A beaming David Wilson walked out of the six panel interview room at Wagga Wagga CSU campus on the 28th of March 2019 with confirmation received to proceed with his PhD titled “Effective leadership in Community-based informal groups”. Under the supervision of Drs Pamela Lockhart and Larissa Bamberry. David has been developing his proposal for a study in informal leadership in the context of the CHIP environment for a PhD at Charles Sturt University (CSU). His PhD will focus on exploring the impact of the relational leadership of the CHIP facilitators and the participants. His study will make a contribution to leadership in informal groups and would highlight the significance of the voluntary leaders in critical life-changing and life-saving decision making.
David Wilson took up a Lecturer position at Avondale College in 2014 teaching in the Avondale Business School (ABS). He teaches across Accounting, Management and Marketing Units. He also has the Course Convenor responsibility for the Bachelors of Business Degree course. He enjoys working with the ABS team comprising of Associate Professor Lisa Barnes, Dr Warrick Long, Dr Peter Williams and Diane Smith. He previously worked in New Zealand as a Business manager at the Institute of Information Sciences, Massey University and then as a Senior Accountant at the North New Zealand Conference and New Zealand Pacific Union Conference. Prior to that he worked as a Retail, Transport and Operations Manager with Diary Farms International based in Singapore.
David is looking forward to the challenges ahead that is associated with the PhD studies in CSU and other research projects with his team at Avondale.