Rate My Professor Lucie Newsome

Dr. Lucie Newsome is a Senior Lecturer in the UNE Business School at the University of New England. She earned her PhD and Master of Governance and Public Policy from the University of Queensland, along with a Bachelor of Economic and Social Sciences from the University of Sydney. Her academic background supports her extensive research in gender, politics, and policy, with specializations in agribusiness, gender and management, leadership, gender and entrepreneurship, and women's experiences of work. Recent and ongoing research encompasses farm succession, women’s roles in agriculture, agricultural policy, and diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. She has secured grants including the UNE early and mid-career research grant, Workplace Gender Equality Agency pay equity research grant, and UNE Foundation Grant on gender and farm succession. Newsome supervises higher degree research students on topics such as neurodiversity in the workplace, women in STEM, professional agriculture service sector, succession planning, access to superannuation in the arts sector, policy interventions to support female entrepreneurship, and trade unionism in Zambia. As convener of the Public Policy research group in UNE Business School, she advances studies in these areas.

Prior to academia, Newsome held senior policy and project roles in the New South Wales and Queensland governments. She teaches undergraduate courses including Employment Relations (MM353/553), Australian Economic Institutions and Performance (ECON143/243), and Strategic Human Resource Management (MM439). Her accolades include the Dean's Commendation for High Achievement from the University of Queensland, 2024 SABL Executive Dean's Early and Mid-Career Researcher Research Excellence Award, and 2025 School Citation for Education Excellence. Key publications feature 'The “dreaded” daughter-in-law in Australian farm business succession' (Journal of Rural Studies, 2024, co-authored), 'Changing scripts: Gender, family farm succession and increasing farm values in Australia' (Journal of Rural Studies, 2023, co-authored), 'Disrupted gender roles in Australian agriculture: first generation female farmers’ construction of farming identity' (Agriculture and Human Values, 2021), 'Gender and citizenship in Australia: Government approaches to paid parental leave policy 1996-2017' (Social Politics, 2019), and 'Female leadership and welfare state reform: the development of Australia’s first national paid parental leave scheme' (Australian Journal of Political Science, 2017). Additional contributions include book chapters on gender equity on boards and regional women's careers, as well as consultancy reports for government agencies on pay equity and agricultural policy.