Rate My Professor Moira Watson

Dr. Moira Watson serves as an Adjunct Lecturer in the Murdoch Business School at Murdoch University. She earned her PhD in Business Management from Edith Cowan University in 2014, with a thesis titled 'Constructing corporate capability in changing contexts: The innovation journey of strategic management development at BankWest.' This empirical, longitudinal case study analyzed BankWest from 1997 to 2009, exploring how management development contributes to corporate capability, innovation, and strategic change within a constructionist paradigm. Watson joined Murdoch University as an academic in 2015, after eight years at two other universities. She has held roles including Lecturer in the Murdoch Business School and Research Fellow in Nursing at the Centre for Healthy Ageing. Her expertise spans business and governance, research methodology, vocational education and training, and carer health and wellbeing.

Watson's scholarly contributions include 'Who cares for the carer? Codesigning a carer health and wellbeing program,' published in Health Expectations in 2023 with Natasha Layton and colleagues; 'Understanding the role, quality of life and strategies used by unpaid carers of older people in Australia to maintain their health and wellbeing,' in Clinical Interventions in Aging in 2022 with Den-Ching A. Lee and others; 'Vocational Education and Training Literacy and Numeracy Review of Research' with L. Nicholson and E. Sharplin; and 'Markets, competition and "reform" in VET: views from public and private registered training organisations in Western Australia.' She contributed to the second edition of Organisational Behaviour: Engaging People and Organisations. Watson received a 2018 Learning Excellence Academy grant and supervised a 2022 PhD on newcomer socialisation experiences. She is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (FAICD), Governance Institute of Australia (FGIA), and Australian Institute of Management (FAIM).