Researching and Writing

ACADEMIC

Participatory. Dynamic. Analytic.

As well as her consulting work, Dr Nuala Dent teaches management at Swinburne University and on the Master of Leadership and Management with the National Institute of Organisation Dynamics (NIODA). 

Nuala has a PhD and Masters in Organisation Dynamics, and regularly presents and publishes her work. Her particular interest is in the impact of technology on leadership, management and group dynamics, particularly in relation to distributed teams and multi-party arrangements. This was the subject of her PhD for which she received the La Trobe University Nancy Millis Medal for the outstanding quality of her thesis.

Get in touch if you would like learn more about Nuala's research, or to canvas research and public speaking opportunities.

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PUBLICATIONS

Dent, N. (2019) 'A reflexive account: Group consultation via video conference' in H Weinberg & A Rolnik (eds), Internet-Delivered Therapy and Consultancy for Groups, Families and Organisations, Routledge​


Dent, N (2018) A fractured landscape: a systems psychodynamic investigation into the experience of a partially distributed team of therapists in an Australian child protection system,

PhD thesis, La Trobe University​


Dent, N. de Gooijer, J. et al. (2016) 'Crossing Borders: A Slow Walk'. Socioanalysis, Volume 18, Special Issue on Seeking Asylum​


Dent, N. (2013) 'Towards Reflexivity: Online and 'in-the-room'. Socioanlaysis, Volume 15, Victoria Australia​


Dent, N. (2010) 'Integrating face-to-face and virtual in the study of group relations'. Masters research thesis, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia

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PRESENTATIONS

2020      Transforming the Experience of Covid-19, with Dr Susan Long, ODA, online​


2020      The use of reflective practice to support frontline staff, with Dr Susan Long, VRGF, online​


2019      Systems psychodynamics and the leading edge of leadership development. The Leadership Network 2019 Leadership Professionals Symposium, Melbourne​


2019      The use of an art-based method to explore countertransference, NIODA, Melbourne​

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2018      Leading growth in the face of turbulence, keynote address and workshop, Taking action in turbulent times, masterclass. Leadership+Grit+Growth Symposium. Tasmanian Leaders, Hobart​


2017      Working across time and space: a fractured landscape, ISPSO Annual Meeting, Copenhagen​


2017      Working across time and space, Doing Business with the Unconscious, Massey University, New Zealand​


2013      Tending to disengagement, OPUS International Conference, London​


2012      Social Dreaming online and in the room, ISPSO Regional Meeting, Melbourne​


2012      Designing jobs that respond to people’s preferences, NDS Conference, Adelaide​


2012      Collusion to Connive, ISPSO Annual Meeting, San Diego​


2011      Fragmented and Connected: close encounters of a virtual kind, with Tim Roberts-Ferguson, ISPSO Annual Meeting, Melbourne

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