Media and events
I contribute to radio, print news, columns, seminars and panels. I can speak about diversity and leadership, business networks, higher education policy, the professions, and Australia’s economic past. I am always keen for new opportunities, so let’s talk!
Analysis: The idea of the ‘company man’ was forged decades ago. Its problems still haunt leaders today
Published in The Conversation. I AM WORK. This handwritten phrase was found among the papers of industrialist Essington Lewis after his death in 1961. It captured the mindset shared by many Australian executives of his era. Lewis was one of mining...
Keynote: Let’s do research that actually means something
Hello! I have just returned from hibernation following two really great conferences. The first was the annual Asia-Pacific Economic and Business History conference, held in Adelaide on the 4-6 February. I spoke about corporate masculinity,...
Profile: What history can tell us about the future of women in business
Published by UTS. On social media, the joke goes like this: The gender pay gap doesn’t exist. Men make more because they choose higher-paying jobs like doctor, lawyer and engineer, but women choose lower-paying jobs like female doctor, female...
Panel discussion: DEI or DIE! How to future-proof diversity, equity and inclusion in organisations
Recorded for Impact Talks at UTS. How do you build successful businesses while creating meaningful impact? How can companies foster inclusive cultures during periods of growth? Chaired by Claire Wright (UTS), panellists share their journeys and...
Seminar: The glass ceiling, shattered, cracked or stubbornly intact?
Recorded for the History Council of Victoria. As women joined the paid workforce in increasing numbers in the twentieth century they battled long-established discrimination. Low pay, exclusion from jobs defined as ‘men’s work’, and forced...
Analysis: Billionaire entrepreneurs can make for bold businesses but often with fewer checks and balances
Published in The Conversation. Richard White, head of WiseTech Global, is the latest of a small number of charismatic business founders to have captured the public and corporate imagination. The businessman is synonymous with one of Australia’s...
FactCheck: Pauline Hanson’s ‘worst’ per capita recession claim is mostly false
Published by George Driver for AAP FactCheck. Senator Pauline Hanson has claimed Australia is experiencing its worst per capita recession in history, but economic figures stretching back more than a century show things have been worse before. The...
Event: Gendered enterprise and women and Australian business history
One of the nice things about working on DECRA is that you are encouraged (compelled?) to develop a community of colleagues in your area. To this end, in early 2023 I held a workshop collating new work on Australian women in business history. I have...
Podcast: Conversations for a Brave New World, Women in Corporate Leadership
Recorded for Conversations for a Brave New World. Conversations for a Brave New World is produced by the Gender Network (feminist, gender and queer research and practice) at CSU. We bring global, national and local issues about gender to the...
Profile: How the Big Four firms have ‘infiltrated’ top corporate boards
Published by Helen Trinca and Joe Lam for The Australian. The boards of Australia’s Top 100 companies are heavily populated by people drawn from the ranks of professional service firms, with almost 25 per cent of directors with multiple seats...
Event: Women and Australian business history
Happy new year! As we ease back into work, I have been busy on two tasks: first, preparing for a new session teaching Diversity and Inclusion (this time for a very strong group of postgraduates). Second, I've been working on final preparations for...
Event: Redesigning universities for an interdisciplinary future
November was a busy month ! On the 10th November I was in Perth and gave the keynote at the Western Australia Economic History Summit, and a fortnight later at home in Sydney I was in conversation with Professor Carl Rhodes discussing how to...
Radio interview and talkback: Melbourne’s wild and woolly past
Recorded live for ABC Melbourne Afternoons. We think of wool as a rural business, but Melbourne’s Collins Street was once the epicentre of Australia’s wool industry. While wool is grown in regional areas most of the industry’s infrastructure takes...
Analysis: Painting Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce as a superhero is part of a long Australian tradition
Published for ABC News and The Conversation. Alan Joyce is Australia's highest paid chief executive. Alan Joyce is one of the Financial Review's ten most covertly powerful people. Alan Joyce writes heartwarming notes to children. Alan Joyce is...
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Senior Lecturer at UTS Business School
I acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. I live and work on the unceded lands of the Dharawal and Gadigal people. I pay my respect to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander peoples today.
All thoughts and opinions posted on this website are my own, and not reflective of the institutions I may represent.
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