Rate My Professor Ian Boudville

Ian Boudville is a lecturer in the School of Business and Governance at Murdoch University in Perth, Australia, affiliated with the Murdoch Business School. He serves as Academic Chair for multiple business programs, including the Bachelor of Business, Finance, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Management, Marketing, MJ-ACCA Accounting, Hospitality and Tourism Management, International Business, and Professional Accounting minor. This role highlights his significant contributions to curriculum oversight and program development in business education.

Boudville teaches a range of units focused on strategic management and leadership, such as undergraduate Strategic Management (BUS317, BUS349), Knowledge Management (BUS348), postgraduate Effective Leadership (MBS598, MBS671, MBS687), and Leading the Engaged Enterprise (MBS663). His research spans leadership development, qualitative data analysis using sensemaking, academic community building, gender images in advertising, and decision support systems in media planning. Key publications include 'Reflective Learning and the Development of Leaders' (2015), 'Using Sensemaking as a Diagnostic Tool in the Analysis of Qualitative Data' (2013, co-authored with Megan Paull and Helen Sitlington, cited 84 times), 'Building a Community of Scholars: Positive Relationships in a Holding Environment' (2012, ANZAM conference paper he initiated as a collective auto-ethnography), 'Female Gender Images in Adolescent Magazine Advertising' (2003), and 'An Exploratory Investigation Into The Use Of Decision Support Systems In Media Planning'. His ResearchGate profile records 5 publications, 35 citations, and 3,616 reads. Boudville has supervised PhD theses, including 'Understanding the Impact of Nurse Manager Leadership' (2020) by Sarah Crewe and 'A Lived Experience Theory of Schism (LETS)' (2022) by Katherine E. Sugars. In 2018, he received a LEAD grant for a learning and teaching project with colleagues Greg Lopez and Moira Watson, as recognized by Murdoch's Learning Excellence Academy.