Dr. Julian Lee
Details
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College: School of GUSS
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Department: School of GUSS
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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julian.lee@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID: 0000-0002-0730-0669
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Julian CH Lee is the Associate Dean, Global and Language Studies, in RMIT's School of Global, Urban and Social Studies.
In 2024, RMIT’s College of Design and Social Context awarded him a citation for Learning and Teaching Leadership for his contributions and achievements within and beyond RMIT. Among his achievements are that of Best Paper at the 2022 conference of the Australian Collaborative Education Network (ACEN; now WIL Australia), and in 2019 he received a Ralph Macintosh Commendation “for outstanding commitment to delivering engaging student experiences through new ways of learning”.
Julian is a supporter and advocate for open access publishing and scholarship. In addition to serving on the editorial boards of the open access International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning (IJWIL) and the open access academic publisher Kismet Press, he has also been part of RMIT’s Open Access Working Group. In 2024, he collaborated with RMIT Library’s Open Access team to publish the co-edited volume A Skilled Hand and a Cultivated Mind, which followed his 2019 co-authored open access monograph Monsters of Modernity.
In addition to his academic work, Julian shares his insights on leadership practice with higher degree by research students through the Frontiers program of the Australian Technology Network (ATN). His module, The Future of Leadership, introduces PhD and Masters students to several of the most useful practices, paradigms and authors that have informed his approach to leadership.
Degrees
- Doctorate Research, Studies in Human Society
- University of Melbourne
- Australia
- 2007
Supervisor projects
- The Role of Multi-disciplinary team experiences in the enablement of Career Identity & Career Adaptability for Humanities students
- 3 Mar 2023
- Deploying Participatory Evaluation: Contextual and Cultural Considerations in an Indonesian Community Health Program
- 22 Apr 2022
- The role of humanities and social sciences in university-based innovation hubs: An examination of practice, inclusion and multidisciplinary collaboration in Australia and South-east Asia
- 16 Dec 2021
- Globalisation, Corporate Social Responsibility and Multinational Corporations in Vietnam: Case Studies of Three Food and Beverage Multinational Corporations in South Vietnam
- 7 Oct 2021
- Pathways and Barriers to Mental Health Services Utilisation among Croatia- and Bosnia and Herzegovina-born Migrants in Melbourne, Australia
- 20 Nov 2020
- The Transnational Legal Space in Theory and in Practice: A Study of Unethical Offshore Clinical Trials.
- 17 Nov 2020
- Islamization of Democracy and Democratization of Islam The Interplay of Islam and Democracy in Pakistan’s Constitutional Discourse
- 31 Oct 2020
- Women’s Political Underrepresentation in Ghana: A Study of the 2020 Ghanaian Elections
- 30 Jan 2020
- Understanding Human Traffickers in Indonesia: Characteristics, Perspectives, and Pathways to Prevention
- 9 Apr 2019
- 'Transborder technologies of land administration: An inquiry into authority, agency, and artefact.'
- 1 Mar 2017
- Ethnoreligious Identity Civil Society and Peacebuilding among Youth in Urban Pakistan
- 1 Mar 2017
- Global Expansion of Emerging Market Multinational Corporations: International Political Economy Perspective - Case Study: PT Semen Indonesia
- 20 Jul 2015
Teaching interests
Current teaching responsibilities
• HUSO2159 – International Project Management
• HUSO2134 – Global Internship (WIL)
Former teaching responsibilities
• SOCU1011 – Global Processes
• SOCU1031 – Global Careers
• HUSO2389 – Statistical and Numerical Literacy for Global Citizens
• HUSO2365 – Global Social Movement Strategies and Impacts
• SOCU1036 – Global Governance and International Law
• SOCU1016 – Culture and Business Practice in Asia
Julian is a ‘Category 1’ PhD supervisor.
Research interests
Julian Lee's research focuses on learning and teaching practice in higher education. Among his most recent publications is the 2024 open-access co-edited volume A Skilled Hand and a Cultivated Mind: A Culture of Learning and Teaching Practice at RMIT University. One focus of his is work-integrated learning; he is presently conducting research on work-intergrated learning communities of practice in higher education in Australia, and in 2022 won best paper at the conference of ACEN (now WIL Australia).
In 2023, Julian became a member of the Vic/Tas Chapter of WIL Australia, and in 2024 joined its Research Committee. In RMIT, he is a member of the Social Equity Research Centre, and the Language, Culture and International Education research theme group. He serves on the editorial boards of journals including the open-access International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning.
Julian has also conducted research and published in the field of global studies. Among his books in this area is the co-authored and open-access book Monsters of Modernity: Global Icons for our Critical Condition. He is also the editor volumes on globalisation including Narratives of Globalization, and co-editor of The Digital Global Condition.
Julian's research on globalisation continues as part of the team running the work of the EUATRAN Centre of Excellence, funded by EU Jean Monnet Award. This project explores the intersection of security and trade, in which Julian will be focusing on issues pertaining particularly to education.
