Meet the Deakin Business School Dean

Professor Amanda Pyman is a professor in Human Resource Management and Employment Relations and former Head of the Department of Management at Deakin Business School. In a career spanning 18 years in higher education, Amanda has worked in Australia and internationally, including as director of the Monash MBA and researching in areas of employee voice, employee engagement and employee workplace participation. She commenced as Deakin Business School Dean in 2021. 

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Our mission is to be a catalyst for positive change – business has a critical role to play in tackling the world’s complex problems. What’s exciting about Deakin Business School is our trajectory and ambition. The work we’re doing to create change makes it a really exciting place.

Professor Amanda Pyman

Dean, Deakin Business School

Key contacts

Dean, Deakin Business School

Professor Amanda Pyman

Deputy Dean

Professor Colin Higgins

Associate Heads of School

Teaching and Learning (Pre-Experience, Postgraduate Programs)
Associate Professor Alfred Presbitero

Teaching and Learning (Post-Experience, Postgraduate Programs)
Dr Anne Kershaw

Teaching and Learning (Undergraduate Programs)
Dr Hoa Nguyen

Research
Associate Professor Jonathan Robertson

International and Transnational Education
Dr Kristijan Mirkovski

Partnerships and Engagement
Associate Professor Vedrana Savic

Directors

Director, DeakinCo
Angela Girton

Partnerships and Engagement (Public Sector)
Associate Professor Dhara Shah

Assurance of Learning (AOL)
Dr Egor Evdokimov

Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME)
Associate Professor Fara Azmat

Course directors

MBA
Dr Paul Harrison

Bachelor of Business
Dr Wendy Webber

Bachelor of Commerce
Dr Peter Vuong

General contact

Karen Lewis, Executive Assistant to the Dean, Deakin Business School

Meet our people

Deakin Business School has a range of leading academics and staff who are experts in their field or industry. Browse our community of academic, research and professional staff – you can search for a particular person by name, or search by research theme or keyword, to find an expert. 

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Discipline groups

Economics

Professor Ching-Jen Sun, Discipline Group Chair

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Finance

Professor Xiaoyang Li, Discipline Group Chair

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Information systems and business analytics

Associate Professor Van-Hau Trieu, Discipline Group Chair

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Management

Professor Matt Mount, Discipline Group Chair

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Marketing

Professor Josh Newton, Discipline Group Chair

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Our research

Deakin Business School partners with industry, government and community to transform ideas into impact. Our world-class researchers, facilities and networks will kick-start your research career. 

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Research staff

Centres

Centre for Refugee Employment, Advocacy, Training and Education (CREATE)
Dr Karen Dunwoodie, Director

Deakin Business Value Creation Centre
Michael Bray, Executive Director

Deakin Centre for Disaster Resilience and Recovery
Professor Mehmet Ulubasoglu and Dr Hemant Pullabhotla, Co-Directors

Deakin SME Research Centre 
Professor Rui Torres de Oliveira, Director

Deakin Sport, Innovation and Technology Lab,
Professor Adam Karg, Director


Units

Deakin Better Consumption Lab
Associate Professor Jeffrey Rotman, Director

Law, Health and Society, 
Associate Professor Neera Bhatia, Director

Women's Entrepreneurship Research Alliance
Associate Professor Dhara Shah, Director

Contact us

Get in touch or visit us at our Melbourne Burwood, Geelong Waterfront or Warrnambool campuses.

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