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Mathew Hayward Professor, Department of Management

Chief Emotional Officers

Embracing weakness and vulnerability might be a CEO’s greatest strength.

Embracing weakness and vulnerability might be a CEO’s greatest strength.

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Susan Carland Director, Bachelor of Global Studies

Episode 3: The Mess We're In

We’re not going to recycle our way out of this one. It takes awareness and education to change our behaviours surrounding waste. Find out what you can do.

We’re not going to recycle our way out of this one. It takes awareness and education to change our behaviours surrounding waste. Find out what you can do.

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Susan Carland Director, Bachelor of Global Studies

Episode 2: No Time to Waste

In this episode we talk to a campaigner who forced a major supermarket to better consider sustainability in its promotions and discover how marketing research can help organisations do it better.

In this episode we talk to a campaigner who forced a major supermarket to better consider sustainability in its promotions and discover how marketing research can help organisations do it better.

Kun Zhao Research Fellow, BehaviourWorks Australia

Paying it forward

Empowering workers is key to improving awareness of the minimum wage.

Empowering workers is key to improving awareness of the minimum wage.

What Happens Next?

Kim Borg Research Officer, BehaviourWorks Australia

Episode 1 : Trash Talk

Susan Carland is joined by researchers and behaviour change experts from BehaviourWorks Australia – together they talk global waste.

Susan Carland is joined by researchers and behaviour change experts from BehaviourWorks Australia – together they talk global waste.

Education futures

Education

Education futures

Extreme measures

One-off system-level literacy and numeracy tests such as NAPLAN fail to take into account contexts and individual differences among students.

Deborah Corrigan Director, Education Futures, and Professor, Faculty of Education

One-off system-level literacy and numeracy tests such as NAPLAN fail to take into account contexts and individual differences among students.

Kate Fitch Senior Lecturer, Media and Communications Studies

Once upon a time in PR ...

Even as the women’s liberation movement and campaigns for equal pay in Australia grew in the '60s, females were being marginalised in trade media.

Even as the women’s liberation movement and campaigns for equal pay in Australia grew in the '60s, females were being marginalised in trade media.

David Gilbert Professor, Monash Business School

Selling surfing's soul

The corporate high-performance, merchandise-heavy, social media-driven vision of surfing isn't one shared by many wave riders.

The corporate high-performance, merchandise-heavy, social media-driven vision of surfing isn't one shared by many wave riders.

Environment

Tracking corporate net zero pledges

Some of Australia's biggest property companies are making ambitious emissions-reduction pledges – but how well are they really doing?

Amandine Denis-Ryan Head of National Programs, ClimateWorks

Some of Australia's biggest property companies are making ambitious emissions-reduction pledges – but how well are they really doing?

Sudha Mani Senior Lecturer, Department of Marketing

Fighting back against a few bad apples

In Australia, almost 65 per cent of franchisee complaints were about 10 franchise brands.

In Australia, almost 65 per cent of franchisee complaints were about 10 franchise brands.

Technology and engineering

Technology And Engineering

Technology and engineering

Mmmmm ... chocolate

A collaboration with Darrell Lea has broken the mould in the chocolate block market by modernising classic flavours.

Adam Norris Lead Industrial Designer, Monash Food Innovation Centre

A collaboration with Darrell Lea has broken the mould in the chocolate block market by modernising classic flavours.

Carl Grodach Professor, Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture

From fields of green to a '20-minute city'

With Melbourne’s population continuing to boom, urban planners and academics have a vision for the city to become a network of connected communities where people will be able to walk or cycle to amenities.

With Melbourne’s population continuing to boom, urban planners and academics have a vision for the city to become a network of connected communities where people will be able to walk or cycle to amenities.

Eloise Zoppos Research Fellow, Department of Marketing

Understanding the modern consumer

There's a fundamental shift occurring in consumer behaviour, from conspicuous consumption to conscious consumption.

There's a fundamental shift occurring in consumer behaviour, from conspicuous consumption to conscious consumption.

A Different Lens

Episode 14: The business of energy

Energy is big business. How will economies cope with the switch to green energy? ‘A Different Lens’ investigates.

Rob Brimblecombe Manager, Engineering and Sustainability

Energy is big business. How will economies cope with the switch to green energy? ‘A Different Lens’ investigates.

Design and architecture

Design And Architecture

Design and architecture

Stomping ground

Footpaths are a valuable space for everyday social activity and urban life, but their role is often overlooked in planning urban and public spaces.

Yvonne Meng PhD Candidate, Department of Architecture

Footpaths are a valuable space for everyday social activity and urban life, but their role is often overlooked in planning urban and public spaces.

Giovanni Di Lieto Lecturer, Faculty of Business and Economics

Dairy beloved: China's change for the cheddar

China has become the world’s largest dairy importer, with image and health-conscious consumers hungry for high-quality overseas dairy products.

China has become the world’s largest dairy importer, with image and health-conscious consumers hungry for high-quality overseas dairy products.

Remy Davison Jean Monnet Chair in Politics and Economics, Monash University

All sorts of sweeteners

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and PM Scott Morrison pack the 2019 Federal Budget full of goodies as they push towards an election.

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and PM Scott Morrison pack the 2019 Federal Budget full of goodies as they push towards an election.

Rebecca Dare Managing Director, Australian Consumer and Retail Studies, Monash Business School

When love lies bleeding

The gruesome origins of Valentine's Day are a far cry from today's rampant commercialism that's now facing a growing backlash.

The gruesome origins of Valentine's Day are a far cry from today's rampant commercialism that's now facing a growing backlash.

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Eloise Zoppos Research Fellow, Department of Marketing

Brick-bait: tricks of the traders

Traditional retailers want to lure you back with a shopping experience that online stores just can't provide.

Traditional retailers want to lure you back with a shopping experience that online stores just can't provide.

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Steven Roberts Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences

I love you, man

Traditional masculinity is evolving, and young working-class men are leading the charge, despite the toxic attitudes of powerful men such as Donald Trump.

Traditional masculinity is evolving, and young working-class men are leading the charge, despite the toxic attitudes of powerful men such as Donald Trump.

Monash Life Magazine

When Carolyn Creswell bought a small muesli company, it was hardly the textbook stuff of first-year student life.

When it comes to the crunch

When Carolyn Creswell bought a small muesli company, it was hardly the textbook stuff of first-year student life.

Monash University

Monash Life Magazine