Background
Caroline has worked as a corporate lawyer and mediator, applied researcher, consultant, lecturer, and tutor. She received her PhD in 2016 and was appointed a Conjoint Senior Lecturer in the School of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Newcastle. Her most recent roles have included Post-doctoral Research Fellowships at the University of Melbourne and QUT, lecturing and tutoring in Business and Corporations Law, Strategic Management, Principles of Management and Human Resource Management, at Macquarie University, and Organizational Leadership and Business Ethics at the University of New England. She has expertise across the disciplines of socio-technical transitions, innovation studies, human geography, complexity theory, critical management study and strategic management. Her research has featured a significant focus on sustainability transitions and innovation policy in regional Australia, and more recently, strategic management and corporate social responsibility.
Recent Publications
State of the Art Literature Review of Smart Specialization, Issues Paper, May 2018.
Smart Specialization as a transition management framework: driving sustainability-focused regional innovation policy? Research Policy, 2020, 49(6) https://doi:10.1016/j.respol.2020.103982
Conceptualizing the foundations of sustainability focused innovation policy: from constructivism to holism. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2021, 162 https://doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2020.120734
Smart Specialization in Australia: Between policy mobility and regional experimentalism? Economic Geography, 2022, Vol 98(3) https://doi:10.1080/00130095.2022.2032637
How Much is not Enough: Corporate Social Responsibility and Beyond in the Resources Sector. Resources Policy 2022 Vol 79 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2022.102960