Academic Director of Macquarie City College
Professor of Management, Macquarie Graduate School of Management
BA Hons 1 (UNSW); Grad Dip Public Mgt (UCQ); M Commercial Law (Deakin U); and PhD (UNSW)
Professor More recently held the position of Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Development & External Relations) at Macquarie University, following a two year period as Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Administration) at the University, preceded by her term as Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Canberra. Prior to these positions, she was Director of the Graduate School of Management, Chair of Academic Senate at Macquarie University, and Managing Director of MGSM Pty Ltd.
Professor More holds a first class honors degree in Humanities and a Ph.D from the University of N.S.W.; a Graduate Diploma in Management from the University of Central Queensland; and a Masters degree in Commercial Law from Deakin University.
In the Queen’s Birthday 2005 Honours List, Professor More received the award of Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for service to education, particularly in the fields of communication, management and organizational change.
Professor More has given conference presentations and published widely, both locally and internationally, in the field of organization studies, particularly in the areas of organizational change, communication, culture, communications technology and policy. Her current research focus is on inter-organizational collaboration, strategic alliances, networks, and e-commerce communities.
Professor More is on the editorial boards of the Australian Journal of Communication; the Journal of Communication Management; The Journal of International Communication; Knowledge and Process Management – The Journal of Corporation Transformation. She has been awarded research grants from the Australian Research Council, Macquarie University, the N.S.W. Education and Training Foundation, and the Commonwealth Department of Health.
Professor More is also an Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA) Auditor. She chaired the Audit of La Trobe University in 2004, and was on the trial audit panel for the University of The Sunshine Coast and the panel for the audit of Flinders University in 2006. She is also an assessor for AUQA’s Good Practices Database.
Professor More is a past President of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management, and of the Australian Communication Association. She also has extensive experience in consulting to both private and public sector organizations and, over the past decade, has been called upon regularly for expert media comment on issues related to management practice and education. Before becoming a University academic, she worked as a classical ballet dancer in theatre and television, and in the advertising industry.
Her community service includes her current work as a Member of the NSW Government’s Council on the Cost and Quality of Government; a Member of the Board for the Australian Centre for Advanced Computing and Communications (ac3); a Member of the Academic Advisory Board for the Australian Institute of Management; and a past Member of the International Institute of Communications Australian Chapter Committee. She was also appointed by the Commonwealth Government from 1992-1996 as a Member of the Government's Telecommunications Industry Development Authority (TIDA) and was appointed to the Tax Concession Committee of the IR&D Board from 1996-98. In 2006, she was re-appointed to serve on the Board of the Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS), and appointed as a Director on the Board of The Sydney Dance Company.