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Dr Margaret Giles

Dr Margaret Giles

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Centre for Innovative Practice

The Parkinsons Centre

MAER-Net Colloquium 2012

Dr Margaret Giles

Senior Lecturer

Telephone: (61 8)  6304 5749  
Mobile: 0432 662 101  
Facsimile: (61 8)  6304 5271  
Email: m.giles@ecu.edu.au   
Campus: Joondalup  
Room: JO2.331  

 

Availability

By appointment.

Current teaching

  • Unit Coordinator, ECF 1110 Economics 1.

Background

Dr Margaret Giles commenced at ECU in July 2008. In 2009/2010, she was a Research Scholar in the Faculty of Business and Law. 

Margaret is a member of the Centre for Innovative Practice in the Faculty of Business and Law and a member of the Parkinson’s Centre in the Faculty of Computing, Health and Science. She is the organising Chair of the 2012 Meta-Analysis in Economics Research Network (MAER-Net) Colloquium hosted by the School of Accounting, Finance and Economics and the Centre for Innovative Practice.

Previously Margaret was Silver Chain’s project co-ordinator for the Lotterywest funded collaborative project “An Investigation into the Home Support Needs of Adults Living with Multiple Sclerosis, Huntington’s, Parkinson’s and Motor Neurone Diseases”. 

Margaret has also worked in research, policy, and planning positions in State and Federal Governments, as well as in teaching and research positions within the private and public university sector.

Responsibilities

Margaret is Unit Coordinator for the large enrolment compulsory first year Economics unit in the Bachelor of Business, Honours Coordinator for the School of Accounting, Finance and Economics and Economics discipline group facilitator.

Margaret is the School of Accounting Finance and Economic's representative on the Faculty of Business and Law's Research and Higher Degrees Committee and is also a member of the Faculty's Ethics Committee.

Margaret is ECU's representative on the Committee of the WA Branch of the Economic Society of Australia.

Staff qualifications

  • Bachelor of Economics (UWA, 1979)
  • Master of Economics (UWA, 1991)
  • Doctor of Philosophy (UWA, 2003)

Professional memberships

  • Member, Economic Society of Australia 

Awards and recognition

  • 2011 - Faculty of Business and Law Teaching and Learning grant; Project total $4,583. Topic: Patience is a virtue: the effect of students‟ time preferences on academic results.
  • 2009 - Inaugural Dean’s Award for Innovation in Teaching and Learning.
  • 2008 - joint winner of the Victorian Nina Buscombe Award.

Research

Research interest

  • Economics of health, ageing and disability;
  • Meta regression analysis and correction for publication bias;
  • Labour economics;
  • Transport economics;
  • Correcting for selection bias in the estimation of regression equations;
  • Labour market outcomes of prisoner education and training; and
  • Factors affecting vehicle speed and speed compliance.

Current research area

  • Determining the welfare and labour market outcomes of prison education and training (with WA Department of Corrective Services and federal Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations.
  • Estimating the home support needs and gaps for adults with Parkinson’s Disease, Motor Neurone Disease and Intellectual Disabilities (with Silver Chain).
  • Estimating the support needs for people living with intellectual disabilities (with Developmental Disability Council).

Recent research grants

  • 2012 - 2013, Skill shortages in the WA resources sector. Faculty of Business and Law Strategic Research Funding. Team: Dr Margaret Giles, Dr Ann-Claire Larsen & Ms Tara Smith.
  • 2012 - Studying in prison may reduce welfare dependence. Edith Cowan University – Industry Collaboration Grant. Team: Dr Margaret Giles, ECU, Chief Investigator, Mr Ray Chavez, DCS, Partner Investigator, Mr Ian D’Mello, DCS, Partner Investigator, Mr Ben Ryland, DEEWR (for Centrelink), Partner Investigator, Ms Jacqui Whale, ECU, Research Assistant. 
  • 2012 - Labour market outcomes of education and training during incarceration: Phase 2. ECU Industry Collaboration Grant with Industry partner Department of Corrective Services; Project total $20,191.  
  • 2011 -  Labour market outcomes of education and training during incarceration: Phase 1. Faculty of Business and Law Strategic Research grant; Project total $17,088. 
  • 2008-2010 -  The Costs of Meeting and not Meeting the Need for Support Services for People with Intellectual Disability in Western Australia. Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Project. Project total $278,408.  
  • 2006–2008 -  An Investigation Into the Home Support Needs of Adults Living with Neurodegenerative Disorders. Lotterywest Social Research Grant. Project total $178,000. 

Recent publications

Books

  • Norris, K., Kelly, R., & Giles, M. (2005). Economics of Australian Labour Markets (6th ed.). Frenchs Forest, NSW: Pearson Education Australia.

Book chapters

  • Giles, M. et al. (2007). The role of education and training in prison to work transitions. Chapter in Dawe, S. Vocational education and training for adult prisoners and offenders in Australia: Research readings. National Centre for Vocational Education Research.

Refereed journal articles (since 2006)

  • Bahn, S. & Giles, M. (2011). ‘Evaluation of the Neurodegenerative Conditions Coordinated Care Program (NCCCP) in Western Australia: Barriers to better service provision’, Evaluation and Program Planning, Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2011.06.005 .
  • Doucouliagos, C., Stanley, T. & Giles, M. (2011). Are Estimates of the Value of a Statistical Life Exaggerated? Journal of Health Economics. In Press. Available at: doi:10.1016/j.jhealeco.2011.10.001.
  • Giles, M. (2011). ‘A Participatory Teaching Strategy:  Developing a Timeline of the Global Financial Crisis’, Australasian Journal of Economics Education, 8(1).
  • Giles, M. & Lewin, G. (2011). ‘Not only MND: self-reported co-morbidities and other difficulties that impact on the need for home care support and allied health services’. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, 12(Suppl. 1): 37–39.
  • Walker, E., Redmond, J. & Giles, M. (2010). ‘A proposed methodology to promote adoption of ‘green’ production by small firms’, International Journal of Business Studies, 18(1): 39-48.
  • Walker, E., Redmond, J. & Giles, M. (2010). ‘Preface to Special Issue: Environmental Sustainability and Business firms’, International Journal of Business Studies, 18(1): 1-5.
  • Allan, M.M. & Giles, M. (2008). ‘Psychometric Properties of Scheier and Carver’s Life Orientation Test in a Sample of Australian Prisoners’, Psychological Reports, 103, pp. 305 – 322.
  • Colegrave, A. & Giles, M. (2008). ‘School cost Functions: A Meta-Regression Analysis’, Economics of Education Review, 27(6):688-696.
  • Giles, M. & Lewin, G. (2008). Projecting the Home Support Needs of Adults with Neurodegenerative Disorders in Western Australia to 2050: Policy Implications, Australasian Journal on Ageing, 27(Supp 1): A46.
  • Karol, E. & Giles, M. (2008). ‘Building Design and the Lived Experience of People with Neurodegenerative Disorders in Western Australia’, Architectural Science Review, 51(3), pp. 223 – 230.
  • Karol, E. & Giles, M. (2008). ‘To Stay or to Move: Factors Influencing Housing Choices by People with Neurodegenerative Disorders who Want to Continue Living in the Community’, Australasian Journal on Ageing, 27(Supp 1): A11.
  • Giles, M. & Le, A.T. (2007). Prisoners' Labour Market History and Aspirations: A Focus on Western Australia, Economic Record, 83(260): 31 – 45.
  • Giles, M. & Voola, J. (2006). The Shrimp Game: Engaging Students in the Classroom, Australasian Journal of Economics Education, 3(1-2): 73 – 89.
  • Matsushita, S., Siddique, A. & Giles, M. (2006). Education and Economic Growth: A Case Study of Australia, Review of Applied Economics, 2(1): 111 – 127.

Conference papers (since 2006)

  • Giles, M. & Lewin, G. (2011). ‘Not only MND: self-reported co-morbidities and other difficulties that impact on the need for home care support and allied health services’. Proceedings of the 22nd International Symposium on ALS/MND, Hilton Hotel, Sydney, 30 November – 2 December.
  • Giles, M., Yong, J. & Harris, A. (2011). ‘Can High Fail Rates be Reversed? Attending to Literacy Needs in Foundation Economics’, Proceedings of the Quantitative Analysis of Teaching and Learning in High Education Forum, The University of Melbourne, 11 February.
  • Giles, M. (2009). ‘Real Time Undergraduate Economics Teaching: A Case Study of Teaching International Economics and Finance’, Paper presented at the 14th Australasian Teaching Economics Conference, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, 13 – 14 July.
  • Giles, M. (2009). Teacher as ‘learner’: A Case Study of Teaching International Economics and Finance, Paper presented at E-Culture, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, 5 November.
  • Karol, E. & Giles, M. (2008). ‘Theory and Practice: The Response of People with Neurodegenerative Disorders to Home Design in Western Australia', in Gerontechnology Conference Issue of 6th Conference of the International Society for Gerontechnology,- Pisa, ISG, Helsinki, 7(2), pp. 137.

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