Tasmanian School of Business and Economics (TSBE)

Kickstart your 2025 with our new short course in Effective Leadership.   In this 6 week course, you'll explore the powerful and often misunderstood potential of leadership and break down leadership essentials to distinguish between leading, managing, and following. Discover how character and personal strengths drive effective leadership, and learn to harness relationships and influence to build and sustain high-performing teams.   Pair with our Change Management short course for a discount. Completion of Effective Leadership & Change Management can provide credit into our Graduate Certificate in Leadership and Organisational Capability.   Registrations close on 24th February. Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/gZBnSZWw. #Leadership #EffectiveLeadership #LeadershipLearning #GoodLeadership Sarah Jones, Toby P. Newstead, PhD, Joey Crawford

On Friday, 21 February, we'll be running the final webinar in our free Talking Leadership Development series, cohosted with the Menzies Foundation. In this unique "Dear Abby" style webinar, panellists Prof Ron Riggio, Ph.D., Assoc. Prof Ruchi Sinha, and Prof Scott J. Allen, Ph.D. will discuss and respond to your questions about leadership development. Don't miss out on this opportunity to have your questions answered by some of the world's top leadership researchers and practitioners. Share your questions in the comments below. 👉 Register here: https://lnkd.in/gsUeVhcx 🎙️ Listen to the previous webinars here: https://lnkd.in/gX7VPCV3   📖 Read Challenges & Opportunities in Developing Leadership: https://lnkd.in/geU5Zb-2

As we approach the end of the year, we are delighted to announce the appointment of Mr Mark Bowles as our new Head of School. Mark is currently the Acting CEO of Renewables, Climate and Future Industries Tasmania, responsible for facilitating Tasmania’s energy transformation, future industries, and whole-of-state responses to climate change. A respected economist and executive, Mark has over 25 years’ experience leading industry and workforce development, public policy and business advisory services for Tasmania. Mark is well known in Tasmania’s business and economics community having worked as the Chief Economist of the Tasmanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry before a decade of service in the Tasmanian Government. Mark will be joining the University in February 2025.

Become the change you want to see in the world with our new short course: Change Management. Change is the ‘new normal,’ but often misunderstood, meaning most change implementations fail to have the desired effect. This course equips you to engage with resistance and cultivate resilience in change processes. Beginning with a deep dive into the forces of change, we’ll explore what it takes to manage and communicate in periods of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA). This short course blends the theory and practice of change management to enhance your capability to design, develop, and implement successful change management. Pair with our Effective Leadership short course for a discount. Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/gsTrJnRG.

Congratulations to Dr Mitali Panchal, Prof. Peter Fairbrother and Dr Marcus Banks for their work on ANZ's Saver Plus report. The report, Saver Plus at 21: Building Resilience That Lasts, was runner-up in the Excellence in Social Impact Measurement category at the 2024 Social Impact Measurement Network of Australia (SIMNA) Awards.  The report, commissioned by ANZ and the Brotherhood of St Laurence (BSL), was partly funded by the University of Tasmania Tax Clinic.  Established by ANZ and BSL in 2003, Saver Plus is the world’s largest and longest-running matched savings and financial education program. The program helps lower-income Australians establish a long-term savings habit by combining incentives, personal support and goal setting.

Registrations are now open for our new short course: Effective Leadership.  In this course, explore the powerful and often misunderstood world of leadership and break down leadership essentials to distinguish between leading, managing, and following. Discover how character and personal strengths drive effective leadership, and learn to harness relationships and influence to build and sustain high-performing teams. With a focus on communication and constructive conflict, you'll gain practical tools to enhance team dynamics. You'll also cover adaptive leadership, equipping you to navigate complexity with confidence. Finally, you'll explore how to lead with a focus on sustainability, ensuring your impact is both immediate and lasting. Pair with our Change Management short course for a discount. Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/gZBnSZWw.

For the first time, Tasmania will be home to this year's Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy Conference (ANZMAC).   Hosted by the University of Tasmania and the Tasmanian School of Business and Economics, the theme for this year's conference is AI for Sustainable Marketing: Bridging Innovation and Responsibility. This conference will unpack groundbreaking research that explores the exciting intersection of AI and sustainable marketing; investigating how AI can track and analyze the environmental impact of marketing campaigns and business practices, allowing for transparent communication of sustainability efforts to consumers.   Find out more about ANZMAC here: https://lnkd.in/gFfuRxzg

Three of our academics were recently featured on the list of the world's most-cited scientists for 2023, compiled by Stanford University.  Across the fields of Accounting, Marketing, and Management, Professor Craig Deegan, Dr Denni Arli, and Dr Joey Crawford appeared on the list. The Stanford Top-Cited Scientists list is compiled each year and includes approximately 220,000 scientists. For our Acting Head of School, Professor Craig Deegan, this accomplishment speaks to the quality of research undertaken at the University of Tasmania’s business school. “This is a tremendous outcome for the Tasmanian School of Business and Economics and further highlights the impactful work conducted by our academics and signifies the quality of our research on a global scale." Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gdz7sZbA. 

New research from the University of Tasmania and Monash University on AI in mining was recently published in Nature Portfolio's #NatureCommunications. According to the research, co-authored by University of Tasmania Professor Joaquin Vespignani, Australia risks losing its world-leading advantage in critical and rare minerals used for clean energy, electric vehicles and batteries for solar energy unless it embraces artificial intelligence in the mining sector. “Without significant investment by governments around the world in AI within the mining industry to increase productivity and improve environmental practices, there is a high risk that the clean energy transition will become costly for communities, potentially slowing down decarbonisation efforts,” he said. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gpWgzwi3. 

The University of Tasmania Tax Clinic has been awarded over $280,000 from the Australian Government as part of the National Tax Clinic Program to provide vital tax services for vulnerable and at-risk Tasmanians.   According to Tax Clinic Director Donovan Castelyn CA, CTA, this funding will profoundly impact the community and allow the Tax Clinic to continue its vital mission to provide free tax advice, support and education to Tasmanians while building the skills of the next generation of tax professionals.   “For some, an extra hundred dollars in their tax return doesn’t mean much, but for others, it is life-changing,” he said. “We are delighted to be able to keep delivering those life-changing moments for Tasmanians thanks to this grant."   “This additional funding means that not only can we maintain our operations but expand them to broaden the scope of our support and make it easier for all eligible community members to access our services.”   The Tax Clinic was also recently awarded $43,590 in additional funding from the Australian Government through the Pacific Australian Labour Mobility (PALM) initiative as part of the National Tax Clinic Program.   Read more here: https://lnkd.in/g3Ve8-UP   Visit the Tax Clinic website: https://lnkd.in/e2ZZDgnD