Rate My Professor Jacqueline Boaks

Dr. Jacqueline Boaks serves as Curriculum Lead at the Curtin Centre for Applied Ethics and Lecturer in the School of Management and Marketing, Faculty of Business and Law, Curtin University. She brings extensive experience from management, training, consultancy, and academia to her role, where she develops curricula in applied ethics for business and professional settings. Boaks holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Western Australia, completed in 2017 under supervisor Michael Levine. Her doctoral thesis explored the nature of leadership through classical philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle, and Machiavelli, contemporary leadership and business literature, political philosophy, and virtue ethics, proposing an original theory framing leadership as an Aristotelian virtue.

Boaks' research specializations include ethical leadership, business ethics, applied ethics, and related areas such as environmental ethics, professional ethics, and political ethics. Key publications encompass the co-edited volume Leadership and Ethics (Bloomsbury Academic, 2015) with Michael P. Levine, addressing philosophical perspectives on leadership; What Does Ethics Have to Do with Leadership? in the Journal of Business Ethics (2013), proposing leadership as a master virtue; Integrity and the University in Philosophy of Management (2023, co-authored with Damian Cox and Michael P. Levine); chapters like Must Leadership Be Undemocratic? examining leadership-democracy tensions; and Who's Afraid of Leadership?, tackling skepticism toward leadership accounts. Her work has garnered over 180 citations on Google Scholar. In teaching, she delivers courses on ethics in the workplace, ethics of artificial intelligence, and Giving Voice to Values. Boaks received the 2023 Curtin Excellence and Innovation in Teaching Award for Teaching Excellence. As Vice President of the Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics, she facilitates conferences, publishes top student papers, and contributes to ethical discourse in management and sustainability.