Jeannie Eun Su Lee

Lecturer
The University of Newcastle, Australia

Dr Jeannie Eun Su Lee is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor: US) in Management at the Newcastle Business School, College of Human and Social Futures. She has completed her PhD degree at the University of Sydney Business School. Jeannie is a lifetime member of Beta Gamma Sigma and an endorser of Migration, Business and Society. 

Her research interests lie in the fields of international human resource management and global mobility, focusing on migrants’ integration journeys in foreign countries and the role of support organizations in facilitating such integrative efforts. Her work has been published in top-tier international journals such as Academy of Management Perspectives, Human Resource Management Journal and International Journal of Management Reviews.

Jeannie and colleagues were the first to introduce the term "Canvas Ceiling" to a systemic, multilevel barrier to refugee workforce integration and professional advancement. The notion of Canvas Ceiling illustrates how the barriers to successful refugee workforce integration, ranging from socio-cultural and institutional challenges to organizational- and individual-level concerns, are not only multi-level and multi-faceted, but also interrelated across levels and factors. The notion of the canvas ceiling is an important steppingstone to describe the socio-political and systemic difficulties that refugees face in their employment and integration journey in receiving countries. 

From this author

Inclusive and workplace acceptance of refugees
Partnering for refugee employment

When considering their talent pipelines, few companies think outside-of-the-box. Most refugees flourish in the workplace, and so do the businesses that hire them.

SDG 16
Institutional investors demand a more sustainable capitalism

Honey gathering is a solitary job in Indigenous communities. The collector then shares the honey with their community but refrains from joining in the honey feast themself. The idea is that the gathering is not about their gratification, it’s about their contribution to the collective.  

SDG15 Bushfires
Optimisation model as a guide to burning forests to save forests

Setting fire to parts of a forest to save it might seem counterintuitive to urban communities. There is no equivalent of torching a few streets to protect a suburb. However, amongst First Nations people in Australia, hazard reduction burning is a well-established practice.

SDG13 - coal mining
Net zero now – it’s the economy AND the planet

In Australia, as elsewhere, the climate wars have focused on the climate versus jobs dichotomy. Yet while Australia remains highly dependent on fossil fuel extraction for its national economic prosperity it has also become increasingly unequal in its distribution of that wealth.