Jenny Sappey
Lecturer
B.Liberal Studies (MCAE), Dip. Teaching (MCAE), M.Bus (IR)(QUT), PhD (Griffith)
Jenny Sappey
Bio
Jennifer is a graduate of Charles Sturt University in the 1970s and 1980s in the fields of teaching and sociology.
Her business experience includes positions as: HR Project Officer seconded to the Queensland Public Service Task Force (to design and establish two new government departments); Staff Development Officer with the Management Development Program, Queensland Police Service; Policy Officer, Business Regulation Review Unit, Department of Tourism, Small Business and Industry, Brisbane; and Project Officer, Community Justice Mediation Unit, Attorney-General’s Department, Brisbane, specialising in victim-offender mediations.
Teaching
Jennifer commenced her teaching career with CSU in 1986. She has extensive teaching experience in three Australian universities in the areas of: management and organisational sociology; employment relations and industrial sociology; and business communication. Jennifer has also worked in Queensland , Victoria and New South Wales TAFE programmes for physically, intellectually and socially disadvantaged adults as well as their general labour market programmes.
Research
Jennifer's current research interests include:
- the regional development of aged care services
- flexible delivery in higher education
- the national ethics regime and its unintended consequences for social science research
- the sociology of consumption
- the changing nature of work in our society
Research grants
- 2003 CSU Faculty Seed Grant $2,000 "Customers in the Employment Relationship"
- 2004 CSU Faculty Seed Grant $2,000 " Industrial Sociology and Ethics Regimes"
- 2006 CSU ILWS Seed Grant $22,000 "Demographic Change in Central (Dr J Sappey, Mrs Z Bone, Dr R Duncan) West New South Wales : A Pilot Project
- 2007 - Mapping the Aged Care Sector"
Recent publications
Membership of Professional Associations and Groups
- Member of the Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand
- Member of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management
- Member of the Institute for Land, Water and Society (CSU)
