EmStyles Qualifications:

Malcolm Styles, the Director of EmStyles has a number of formal qualifications and professional institution memberships.

Formal Qualifications

Malcolm’s formal qualifications gained are as follows:       

• Diploma of Engineering (Civil) at Swinburne College of Technology. (This qualification was recognised for membership admittance to the Institution of Engineers Australia). 

• Graduate Diploma Municipal Engineering, Warrnambool Institute of Advanced Education, 1981. 

• Victorian Municipal Engineers Board Certificate No. 1769 (1987). 

• Graduate Diploma Management, Bendigo College of advanced Education 1987. Awarded Australian Institute of Management Prize for most outstanding course graduate.

• Master of Business (Research), Latrobe University, 2004. Research Thesis published entitled ‘Local Government Reform in Victoria – The Culture of Best Value at the Rural City of Wangaratta’.

Professional Memberships

• Member Institution of Engineers Australia Registered No. 51537 

• Chartered Professional Engineer (CPE). 

• Fellow Institute of Public Works Engineering Australia (No. 3401) and currently an elected Board member of the Victorian Division. Formerly Victorian delegate to the National Board. 

• Member Australian Institute of Management. 

• Member Waste Management Association of Australia. 

• Until recently, Fellow Local Government Professionals, where I was elected for two successive three year terms onto the LGPro Board.

• Member, American Public works Association.

Papers Published

• ‘Castlemaine Landfill’ presented to 2^nd National Hazardous and Solid Waste Convention, Melbourne, Victoria, May 1994. 

• ‘Castlemaine Landfill Construction’ presented to 8^th International Local Government Engineering Conference, Gold Coast, Queensland, August 1995. 

• ‘Role of Local Government in Flood Management – Wangaratta Rural City Council as a case study’ presented to the Inaugural Victorian Floodplain Management Conference, Wangaratta, September 1999. 

• ‘Best Value Asset Management – An Australian Perspective’ presented to American International Public Works Congress, Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.A., September 2000. 

• ‘The Culture of Best Value – Local and International’ presented to Local Government Professionals Conference, Melbourne, Victoria, 17 August, 2001.

• ‘Best Value’ panel member, panel held at International Public Works Conference, Perth, Western Australia, August 2001. 

• ‘Best Value Culture’ presented to the 9^th National Works and Engineering Conference, Bendigo, Victoria, 27 September 2001.

• ‘Best Value Model in Australia: A Study of Three Local Councils in the State of Victoria, Australia’ being a joint paper with co-author Dr. Quamrul Alam presented to the Sixth International Research Symposium on Public Sector Management, Edinburgh, Scotland, April 2002.

• ‘Road Management Planning – Wangaratta Case Study’ presented to International public Works Conference, Adelaide, South Australia, August 2005.