Suzanne Benn
Bio
Professor Suzanne Benn is Professor of Sustainable Enterprise in School of Management, UTS Business School. In this position she provides leadership within the Business School and across UTS, working with other disciplinary areas and external stakeholders to promote sustainability. She was previously Professor of Education for Sustainability, Director of ARIES and Head of the Graduate School of the Environment at Macquarie University, Sydney. Suzanne has a background in the sciences and the social sciences. She has had wide experience working across the range of educational sectors and as a research and industrial scientist. Her current research interests range across corporate sustainability and corporate social responsibility, business education for sustainability and organisational change and development for sustainability. Her interdisciplinary academic publications include three books and more than 90 refereed journal articles, book chapters and refereed conference papers. She has led consultancy and research projects on the topic of corporate social responsibility, organisational change and sustainability for a number of Australian organisations. She has also conducted major Australian Research Council grant funded projects on topics such as the communication of corporate social responsibility through social networks, collaboration and governance for sustainability. Professor Benn has modified and taught curriculum on sustainable business at the University of Shanghai, and led the introduction of these programs into the undergraduate and postgraduate curriculum at UTS and at Macquarie. She has a strong interest in interdisciplinary curriculum development and holistic approaches to learning for sustainability. Professor Benn also has a number of PhD students in the area of corporate social responsibility, sustainability and education, learning and change for sustainability.
Teaching Material
- CR3+ Conference Presentation: Restorative Business and the Circular Economy
- Culture, Practices and Strategies of the Sustaining Organisation: Link to EFS
- ESAA Discussion Paper Electric Cars
- Fuji Xerox Australia Eco manufacturing Centre: A case study in strategic sustainability
- Future of Resources
- Introduction to Managing for Sustainability
- Phases of Organisational Sustainability
- Practices to Implement the Ideal Organisation
- Sustainable Supply Chain case study
- Sustainable Supply Chains
- The Environmental Round Table Role-Play Exercise: The Dynamics of Multi-Stakeholder Decision-Making Processes
Affiliations
- Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at University of Technology, Sydney