Rate My Professor Megan Paull

Dr. Megan Paull is Associate Professor and Head of Management and Marketing in the Murdoch Business School, College of Business at Murdoch University. Holding a PhD in Business Studies from Edith Cowan University, she has advanced through various roles at the institution, including Senior Lecturer, Director of Postgraduate Research in the School of Management and Governance, and co-director of the Centre for Responsible Citizenship and Sustainability. Her career emphasizes management education, student engagement through interactive learning, and research into organizational behavior in nonprofit and volunteering contexts. Paull has supervised doctoral theses on topics such as advocacy and dissent in not-for-profit organizations and lived experience theory of schism, contributing to the development of emerging scholars in these areas.

Paull's research specializations include volunteering management, university student volunteering, workplace bullying particularly in volunteer settings, and nonprofit organizational dynamics. She led the Volunteering to Learn project from 2013 to 2015, a multi-university collaboration that produced resources to enhance the recognition of student volunteering for employability and curriculum integration. In 2018, she launched the first comprehensive Australasian investigation into bullying in volunteer environments. She co-authored a Lotterywest-funded report for Volunteering WA on the evolving practice of volunteering in aged care in 2022. Her key publications encompass 'Applying the Kirkpatrick model: Evaluating an Interaction for Learning Framework curriculum intervention' (Paull, Whitsed & Girardi, 2016, Issues in Educational Research), 'When is a bystander not a bystander? A typology of the bystander role in workplace bullying' (Paull, Omari & Standen, 2012), ''Robust performance management' or workplace bullying?' (Omari & Paull, 2017), 'Dignity and respect: important in volunteer settings too!' (Paull & Omari, 2015), and 'Feedback format preferences of international post-graduate students in Australia' (Sequeira et al., 2024). With over 50 research outputs and collaborations across institutions, her work has shaped practices in volunteering research networks and policy in Western Australia, fostering better management and ethical practices in nonprofit sectors.