Research areas

Teaching and Learning in Management Education

Educational Assessment and Measurement, Psychometrics

Biography

Ed Russell joined the ANU in 1997 as Director of the MBA Program after a career at the highest levels of the civil service. In 2004 he established ANU's joint program with Tsinghua University in Beijing and has served as its convener since that time. He teaches two or three courses per year at Tsinghua University.

He has taught a wide range of MBA courses over the last twenty years. He was the Education lead in the Research School of Management from 2010 to 2015, and Interim Director of the School in 2015/2016. He has served on the ANU's Academic Board and Graduate Degrees Committee. In 2011 he sought the opportunity to also teach at the undergraduate level; his subjects have included Strategy, Technology and Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Project Management, Strategic Management of Information Technology, Leadership, Business Ethics and Management, Managing People and Organisations and Business Decision Making.

Ed has been an active consultant and executive educator for over two decades in strategy, change management and program evaluation. His clients have come from government and the private sector in Australia and abroad. His current research is focused on the modern measurement theory and its application to higher education, including Evidence-Based Assessment.

In the first half of the 1990s Ed was the Senior Policy Adviser and Chief of Staff to Australia's Health Minister at the National level and worked to support the adoption of Evidence-Based Medicine in Australia and the funding of the Australian Cochrane group. Over the last five years he has supported the adoption of its derivatives, "Evidence-Based Management" and "Evidence-Based Practice" in the Research School of Management. These evidence-based approaches are a fresh and important enhancement to effective business decision making.

His current research is focused on innovative approaches to authentic assessment using advanced data analytical techniques.

Research engagement

• Deputy Director (Education) Research School of Management
• Elected member of the ANU Academic Board to 2014.
• Convenor of the ANU - Tsinghua University Master of Management Program

Teaching

2017

MGMT2003 Business Decision Making

MGMT7165 Innovation and Commercialisation (ANU / Tsinghua University Program) Intake 19

MGMT7165 Innovation and Commercialisation (ANU / Tsinghua University Program) Intake 20

2014

MGMT7165 Innovation and Commercialisation (ANU / Tsinghua University Program) Intake 13

MGMT7165 Innovation and Commercialisation (ANU / Tsinghua University Program) Intake 11

MGMT7165 Innovation and Commercialisation (ANU / Tsinghua University Program) Intake 12

MGMT7165 Innovation and Commercialisation (ANU / Tsinghua University Program) Intake 15

MGMT3016 Business Ethics Semester 2

POGO8111 Public Sector Leadership

2013

MGMT7102 Corporate Strategy Autumn Session (May)

MGMT7102 Corporate Strategy (ANU / Tsinghua University Program)

MGMT7165 Innovation and Commercialisation (ANU / Tsinghua University Program)

MGMT3016 Business Ethics

The textbook for this course has been set. It is Jones, Parker and Ten Bos For Business Ethics http://tinyurl.com/amtzr6f

2012

MGMT1003 Management, People and Organisations, Semester 2, 2012. See http://tinyurl.com/rsmmgmt1003 for details.

MGMT3016 Business Ethics, Semeste 2, 2012. See http://tinyurl.com/rsmmgmt3016 for details.

MGMT3015 Corporate Strategy, Semester 1, 2012. Co-taught with Dr Craig Tapper.

MGMT7102 Corporate Strategy, taught at Tsinghua University, Beijing in January, 2012.