Rate My Professor Simon Burgess

Dr. Simon Burgess serves as a Senior Lecturer in the UNE Business School at the University of New England, where he also acts as Discipline Convenor and Course Coordinator for Management and Marketing. His academic qualifications include a PhD and a BA (Honours) from Monash University, alongside a BA and a BCom from the University of Melbourne. Prior to his current role, Burgess gained extensive managerial experience, working with the Community Development Employment Project in Aurukun, establishing and managing Rockhampton’s headspace youth mental health centre, and providing consultancy services to not-for-profit organisations. He was part of the Design Team for the Welfare Reform Project led by Noel Pearson at the Cape York Institute for Policy and Leadership in 2006 and 2007.

Burgess's research interests span ethics, business ethics, leadership, reconciliation, civility, and policy evaluation, all unified by the overarching theme of ethical leadership. He supervises higher degree research students in business ethics, professional ethics, and ethical leadership. Notable publications include "Incorporating hope and resilience into policy and program evaluation: Empirical evidence from Australia" (Public Administration Quarterly, 2023, with co-authors), "Confucian leadership in the age of Xi Jinping" (in Leadership and China: Philosophy, Place and Practice, Routledge, 2023), "Virtues and values, without disproportion or dysfunction" (Australasian Philosophical Review, 2022), "China’s Social Credit System: How Robust Is the Human Rights Critique?" (in Research in Ethical Issues in Organizations, 2022), "One Nation and Indigenous Reconciliation" (in The Rise of Right-Populism, Springer, 2019), and "The Rocky Road to Reconciliation" (Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues, 2016). He has earned the UNE Business School Excellence in Teaching Award in 2016 and a School Citation for Education Excellence in 2021. Burgess is affiliated with the Australasian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics, the Australasian Business Ethics Network, and the Australasian Association of Philosophy.