Professor Shirley Leitch

Dean
Faculty of Commerce

Email: sleitch@uow.edu.au
Telephone: +61 (02) 42215080
Fax: +61 (02) 42214157
Location: Building 40 Room 344

Qualifications

PhD University of Auckland
MA (Hons) University of Auckland
BA University of Auckland

Background

Shirley Leitch took up the role of Dean of the Faculty of Commerce in 2006. She came to Wollongong from the University of Waikato in New Zealand where she was Pro Vice Chancellor of Public Affairs and held a personal chair in corporate communication. Professor Leitch has also held posts at the University of Auckland, Massey University and Victoria University of Wellington. In the mid-1980s, she worked for the Minister of Social Welfare, Women’s Affairs and Police, Dame Ann Hercus, as a communication advisor. She has undertaken a number of senior advisory roles for government and industry most recently as research leader of the Growth Culture project for the NZ Government’s Growth and Innovation Advisory Board. Over the past two decades, her research work has focused on public communication, particularly on effecting change within public discourses. Most recently she has been deputy leader of a $2.5m research project on sustainable biotechnology for New Zealand’s Foundation for Research, Science and Technology. Professor Leitch has numerous publications in the management, marketing and communication literatures.

Publications

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