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Doctor of Philosphy (Griffith University), Master of Business (Communication Studies) (Queensland University of Technology), Graduate Diploma of Sciences Communication (Central Queensland University), Graduate Certificate in Academic Practice (Queensland University of Technology), Graduate Certificate in Management Communication (Other), Graduate Certificate in Academic Practice (Queensland University of Technology), Bachelor of Science (Australian Environmental Studies) (Griffith University)
The pursuit of social justice and sustainability is at the heart of my teaching and research. My research has been funded via grants from Ecstra Foundation, iMove CRC, Financial Basics Foundation, National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education, WACE, Australian Collaborative Education Network, Services to Youth Council, RACE 2030 CRC, and Natural Hazard Research Australia.
I have extensive experience conducting research in a government and academic context across three main areas: responsible management practices; sustainable governance & stakeholder engagement; and unspeakable policy problems.
- Responsible management practices: Decent work is concerned with the social, economic and cultural inequalities of paid and unpaid employment. I research the potential for exploitation and exclusion presented by unpaid internships and unwaged work, as well as emergent employment arrangements such as surge workforces, and the institutional and policy responses required to safeguard the wellbeing of all workers, including interns.
- Sustainable governance & stakeholder engagement: Sustainable governance is vital for enhancing equity, diversity and inclusion and meeting environmental goals. I have researched the regulation and responsibilisation of heterotopic and ludic spaces, participatory approaches to disaster preparedness and climate change adaptation, and gender-sensitive infrastructure and mobility policies. I have a particular interest in the potential for radical, grassroots and insurgent practices to force change at the local and organisational level.
- Unspeakable policy problems: To explain high levels of regulatory resistance to policies I theorised a new form of wicked problem - unspeakable problems - characterised by high levels of psychosocial sensitivity and verbal proscription. I have explored several unspeakable problems including the public acceptance of recycled water, recreational marine pollution prevention, innovation in death industries, and Indigenous disadvantage.
Additional information
I have more than 20 years of experience in the government and academic sectors researching, providing policy analysis and advice, and developing and delivering consultative approaches to inform strategic evidence-based decision-making for infrastructure planning, Indigenous boating safety, transport disadvantage, pollution prevention, participatory planning, staff training and development, and organisational strategy and development.
I am open to receiving requests for supervision from Honours, MPhil and PhD students seeking to undertake critical qualitative research broadly aligned with any of my areas of research interest and expertise.
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2020
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- Associate Professor Grant-Smith was awarded the inaugural Carumba Institute Embedding Indigenous Perspectives Outstanding Proposal Award
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- Fellowships
- Reference year
- 2020
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- Associate Professor Grant-Smith was awarded Associate Fellow (Indigenous) of the Higher Education Academy. The Higher Education Academy (HEA) is an international organization which promotes excellence in teaching and learning. This award demonstrates an emerging engagement with Indigenous perspectives in teaching and learning.
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- Other
- Reference year
- 2020
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- Associate Professor Grant-Smith was named a 2020 World Access to Higher Education Day (WAHED) Champion for Change by the Equity Practitioners in Higher Education Australasia (EPHEA) and National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education (NCSEHE). This award recognises those who regularly go above and beyond to make the Australasian tertiary education landscape more inclusive and accessible
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2017
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- Dr Grant-Smith was awarded an Australian Awards for University Teaching (AAUT) Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning. AAUT Awards recognise the impact that educators have on the learning and teaching experiences and outcomes of university students.
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- Other
- Reference year
- 2020
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- Associate Professor Grant-Smith was awarded a Case Writing Scholarship from the Case Centre UK
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- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2016
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- Dr Grant-Smith was named the 2016 Australian & New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM) Early Career Researcher. This award recognises the research and scholarly achievements of emerging researchers who are at an early stage of their academic career.
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2016
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- Dr Grant-Smith was awarded a QUT Vice-Chancellors Performance Award for research excellence in recognition of a significant and superior contribution to the work of the university.
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- Other
- Reference year
- 2016
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- Dr Grant-Smith was awarded the 2016 Higher Education Research Network (HERN) Best Higher Education Research Publication Award Early Career.
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2015
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- Dr Grant-Smith was awarded a QUT Vice-Chancellors Performance Award for teaching excellence in recognition of a significant and superior contribution to the work of the university.
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- Fellowships
- Reference year
- 2015
- Details
- Dr Grant-Smith was awarded Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. The Higher Education Academy (HEA) is an international organization which promotes excellence in teaching and learning.
- 'Becoming' professional in the absence of a profession: How do business graduates experience transition into the workforce?
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Laura De Zwaan, Associate Professor Paula Dootson - Therapeutic jurisprudence, unspeakable policy problems and whistleblowing investigations
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Nigel Stobbs - Sentencing and Punishment of People with Cognitive Disabilities in Australia
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Melissa Bull, Dr Nigel Stobbs - Designing equitable interactions between Vulnerable Road Users (VRUs) andCooperative and Automated Vehicles (CAVs) |
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Oscar Oviedo Trespalacios, Professor Andry Rakotonirainy - Research career success of medical workers in Australian hospitals: An intersectional approach
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Paula McDonald, Associate Professor Christina Malatzky - Public toilets and the Right to the City: The role of local government strategy
MPhil, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Janice Rieger - Exploring cues in the workplace that employees use to interpret the importance of financial risk management behaviour
MPhil, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Bernd Irmer
- Eudaemonic design as an approach to co-creating health and well-being in the built environment: An exemplar case of older adults at home (2023)
- The social construction of spaces of spas and the identity of the masseuse in Sri Lanka (2023)
- Female Shop Floor Worker Voice in the Corporate Social Responsibility Agenda of the Sri Lankan Apparel Industry (2022)
- Minding My Own Business: Small Business Owners' Decision Making During a Response to a Natural Disaster in Southeast Queensland, Australia (2022)
- (Re)Constructing power in the Australian Federation: Advancing Multi-level Governance as an explanation for the emergence of independent regulators (2021)
- Governing the Interface of Commercial Mining and Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining (ASGM) in Indonesia (2021)
- Regional Planning In Transition: Policy Narratives at the Intersection of Regional Planning and Sustainable Infrastructure Transitions (2020)
- Environmental Equifinality: (Re)Examining Predictors of Specific Responsible Environmental Behaviours in Australian Recreational Fishing Environments (2021)
- Fishers Are Doing It For Themselves? Responsibilisation and the framing of fish habitat rehabilitation and stewardship (2018)
- The Role of Professional Identity and Self-Interest in Career Choices in the Emerging ICT Workforce (2016)