School of Business and Law

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I'm pleased to welcome you to the School of Business and Law.

Whether you're leaving school, coming back after years of work, or fitting study around a job, there's a way to study with us. We're a dual sector provider teaching Certificate I through to PhD in the one school, so a VET qualification here can become a degree later without starting over.

Many of our academics have worked in industry, and many of our degrees include internship options. And our graduates report strong employment and salary outcomes (ComparED) and rate us highly for learner support (Good Universities Guide).

Through our VET, College of Busines s and College of Law we offer:

VET qualifications in Business Studies, Human Resource Management, Accounting and Justice Studies.
A Bachelor of Business with several majors including Human Resource Management and Marketing. Eligible students can add a Masters-level minor in a related discipline to build depth in a specialist area.
Bachelor of Accounting accredited by CPA Australia and CAANZ, including a Financial Planning major accredited under The Treasury's Financial Adviser Standards.
Bachelor of Property that is accredited by the Australian Property Institute
Bachelor of Law that is accredited by the Legal Practitioners Admissions Board
Postgraduate options across Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma and Masters level, built around industry relevance, such as the Master of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Business Management and Master of Professional Accounting Accelerated.

Study on campus or online, and as an online student you can drop in to any of our campuses around the country for support.

We're a signatory to the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) and our curriculum addresses the Sustainable Development Goals. In practice that means you'll be asked to think about the consequences of the decisions you're learning to make.

Professor Sean Sands
Dean, School of Business and Law

Research in the School of Business and Law

Regional Economies and Supply Chains, led by the Centre for Regional Economies and Supply Chains (CRESC)

CRESC aims to strengthen regional economies and foster environmental sustainability in Northern Australia through the application of economic frameworks to resource and sustainability issues in the regions. The area also seeks to improve supply chains, particularly in agriculture and other regional industries.

Research includes:

Rural and Regional economies
Resource and Environmental Economics
Agricultural economics
Supply, value and blockchains

For more information head to our CRESC web page.

Sustainable Enterprise Group (SEG)

This group aims to develop business, ethical and legal models and processes that have a positive impact on economic, social, and environmental outcomes for society. It focuses on promoting sustainable use of resources, reducing waste, promoting automation and social innovation in business, government, criminal justice, the legal profession, and the law, and creating just and equitable community outcomes.

Includes:

Fight Food Waste CRC Engagement program
Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Corporate Social Responsibility
Community law and justice
Public law

For more information head to our SEG web page.

Work, Employment, Regulation and Governance (WERG)

WERG focuses on the rapidly changing employment and economic context and emergent social, economic, regulatory and policy challenges this raises for business and society. The area aims to address these challenges and promote ethical leadership, enhancing equity, efficiency and transparency in business and employment. This research area will target particular challenges relating to gender and diversity in employment, business ethics and governance, and the intersection of new technology with new forms of work.

Research includes:

HRM and employment relations
Gender and diversity at work
Ethics in business and government
Corporate governance
Labour regulation
AI and the professions/employment
Data analytics applications in Auditing and Security

For more information head to our WERG web page.

Future Innovation Learning and Teaching Research Group (FILTeR)

FILTeR delivers research that shapes student-centered, transformative, engaging, and inclusive learning and teaching practices that will equip our students to solve real-world problems, ensuring that CQU School of Business and Law graduates are flexible, adaptive and in high demand.

Research includes:

Pedagogy
Student Engagement
Discipline Education

For more information head to our FILTeR web page.

Research personnel

The School’s research strategy is led by the Deputy Dean (Research), Professor Santina Bertone, with Dr. Cait White, Postgraduate Research Coordinator.

Professor Santina Bertone, Deputy Dean (Research)

Professor Bertone is a long-standing academic leader, having led 65 externally funded research projects, including Australian Research Council projects and authored/co-authored 132 publications. Her research focuses on the intersection of immigration and employment.

Dr Catherine (Cait) White, Postgraduate Research Coordinator

Dr Catherine (Cait) White is the Postgraduate Research Coordinator for the School of Business and Law.

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