UNE Centre for Agribusiness Monthly Update - October 2016
I'm pleased to share with you that October has yielded interesting preliminary results for a variety of research being undertaken by the Centre for Agribusiness.
UNE Business School’s Dr Shawn Leu and researcher Mr Ed Lefley have been formulating indicators of regional economic activity and are working towards the analysis of the role of agribusiness in the regions, particularly in New England.
UNE Business School’s Renato Villano, Stuart Mounter and I have completed data collection in a survey of retail food shoppers in Armidale. The research is investigating the effect of the opening of Aldi’s Armidale store and involved two sets of interviews (6 months before, and 6 months after, the store’s opening). You can heara summary of this project on video, recently shared on our YouTube channel.Survey staff Max Laurie, Zack Draunimasi, James Pryor and Derek Purdy did a great job, and thanks are also extended to all the shoppers who took time out for the interviews.
In November 2016 I’ll be calling for ideas on establishing a Fund for Agribusiness research and study, to be run in association with our Centre.
You can read more of our news via my full Director's Update on the Centre for Agribusiness blog.
This wet spring continues harvest and livestock sales season, and I wish you good selling, buying, banking and thinking in November 2016.
Derek Baker
Director
UNE Centre for Agribusiness
Work with the Centre for Agribusiness Applications for three PhD scholarships with the Centre closed 31 October, but we are pleased to announce we shall be accepting late applications. Read more ...
Our search for a Postdoctoral Fellow in Agribusiness continues. The position is to be re-advertised in November via Jobs at UNE.
PhD Project Pipeline News
PhD candidate Nikki Zhang passed her PhD confirmation exam in the UNE Business School on 28 October, to get her moving with on her topic of "Value of Information and Information Sharing in the Australian Beef and Sheep Meat Supply Chains."
Nikki was happy to stop by and give us a quick overview of her PhD project. Read more ...
Events with the Centre for Agribusiness
While our Seminar Series is wrapping up for 2016, we're working up to some exciting events in 2017.
We will be pleased to share our 2017 calendar with you in the lead up to a promising year for academic and industry partners and visitors.
All friends of the Centre for Agribusiness are welcome to attend these events, which are advertised on the Centre’s site. Don't forget that this year's seminars are also recorded where possible – you can access these talks via the UNE Business School 2016 Seminar Series page.
SMART Region Incubator
Design and implementation of UNE's SMART Region Incubator continues - you can read more in our latest update.
Project Pipeline update: UNE Business School has been conducting surveys of food shoppers - the first round were carried out in August 2015 (before Aldi opening in Armidale) and the second in October 2016 (after Aldi opening). Interviews of shoppers took place in shopping malls, city streets and suburban streets in Armidale, and concerned retail shopping habits. Read more...
Surveys of food shoppers in the Armidale area have shown that food expenditures are being spread over a larger number of stores.
Some excitement this month as new signage goes up for the SMART Region Incubator - thanks to our friends at A.O.K. Signs in Armidale.
The Centre for Agribusiness has been commissioned by the NSW government to write a report which examines the potential for the development of the large-scale glasshouse industry in NSW. The report aims to look at the various resource and institutional constraints the industry in NSW faces as well as the possible market opportunities for horticultural crops in Australia and across the world. Read more...
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