Dr Tracy Wilcox is a recognised higher education leader with a track record of innovation in curriculum, program design, assessment and student experience.
Tracy's research and practice interest is in socially responsible management practice. Understanding and enabling this involves bringing together ethics, organization theory and human resource management to better understand how managers create opportunities for ethical agency in often...view more
Dr Tracy Wilcox is a recognised higher education leader with a track record of innovation in curriculum, program design, assessment and student experience.
Tracy's research and practice interest is in socially responsible management practice. Understanding and enabling this involves bringing together ethics, organization theory and human resource management to better understand how managers create opportunities for ethical agency in often difficult contexts. Tracy has published in a range of international journals the area of human resource management ethics, moral agency, virtue ethics, and sustainability education.
Tracy was formerly Section Editor for HRM & HRD Ethics with the Journal of Business Ethics, and currently holds the role of Developmental Editor with this journal.
Tracy is a multi-award winning online and face-to-face educator, and has been invited to present at a variety of industry and professional forums.
My Grants
External
2016: K. Muir, A. Powell, T. Wilcox; Macquarie Group Foundation, Centre for Social Impact; Leadership for Social Purpose; Category 3 grant, $85,700
2016: T. Wilcox, A. Pullen, M. Greenwood, A. O’Leary-Kelly; Domestic Violence and Organizations: Developing a Research Agenda for Management Studies. Society for Advanced Management Studies (UK), $5,000
2014: M. O’Donnell, A. Junor and T. Wilcox; The Benevolent Society, New approaches to skill identification in job analysis and position description, Category 3 Grant, $49,995.
2011: A. Junor, T. Wilcox; Australian Government Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency (EOWA - now WGEA) Better Description and Classification of Jobs in Awards, Category 2 Grant, $20,000.
My Qualifications
B AppSc (Hons), UTS
MCom (Hons), UNSW
PhD, UNSW
My Awards
2024 UNSW Vice Chancellor’s Award for Sustained Excellence in Teaching; for ‘sustained leadership in business ethics and sustainability education and an outstanding postgraduate student experience’.
2020 Innovation Award, Highly Commended, UNSW Business School; for ‘leadership in the design, development and launch of new suite of fully online postgraduate programs’.
2018 UN-Principles of Responsible Management Education Award for Social Engagement, UNSW Business; for ‘leadership in embedding the UN Principles for Responsible Management Education in multiple Business School programs’.
2014 Bill Birkett Award for Sustained Teaching Excellence, UNSW Business School; for ‘pioneering work in educating for Responsible Business Professionalism’.
2011 Unijobs Lecturer of the Year, Ranked 4th across UNSW all faculties (student-driven).
2010 Emerald/EFMD Highly Commended Finalist, Doctoral Research Award; for ‘substantial and theoretically sophisticated scholarship, field research and analysis’ in PhD thesis
2009 UNSW Vice Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence; for excellence in ethics and professional skills education.
2007 Faculty Teaching Excellence Award: Team Teaching, UNSW Business School.
1997 Dean’s Commendation for Teaching, AGSM, for highest ranking adjunct teacher (student evaluations).
My Research Activities
My expertise:
Ethical Human Resource Management practice; moral agency; ethics and sustainability education; professional ethics; virtue ethics; organization theory, critical realism.
My Research Supervision
Supervision keywords
Areas of supervision
Organisation theory, business ethics, qualitative research methodologies
My Engagement
- Invited Presentations: ‘Practical Ethics for Advisers’, Best Practice Financial Planning Professional Forum, August 2020
- Ethics for Financial Advisors, BT Financial Group, August 2020
- Invited presentation: ‘Navigating the ethical path in the new advice world’; Self Managed Superannuation Fund Association of Australasia Conference, Gold Coast, Qld February 2020
- Invited presentation: Data Analytics and Ethics Meet the Masters series, June 2020
- Invited presentation: Ethical Leadership in an Accelerating World, AGSM Professional Forum, June 2019
- Invited to present two sessions on Capturing the Champions Project: Scoping PRME Implementation at UNSW Business School and Responsible Management Education: 21st Century Challenges, at Massey University Business School, Auckland, New Zealand Feb 2017
- ‘How Vietnam's Khe Nuoc Trong forest is being helped along by Western consumers’, Sydney Morning Herald, July 2014
- Organized Workshop (lead): Domestic Violence and Organizations: Creating a Dialogue between Practice & Management Studies. June 2018. (with A Pullen & M. Greenwood)
- 50 scholars and DV practitioners from Australia, North and South America, UK, and Europe
- Leadership for Social Purpose – Navigator, Think Outcomes conference, CSI, Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth (ARACY) and the Social Impact Measurement Network of Australia (SIMNA), May 2017
- ‘Virtue and Risk Culture in Finance’, Presentation to International Actuarial Association ASTIN, AFIR/ERM and IACA Colloquium, Sydney 23rd August 2015
- ‘Virtue, hubris and risk culture’ with Anthony Asher, 2014 Financial Services Forum, Actuaries Institute of Australia, 6th May 2014, Sydney.
- ‘Leadership and Systems Thinking’. 2012. Tracy Wilcox - Guest Editor, Knowledge Connect, Centre for Social Impact, Vol 16, 1-9.
- ‘Reconciling Profits and Ethics: Review’. 2012. Tracy Wilcox., Knowledge Connect, Centre for Social Impact, Vol 14, 7-8
- ‘Ethics and Ethical Decision-Making’, 2012. Senior Management Forum, Tracy Wilcox. Taronga Zoo
My Teaching
Tracy's goal as an educator is to develop business leaders who are capable, responsible and ethical, and to impact business education more broadly. In all her teaching assignments – whether in the classroom or in an active leadership role – she aims to bring scholarship, relevance and inclusiveness to my teaching, and enable a transformative experience for our students.
She is a pioneer in educating for ethical and sustainable business practice, and is known across the faculty and outside the university, for my passion and leadership in business ethics and sustainability education.
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