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Nick Kearns

Lecturer - Enterprise Education in Schools
School of Applied Business
Location: Building 054, Room 002

Professional memberships

NZ Registered Teacher

Business NZ Mentor

 

Profile

Research Interests

R&D Funding for SME product development

Sustainability concepts

Areas of Research

SME perspectives on MoBIE funding application process

Emergent Systems in Sustainability: Sahtouris meets Odum

Teaching Interests

NLP in teaching/learning

Hobbies/Other Interests

Music, swimming

Publications

Wessels, A., Kearns, N., & Robertson, C. (2023). Learner engagement with where-to-next feedback in early tertiary studies. E. Papoutsaki & M. Shannon (eds.), Rangahau: Te Mana o te Mahi Kotahitanga / Research: The Power of Collaboration. Unitec/MIT Research Symposium 2022, December 8 and 9.

Kearns, N., Wessels, A., & Robertson, C. (2022). Pilot Study on 'Where -to- next' feedback in the New Zealand Diploma of Business. MIT - Unitec Research Sympoium, Auckland New Zealand. Online.

Mirzaei, M., Ranganathan, S., & Kearns, N. (2021). A Qualitative Analysis of managing change when adopting new technology in the retail sector in New Zealand. 21st International Business Horizon-INBUSH ERA-2021 ADMAA Virtual International Research Conference, online.

Kearns, N., Mirzaei, M., Stewart, J., Malhotra, M., & Harald, L. (2020). Reflections on the rapid transition to online delivery during the COVID19 lockdown. Unitec Research Symposium, Unitec, Auckland.

Ayling, D., Hebblethwaite, D., & Kearns, N. (2020). One degree to rule them all: responding to the opportunity of Te Pukenga. Unitec Research Symposium, Unitec, Auckland.

Mirzaei, M., Kearns, N., & Vellore, S. (2019). Resistance to change can improve change management. New Zealand Applied Business Education, Christchurch - New Zealand.

Mirzaei, M., Ranganathan, S., Kearns, N., Airehrour, D., & Etemaddar, M. (2019). Investigating Challenges to SME deployment of Operational Business Intelligence - CCse Study of the New Zealand Retail Sector. 12th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing Companion (UCC), Auckland.

Kearns, N. B. F., & Beale, W. J. (2015). Show me the Money: Perspectives on Applying for Government Research and Development Co-funding. Auckland, New Zealand, Occasional and Discussion Paper Series (Vol. Unitec ePress).
https://hdl.handle.net/10652/3083

Kearns, N. B. F., & Hays, J. M. (2015). Student teams: Promises, problems and Paradoxes. National Tertiary Learning And Teaching Conference, Tauranga, New Zealand.

Kearns, N. (2015). Innovation - It's not rocket science - or is it? New Zealand Exporter Magazine. New Zealand Exporter Magazine (Vol. Online).

Kearns, N. B. F., and Beale, W.J. (2014). The experience of high value manufacturing & services (HVMS) small to medium enterprises (SME) when applying for government research & development funding. Auckland, Not Published.

Kearns, N.B.F. (2014). Innovation Funding in New Zealand. Unitec Research Symposium, Unitec Institute of Technology, Auckland.
https://hdl.handle.net/10652/3003

Kearns, N. B. F., Saifoloi, M., & Mellalieu, P. J. (2014). Introducing Education for Enterprise within island and immigrant Pacific communities: Capacity building lessons from the New Zealand experience. Unitec Pacific Research Symposium, Unitec Institute of Technology, Auckland.
https://hdl.handle.net/10652/3004

Mellalieu, P.J., Vause, A., Coleman, E.B., and Kearns, N. (2014). Reducing Youth Disadvantage through Education for Enterprise: A Case study of Nga Kakano School. .

Kearns, Nick (2014). DEMOCATISING INNOVATION. NZ Exporter Nov/Dec (Vol. Nov/Dec 2014).

Kearns, N.B.F., and Beale, W.J. (2014). Risk, Reward, Re-invention & Reality : A review of innovation funding in New Zealand. Unitec ePress (Vol. Unitec ePress).

Oldfield, J., Dassanayake, w., and Kearns, N. (2014). iBus: Perceptions of the rise of mobile learning in a business degree. B. Hegarty, J. McDonald, & S.-K. Loke (Eds.), Rhetoric and Reality: Critical perspectives on educational technology. Proceedings ascilite Dunedin 2014, B. Hegarty, J. McDonald, & S.-K. Loke (Eds.),.

Kearns,, N.B.F. (2011). Young Enterprise Trust in New Zealand: History, Performance and Prospects. 8th AGSE international Entrepreneurship Proceedings.