Most of the papers in this ebook were written by members of the Business and Economics Faculty at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, and all of them investigate an aspect of student learning. But the most noteworthy feature they share is that they were all produced under a managed scheme for promoting research into learning and teaching in the faculty. So while the interest of this ebook arises partly from the insights offered by the individual research projects associated with each paper, an important part of that interest also arises from the way the collection as a whole explains and illustrates the overarching system under which the projects were carried out.

This system, known as the Learning Excellence and Development Scheme (or LEAD), offers a model for promoting learning and teaching research in a university faculty.