Adjunct Associate Professor Dianne Bolton

External member from another higher education institution with business discipline expertise

Independent Member

Adjunct Associate Professor Dianne Bolton has had a long career as a leader and manager in the growth, design and delivery of business and management education including extensive experience of strategic leadership of faculty delivering undergraduate, postgraduate and executive education in domestic and international markets.

Her PhD and Master of Social Science degree were awarded by Birmingham University in the UK, with a disciplinary focus on the sociology, economics and politics of development. She broadened this interest in leadership of change and complexity by undertaking Science/Arts (Psychology Hons) at Monash University and a Graduate Diploma in Psychology, also from Monash. She has a Graduate Certificate in Adult Education from the University of Leeds (UK).

Throughout her career she has maintained her broad social science focus, critique and experience of knowledge creation, education and politics in a variety of leadership positions. As a senior leader of knowledge workers in public and private sector environments she has integrated leadership of research, policy development and its implementation in the areas of industry analysis, labour market analysis, and education and skill development underpinning policy development and innovation in educational delivery.

She has taught and designed undergraduate and postgraduate, business and management degrees at a number of Universities, within Australia and internationally including delivery through face-to-face, blended and online modes. She has held number of academic leadership roles across Swinburne University of Technology, Monash Mt Eliza Business School and Mt Eliza UQ Business School, with specific responsibilities around aligning and synergising academic and practical knowledge and skillsets.

Associate Professor Bolton also has long term and contemporary experience in advising and consulting key stakeholders around accreditation and regulation of higher education institutions. She also consults around quality and performance management associated with international and domestic business education and accreditation, and other government business.

Her scholarship interests leverage her cross-sectoral background and cross-disciplinary interests in effective stakeholder management and collaborative practice as drivers of innovation. She is an active researcher in sustainable and adaptive business practice, leadership and management behaviour and associated implications for strategic and pedagogical innovation in higher education.