Dr Sheree Gregory

Dr Sheree Gregory is Senior Lecturer of Human Resource Management in the Newcastle Business School where she teaches Managing Talent, Future of Work, Employment Relations. She is a member of the Industrial Relations Society NSW - Newcastle Branch committee, British Academy of Management, Editorial Advisory of the International Small Business Journal (SAGE) (ABCD list ranked 'A'), the University of Newcastle Wine Studies Research Network, and Newcastle Business School Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee. Her book on contradictions of motherhood, care and labour, co-Edited with Professor Kate Huppatz, is under contract with the Sydney University Press (in press 2026). She is the lead-Editor of the Special Issue 'Equity in the Creative Industries' for the Journal of Sociology (SAGE) (2025). In 2020 she was an invited member to the research advisory committee appointed by the NSW Innovation and Productivity Council, for research on Global Talent Flows. 

Prior to her current appointment, Sheree was a national Thematic Leader of the Sociology of Work, Labour and Economy group for The Australian Sociological Association (2022-2025), and a Western Sydney University School of Business Lecturer, and Industry Fellow conducting research with The Powerhouse Museum on women and leadership, diversity and innovation. Sheree’s international and national collaborative partnerships include with the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, which resulted in the establishment of the Centre for Small to Medium-Sized Enterprises (SME) and Family Business Research, launched in Parramatta at Western Sydney University. She was a visiting scholar at the Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship, Brown University (USA) where she presented her research on university succession planning. Sheree was Australian Research Council Linkage Project Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, wherein she interviewed entrepreneurs Australia-wide about family business succession planning, and jointly-developed the Global Family Business Succession Planning Survey with Pitcher Partners and Baker Tilly International, covering over 50 countries, translated into 9 languages.

Previous appointments to boards and advisory committees include: International Academic lead (research engagement USA); School of Business Research Committee (Dean's ECR Representative Nominee); Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Working Party; Academic Course Advisor; Chair and Senior Director of the Board of The Crack Theatre Festival, among others.

In 2024, Sheree was interviewed by the ABC about the motherhood penalty. She was featured in the Future Makers Magazine - Special Issue on Gender Equality, for her research on women entrepreneurs, and female screen directors. In 2015, The Deal Magazine interviewed her on flexible work for the Special Issue 30 Years of Chief Executive Women. In 2007, The Campus Review Magazine named her one of ‘The New Breed: Australia’s New Generation of Academics Are Highly Motivated and Professionally Savvy'.

She is joint-editor of two books: Women and Work (RMIT Publishing), and her research is published in top-tier journals such as Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice (ABCD list ranked ' A* '). Some of her research partnership collaborations include: General Motors Holden Ltd., Sydney Water (ARC LP); Pitcher Partners (ARC LP); and liaison with a former Australian Sex Discrimination Commissioner, among others.