Rate My Professor Belinda Beattie

Dr Belinda Beattie is a Lecturer in Public Policy in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences within the Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Education at the University of New England. She earned her Doctor of Philosophy from the University of New England in 2005, with a thesis entitled "Public Policy Implementation and the NSW Public Health System: Commensurability of the Health Services Act 1997 (NSW) and Area Health Service Performance Agreements." Her early work includes the article "What impact has managerialism had on a New South Wales Area Health Service?" published in Australian Health Review in 2000. Beattie's research focuses on public policy, examining how ideas transform into principles adopted by public organizations. She studies deviance in rural and regional mining communities from perspectives of community, public policy, and media. Her interests extend to the personal stories of Australia's First and Second Federal Parliamentarians, Indigenous and settler colonialism, media framing during the Federation period, and social deviance in historical contexts such as the long Victorian era. She welcomes supervision of higher degree research in these areas.

In her teaching portfolio, Beattie delivers courses in Politics, International Studies, Indigenous Studies, and Sociology, including PAIS104: Introduction to Indigenous Australia, PAIS105: Global Indigenous Experiences, PAIS322/522: Indigenous Politics and Public Policy, PAIS324/524: Indigenous Peoples and Colonisation: Land and Nature, and SOCY313/513: Australian Social and Public Policy. Known for her passion for inclusive pedagogy that values diversity and equity, she designs curricula for online success, earning high student evaluations and expertise in educational technology. Her publications feature "Parliamentary Internships for Rural and Regional Students" (2015), "Reporting Kalgoorlie and Broken Hill Prostitution 1896–1903" (2024), "Kalgoorlie’s Sex Trade and the Kalgoorlie Miner: 1896–1903" (2023), "The Golden Chariot: Quacks, Quackery and New England Newspapers, 1889–1893" (2025), "Chris Watson’s resignation of the federal parliamentary labor party" (2021), and the children's biography "Alfred Deakin: Prime Minister of Australia" (2018). Committed to university governance and collegiality, Beattie enhances the academic community through her service.