Rate My Professor José Sakakibara

Sakakibara's research specializations include not-for-profit marketing, exploring individual donors’ attitudes and behaviors toward fundraising to support organizations' financial independence; scholarship of teaching and learning in higher education, with a focus on business and marketing education to improve student performance and retention through work-integrated learning, cooperative learning, and blended learning; and interactive marketing, digital marketing, and customer relationship management. He currently coordinates courses including Business Research Methods, E-Marketing, Principles of Marketing, and International Marketing. In 2017, he was awarded a University Letter of Commendation for Teaching Performance Evaluation and Course Content Evaluation scores in Business Research Methods. His key publications encompass ‘Developing a Multiple-Request Individual Giving Model’ (2012, with Elias Kyriazis and Jennifer Algie, ANZMAC); ‘Feeding Two Birds with One Seed: Collaborating with Not-Profit Organisations and Raising Awareness About Social Issues Amongst University Students’ (2016, with Kyriazis, Bressan, and Bavaro, ANZTSR); ‘Graduate Certificate in Higher Education: from Local Scholarship to Changing Teaching Practice at the Australian Catholic University (ACU)’ (2015, with Tina Bavaro, ISSOTL); and ‘Competitive Fundraising Strategies of the Not for Profit Sector in the New Century: Raising Supporters or Drift Netting for Dollars?’ (2010, with Janet Chew, ANZTSR). As Chair of the Australia and New Zealand Third Sector Research (ANZTSR), he oversees the peer-reviewed journal Third Sector Review, included in the Excellence in Research for Australia list, and holds membership in the Australian Marketing Institute. He also serves as a member and rescuer for NSW Wildlife Information, Rescue and Education Service (WIRES).