PhD Student
Phone: (07) 3138 2692
Fax: (07) 3138 1500
E-mail: t.beatton@qut.edu.au
Room: Z857, Workstation #7, Level 8, Z Block, GP
Qualifications
BBus (Finance & Management) QUT; MBus (Research) QUT
Career Summary
I spent three and half years in a Royal Australian Navy technical training establishment completing an Electrical Fitters certificate and a certificate in Electronics and Communications; the following seven years I worked on shipboard guided missile systems. For the next twenty-one years I was with Hewlett-Packard Company in Engineering Maintenance then Sales & Marketing. After four years with an IT consulting firm I retired and went back to school. I completed my Bachelor of Business in 2005, my Masters in 2007 and am currently doing a PhD in the Economics of Happiness under the supervision of Professor Paul Frijters.
Research Interests
Behavioural Economics; Economics of Happiness
Publications
Beatton, D. (2006). Book Reviews: Handbook of product placement in the mass media: new strategies in marketing theory, practice, trend, and ethics by M-L Galician (Ed.); Customer relationship management in electronic markets by G.R. Iyer and D. Bejou; Many thin companies by T. Carter, and; Conflict management by D. Borisoff and D.A. Victor. Journal of Management & Organisation, 12 (1), 78-82.
Frijters, P., & Beatton, T. (2008). The mystery of the U-shaped relationship between happiness and age. QUT Working Papers.
Beatton, T., & Frijters, P. (2009). Do changes in the lives of our peers make us unhappy? QUT Working Papers.
Beatton, T., Frijters, P., & Johnston, D. W. (2009). Self-Assessed School Ability and Adolescent Happiness. QUT Working Papers.