UNE Business School has been pleased to host some excellent visiting speakers in 2016. Over the course of the year, we’ve had 17 seminars with speakers from as far away as University of Bonn in Germany, University of Wyoming in the USA and as close by as friends at University of Technology Sydney and University of Western Sydney.

Dr David Hughes with Professor Derek Baker, Director of the Centre for Agribusiness

Our seminar series presents opportunities to our staff to build networks and hear about research happening in their disciplines; it also provides our students with an opportunity to hear more about the great work being done across research fields such as accounting, agribusiness, economics, management and leadership and business.

This year, we heard Assistant Professor Sanjit Kumar Roy from UWA speaking on Fairness in Service Relationships; Professor Harry Claire from Uni of Melbourne took us through an examination of policy failures around Climate Change Policy decisions; our colleagues from University of Wyoming shared a fantastic overview of Wyoming Agriculture to put us in good stead for our visit next year as part of our 2017 IFAMA student team study tour.

We were very lucky to host a quick succession of talks on agribusiness and issues of Corporate Social Responsibility, food security and sustainability, food chains and the global food situation from visiting academics from University of Bonn as well as special guest of the Centre of Agribusiness, Dr David Hughes.

The school were intrigued to hear from Dr K  Balasubramanian, who talked us through an amazing journey of educating farming communities in very remote parts of the world via telephones.

Professor Gerhard Schiefer, Dr. Johannes Simons, Emeritus Professor Euan Fleming, and PhD Candidate Christian Deutsch visiting from University of Bonn

Many of these presentations are available online for those who missed the events – visit Seminar Series 2016.

The seminars this year were a great chance to meet and chat with other colleageus on campus – in 2017 we’re looking to continue to extend the invitation to attend beyond school staff to students, friends of the UNE Business School and the Centre for Agribusiness, as well as partners and friends in Armidale and beyond.