Dr Simon Burgess

Senior Lecturer - UNE Business School

Phone: +61 +61 2 6773 3945

Biography

Simon’s managerial experience includes work with the Community Development Employment Project in Aurukun, he established and then managed Rockhampton’s headspace centre (a youth mental health centre), and he has carried out consultancy work for not-for-profit organisations. With regard to social policy he was a member of the Design Team for the Welfare Reform Project led by Noel Pearson at the Cape York Institute for Policy and Leadership (a division of Griffith University) in 2006 and 2007. Simon has a wide range of research interests that include ethics, business ethics, leadership, reconciliation, civility, and policy evaluation. But a general theme that unites the main body of his work is one of ethical leadership.

Qualifications

PhD, Monash University; BA(Hons), Monash University; BA, University of Melbourne; BCom, University of Melbourne

Teaching Areas

Undergraduate Level

MM322: Business Ethics
MM324: Organisational Leadership

Post-graduate Level

MM551: Business Ethics, CSR and Sustainability

HDR supervision topic areas

Business ethics
Professional ethics
Ethical Leadership

Teaching Awards

UNE Business School 2016 Excellence in Teaching Award

UNE Business School 2021 School Citation for Education Excellence

Publications

Refereed Journal Articles Published or Unconditionally Accepted for Publication

Simon Burgess, Syed Muhammad Fazal-e-Hasan, Muhammad Abid, Anthony Dillon, Omar Al Farooque, Sujana Adapa (Forthcoming) ‘Incorporating hope and resilience into policy and program evaluation: Empirical evidence from Australia’ Public Administration Quarterly

Simon Burgess (Forthcoming). ‘Virtues and values, without disproportion or dysfunction’, Australasian Philosophical Review, Vol. 4, Issue 2

Simon Burgess (2023). ‘Confucian leadership in the age of Xi Jinping’. In Ralph Bathurst and Michelle Sitong Chen (eds.) Leadership and China: Philosophy, Place and Practice, New York: Routledge, pp. 155-170.

Simon Burgess, Marg Rogers, Dianna Jefferies (2022). ‘Empathy and Narrative: A Discussion of Contemporary Stories from Childcare and Healthcare’, International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, Vol. 14, Issue 5, pp. 631-646.

Simon Burgess and Matthew Wysel. (2022). ‘China’s Social Credit System: How Robust Is the Human Rights Critique?’ In Adrian Walsh and Sandy Boucher (eds.) Research in Ethical Issues in Organizations Volume 26: Who’s Watching? Surveillance, Big Data and Applied Ethics in the Digital Age. United Kingdom: Emerald Publishing, pp. 39-56.

Simon Burgess (2019). One Nation and Indigenous Reconciliation. In B. Grant, T. Moore & T. Lynch (Eds.), The Rise of Right-Populism: Pauline Hanson's One Nation and Australian Politics. Singapore: Springer, pp. 145-165.

Simon Burgess (2016) ‘The Rocky Road to Reconciliation’, Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues, Vol. 19, No. 3, September, pp. 77-93

Simon Burgess and Dale Trott (2012) ‘Combating workplace bullying by focusing on workplace incivility’, The Journal of Health, Safety and Environment, Vol. 28, Issue 3, pp. 339-350

Simon Burgess (2012) ‘Internal evaluation systems and the creation of a peerless bureaucracy’, Studies in Learning, Evaluation, Innovation and Development, Vol. 9 No. 1, November, pp. 42-54

Simon Burgess (2012) ‘Newcomb's problem and its conditional evidence: a common cause of confusion’, Synthese, Vol. 184, Issue 3, pp. 319-339

Simon Burgess (2004) ‘Newcomb's problem: an unqualified resolution’, Synthese, Vol. 138, No. 2, pp. 261-287

Government-Commissioned Reports

(With Noel Pearson and others) From Hand Out to Hand Up, Cape York Institute for Policy and Leadership, May 2007

Invited contributions

Simon Burgess ‘Ethics in research’ and ‘Major philosophical developments’ in Melanie Birks and Jane Mills (eds.) Qualitative Research: A Practical Guide, London: Sage Publications, 2014

Memberships

Australasian Association for Professional & Applied Ethics

Australasian Business Ethics Network

Australasian Association of Philosophy