Associate Professor Maxwell Winchester

Maxwell has consulting experience as a marketing researcher in Australia, Asia, North America and Europe. His clients have included Astra Motor Company, Cartier Asia, BHP, Pernod Riccard and a number of government agencies. Most recently he has acted as an Advisory Board Member to Yates+ APEX World Class Awards with the airline industry internationally with Yates & Partners. He has also held a senior management position in one of Australia’s largest companies and held political seats in the UK.

In addition to his industry experience, Maxwell has many years of academic teaching experience globally, having held permanent faculty positions in Australia, Canada, Denmark and the UK. In addition to these he has been an Adjunct Lecturer in Vietnam, China, Singapore, Malaysia, Kuwait, France, Mexico, Austria, The USA and Germany. His research interests include reflective learning and reflective practice; qualitative and quantitative research methods; empirical generalisationalist research methods and behaviourist consumer behaviour theories.

He was lead author for “Integrated Marketing Communication: A Balanced Approach”, which was awarded best tertiary education textbook of any discipline in the Australian Education Publisher Awards. He is also a co-author for “Marketing: Theory, Evidence, Practice”, rated as one of the best B2B marketing books of all time by Book Authority.

In Maxwell's most recent role, as the Head of Scholarship and Professional Learning in Victoria University's First Year College, he has taken a leading role in the successful implementation of the block model, what has been cited as the biggest disruptive innovation in Australia's tertiary education history. He was a recipient of a Universites Australia Award for Innovation in Learning and Teaching for his role in the successful implementation of the Block Model.