Research Bites is your research news digest which aims to capture the diverse research happening in our faculty, collated from various media outlets. In this edition…
Dr Lucia Wuersch, Dr Felicity Small, and Assoc Prof Alain Neher share their insights into stakeholder engagement within a pollinator garden project at a CSU Bathurst Campus, initiated by the School of Business, and explores its contributions to community capitals and environmental sustainability. Their article, “Building community capitals through stakeholder engagement in a pollinator garden of a regional Australian university: A Business School initiative” is open access and can be enjoyed now.
Dr Jamie Ferrill | Senior Lecturer in AGSPS | and her co-editors are pleased to open 2026 by announcing the publication of a new edited collection, a product of the Financial Integrity Hub, Combating Financial Crime, which examines the intended and unintended consequences of combating financial crime.
As AML/CTF regimes continue to expand globally, this collection interrogates the delicate balance between security imperatives, individual rights, and the integrity of financial systems. While designed to protect societies and economies, financial crime controls can also erode privacy, constrain legitimate activity, and disproportionately affect vulnerable communities.
Drawing on comparative analysis and real-world case studies, the book explores:
* Ethical and legal tensions arising from expanded surveillance
* The impact of AML/CTF frameworks on charities, non-profits, and financial inclusion
* De-banking, unexplained wealth orders, and risk-based regulation
* The growing role of technology, including privacy-preserving analytics and CBDCs
* The intersection of financial crime, environmental harm, and global inequality
Dr Peter Adjei-Bamfo | Lecturer in the School of Business | is thrilled to share that his co-authored article, “eGovernment Adoption in Ghana: Structural Conditions and Employee Affective Orientation,” has been published in Public Administration Review (PAR) and is available in open access.
This work, co-authored with Sandy Zook, Thema Monroe-White, PhD and Prof. Justice Bawole, contributes to their long-running digital nonprofit mapping project in Ghana.
Their current output draws on a nascent digital nonprofit registration and permit renewal project in Ghana as a case study and offers early-stage insights into digital innovation adoption, particularly within resource constrained public sector environments.
Dr Joyce Vromen | Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology | recently published on shame and psychosis recovery | “Shame as a barrier to recovery after psychosis: a lived-experience psychologist’s perspective” | Journal Psychosis.
It’s a short and straightforward piece, but an important one for Joyce. The article brings together three perspectives that are still too often kept separate in mental health work:
- lived experience
- clinical practice
- research
Integrating these lenses matters because recovery, identity, and care decisions are lived at their intersection
Associate Professor Kristy Campion | AGSPS | along with her colleague Dr Kiriloi M. Ingram share their recently published paper “Of Freemen and Strawmen: understanding antigovernment ideologies in Australia through international knowledge contexts.” Australian Journal of Political Science.
In the article Kristy and Kiriloi develop insight into the general ideological contours of anti-government beliefs in Australia. It achieves this through a discourse analysis of international knowledge contexts, which resulted in the 3I Framework, organising the core ideological categories of Illegitimacy, Individualism, and Immunity.
