Jamie-Lee Burgess

Jamie-Lee Burgess

PhD Candidate
Arts, Design & Architecture
School of Social Sciences

Supervisors: Alexander Korolev, William Clapton

Jamie-Lee is a PhD candidate in international relations at UNSW’s School of Social Sciences. Her PhD thesis is titled ‘Rising Above the Security Dilemma: Great Power Politics and China-Russia Cooperation in the 21st Century’ and is under the supervision of Dr Alexander Korolev and Associate Professor William Clapton. Her broader research interests include international relations theory and security studies as well as learning and teaching in higher education.

Jamie-Lee completed a Master of International Relations, with excellence, at UNSW in 2020. During this time, she served on the Academic Board Programs Committee, Faculty Board and Education Committee as the Arts Design and Architecture Postgraduate Student Representative. She completed a Bachelor of Education in 2010. In 2019 Jamie-Lee joined UNSW and currently works in the Academic Development Team, in the office of the Pro Vice-Chancellor, Education and Student Experience. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Jamie-Lee's area of research is international relations and security studies. Her PhD explores China-Russia relations and security dilemma mitigation. She also conducts research in learning and teaching within higher education.
  • Bartolic, S., Matzat, U., Tai, J., Burgess, J.L., Boud, D., Craig, H., Archibald, A., De Jaeger, A., Kaplan-Rakowski, R., Lutze-Mann, L. and Polly, P., 2022. Student vulnerabilities and confidence in learning in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Studies in Higher Education, 47(12), pp.2460-2472.
  • Guppy, N., Boud, D., Heap, T., Verpoorten, D., Matzat, U., Tai, J., Lutze-Mann, L., Roth, M., Polly, P., Burgess, J.L. and Agapito, J., 2022. Teaching and learning under COVID-19 public health edicts: The role of household lockdowns and prior technology usage. Higher Education, 84(3), pp.487-504.
  • Bartolic, S.K., Boud, D., Agapito, J., Verpoorten, D., Williams, S., Lutze-Mann, L., Matzat, U., Moreno, M.M., Polly, P., Tai, J. and Marsh, H.L., 2022. A multi-institutional assessment of changes in higher education teaching and learning in the face of COVID-19. Educational Review, 74(3), pp.517-533.