Dr Lucie Newsome

Senior Lecturer - UNE Business School

Lucie Newsome

Phone: +61 02 6773 1786

Email: lnewsom3@une.edu.au

Twitter: @LucieCN

Biography

Dr Newsome lectures in management and economics and has extensive experience in gender equality research and program development. Dr Newsome has published in the fields of gender and agriculture, gendered experiences of work, gender and entrepreneurship, farm succession, paid parental leave policy and the gendered composition of corporate boards. Formerly, Dr Newsome has held senior policy and project roles in the New South Wales and Queensland Governments.

Qualifications

PhD (University of Queensland)

Master of Governance and Public Policy (University of Queensland)

Bachelor of Economic and Social Sciences (University of Sydney)

Awards

Dean's Commendation for High Achievement (University of Queensland)

Teaching Areas

Undergraduate Level

  • Employment Relations (MM 353/553)
  • Australian Economic Institutions and Performance (ECON 143 & 243)
  • Strategic Human Resource Management (MM 439)

Primary Research Area/s

Gender, politics and policy; Agribusiness; Gender, management and leadership; Gender and entrepreneurship; Women's experiences of work

Research Interests

Gender; women's experiences of work;  politics; policy; employment; SMEs; agribusiness; agriculture; regional economies.

Research Grants

UNE early and mid-career research grant.

Workplace Gender Equality Agency pay equity research grant.

UNE Foundation Grant on gender and farm succession.

Recent and ongoing research includes:

Dr Newsome's recent research focuses on women's experiences in sustainable agriculture and agricultural professional entrepreneurship in Australia and the Netherlands.

Throughout 2021 she is working with UNE Law School and colleagues in the Business School on a UNE Foundation funded project examining the role of gender and farm succession.

She is working with Dr Nicolette Larder and A/Professor Amy Lykins on a UNE Centre for Agribusiness funded project on short supply chain agriculture in the New England context.

Research Supervision Experience

Professional agriculture service sector, succession planning, access to superannuation in the arts sector, policy interventions to support female entrepreneurship in comparative perspective, trade unionism in Zambia.

Publications

Journal Articles

Sheridan, A., Newsome, L., Lawson, A., Charry, S., & Field, S. (2023). Changing scripts: Gender, family farm succession and increasing farm values in Australia. Journal of Rural Studies, 100, 103024.

Bassett, K., Newsome, L., Sheridan, A., Azeem, M.M. (2022). Characterizing the changing profile of employment in Australian agriculture. Journal of Rural Studies 89, 316-327.

Sheridan, A., Newsome, L., Howard, T., Lawson, A., & Saunders, S. (2021). Intergenerational farm succession: How does gender fit?Land Use Policy109, 105612.

Newsome, L. (2021)."Disrupted gender roles in Australian agriculture: first generation female farmers’ construction of farming identity", Agriculture and Human Values:1-12.

Sheridan, A, and L Newsome. (2021)."Tempered disruption: gender and agricultural professional services", Gender, Work & Organization.

Newsome, L. (2020). "Beyond ‘get big or get out’: Female farmers' responses to the cost-price squeeze of Australian agriculture", Journal of Rural Studies, 79: 57-64.

Newsome, L. (2019). "Gender and citizenship in Australia: Government approaches to paid parental leave policy 1996-2017", Social Politics.

Newsome, L and Sheridan, A. (2018). “Taking stock: Identifying the growing agricultural service sector in Australia”, Australasian Agribusiness Review, 26(1).

Newsome, L. (2017).“Female leadership and welfare state reform: the development of Australia’s first national paid parental leave scheme”, Australian Journal of Political Science, 52(4): 537-549.

Newsome, L. (2017).“The rise and fall of paid maternity leave policy in the years of the Keating Government”, Australian Journal of Politics and History, 63(20): 223-237.

Book chapters

Sheridan, A., and Newsome, L. (2022). Regional Australia Bank: A case study addressing the triple penalty of rural location, gender and motherhood on women’s careers. In S. Dhakal, R. Cameron & J. Burgess (Eds.), A Field Guide to Managing Diversity, Equality and Inclusion in Organisations pp. 47-59): Edward Elgar Publishing.

Newsome, L and Sheridan, A. (2022). Gender Accommodation through Self-Regulation in Australia: A Limited Response for Gender Equity on Boards. In Engeli, I. & A. Mazur (eds) Gender Equality And Policy Implementation In The Corporate World: Making Democracy Work In Business. Oxford University Press.

Consultancy Reports

Elliott, S., McCrea, N., Newsome, L. & Gaul, J. (2014 unpublished). Project Investigating early childhood education and care services environmental education programs: Final Report. Sydney: NSW OEH ET & NSW ECEEN.

Elliott, S., McCrea, N., Newsome, L. & Gaul, J. (2014 unpublished). Project Investigating early childhood education and care services environmental education programs: Portfolio of activities. Sydney: NSW OEH ET & NSW ECEEN

Conference Papers

Newsome, L., Arndt, N and Fenton, E. (2023). Hyperseparation in Western agriculture: Male/female and human/nature constructions in Australia and the Netherlands.Western Political Science Conference. San Francisco.

Sheridan, A. Newsome, L., Lawson, A., Charry, S .and Field, S. (2022). Gender and inter-generational farm succession in Australia: An exploratory study. Australasian Agricultural & Resource Economics Society Conference. Online.

Newsome, L and Murray, C. (2022). Motivations to enter and remain in sustainable, small scale agriculture: New female farmers in the Australian context. Australasian Agricultural & Resource Economics Society Conference. Online.

Newsome, L., Larder, N., Lykins, A. and Sundaraja, C., (2022). Fostering Local Food Systems: Challenges and Opportunities in Regional Australia Twelfth International Food Studies Conference. New York/Online.

Newsome, L.,  Arndt, N. and Fenton, E. (2021). Female sustainable farmers in Australia and the Netherlands: Gender performances and challenges to the gender order. Gender, Work and Organization Virtual Conference.

Newsome, L. (2019). The implementation of pay equity in Australia: Slippage to gender accommodation. European Conference on Politics and Gender, Amsterdam.

Newsome, L., Sheridan, A., Lawson, A., Charry, S. and Field, S. (2022). ‘The most dangerous animal on The farm’: Perceptions of daughters-in-law in farm succession processes. World Congress of Rural Sociology. Cairns.

Newsome, L., Sheridan, A. and Smith-Ruig, T. (2019). Producers of food and creators of social value: Women and alternative agriculture. Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society Annual Conference, Melbourne.

Newsome, L. (2018). Strategic alliances with women ‘on the inside’: The Development of Paid Parental Leave in Australia. Nordic Work + Life Conference, Oslo.

Newsome, L. and Sheridan, A.  (2018). Gender segregation in agribusiness services: Mapping the terrain. Gender Work and Organisation Conference, Sydney.

Newsome, L. (2013). The development of the Maternity Allowance in 1995. Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand Conference, Perth.

Newsome, L. (2013). Attempts to introduce a national paid maternity leave scheme in the years of the Howard Government. Community, Work and  Family Conference, University of Sydney, Sydney.

Media Articles

Newsome, L. (2018). "Women in rural workplaces struggle against the ‘boys club’ that leads to harassment", The Conversation, February 28, http://theconversation.com/women-in-rural-workplaces-struggle-against-the-boys-club-that-leads-to-harassment-92507

Newsome, L. (2020). "Parental Leave scheme marred by 1950s sentimentality", Broad Agenda, February 19, http://www.broadagenda.com.au/home/leave-scheme-marred-by-1950s-sentimentality/

Newsome, L.(2022). " The myth of the manly farmer: why do we still assume women don’t work on the land?” The Guardian, 15 January, https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jan/15/the-myth-of-the-manly-farmer-why-do-we-still-assume-women-dont-work-on-the-land

Phd Thesis

Newsome, L. (2014). The Role of Elite-level Women in the Development of Paid Parental Leave Policy in Australia. University of Queensland, St Lucia, unpublished thesis.

Memberships

Gender Equality Policy in Practice Project

Australian Women’s History Network

Consultancy Interests

Gender in the workplace; mentoring; paid parental leave; pay equity; regional businesses and growth; women in agribusiness; sustainable agriculture; farm successsion.