Prue Burns

Dr. Prue Burns

Lecturer, Management

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About

Prue is aLecturer (Management) in the School of Management. Her research interests include improving health and social care service delivery, and understanding how institutional change may be provoked and harnessed for the social good. Prior to working in academia, Prue worked in the NGO and Government sectors as a senior researcher and policy officer on a number of public policy and service delivery issues affecting disadvantaged Australians.

Her PhD dissertation explored how firms support former prisoners to reintegrate into the workforce.

Key activities:

Academic Director, School of Management

Course co-coordinator: BUSM1094 Organisations; BUSM1100 Organisations

Research fields

  • 4203 Health services and systems
  • 4407 Policy and administration
  • 3507 Strategy, management and organisational behaviour
  • 4206 Public health
  • 4402 Criminology
  • 4404 Development studies
  • 3505 Human resources and industrial relations
  • 4205 Nursing
  • 4408 Political science
  • 4804 Law in context
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