Dr Ashish Malik , PhD, teaches strategic human resource management and related courses at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Ashish holds a PhD from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand and an MA (PM&IR) from TISS, India. Ashish's thesis examined human capital formation in the Indian IT industry. Ashish is currently engaged in a research project on evaluating the New South Wales State Government’s “Pilot Smart Work Hubs” initiative. Ashish has published and presented more than 70 research papers and is the co-author/editor of three books.