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Daryl Adair is Associate Professor of Sport Management in the Business School, University of Technology Sydney, Australia. He has taught at Flinders University of South Australia (Adelaide), De Montfort University (Leicester), University of Queensland (Brisbane), and University of Canberra (ACT) before joining UTS in mid-2007. Adair's research has encompassed sport history, sociology, politics, media and management. His recent interests centre on geopolitics and sport, international relations and sport, and race and ethnicity in sport. Adair writes regularly for The Conversation.- Academic
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
Disciplines- Professional Fellow
- School of Management
- Professional FellowSchool of Management
Dr Johanna Adriaanse is an internationally acclaimed expert in sport, women and gender equality. She began her career as a teacher in Physical Education and Sport in schools in the Netherlands, Italy and Australia. In 1990 she became an academic in Sport Science/Management at the University of Technology Sydney, where she currently is a Professional Fellow in the Business School.
She has published her work in edited books and prestigious academic journals in the field including the Journal of Sport Management, the International Review for the Sociology of Sport and the Journal of Business Ethics. She has been a visiting scholar in the USA (Smith College, Massachusetts), the Netherlands (Utrecht University) and Norway (Norwegian University of Sport Sciences).
In addition, Johanna is a strong public advocate for women's rights in sport and has completed projects with, among other, UN Women in New York, UK Sport in London and the Catalan Government in Barcelona. She regularly provides expert commentary for the media and has delivered presentations/workshops at conferences in all continents of the world.
Throughout her career she has held numerous board positions, both nationally and internationally. She has been, among other, President of Womensport New South Wales (2000-2004), Board member of WomenSport International (2005-2019) and Co-chair of the International Working Group on Women and Sport (2006-2014). This demonstrates her strategic approach to working with others to affect social change.
In 2010 she convened the 5th World Conference on Women and Sport in Sydney and led its legacy: the Sydney Scoreboard, a tool to monitor and accelerate more women in sport leadership positions globally.
Johanna received a Trailblazer Award from the NSW Government for advancing women and sport in 2020 and the Margaret Pewtress Memorial Award from the Australian Government for her outstanding contribution to women’s sport in 2004. Representing the Netherlands in the Europe Cup for Hockey, she was a member of the team that won four gold medals in the 1970s.- 5 Gender Equality
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Dr Renu Agarwal is a Professor in Management at the UTS Business School with expertise in Strategic, Operations and Supply Chain Management. Since 2022, Renu is the Director of the Masters in Supply Chain Management UTSOnline Programs and during the period 2016-2021, as Director Renu was instrumental in securing the Master in Strategic Supply Chain Management Program attain #1 ranking in Australia and 34th globally (as per QS ranking 2023). Renu provides leadership in the disciplinary fields of service innovation, service value networks, supply chain management, dynamic capability building, management practices, innovation and productivity, and policy making.
As the Director of management practices projects Renu has been instrumental in managing several federal and state government research project grants funded by DIISR Canberra, Ministry of Economic Development New Zealand, NSW Health, and Queensland Health working in collaboration with London School of Economics, McKinsey and Stanford University. This research resulted in the 2009 landmark study - Management Matters in Australia – Just how productive are we? - which has had an impact on government policy and contributed to the broader international WMS study. More recently, Renu and her team designed the Australian Management Capability Survey (MCS) funded by DIIS, Canberra in collaboration with Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) and Prof Nick Bloom from Stanford University which resulted in the release of the data cube output 8172.0 - Management and Organisational Capabilities of Australian Businesses that allowed investigation of the gaps in productivity and management quality of firms, and that better overall, strategic, supply chain, environmental and digital management practices can have a positive impact on Australia’s economic growth, competitiveness, and policy making. In 2021 AusIndustry, DISER Canberra funded the Advisory Services project to evaluate the impact of Australian and International government-led business advisory services on business performance and capability building. in 2021, the Dynamic Capabilities National Survey was launched under a collaborative project between CEDA and UTS that is currently examining the extent of dynamic capabilities within Australian businesses and is assessing the impact of dynamic capabilities on Australian firm productivity and innovation.
In addition, Renu has been a lead investigator of several research projects on sustainable supply chain management, supplier relationship management, supply chain Innovation, management practices, and Australian Leadership Capability Standard projects with the Office of Environment and Heritage, NSW Premier and Cabinet Department, AiG, ResMed, SGEC, Microsoft, ASCI, Hargraves Institute and FIAL, and Centre for Workplace Leadership respectively, as well as a research investigator in the Service Innovation: developing business models for future Value Chains theme, part of the Wealth from Waste CSIRO Flagship Cluster project. In addition, more recently, as the Chief Investigator Renu has been instrumental in managing several projects: the Regional High Performance Networks Programs Project (Centre for Workplace Leadership, Melbourne), Mapping NSW Innovation Precincts project (IPC NSW Department of Industry), Economic Value of Accreditation to Australia project (NATA), Australia’s International Business Survey 2017 (Export Council of Australia), the Imagine Sydney Create project (Deloitte Access Economics), and Barriers to University-Industry Collaboration IPCC NSW Department of Industry). During 2022-23 the Impact of Slyp’s Smart Receipt solution project funded by Innovation Connect, DISER Canberra revealed a variety of indicators for both digital and paper receipt service supply chains.
Renu has published in top tier international journals which include the Regional Policy, Decision Sciences, International Journal of Production Economics, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, International Journal of Production Research, Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, International Journal of Logistics Management, Journal of Service Theory and Practice, Business Strategy and the Environment, Regional Studies, Regional Science, Computers and Industrial Engineering, Global Journal of Flexible Management Systems, Journal of Health Management and OrganizaIion, Journal of Management and Organization, Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, International Journal of Supply Chain Management, Journal of Cleaner Production, Operations Management Research, Expert Systems With Applications, Asia Pacific Journal of Information Systems, Resources, Resources Conservation & Recycling, Education + Training amongst many. As a lead Editor, Renu has edited the Handbook Service Innovation published by Springer-Verlag UK, the Global Value Chains, Flexibility and Sustainability published by Springer, the Routledge Companion to Global Value Chains: Reinterpreting and reimagining megatrends in the world economy. as well as the 2022 Taylor and Francis edited book on Innovation.
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Renu has a background in tele- and data-communications engineering and more recently expertise in business and management. Renu possesses a unique blend of 30 years of extensive industry and academic experience, out of which 19 years of industry experience involved operational and strategic senior management roles at the State Rail Authority (SRA) of NSW, OTC and Telstra Corporation, and its Hong Kong based joint venture company REACH. Renu’s career initially started as a data engineer at the SRA NSW where her greatest achievement as a project leader included the commissioning of an X.25 Packet Switching Network across the NSW Rail Network. Thereafter, Renu switched to academics as a Lecturer in the Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee India teaching UG and PG students and conducting research. Returning back to Australia in 1993, Renu joined OTC/Telstra and through progressive promotions, Renu migrated to senior management roles in the area of international switching, global service planning, design and delivery, business management, and global strategic sourcing and procurement including the successful planning and cutover of the Telstra International telephone exchange networks established with 225 countries around the world. Thereafter, Renu joined REACH as the Global Strategic Sourcing Manager in 2002, Renu’s efforts resulted in millions of dollars savings for both Telstra and REACH whilst ensuring Telstra’s purchasing power in their vendor relationships; as a result of which Renu received a ‘Recognition Award’ from David Moffatt, the then CFO and Group Managing Director of Telstra Corporation. In these senior roles across different organisations, Renu successfully managed strategically important projects within budget, on time, and with significant impact and outcomes.- Academic
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Disciplines- Associate Professor
- SoMgmnt Discipline of Enterprise Innovation and Impact
- Associate ProfessorSoMgmnt Discipline of Enterprise Innovation and Impact
Dr. Sumati Ahuja is the program director of the Digital Creative Enterprise major at the UTS Business School. Sumati is an academic with an impressive background of working in industry for over 25 years and teaching in both undergraduate and postgraduate programs for over 10 years. Her experience as an architect, educator and researcher condenses a unique trans-disciplinary orientation across the fields of Design, Innovation and Management. Sumati applies her considerable knowledge of creative thinking and practices in the design and delivery of her undergraduate and executive education courses at the UTS Business School.
Sumati's trans-disciplinarity underpins her research interests. Her research examines the changing world of work; how technology is changing the work of human experts and the impact of these changes on workers' and their emotional well being. She uses design perspectives to explore the value of design to business and social enterprise and how design-led innovation can be leveraged across a wide range of private and public sector organisations. Her work appears in leading international, peer reviewed journals and has been internationally recognised. Her research continues to influence practitioner communities through engagements with industry partners that have led to beneficial outcomes for partner organisations through improved strategies and practices that drive both business and societal change.
Sumati's PhD focused on the changing nature of professional work and explored the implications for the future of expert work. She is Winner of the UTS Business School Research Award (2022) for Early career researchers (ECRs), finalist in the prestigious international Grigor McClelland Doctoral Dissertation Award (2019) for most innovative PhD research in management and organization studies and winner, Best Paper Award for Journal of Professions and Organizations (2017) . Sumati was nominated for the UTS Medal of Excellence in Teaching and Research (2020).- Academic
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
Disciplines- Administrative Support Officer
- School of Management
- Administrative Support OfficerSchool of Management
I am an experienced Academic and Research Associate with a demonstrated history in higher education and research. Skilled in Event Management, Leadership, Data Analysis, Sustainable Development and Planning with a Master’s Degree focused in Sustainable Development & Resource Management from the University of Technology Sydney. My research interests and current research areas include sustainable tourism, social inclusion and social capitol, accessible tourism, destination and protected area management, events management, accessible education and innovation.- Professional
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- Adjunct FellowSchool of Management
David Beirman is a senior lecturer in the Management Discipline Group specialising in tourism. He completed undergraduate and postgraduate degrees majoring in Sociology at the University of NSW. David has had an extensive career in the Australian travel industry between 1981-2009 which encompassed work with retail travel agencies, wholesale tour operators, destination marketing organisations and management, human resource management and in-service industry training. Prior to joining UTS as a full-time lecturer David had developed tourism courses and lectured part-time at UTS and other universities in tourism, marketing, Middle East studies and sociology.
His specialist areas of research are tourism risk, crisis and recovery management and destination marketing. He has been widely published in these fields. He has been invited as a keynote speaker in conferences all over the world and has provided crisis and recovery management consultation to governments and tourism businesses in Australia, Asia, Africa and North America. David is the co - chair of the CAUTHE (Council of Australasian Tourism and Hospitality Educators) tourism risk, crisis and recovery special interest group He was the founder and National Secretary of the Eastern Mediterranean Tourism Association 2000-2012, an industry association which promoted fifteen countries between Italy and Jordan. David is also a member of the Consular Consultative Group which is a travel industry and stakeholder leadership body appointed by Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to consult with DFAT on the issue of government travel advisories and tourism safety and security. David is a board member of Australian Travel Careers Council (the peak national body which approves travel career based training and education standards).- Academic
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Disciplines- Emeritus Professor
- School of Management
- Emeritus ProfessorSchool of Management
Professor Suzanne Benn is Professor of Sustainable Enterprise in School of Management, UTS Business School. In this position she provides leadership within the Business School and across UTS, working with other disciplinary areas and external stakeholders to promote sustainability. She was previously Professor of Education for Sustainability, Director of ARIES and Head of the Graduate School of the Environment at Macquarie University, Sydney.
Suzanne has a background in the sciences and the social sciences. She has had wide experience working across the range of educational sectors and as a research and industrial scientist. Her current research interests range across corporate sustainability and corporate social responsibility, business education for sustainability and organisational change and development for sustainability. Her interdisciplinary academic publications include three books and more than 90 refereed journal articles, book chapters and refereed conference papers.
She has led consultancy and research projects on the topic of corporate social responsibility, organisational change and sustainability for a number of Australian organisations. She has also conducted major Australian Research Council grant funded projects on topics such as the communication of corporate social responsibility through social networks, collaboration and governance for sustainability.
Professor Benn has modified and taught curriculum on sustainable business at the University of Shanghai, and led the introduction of these programs into the undergraduate and postgraduate curriculum at UTS and at Macquarie. She has a strong interest in interdisciplinary curriculum development and holistic approaches to learning for sustainability. Professor Benn also has a number of PhD students in the area of corporate social responsibility, sustainability and education, learning and change for sustainability.- Academic
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Disciplines- Adjunct Fellow
- School of Management
- Adjunct FellowSchool of Management
After a 20+ years international career as a management consultant specialized in organizational development and strategy, with relevant experience in executive education and as an adjunct university lecturer, I have become a full time academic, with a specific interest in the field of organizational studies.
A full time academic since 2015, I’ve built both on my experiences in facilitating change management and organizational learning, which I developed serving organisations in various industries (automotive, high tech manufacturing, insurance, public sector), to develop innovative work integrated learning courses in Management consulting, Ethics and Leadership and Change/transformation management.
My main area of interest are the study of organizational tensions and contradictions (organizational paradox theory), business ethics education and critical approaches to management, the role of power and discourse in organizing, and the development of collective and cooperative forms of ownership and governance.- Academic
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Disciplines- Graduate Research Student
- School of Management
- Graduate Research StudentSchool of Management
Michael Buchanan. B.E. (Hons), M.Eng.Sc (Res), is a Procurement and Commercial Leader with over 15 years experience across all sizes of organisation and most industries. He Initially ran development teams for Electronic Toll Systems, and telecommunications physical hardware. His fascination with the dark art of commercialising technology grew into commercial capability and experience across all Technology sub-categories, and other categories. The challenge of delivering Social, Sustainable and Circular to organisations’ commercial & procurement has become a passion.
This has grown into the need to research the role of procurement policies for SME and the desired economic impact.
His passion has extended into supporting Social & Sustainable / Circular Technology Initiatives DV Safe Phone and Litehaus International.
After living in several Australian states, Michael and his wife Renae now reside on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, actively supporting their teenage children’s interests and goals.
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- SoMgmnt Discipline of Organisation, Work and Operations
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Dr. Giuseppe Carabetta is an Associate Professor of Workplace and Business Law at the UTS Business School. His research focuses on employment law and workplace dispute resolution in essential services employment, and he is Australia’s leading scholar in police employment law. His research has been cited in Supreme Court and Courts of Appeal decisions in Australia, and he has served as an expert witness before parliamentary inquiries and advised national bodies and federal workplace relations ministers on public sector employment matters.He is the author of Collective Bargaining for Police and Other Essential Services (Routledge, 2025) and Law for Managers (Thomson Reuters, 2026, co‑authored with Alice Klettner), as well as numerous articles across workplace law, industrial relations, anti‑discrimination law, and sports law. He has delivered compliance workshops for professional sporting organisations, including the Rugby Union Players Association, and regularly conducts professional development seminars for workplace law firms such as Harmers Workplace Lawyers.
Giuseppe lectures in workplace relations law and business law. He holds a Senior Fellowship with the UK Higher Education Academy (Advance HE) and has received national awards for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning from both the Australian Learning and Teaching Council and the Office of Learning and Teaching. He has also twice been awarded the University of Sydney Vice‑Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Teaching and several Business School teaching awards.
Before joining UTS, Giuseppe held long‑standing academic appointments at the University of Sydney. He is a visiting scholar at the University of Bologna, Italy, and a guest presenter on Labour Arbitration at Osgoode Hall Law School in Canada. He serves on a number of advisory bodies, including the NSW Law Society’s Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee and its Specialist Accreditation Dispute Resolution Advisory Committee.
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Disciplines- Adjunct Fellow
- School of Management
- Adjunct FellowSchool of Management
Professor John Chelliah is a seasoned academic and human resources expert whose distinguished career bridges academia and the tertiary education sector. He currently serves as Professor and Chair of the Academic Board at the Institute of International Studies, a higher education provider with campuses in Sydney and Melbourne. In addition, he is an Adjunct Fellow at the University of Technology Sydney, where he shares his extensive knowledge with postgraduate management students including research supervision.
Over the course of his academic career, Professor Chelliah has held several senior leadership roles, including Professor of Management, Acting Dean, and Director of Human Resources. His teaching and research have taken him across Australia, New Zealand, and Fiji, and he has served as a visiting academic in China, Indonesia, and France. Beyond academia, he has delivered executive management training for leading corporations such as Mirvac, Westpac Banking Corporation, and Ford Motor Company through the consultancy divisions of the University of Technology Sydney and RMIT University.
Professor Chelliah earned his Ph.D. from RMIT University in Melbourne, reflecting his commitment to academic excellence. His other qualifications include a Master of Business Studies in Employment Relations from Massey University (New Zealand) and an MBA in International Management from Asia Pacific International University (New Zealand). He also holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Quality Assurance and a Graduate Certificate in Multimedia Studies from Auckland University of Technology, a Postgraduate Diploma in Corporate Management from the University of Auckland, and certification as a trained company director from the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
His research appears in esteemed international management journals and spans strategy, human resource management, change management, international management, supply chain management, and entrepreneurship. Before entering academia, Professor Chelliah gained extensive professional experience in senior management and HR roles across the UK, USA, Malaysia, New Zealand, and Australia — experience that continues to inform his teaching and research. His career reflects a lifelong dedication to connecting academic insight with practical management expertise.- Academic
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
Disciplines- Associate Professor
- SoMgmnt Discipline of Organisation, Work and Operations
- Associate ProfessorSoMgmnt Discipline of Organisation, Work and Operations
Maruf Chowdhury is currently working as an Associate Professor of operations and supply chain management at UTS Business School. Prior to joining UTS as a lecturer, Dr Chowdhury held academic positions in the University of Western Australia, Curtin University, Australia and Chittagong University, Bangladesh. He has published many articles in top-tier journals of Operations and Supply Chain Management including Omega: The International Journal of Management Science, International Journal of Production Economics, Supply Chain Management: an International Journal and others. He is also contributing as a reviewer to the top tier journals of Operations and Supply Chain Management. Maruf has been successful in securing external grants from government (e.g. Department of Industry Innovation and Science) and private sector (Association of Supply Chain Management USA, Slyp, Volte).
Maruf is an expert in Resilient, Sustainable and Circular supply Chain Management Modelling. His research interest includes supply chain sustainability, resilience, decarbonization, life cycle assessment (LCA), climate action, technology management for sustainability, applied operations research, and system dynamic modelling. The decision models that he developed for different research papers and funded projects are highly impactful and helped many industries to achieve supply chain sustainability and resilience in Australia and beyond. His Environmental Impact Assessment Model for digital receipt supply chain as against printed receipt helped managers and policy makers for setting climate positive actions. He also conducted research on environmental impact assessment of peer to peer renting of garments as against buying new cloth which received substantial media attention.Similarly, his economic analysis for Diabetic Association Australia helped the decision makers of national diabetic services scheme in managing costs under different programs. Because of Maruf's outstanding contribution to research he received UTS Vice Chancellor's research excellence award 2025.
Dr Chowdhury has professional experiences in different industrial settings such as Textile and Apparel industry (consultant), Petroleum refinery (procurement professional). He also received a number of awards in his career including Curtin University publication award for prestigious journal article publications, teaching excellence award at UTS Business School and Curtin Business School, Curtin strategic international research scholarship and Dean’s merit scholarship at the University of Chittagong for outstanding results in undergraduate and postgraduate level.- Academic
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Disciplines- Emeritus Professor
- School of Management
- Emeritus ProfessorSchool of Management
Born in Bradford, England, Stewart Clegg was Reader at Griffith University (1976-84), Professor at the University of New England (1985-9), Professor at the University of St. Andrews (1990-3), Foundation Professor at the University of Western Sydney, Macarthur, (1993-6) before moving to UTS. He holds a small number of Visiting Professorships at prestigious European universities and research centres. He is one of the most published and cited authors in the top-tier journals in the Organization Studies field and the only Australian to be recognised a by a multi-method ranking, as one of the world’s top-200 “Management Gurus” in What's the Big Idea? Creating and Capitalizing on the Best New Management Thinking by Thomas H. Davenport, Laurence Prusak, and H. James Wilson (2003), Harvard: Harvard Business Review Press. Because the central focus of his theoretical work has always been on power relations he has been able to write on many diverse and ubiquitous topics – because power relations are everywhere! He is the author of two widely used textbooks on Management & Organizations: An Introduction to Theory and Practice (with Martin Kornberger andTyrone Pitsis) and Strategy: Theory and Practice (with Jochen Schweitze, Andrea Whittle, & Christos Pitelis), both published by Sage. He is also the chief editor of the Handbook of Organization Studies (with Cynthia Hardy, Walter F. Nord and Thomas B. Lawrence), Handbook of Power (with Mark Haugaard) and Handbook of Macro-Organizational Behaviour (with Cary Cooper), all published by Sage. In addition, he is a prolific contributor to leading journals in the fields of Organization Studies, Political Power, and Management. Outside work he enjoys cultural pursuits, travel, and wide reading in politics, history, current affairs, music and art.
Professor Stewart Clegg became honoured as the European Group for Organization Studies Honourary Member in 2017. This was the latest in a number of awards: in 1996 he had been awarded the Academy of Management’s George R Terry Award; in 2010 the Academy of Management awarded him the Practice Theme Committee (PTC) IMPACT award which ‘acknowledges good practice of impactful management scholarship’; in 2015 he was elected asa Fellow of the Academy of Management. The Academy of Management (AOM) is a leading professional association for scholars dedicated to creating and disseminating knowledge about management and organisations. The Academy of Management is the oldest and largest scholarly management association in the world. Today, the Academy is the professional home for 1ell over 20,000 members from 105 nations. The Practice Management Committee is focused on enhancing practice perspectives and issues within the Academy of Management. The Professor’s contribution to the field is summed up by the academy: Stewart Clegg is a leading international researcher recognised in a number of fields in the social sciences for his work in organisation studies and on power. Practice, power, and ethics have been central to his engagements in research, teaching, and management education during the last 35 years. His enormous impact on research and teaching as well as management practice is undisputable. From the first edition of Power, Rule and Domination in 1975 to the latest edition of Managing and Organizations, Stewart has continued to provide a critical eye on organisational practices, and his eloquent pen has provided his insights with an overwhelmingly diverse audience on an international stage – in research, teaching and the world of business. Stewart Clegg is recognised, by a multi-method ranking, as one of the world’s top-200 Management Gurus (and the only Australian) in What’s the Big Idea? Creating and Capitalizing on the Best New Management Thinking by Thomas H. Davenport, Laurence Prusak, and H. James Wilson (2003), Harvard: Harvard Business Review Press- Academic
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Disciplines- Senior Lecturer
- SoMgmnt Discipline of Enterprise Innovation and Impact
- Senior LecturerSoMgmnt Discipline of Enterprise Innovation and Impact
Dr. Adam Cohen is a Lecturer for Sport Management at UTS. His primary research focus is in the area of sport-for-development (SFD), social justice, and youth sport participation and impact. He seeks to examine the impact of sport in a broader and more global spectrum along with assessing social entrepreneurship, volunteer motivation/impact, and collaborations and partnerships. In addition, he investigates the nature of impact and inclusivity within a sport setting, especially within youth sports and non-traditional sport mediums.
Raised in the Boston area, his previous teaching experience was for three years as an Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University.- Academic
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
Disciplines- Adjunct Fellow
- School of Management
- Adjunct FellowSchool of Management
Jock Collins is Professor of Social Economics in the Management Discipline Group at the UTS Business School, Sydney, Australia. He has been teaching and conducting research at UTS since 1977. He is Co-Director of the Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Research Centre at UTS. His research interests centre on an interdisciplinary study of immigration and cultural diversity in the economy and society. His recent research has been on Australian immigration, ethnic crime, immigrant and Indigenous entrepreneurship, immigrant youth, ethnic precincts and tourism, multiculturalism, the Cronulla Beach Riots, global teachers, immigrants and the built environment and immigrants in regional and rural Australia and the social use of ethnic heritage and the built environment.
He is the author or co-author of ten books, the most recent of which is Global Teachers, Australian Perspectives: Goodbye Mr. Chips Hello Ms. Banerjee (with Carol Reid and Michael Singh) to be published by Springer Press later this year. He is also the author of over 100 articles in international and national academic journals and book chapters. His work has been translated in Swedish, French, Japanese, Arabic, Dutch, Chinese, Portuguese, German, Turkish and Italian. Jock Collins has had visiting academic appointments in the UK, Canada, Sweden and the United States and has consulted to the ILO and OECD.- Academic
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
Disciplines- Lecturer
- SoMgmnt Discipline of Organisation, Work and Operations
- LecturerSoMgmnt Discipline of Organisation, Work and Operations
Dr Natalie Cummins is an academic at the University of Technology Sydney specialising in strategic human resource management, leadership, organisational culture, and business storytelling. Her work bridges academic research and contemporary debates on leadership, work, and the future of organisations, with publications and commentary in outlets including HR Director (UK), HR Leader (Australia), HR Executive (US), and Times Higher Education.
Her research examines how storytelling shapes organisational culture, leadership influence, and employee engagement, and how emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence can amplify rather than replace human voice in organisations. She also explores workplace loneliness as a leadership and governance issue requiring both empathy and structural accountability.
Selected Media and Commentary:
The Cognitive Crunch: Why AI is Accelerating Burnout 2026 HR Execitive (US)
https://hrexecutive.com/the-cognitive-crunch-why-ai-is-accelerating-burnout/
Why AI is Increasing the Need for Leadership 2026 HR.Com Global
Australia's Invisible Workforce Risk 2026 HR Leader
How the Artist Game Opens Every Classroom Door 2026 Times Higher Education
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/how-artist-game-opens-every-classroom-door
The Bionic Storyteller: How AI Can Amplify the Human Voice HR Execitive (US)
https://hrexecutive.com/the-bionic-storyteller-how-ai-can-amplify-hrs-human-voice/
How Storyteling Can Turn International students into the Most Powerful Voices 2026 Room.Times Higher Education
HR Must Become the Organisation's Chief Storyteller 2026 HR Director
In a World of Short Attention Spans the Best Story WinsTimes Higher Education 2025 Times Higher Education
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/world-short-attention-spans-best-story-wins
Giving Employees Agency in 2026 HR Director UK
https://www.thehrdirector.com/features/employee-engagement/giving-employees-agency-2026/
Who Owns Workplace Loneliness? 2026 HR Director UK
https://www.thehrdirector.com/features/cultural-change/owns-workplace-loneliness/
The HR Skill that will Define 2026 HR Leader
HR Leaders Uniquely Placed to Help Prevent Financial Abuse During Job Cuts 2025 HR leader
Dr Natalie Cummins has a Doctor of Philosophy from Monash University completed with a full Australian Postgraduate award scholarship. Dr Cummins has a Master of Business (Research) and a Bachelor of Business Degree. Natalie tecahes in cross disciplinary areas Human Resource Management, Strategic Human Resouce Management, People and Organisations and Business and Social Impact. She also teaches in areas of Management Control Systems, Resource Management, Auditing and Ethics. Dr Cummins researches in the area of management systems, performance measurement and benchmarking. her research focuses on public sector organisations. additionally she is researching in the area of business education and innovative learning strategies that enable more work ready students.
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Disciplines- Adjunct Professor
- School of Management
- Adjunct ProfessorSchool of Management
Professor Simon Darcy believes passionately in the rights of all people to fully participate in community life. A Professor in Management at UTS Business School, he specialises in developing inclusive organisational approaches for marginalized groups, including people with disability. Simon’s work has spanned transport, tourism, employment, entrepreneurship, the built environment, sport, events, volunteers, and disability services. It is characterised by an evidence-based approach to changing practice in the business, government and not-for-profit sectors.
He has been awarded Australian Research Council grants involving volunteer management, disability entrepreneurship and improving sport legacy for marginalized groups. Together with his involvement in the CRC for Sustainable Tourism, other major grants involving national and international organisations he seeks to bring an evidence-base to change practice and policy for improved social participation and citizenship. Some of the major areas of impact includes contributing significantly to the understanding of the business case for accessible tourism nationally and internationally through the UN World Tourism Organization and, with Professor Jock Collins, undertaking research that has illuminated entrepreneurship among people with disability – informing development of the IgniteAbility startup program and ongoing work as a mentor with Remarkable.
Simon is currently working on a number of projects related to the National Disability Insurance Scheme, the Australian Disability Strategy 2021-31, disability citizenship and person-centred approaches. Internationally, he is involved in research on the management of volunteers at the Olympics and Paralympics, understanding legacy outcomes of major events, and the importance of accessibility for the sustainability and liveability of cities. Connected to all this work is how disability relates to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
To all this work, Simon brings an insider's perspective to working with marginalized groups as someone with lived experience of disability where he has experienced a pre-disability world and then as somebody who traumatically acquired his disability he has had to navigate the very different discriminatory ableist world from a disability perspective. He became the first complete quadriplegic to be a professor in Australia.
Simon also has a long history of involvement in advocacy and on volunteer boards, and of involvement with the disability community as a person with traumatically acquired disability. He has been a power wheelchair user since 1983. Simon was a member of the Disability Council of NSW (2011-2015) and actively involved in development of the NSW Disability Inclusion Act 2014. He has held a variety of board positions, was the Vice-President of the Association of Consultants in Access Australia, and is/has been an advisor to the Commonwealth and New South Wales Government on disability services, employment/entrepreneurship, transport and tourism.
Simon’s outstanding contribution to research, engagement and collaboration in accessible tourism was recognised with the World Leisure Organisation’s 2010 Innovation Prize for the Sydney For All project with Destination NSW and Easy Access Australia. He received the 2009 Vision Australia Making a Difference Award for this work. In 2017 he was invited to present the Richard Jones Oration for the Queensland Anti-Discrimination Commission examining issues of transport, travel, sport and tourism as it relates to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. In 2015 and 2021 Simon collaborated with UN World Tourism Organization on the development of publications outlining the field of accessible tourism and industry best practice.
In 2021, 2022 & 2023 Stanford University/Elsevier BV Simon was named in the top 1% of scientists worldwide for citation metrics. This included in the Business & Management subfield of Sports, Leisure & Tourism (82); Rehabilitation (86); and Economics & Business (7065). (See Baas, Jeroen; Boyack, Kevin; Ioannidis, John P.A. (2021; 2022; 2023),
Simon was a recipient of the UTS Vice Chancellor’s Human Rights Award and the inaugural UTS human rights social media award. He also received the 2018 and 2023 Distinguished Research Scholars Award from the UTS Business School. In 2024 Simon received the UTS Chancellor's Medal for Sustained Research Excellence for work on the social participation of marginalised groups, disability citizenship and developing transformative solutions to discriminatory practices.
Simon has been recognised for his contribution to the disability community through being an Australia Day Ambassador and an Ambassador for the Don’t Dis My Ability campaign, He was nominated and awarded as highly commended for the 2020 National Aspire Awards in both the Government/University and Human Rights categories. From 2021-2024 Simon has been an Ambassador for the IncludeAbility Employment Program of the Australian Human Rights Commission working with 17 of Australia's largest employers.
Simon's research has been published in leading international journals, including the Annals of Tourism Research, Tourism Management, International Journal of Hospitality Management, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research, Journal of Sport Management, Sport Management Review, Voluntas, European Sports Management Quarterly, Event Management, Disability & Society, Disability Studies Quarterly, and Disability & Rehabilitation. Simon is also author or co-author or editor of a 10 books, including Managing the Paralympics (2017) and The Dis/ABLED Tourist: Navigating an Ableist Tourism World (2024).- 3 Good Health and Well Being
- 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
- 9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
- 10 Reduced Inequalities
- 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
- 17 Partnerships for the Goals
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Disciplines- Lecturer
- SoMgmnt Discipline of Organisation, Work and Operations
- LecturerSoMgmnt Discipline of Organisation, Work and Operations
Rowena is a Lecturer at the University of Technology, Sydney Business School who completed her PhD in 2024. Rowena's PhD involved researching the Future of Work examining the business and employee outcomes of Alternative Work Schedules and Flexible Work Arrangements, specifically the 4-Day Work Week. Rowena continues to research in Flexible Work Arrangements, Hybrid Working and the Future of Work.
Prior to returning to academica, Rowena had over 22 years Blue Chip Multinational experience at Coca-Cola, Unilever, and Campbell Arnotts. As a Marketing Director, she held several senior leadership positions, effectively leading and inspiring large local, and regional teams to deliver excellent business results.
Rowena's professional and academic experiences, combined with her ongoing research provide great insight into the evolving workplace.- Academic
Disciplines- Lecturer
- SoMgmnt Discipline of Organisation, Work and Operations
- LecturerSoMgmnt Discipline of Organisation, Work and Operations
Dr Rebecca Dong is a lecturer in Management and the Major Coordinator for Human Resource Management (Undergraduate) at the UTS Business School. She holds a Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) with AdvanceHE UK. Her research is dedicated to fostering sustainable, responsible, and psychologically safe workplaces for individuals and organisations alike.
Rebecca’s research passion centres on the micro-foundations of organisations: the psychological and behavioural building blocks that shape how people lead, collaborate, and thrive at work. At the organisational level, she investigates responsible business that considers sustainability, environmental performance, digital transformation and AI. Rebecca has authored more than 44 high-ranking academic publications, including the Journal of Business Research (A), Journal of Safety Research (A), Business Strategy and the Environment (A), International Review of Economics & Finance (A), Computers & Industrial Engineering (A), Regional Studies Regional Science (A), Acta Psychologica (A), among others. Her work has been recognised at top-tier international conferences, including the Academy of Management (AOM), Academy of International Business (AIB), Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM), and the Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ). She also contributes to the scholarly community as editor for several journals, including Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (the only Nature Journal in Social Science; SSCI Q1), Labour and Industry, and as an editorial board member of the Economic and Labour Relations Review.
Rebecca's teaching excellence has been recognised through multiple awards, including the UTS Business School Award for Teaching and Learning, Top Teacher Award and the Top Undergraduate Subject Award. She has a demonstrated teaching history since 2015, including Human Resource Management, Career Development, Managing Organisation and People, International Business, Global Business Environment, Organisational Behaviour, Cross-Cultural Management, Sustainable Management, Transformation Leadership, Advanced Management Theory, at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Rebecca's educational leadership is underpinned by her publications in leading teaching and learning scholarship, including Journal of Further and Higher Education, Education + Training, Education Sciences, Education and Information Technologies and the Australian Educational Researcher.
Outside academia, Rebecca is actively engaged in the community. She was a Finalist in the 2018 Governor's Multicultural Awards (Youth Award) in South Australia and has received the 2018 Premier's Certificate for Outstanding Volunteer Service, as well as the 2015 South Australia Governor's International Student Award for Academic Excellence.- 3 Good Health and Well Being
- 4 Quality Education
- 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
- 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
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- Join a web conference as a panellist or speaker
Disciplines- Adjunct Fellow
- School of Management
- Adjunct FellowSchool of Management
Larry Dwyer PhD is an Adjunct Fellow at the UTS Business School. He publishes widely in the areas of tourism economics, management, sustainable development, policy and planning.
He is the recipient of the 2025 Ulysses Prize awarded by UN Tourism for excellence in lifetime contributions to tourism research
With over 350 publications in international journals, books, book chapters, government reports and monographs, Larry has been awarded numerous research grants to contribute to tourism knowledge.
Formerly Professor of Tourism Management at Western Sydney University, 1999-2003, he was appointed Qantas Professor of Travel and Tourism Economics and Professor of Travel and Tourism Economics, University of New South Wales, 2003- 2015.
Larry is now Visiting Professor, School of Business, University of Technology Sydney
Professor Dwyer is past President and Board Chair of the International Academy for Study of Tourism, the world’s peak academic tourism association with a cap of 75 members worldwide.
Larry is past President of the International Association for Tourism Economics, and currently serves on its International Advisory Board.
Larry is a Foundation Fellow of the Council of Australasian University Tourism and Hospitality Educators and Researchers (CAUTHE).
Awarded UN Tourism Ulysses Laureate 2025 for lifetime achievements in tourism research
Professor Dwyer maintains strong links with the tourism industry at international, national, and regional levels. He receives invitations to give keynote addresses at numerous international tourism conferences worldwide. He also has undertaken an extensive number of consultancies for public and private sector tourism organisations, and for international agencies, including the United Nations World Tourism Organisation and the OECD.
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- Adjunct Associate Professor
- School of Management
- Adjunct Associate ProfessorSchool of Management
Deborah is an Adjunct Professor with the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) Business School. She is an inductee to the Urban Tourism Research Hall of Fame by the International Tourism Studies Association (ITSA) and the International Journal of Tourism Cities. As a leading researcher in the fields business events and tourism she has published extensively in a wide variety of areas including business events, urban tourism, tourism sustainability, and visitor experiences. She is co-author of a number of publications that report on the benefits of business events including, Business Events Case Studies, the global Business Event Legacies Project Report, The Power of Conferences and the Beyond Tourism Benefits Series.
An extensive industry experience underpins my philosophy as a researcher and educator and drives her to ensure that academic research is co-produced with, and communicated to, industry and relevant stakeholders in a meaningful way. I view industry liaison as integral to maintaining and building cooperative and strategic partnerships between industry, government, and academia for the benefit of colleagues, students, and the University. Deborah has varied research interests in sustainable tourism, tourist’s spatial behaviour, urban tourism, business events, volunteerism, and visitor experiences. She has led a number of large research projects and teams (including transdisciplinary) and excels at building research capacity through collaborative practices.
In undertaking her various responsibilities, she has actively mentored PhD Candidates, early career researchers, and colleagues on collaborative research projects. Deborah takes great joy in providing a supportive and productive working environment for colleagues. She was recognised through the Women Academics in Tourism ‘Most Awesome Scholars in Tourism’ award (2018).- Academic
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Disciplines- Graduate Research Student
- School of Management
- Graduate Research StudentSchool of Management
- Higher Degree by Research
- Senior Lecturer
- SoMgmnt Discipline of Enterprise Innovation and Impact
- Senior LecturerSoMgmnt Discipline of Enterprise Innovation and Impact
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Simone Faulkner (nee Grabowski) is an advocate for communities and marginalised groups with her research focusing on shaping a sustainable future with initiatives that make a real impact.
Simone is a distinguished figure in the field of mobilities research at the UTS Business School, blending academia and industry expertise. Simone’s research is specifically focused on sustainable tourism, volunteerism, community development, and cross-cultural diversity management
At present, Simone spearheads two research initiatives – 'Ethical Travel in Cambodia' and ‘Transition of Commencing Business Students’. These projects not only delve into the ethical dimensions of tourism and education, but also investigate the unique experiences of the people at the heart of the experience.
Simone's commitment extends beyond research in the field; she also collaborates with UTS and external professional associations to investigate the crucial aspect of student belonging within academic programs. It's not just education; it's about fostering a sense of community and integration within the industry that will hold them in good stead for the rest of their careers.
Since 2007, Simone has been imparting her extensive knowledge in management and international business to eager minds at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She has been instrumental in redesigning core subjects in the Bachelor of Business and Bachelor of Management. In addition, she has played a leading role in engaging industry clients to work with students on their final year projects, giving UTS students the skills required for their future careers.
Simone is currently the subject coordinator of 'Managing for Social Impact' and 'Diversity Management'. Here she equips students with critical thinking skills, global awareness, and practical application, fostering a new generation of socially conscious leaders prepared to navigate diverse workplaces and positively impact society.
In addition to being a highly regarded researcher and educator, Simone plays a pivotal role as the Faculty First and Further Year Experience Student Transition Coordinator, supporting students and staff alike. Simone received a UTS Learning and Teaching award in 2021 and UTS Business School 'Education and Student Experience Award' in 2024 which demonstrate this impact.
But Simone's impact doesn't stop there. As a Category 1 doctoral supervisor, she is actively shaping the next generation of industry leaders and researchers, contributing significantly to the advancement of knowledge in the field. Her doctoral students have published widely in top journals, communicated their research impact at numerous international conferences, and gone on to innovate in academia or industry.- 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
- 10 Reduced Inequalities
- 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
- 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
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- Membership of an advisory committee
- Mentoring (long-term)
- Mentoring (short-term)
Disciplines- Senior Lecturer
- SoMgmnt Discipline of Enterprise Innovation and Impact
- Senior LecturerSoMgmnt Discipline of Enterprise Innovation and Impact
Dr Anthony Fee's research focuses on the experiences of global workers, particularly expatriates working within the international aid and development sector. He is the author of more than 50 articles, book chapters and conference papers, including publications in academic journals like Human Relations, Journal of World Business, International Journal of Cross-cultural Management, and International Journal of Human Resource Management.- Academic
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
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