Bronwen is the Head, Department of Management and Director of the Masters of Not-for-Profit and Social Enterprise Program at the University of Technology, Sydney. She is also the founder and CEO of the charity Ruff Sleepers , a service that washes the dogs of homeless people while also advocating for greater awareness of the value of pet ownership for mental and physical wellbeing, and for improved housing options for homeless people with pets. In 2015 she was the Co-Director of the UTS Centre for Cosmopolitan Civil Societies and in 2012 she was also the National Manager, Research at Mission Australia. Bronwen completed her PhD at the University of Oxford, where she was awarded the Oxford University Larkinson Award for Social Studies and was the recipient of the British Vice-Chancellors Committee Overseas Research Scholarship and the Korea Foundation Scholarship. Bronwen also has a BA from the Australian National University and a MA from Yonsei University, Korea. She is on the Boards of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs’ Australia Korea Foundation; the National Volunteering Research Advisory Group; Volunteering NSW and the editorial board of the journal Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. She is also Regional Vice-President, Oceania of the International Council of Voluntarism and Civil Society.  In recognition of her significant service to social advocacy and social justice academia and to charitable organisations, Professor Dalton received a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the General Division of the 2025 King’s Birthday Honours.

Bronwen has conducted extensive research in the field of Not-for-Profit sector studies and authored book chapters and journal articles on NFP childcare, NFP business venturing, social enterprises and advocacy. She has also published studies on international NGOs and recently co-authored a book on the role of NGOs in combating Sex Trafficking. From 2003-2011 Bronwen was Director, Centre for Australian Community Organisations and Management. In 2007-8 Bronwen was an investigator on an Australian Research Council Linkage grant which examined the National Compact, an agreement finalised between the NFP sector and the Australian Federal Government. Bronwen was an expert adviser on the evaluation of the Commonwealth Department of Family and Community Services’ Stronger Families and Communities Strategy. Bronwen has also worked closely with the NSW community sector as part of her work in social policy at the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) and the NSW Attorney General’s Department.

Bronwen has a long association with Korea and speaks Korean. She was a Director of the National Korean Studies Centre (NKSC) (1993 - 1996) a consortium of La Trobe University, Monash University, Swinburne University of Technology and the University of Melbourne. Bronwen has focused her interests on North Korea. In 2013-2016 Bronwen is Chief Investigator on an ARC Discovery grant titled “North Korea's Quiet Transformation: Women in the Rise of the Informal Market - DP130101700”. This is the first major research project to investigate the role played by women in the emergence of a nascent capitalist economy in North Korea.