Professor Nicholas Buys
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Professor Nicholas Buys is currently the Director of the RISE Research Unit, which is focussed on research and consultancy addressing issues impacting employees in the workplace. He was the Dean, Learning & Teaching in the Health Group at Griffith University from 2006 and 2022, during which the Group has grew to be one of the most comprehensive health faculties of any University in Australia in terms of the breadth of degrees offered. He was responsible for introducing a range of strategies to address retention, graduate success, student satisfaction, as well as increase the enrolment of students from disadvantaged groups. Formerly, Professor Buys was Head, School of Human Services and Social Work and Director of the Research Centre for Human Services at Griffith. His professional background is in the area of rehabilitation counselling, in which he worked in positions in both the public and private sectors. He has attracted several national learning and teaching grants and over $5 million in research and industry-linked commercial grant funding. Professor Buys has 250 peer reviewed publications in the areas such as learning and teaching, vocational rehabilitation, disability management, chronic disease prevention and health promotion. He has developed international collaborations with researchers in the USA, China, Canada, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Sweden and the Netherlands.
Recent consultancies include Brisbane City Council, Brisbane Catholic Education, Queensland Departments of Education and of Transport and Main Roads, translink, Brisbane North Health Services, Insurance and Care NSW. He has numerous books, chapters, and articles with nearly 6000 citations and an H-index of 42.
