Dr. Noal Atkinson
PhD, B. Bus, B Div, Grad Dip Min, TAE Cert IV
Course Manager, Innovation Courses
School of Business and Law
- n.atkinson@cqu.edu.au
- ORCID: 0000-0002-4390-5665
- (08) 9260 4085
- Working From Home
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About Me
I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). My PhD research examined the regulations that govern health information systems in Australia and the reasons clinicians resist adopting technology, giving me a strong understanding of regulations, compliance with regulations, and organisational change in healthcare.
General
Universities Studied At
Curtin University Doctor of Philosophy – Information Systems (School of Business)
Edith Cowan University Bachelor of Business (Commerce) Major: Information Systems
Murdoch University (Postgraduate) Bachelor of Arts (Postgraduate degree)
Morling College Graduate Diploma in Arts
Universities Worked At
Curtin University
Edith Cowan University
CQUniversity
Awards
· MBA Lecturer of the Year (Australasia) by the industry group MBA Aus (2022).
· The Vice-Chancellor's Best Learning and Teaching awards (2023) CQUniversity
Previous teaching
Curtin University - Master of Information Systems
Edith Cowan University - Master of Project Management
Professional Memberships
Australian Computer Society
Responsibilities
I coordinate the recruitment and contracting of the academic team responsible for marking and course review processes, ensuring all meet university moderation policies, procedures and response timeframes. I ams responsible for developing strong internal stakeholder relationships related to the MBA (Leadership) and providing advice and recommendations regarding emerging issues. I am also responsible for analysing student data and assisting with identifying issues relating to student progression, attrition, assessments and results, developing insights and making recommendations about changes into all elements of the course and course delivery. I run student support sessions to assist students in course progression. ORCID: 0000-0002-4390-5665.
Professional Interests
Health Information Systems
Health
Computing
Information systems
Key Achievements
Have been the course manager for the MBA Leadership since it started. It has gone from 0 students to over 1000.
Built many processes for the BeDifferent program including monthly processing of grades, student support sessions, and student mentoring program.
Computer Software
SPSS
NVIVO
Editor
2023 editor of Journal of Management Education https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/10525629241229401
Research Supervision
Accreditation
I am currently accredited for supervision in the following:
- 4699 Other Information and Computing Sciences
- 3503 Business systems in context
- 3507 Strategy, management and organisational behaviour
- 4203 Health services and systems
- 4601 Applied computing
- 4605 Data management and data science
- 4611 Machine learning
Current Capacity
Research Interests
Human resources and industrial relations - Workplace wellbeing and quality of working life
The use of mental health apps
Health services and systems - Digital health
Health services and systems - Health informatics and information systems
Health services and systems - Health surveillance
Health services and systems - Health systems
Health services and systems - Mental health services
In areas of health applications, mental health of health workers, and 12-step programs
Health services and systems - Rural and remote health services
Applied computing - Applications in health
Applied computing - Applications in social sciences and education
Human-centred computing - Pervasive computing
Human-centred computing - Social robotics
Information Systems - Information Systems not elsewhere classified
Health Information Systems
