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Teaching commitmentBiographyDeanna joined the Faculty of Education at Monash University in January 2008 where she coordinates courses in Leadership and Organisation and Managing Change for the Master of Organisational Leadership. She also coordinates the International Education Markets unit.
Research InterestsDeanna is a sociologist of higher education. She is currently writing a book that investigates academic units' adaptation and resistance to changing operating environments. This meso-level study draws on a range of theoretical frameworks including resource dependency theory, neo-institutional theory, mimetic isomorphism, path dependence and complex adaptive systems theory especially the concepts of emergence and non-linear feedback loops.
Professional Associations
- Member of the Consortium of Higher Education Researchers (CHER) (Europe).
- Member of the Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE)(United Kingdom).
Community Service
- Deanna represents the Faculty of Education on the Research Data Management Advisory Group.
SupervisionDeanna is currently supervising candidates undertaking research degrees in higher education policy, organisational theory/behaviour, leadership and management.
If you are interested in undertaking a Ph.D or Masters degree in higher education policy, organisational theory/behaviour, leadership or management and would like to discuss supervision arrangements please contact Deanna: Deanna.deZilwa@education.monash.edu.au
EditorialDeanna reviews journal articles for the Journal of Higher Education, Ohio State University Press.
PublicationsBooks:
de Zilwa, Deanna.K (2010) Academic Units in a Complex, Changing World: Adaptation or Resistance (under contract) Springer, Dordrecht.
Book Chapters:
de Zilwa, Deanna. K (2007) Australian university leaders: agents of the McUniversity, entrepreneurial transformers, or bureaucrats? in Global Issues in Higher Education, Nova, New York. ISBN 1-60021-802-4
Refereed Journal Articles:
de Zilwa, Deanna. K (2007) Organisational culture and values and the adaptation of academic units in Australian universities, Higher Education, Springer, Vol,54, No.4, pp. 557-574.
de Zilwa, Deanna. K (2005) Using Entrepreneurial Activities as a Means of Survival: Investigating the Processes used by Australian Universities to Diversify their Revenue Streams, Higher Education, Springer, Vol. 50, No. 3, October, 2005, pp. 387-411.
Refereed Conference Papers:
de Zilwa, Deanna. K (2008) Australian Academics' Responses to the Culture and Values of Performativity in the era of Marketisation and New Public Management, Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) Annual Conference, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
de Zilwa, Deanna.K (2002) Network Enterprises and the adaptation of academic units in Australian universities, Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies, Universite Twente,Enschede, Netherlands and the UNESCO Chair of Higher Education Management Conference at the Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain.
PhD Thesis:
de Zilwa, Deanna. K (2006) Academic Units in the Era of the Entrepreneurial University, Centre for the Study of Higher Education, University of Melbourne.
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