Ian Palmer

Biography

"As of 9 August 2010, Professor Ian Palmer assumed the role of Pro Vice Chancellor (Business) & Vice President, RMIT University. Ian started at RMIT University in January 2009 holding the dual roles of Deputy PVC Business (Research) in the College of Business, and the RMIT-wide role of Dean, School of Graduate Research. Prior to coming to RMIT, in 1999 Ian was appointed Professor of Management, UTS and from 2002 – 2008 occupied the role of Associate Dean (Research), Faculty of Business, UTS. Ian holds a PhD from Monash University and a Bachelor of Arts (Hons – 1) from the Australian National University (ANU). He has held visiting academic positions at the University of Virginia and Cornell University in the USA and at Macquarie Graduate School of Management. Ian’s teaching, research and consulting are in the fields of organizational design and change. He has extensive teaching experience, particularly at the MBA and Executive MBA level, both nationally and internationally. Ian and his research collaborators have gained over $2m in external research grants and he has been a Chief Investigator on seven different ARC grants, his most recent being an ARC Discovery grant 2011-2013 on controls in innovation driven firms (with Aaron Smith, Fiona Graetz and Richard Dunford). Ian continues to publish extensively: since his arrival at RMIT in 2009 he has published (or had accepted for publication) an output which includes seven A and A* journals, a second edition of a book on Managing Organizational Change (with Dunford & Akin), and he has also conducted a commissioned review of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA), known as the “Palmer Review“."

Research Interest

 Strategic management accounting