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Dr. Heidi Collins

Director, School of Research
Ph.D. (SUT), M.Com., B.A. (UC, NZ)

Faculty of Business, Design and Arts

Office No:+60 82 260 923
Fax No:+60 82 260 652
Room No: B409-410A
Email: hcollins@swinburne.edu.my

Biography

Dr. Heidi Collins is the Director of Swinburne Sarawak’s School of Research. In this role she leads the development of research programs throughout the university. This includes overseeing Master by Research and PhD programs, as well as developing training and development programs to support HDR students, their supervisors, and other researchers within the university. She is also the Swinburne Sarawak’s Ethics & Integrity Officer.

Heidi teaches international human resource management and leadership units in the Faculty of Business, Design & Arts. Prior to joining Swinburne, Heidi has worked in a variety of roles and industries in New Zealand, Hong Kong, and Malaysia. This has included academic roles, and time spent in the international relocations, travel, and retail industries.

Heidi’s primary research focus to-date has been on the cross-cultural adjustment of expatriate employees and their families during international relocations. She is now researching HDR student and supervisor experiences, and research practice in the context of transnational education.

Research Interests

Global mobility
Human research ethics
Research education

Teaching Areas

International Human Resource Management; Leadership in Context

Professional Membership

Australia New-Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM)
Australasian Research Management Society (ARMS)
European Academy of Management (EURAM)
 
 
  • Research Outputs

Research Outputs

  • Journal Article: Ait Saadi, I., Collins, H. & Dash, D.P. (2018) “Rethinking researcher education in Malaysia”, Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education, Vol 10(1) (FORTHCOMING).
  • Journal Article: Collins, H.E. & Bertone, S. (2017) “Threatened identities: Adjustment narratives of expatriate spouses”, Journal of Global Mobility: The Home of Expatriate Management Research, Vol. 5(1).
  • Conference Proceedings: Collins, H. & Bertone, S. (2018) Patterns of coping in expatriate spouses: A longitudinal study, Paper accepted for the Proceedings of the 32nd Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference (ANZAM 2018), Auckland, New Zealand, 04-07 December 2018.
  • Conference Proceedings: Collins, H. & McNulty, Y. (2018).  “A framework for insider research in global mobility studies”, Proceedings of the 18th European Academy of Management Conference (EURAM 2018), Reykjavik, Iceland, 20-23 June 2018.
  • Conference Proceedings: Collins, H. (2015). “We choose to come here”: Questioning assumptions of expatriate trailing spouse’s willingness to relocate. In Proceedings of the 29th Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference (ANZAM 2015), Queenstown, New Zealand, 02-04 December 2015.
  • Conference Presentation: Nordmann, A., Gaeth, A., Collins, H., & Swatman, P. (2018) “Transnational Research Ethics & Integrity Management: an Australian Study”, Paper presented at the 19th Australasian Research Management Society (ARMS) Conference, Hobart, Australia, 18-21 September 2018.
  • Conference Presentation: McNulty, Y. and Collins, H. (2018). “The uncertain expatriate insider: Context and positionality in qualitative research”, Paper presented at the 15th International Human Resource Management Conference (IHRM), Madrid, Spain, 13-15 June 2018.
  • Conference Presentation: Ait Saadi, I., Dash, D.P., & Collins, H. (2017). “Refocusing research education in Malaysia”, Paper presented at the 3rd Research Education and Development Conference (REDS), Leeds, UK, 12 October 2017.
  • Conference Presentation: Collins, Heidi (2017). “Expatriate spouses: Adjustment, identity and opportunities for employment”, Paper presented at the 3rd International Skills Conference (3ISC), Miri, Malaysia, 16-17 February 2017.
  • Conference Presentation: Collins, H. (2014). Finding meaning in methodology. Paper presented at the third Borneo Research Education Conference (BREC 2014), Kuching, Malaysia, August 2014.
  • Conference Presentation: Collins, H. (2014). Building communities of peers: Swinburne Sarawak’s Postgraduate Research Society. Paper presented at the Living Research conference, Melbourne, Australia, August 2014.
  • Conference Presentation: Collins, H. (2013). Identity construction and change in expatriate spouses: Adapting to life in Sarawak. Paper presented at the first Borneo Research Education Conference (BREC 2013). Kuching, July 2013.
  • Thesis Collins, H.E. (2016). Trajectories of Adjustment: Conceptualising Expatriate Spouses’ Narratives of Stress, Coping and Identity Construction, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne.
  • Reports: Collins, H., Shamala, R., & Dash, D.P. (2014). Developing as a researcher through the culture of sharing: Report on the first Borneo Research Education Conference (BREC 2013). Research World, 11, Article A11.1. http://www1.ximb.ac.in/RW.nsf/pages/A11.1
  • Reports: Collins, H. (2014). Research readiness: Report on an early-stage researcher education programme. Research World, 11, Article A11.3. http://www1.ximb.ac.in/RW.nsf/pages/A11.3
  • Practitioner Press: The Borneo Post (June 24, 2015). Supporting spouses to improve expatriate talent retention
  • Practitioner Press: The Borneo Post (August 31, 2011). Supporting expatriate spouses in Sarawak.