Rate My Professor Sheree Gregory

Dr Sheree Gregory is Senior Lecturer of Human Resource Management in the Newcastle Business School at the University of Newcastle, where she teaches courses on Managing Talent, Future of Work, and Employment Relations at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She earned her Doctor of Philosophy from RMIT University. Her career trajectory includes prior positions as Lecturer in the School of Business at Western Sydney University, Industry Fellow conducting research with The Powerhouse Museum on women, leadership, diversity, and innovation, and Australian Research Council Linkage Project Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, during which she interviewed entrepreneurs across Australia on family business succession planning and co-developed the Global Family Business Succession Planning Survey with Pitcher Partners and Baker Tilly International, spanning over 50 countries. Gregory served as a visiting scholar at the Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship at Brown University, presenting on university succession planning, and collaborated internationally with the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City to establish the Centre for Small to Medium-Sized Enterprises and Family Business Research. Previously, she was national Thematic Leader of the Sociology of Work, Labour and Economy group for The Australian Sociological Association from 2022 to 2025.

Gregory's research focuses on resilience, precarity, and contradictions across entrepreneurship, human resource management, and employment relations, with specific interests in care and technology's impact on work/life boundaries, gender equality in creative industries and male-dominated organizations, family business succession planning, future of work, innovation, leadership succession, SMEs, and women's labour force participation. Her publications appear in leading journals including Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Sociology, and Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development. Key works include the highly cited 'Motives and outcomes in family business succession planning' (2015, 293 citations), 'Media Work, Mothers and Motherhood' (2021), book chapters on gender and leadership succession (2023), and 'Management control systems' (2023). Forthcoming publications feature 'Motherhood, Care & Labour in the 21st Century: Contradictions in Focus' (co-edited with Kate Huppatz, Sydney University Press, 2026), 'Futures of Work and Care' (co-edited, Palgrave Macmillan, 2027), and a Special Issue on 'Equity in the Creative Industries' in Journal of Sociology (2025). She has received the 2025 College Equity, Diversity and Inclusion team award and Newcastle Business School Postgraduate Education Excellence award, 2021 Best Academic Paper from the Small Enterprise Association of Australia and New Zealand, 2020 Vice Chancellor's Citation for Meritorious Service at Western Sydney University, and 2015 Teaching Excellence award from RMIT University. Gregory holds roles on the Industrial Relations Society NSW Newcastle Branch committee, British Academy of Management, Editorial Advisory Board of the International Small Business Journal, University of Newcastle Wine Studies Research Network, Newcastle Business School Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee, and Board of the Small Enterprise Association of Australia and New Zealand. Her research partnerships include ARC Linkage Projects with General Motors Holden Ltd. and Sydney Water, and she has been interviewed by ABC on the motherhood penalty (2024), featured in Future Makers Magazine on gender equality, The Deal Magazine on flexible work (2015), and named in The Campus Review as one of Australia's new generation academics (2007).