Nikola Balnave
Senior Lecturer
Marketing and Management
Macquarie University
Australia
Biography
Dr Nikola Balnave joined the Department of Marketing and Management at Macquarie University in December 2011 as Senior Lecturer in Public Sector and Not-For-Profit Employment and Management. She has conducted extensive historical research on the management strategy of welfarism in Australia. Her research since 2005 has focused on consumer co-operatives in Australia and New Zealand. She is a member of the Global Co-operatives Project Steering Committee which draws on and connects academics from all regions of the world with the aim of developing a global history of the consumer co-operative movement since c.1860. Nikki is the President of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History (ASSLH), and is Deputy Editor of the Society's journal Labour History.
Research Interest
Business and labour history Co-operatives Welfarism
