David Meacheam is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the School of Business at UNSW Canberra, University of New South Wales. Prior to becoming a full-time academic, he worked in the private sector and local government. In the 1990s, as a Deputy Director, he worked in a consultancy role helping predominantly public and not-for-profit service organisations with their development, enjoying both the client-focused and organisational development aspects of his work. His first degree is in information science, an important qualification in the early 1990s when organisations needed assistance adapting technologies to work processes. He began full-time academic work in 2000 while completing an MBA at the University of Newcastle. He taught part-time at The Adventist College at Cooranbong and TAFE NSW, and while at Newcastle University, taught in Malaysia, Hong Kong and Singapore. He completed his doctorate in 2006 on knowledge management relative to organisational strategic types. At UNSW Canberra, he teaches Public Policy Governance and Institutions, Human Resource Management and Strategic Management.

His research interests encompass knowledge management relative to organisational strategic types, Public Policy Governance and Institutions, HRM and Strategic Management. Key publications include the book A performance and cost benefit evaluation of a regional diabetes care program on the Central Coast of New South Wales (2003) and Doing the Numbers: The Register of Unmet Needs for People with Disabilities on the Central Coast (1999). Book chapters feature Recovering the performative role of innovations in the global travel of healthcare practices (2016) and Knowledge worker control: Understanding via principal and agent theory (2010). Journal articles such as Enhancing Learners' Experience through Extending Learning Systems (2020, IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies), Attitude, digital literacy and self efficacy: Flow-on effects for online learning behavior (2016, Internet and Higher Education) and Knowledge worker control (2011, The Learning Organization) highlight his contributions. He has presented papers at international conferences on topics including Turnitin use, work intensification and knowledge transfer in health systems.

Professional Email: d.meacheam@adfa.edu.au