Staff profile

Qualifications

• PhD(La Trobe).

Teaching areas

• Applied Statistics: Introductory Statistics for Business (ECO1ISB).

• Experimental Design (STA3EXD).
• Multivariate Analysis (STA3MA).

Supervision

• Principal Supervisor: Ms Angela Pezic (PhD completed).

• Associate Supervisor: Ms Joy Spark (PhD candidate Pharmacy) and Ms Sue Aberdeen (PhD candidate Health Sciences).

Research interests

• Applied Statistics in Education.

• Demography – Modelling internal migration.

Recent publications and presentations

• Johnson, L. W., Walker, R. H. and  Byrne, G., The perceived impact of Australian community banks on quality of life, The Melbourne Review, 4(1) (2008), 64-69.

• Walker, R. H., Byrne, G. and Johnson, L. W., Developing a quality of life measure to assess the impact of community services: The case of Australian community banks, Journal of Macromarketing, 27(4) (2007), 380-388.

• Byrne, G. and Staehr, L., Current internet use in Australia: A closer look at the digital divide, in S. Spencer and A. Jenkins (eds), Proceedings of the 17th Australasian Conference on Information Systems (Australasian Association for Information Systems: 2006).
• Byrne, G., Rogers, M., Jobling, E., Walker, R. H. and Johnson, L. W., Community banks in Australia: an innovative approach to social and economic wealth creation? (PDF 456KB), International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management, 5(5-6) (2005), 495–507.
• Byrne, G. and Pezic, A., Modelling internal migration drivers with geographically weighted regression, in A. Evans (ed), Proceedings of the 12th Biennial Conference of the Australian Population Association (Australian Population Association: Canberra, 2004).