The latest books from UniSA researchers

• Human Resources for the Non-HR Manager
• Global Perspectives and New Challenges in Culturally Responsive Pedagogies: Super-diversity and Teaching Practice
• Interventions in Cases of Bullying in Schools: A Training Manual for Teachers and Counsellors

Human Resources for the Non-HR Manager

By UniSA Research Professor in Human Resource Management Carol Kulik (and Elissa L. Perry)

Human Resources for the Non-HR Manager gives every manager, regardless of their functional role, access to cutting-edge research and evidence-based recommendations so they can approach their people management responsibilities with confidence. 

Day-to-day people management is increasingly the responsibility of frontline managers, not HR professionals. But managers are often poorly prepared for these responsibilities; they receive little training (and sometimes have little interest!) in HR. People management is never easy, and it is particularly challenging in COVID-19’s "next normal" workplace, where managers must engage diverse employees across a wide range of working arrangements. This book focuses on the special relationship that line managers have with their employees and describes managers’ responsibilities across the entire employee lifecycle – from front-end recruiting and hiring through to long-term retention. The content is grounded in rigorous academic research, but the book’s conversational tone conveys basic principles without technical jargon. Each chapter includes Manager’s Checkpoints to help readers apply the material to their own workplace, and Manager’s Knots that address grey areas inherent in people management. 

The book is designed for any reader currently working as a line manager, or aspiring to a managerial role, who wants to improve their people management skills.

The book is available from Routledge.

Global Perspectives and New Challenges in Culturally Responsive Pedagogies: Super-diversity and Teaching Practice

Edited by UniSA Professor of Education and co-chair of the Pedagogies for Justice research group in the Centre for Research in Educational and Social Inclusion Lester-Irabinna Rigney

Led by Professor Lester-Irabinna Rigney, Global Perspectives and New Challenges in Culturally Responsive Pedagogies brings together diverse communities of education research in an innovative way to develop a nuanced understanding of the relationship between education and democracy.

This book synthesises a range of theoretical, conceptual, and empirical approaches to address the complex challenges faced by young people and societies in the 21st century. Each chapter provides accounts of local inclusive encounters in education, while engaging with global debates and issues, such as racism, neoliberalism, de-colonisation, new colonialism, de-democratisation, and growing social, economic, and educational inequality. This book presents new ways of thinking about democracy, local–global enactments of culturally responsive pedagogies through teaching and learning, and future thinking for a new era.

Bringing together diverse, Australian, and international perspectives, this book will be relevant to educators, researchers, and policy makers who are interested in Indigenous education, educational sociology, de-coloniality, cultural safety, critical pedagogy, and education leadership theory.

The book is available from Routledge.

Interventions in Cases of Bullying in Schools: A Training Manual for Teachers and Counsellors

By UniSA Adjunct Professor Ken Rigby

In the new book, Interventions in Cases of Bullying in Schools: A Training Manual for Teachers and Counsellors, renowned bullying expert Professor Ken Rigby OAM draws on five decades of practice and research to help schools tackle the seemingly intractable problem of bullying. Designed to be deployed alongside policy development and preventive programs, this essential training manual sets out nine evidence-based methods of intervention. Using a series of role-plays and prompts for discussion, Interventions in Cases of Bullying in Schools supports practitioners in selecting and applying the most appropriate method for each unique case of bullying. It also features a practical framework for recording and evaluating the application of interventions in your unique context, as well as suggestions of dozens of resources that will further develop your understanding of bullying.

Practical, easy to use and focused firmly on solutions, Prof Rigby’s Interventions in Cases of Bullying in Schools is your indispensable guide to addressing one of the most vexed issues facing educators today.

The book is published by Hawker Brownlow Education.

Other Stories

• Australian teachers at breaking point as budget delivers superficial support
• Substandard rental housing a threat to resident health and wellbeing
• Why you should learn the Kaurna phrase Yangadlitya Kumangka
• The WHO says we shouldn’t bother with artificial sweeteners for weight loss or health. Is sugar better?
• From the Vice Chancellor: Universities Accord – What’s the big idea here?
• Achievements and Announcements
• Mother and son pair celebrate graduation from Aboriginal Pathway Program
• From Foundation Studies to PhD and beyond
• Accolades for two influential Aboriginal voices as UniSA endorses wider principle
• In Pictures: MOD. holds its biggest party yet + National Reconciliation Week
• The latest books from UniSA researchers