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Qualifications
PhD, University of Southampton
B.Soc.Sc (Honours), University of SouthamptonProfessional Affiliations
– Member, Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM)
– Member, European Group for Organizational Studies
– Editorial Board, Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of
Management (JANZAM)
– Editorial Board, Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing
– Editorial Board, Indonesian Management and Accounting ResearchProfessional Awards
– Distinguished Member ANZAM (Awarded 2005)
– ANZAM Research Fellow (Awarded 2002)Research Interests
Organizational change, creativity and innovation.
Professor Dawson has been researching change in organizations in a number of different countries for over twenty-five years. He has held positions at Universities in Australia, Denmark, England and Scotland and has been a keynote speaker at international conferences. He has dual nationality (Australian and British) and he actively supports young academics as a Research Fellow and Distinguished Member of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management. He has acted as external reviewer for number of programmes and schools, including, Stirling University, Newcastle University and Durham University Business School. He is well known in the field of change management and his work is often cited in the academic literature. He also presents his work to leading companies and business organizations who are interested in developing their understanding of change management.
Background
Patrick Dawson works part-time as a Professor at the University of Aberdeen Business School (UABS) and as a Professor in the School of Management and Marketing at the University of Wollongong. He holds a PhD in industrial sociology from the University of Southampton and during his early career worked at the University of Surrey and the University of Edinburgh. He moved to Australia in the 1980s and took up a position at the University of Adelaide. In studying change in Australian and New Zealand organizations, Patrick worked on a number of Australian Research Council funded projects in collaboration with a number of Australian universities. Since taking up the Salvesen Chair at Aberdeen, he has held visiting research professorships at Roskilde University and the Danish Technical University in Denmark. He has published numerous articles and has a long research history in the area of organizational change where he has published a number of books including: Reshaping Change: A Processual Perspective, London, Routledge, 2003; Understanding Organizational Change: The Contemporary Experience of People at Work, London, Sage, 2003; Technology and Quality: Change in the Workplace, London: International Thomson Business Press, 1996; and Organizational Change: A Processual Approach, London: Paul Chapman Publishing, 1994. He co-authored with Gill Palmer the findings from an Australian Research Council programme on the uptake of TQM in organizations in Australia and New Zealand, entitled: Quality Management: The Theory and Practice of Implementing Change, Melbourne, Longman, 1995. In 2000, he co-edited a major piece of work that has been published as a four volume series of books on Technology and Organisations: Critical Perspectives on Business Management, London: Routledge.
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