CABS 4*) twice, the International Journal of Research in Marketing, the Journal of Service Research, Industrial Marketing Management (12), the European Journal of Marketing (5), the Journal of Business Research (12) and others. He has co-authored with colleagues in accounting, economics, education, finance, management, information systems, sport, operations research, financial econometrics, statistical mathematics, law and a wide range of health disciplines. His health-related work has been published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine (ranked the top sport science journal by Scimago), International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition & Physical Activity (ranked 4th of 241 in physical therapy), Social Science & Medicine (ranked 11th of 373 health journals) and Psychology & Health.

Event Details

Date: Tuesday 6th May, 2025

Time: 1pm-2pm

Venue: Gold Coast Campus B6.25 Conference Room or online