Pat Norman

Pat Norman

Senior Research Officer
The University of Sydney Business School

Dr Pat Norman is Manager, Research & Development at Sydney Executive Plus, an initiative of the University of Sydney Business School. His doctoral thesis explored teacher professional identity, ethics, and policy enactment in the context of neoliberalism. Pat's current research interests include professional identity and practical wisdom, artificial intelligence, the future of work and management, and approaches to flourishing under neoliberalism. Pat collaborates on the delivery of programs related to megatrends and the future of work, corporate foresight and strategy, changing management practices, AI fluency, and the innovation in business. He also writes on pop culture and social theory, and has published research in Critical Studies in Education, the Australian Educational Researcher, and Teaching in Higher Education. He is obsessed with science fiction and tweets at @Pat_Norman.

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Inclusive and workplace acceptance of refugees
Partnering for refugee employment

When considering their talent pipelines, few companies think outside-of-the-box. Most refugees flourish in the workplace, and so do the businesses that hire them.

SDG 16
Institutional investors demand a more sustainable capitalism

Honey gathering is a solitary job in Indigenous communities. The collector then shares the honey with their community but refrains from joining in the honey feast themself. The idea is that the gathering is not about their gratification, it’s about their contribution to the collective.  

SDG15 Bushfires
Optimisation model as a guide to burning forests to save forests

Setting fire to parts of a forest to save it might seem counterintuitive to urban communities. There is no equivalent of torching a few streets to protect a suburb. However, amongst First Nations people in Australia, hazard reduction burning is a well-established practice.

SDG13 - coal mining
Net zero now – it’s the economy AND the planet

In Australia, as elsewhere, the climate wars have focused on the climate versus jobs dichotomy. Yet while Australia remains highly dependent on fossil fuel extraction for its national economic prosperity it has also become increasingly unequal in its distribution of that wealth.