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Research Reports

UQ Business School research staff members prepare reports for various audiences, including industry, government, consulting projects and granting bodies. Where possible, the School makes these reports available for download.


Report conducted under Linkage Project LP0218238, an Australian Research Council-funded partnership between the University of Queensland and the Department of Primary Industries, Queensland, December 2003.

  • Plowman, I, Ashkanasy, N M, Gardner, J & Letts, M "Innovation in rural Queensland: Why some towns prosper while others languish".
  • Plowman, I, Ashkanasy, N M, Gardner, J & Letts, M "Innovation in rural Queensland: Why some primary industries and their associations thrive while others languish: An empirical investigation of innovation in six primary industry associations".

This series of research reports have been funded by the Department of Education, Science and Education, Canberra, to inform policy decisions in particular around the nature of apprenticeships, industry skills training and appropriate responses to skills shortages in Australia.

  • Callan, V J "Understanding and resolving the skills shortage in the Australian printing industry" NCVER Report 2007. View report
  • Callan, V J "Why do students leave? Leaving vocational education and training with no recorded achievement" NCVER Report 2005. View report
  • Callan, V J & Gardner, J "Vocational education and training provision and recidivism in Queensland correctional institutions" NCVER Report 2005. View report
  • Callan, V J "Building innovative vocational education and training organisations" NCVER Report 2004. View report
  • Callan, V J & Ashworth, P "Working together: Industry and VET provider training partnerships" NCVER Report 2004. View report
  • Callan, V J "Generic skills: Understanding vocational education and training teacher and student attitudes" NCVER Report 2003. View report
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