Suellen Tapsall – BA, MA, FAIM
Suellen Tapsall is the Director of the AIM.UWA Business School Alliance, a strategic Alliance between the Australian Institute of Management WA and the UWA Business School, which provides senior executive leadership and organisational development programs and services.
A former journalist (print and broadcast) who moved into academe in the 1990s, Suellen worked at Queensland University of Technology and Murdoch University in a variety of academic leadership and management roles. Co-author of three journalism books and a number of major research reports, Suellen’s expertise and research interests include technology policy, theories of journalism, borderless education and social and economic impacts of the Internet. Suellen is the current national president of the Journalism Education Association. She was diagnosed with myopia-related Macular Degeneration in 2001 and continues to be active in journalism education and research nationally and internationally.