Paula K McDonald

Brief description

Paula McDonald is Professor of Work and Organisation in the QUT Business School. Paula’s research adopts a multi-disciplinary, systems-level approach, addressing complex problems in in a range of workplace and industry settings, including finance, defence, policing, government and education.Paula has been awarded 6 major competitive research grants from the Australian Research Council, collaborating with organisations such as The Australian Human Rights Commission, Suncorp, the Australian Defence Force, Goodstart Early Learning, Education Queensland, The Brisbane City Council and the Qld Dept of Public Works.Paula has disseminated her work widely including in three edited books and over 60 academic journal articles. She also communicates her research widely to non-academic audiences through media engagement and industry seminars.Paula is the Director of the Work/Industry Futures Research Program. She manages several large, ongoing research projects and mentors and supervises early career academics and PhD and Masters by research students.