STAFF PROFILE
Dr Susan Mate
Dr Susan Mate is a Lecturer in the School of Management, RMIT University, Melbourne.
Dr Mate has completed a PhD specialising in professional learning and management development has worked in the higher education sector for the past 15 years, and consulted in the field of workplace learning and development.
As a qualitative researcher her expertise falls within the area of narrative and phenomenological methodologies.
Research interests:
- Women in Leadership
- Organisational Culture Analysis and Organisational Development
- Emotional Intelligence
- Professional Development
- Career and Gender Identity
Susan’s interest lie in the field of Management, Social Psychology and Educational Psychology with a focus on how people acquire their knowledge through authentic learning experiences. She has been involved in course co-ordination and teaching in a range of subjects I have focused on include:
- Masters in International Project Management Monitoring and Evaluation (coordinator)
- Managing People.
- Strategic Management (coordinator)
- Organisational Analysis
- Organisational Behaviour
- Introduction to Management (coordinator)
- Graduate Certificate of Tertiary Teaching, RMIT University
- PhD, Management, Victoria University, Melbourne
- Masters of Adult Education, Deakin University
- Bachelor of Education, Deakin University
- Bachelor of Social Science, Deakin University
Dr Mate's consulting and professional work experience includes working in educational design and career counselling. Recent roles include:
- Educational Consultant/Specialist Endeavour college working on the accreditation of programs for TEQSA
- Work integrated Learning coordinator RMIT University
- Research Coordinator, Office for Learning and Teaching, Australian Government
- Project Coordinator, Office of Pro Vice-Chancellor, Victoria University
- Research Officer, Office of PVC Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, VU
- Career Consultant, designing professional learning curriculum, Swinburne University and Victoria University
Professional Memberships:
- International Association for Business and Society (Professional Member)
- Australian Pacific Researchers in Organisational Science (Professional Member)
- Career Development Association of Australia (Professional Member)
- Mate, S.,McDonald, M.,Do, T. (2019). The barriers and enablers to career and leadership development: An exploration of women's stories in two work cultures In: International Journal of Organizational Analysis, 27, 857 - 874
- McDonald, M.,Bubna-Litic, D.,Morgan, A.,Mate, S.,Nguyen, L. (2018). Power and self-identity: Positive psychology applied to human resource development In: Identity As a Foundation for Human Resource Development, Taylor and Francis, New York, United States
- Nguyen, L.,McDonald, M.,Mate, S.,Taylor, G. (2018). Advancing a cross-cultural narrative approach to career counselling: The case of Vietnam In: Australian Journal of Career Development, 27, 65 - 71
- Mate, S.,McDonald, M.,Morgan, A.,Hoang Nhat, D.,Das, M.,Dinh Thi Hong, N. (2017). Influences on career identity in Vietnamese students at an international university In: Australian Journal of Career Development, 26, 24 - 31
- Mate, S.,Ryan, M. (2014). Learning through work: How can a narrative approach to evaluation build students' capacity for resilience? In: Proceedings of the National Conference 2014: Work Integrated Learning: Building Capacity, Queensland, Australia, 1-3 October 2014
- Mate, S. (2014). Patterns in professional roles: sustainability narratives In: Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the International Association for Business and Society, Sydney, Australia, 19-22 June 2014
1 Masters by Research Completions