Ed Davis
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Formal Name: Edward Davis Preferred Name: Ed Personal Title: Professor Position: Dean; Professor of Business Organisational Unit: Division Qualification: MA PGCE Camb., MEc Monash, PhD La Trobe Telephone: (+61-2) 9850-8508 Fax: (+61-2) 9850-9363 Email: edavis@efs.mq.edu.au Location: E4A 710 |
Profile:
Professor Ed Davis AM is Dean of the Division of Economic and Financial Studies at Macquarie University. The School is made up of five Departments (Accounting and Finance, Actuarial Studies, Business, Economics and Statistics) and comprises one third of the University's student population. From 1988-2002 he was a Professor at Macquarie Graduate School of Management and was Deputy Director from 1996-2002. He holds a Master of Arts from Cambridge, a Master of Economics from Monash and a PhD from La Trobe University. During 1992 he held the post of Distinguished Academic Visitor at Queens College, Cambridge.
Research Interests
Professor Davis' main research interest lies in labour-management studies. He is the author and co-editor of several books, and has passed his century in publications.
Teaching Interests
He was honoured with a University award for Outstanding Teaching in 1997.
Professional Affiliations
Professor Davis has acted as a consultant on industrial relations to employers, unions and government and he has also undertaken assignments for the International Labour Organisation. He served on the New South Wales Committee of Inquiry into the Recognition of Overseas Qualifications (1988-9) and chaired the Executive Performance Management Accreditation Committee established in the NSW Premier's Department (1990). In 1992 he was appointed to the Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission Committee of Inquiry into Sex Discrimination in Overaward Payments. In 1995 he was appointed Independent Mediator to the NSW Fire Brigades and was also made a member of the NSW government's Local Government Reform Task Force. In 1998 he completed a report for the New South Wales Police Service on Performance Management and in 2001 submitted a report to the NSW Police Commissioner on the effectiveness of the Service's Operations and Crime Reviews. In 2000 he was National President of the Industrial Relations Society of Australia and was awarded Life Membership in 2002.
In October 2004 Professor Davis won the Lifetime Achievement in HR Award at the National Human Resources Awards. The judges' citation noted his "tireless work in improving the HR profession at a number of levels" and his efforts to "lift organisational awareness of HR and improve outcomes".
In the 2006 Australia Day awards, Ed was honoured with a Member in the General Division (AM). The citation recognised his service to education, and to the community in the areas of equity in employment, industrial relations and human resource management.