Dr Craig Cameron, Senior Lecturer with Griffith Business School, recently caught up with former student and GBS alumnus Dr Miwa Nakai in Tokyo, Japan. Miwa talked about her time at Griffith, postgraduate study and her groundbreaking research at the University of Tokyo.
After completing high school in 2004, Miwa worked for two years to save enough money to study abroad. But she had to make two critical decisions about her proposed international study: Australia or the United States? And which university? Miwa chose Australia and Queensland Institute of Business and Technology (QIBT, now Griffith College), impressed by the small class sizes and extensive study support. During this time, Dr John Fan (now a lecturer in Finance at Griffith University) was part of Miwa’s study group at QIBT. As Miwa reflected, having two eventual PhDs from a study group of four was quite an achievement!
Miwa initially intended to study for a