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About

Dr. Lynne Siemens is an associate professor in the School of Public Administration at the ßÉßɱ¬ÁÏ.

Her research is varied and crosses disciplinary lines with a focus on knowledge transfer and mobilization at individual, organizational and community levels.

Building from her doctoral work, Dr. Siemens is focused on economic and community development in rural areas with a specific focus on ways that rural small businesses and entrepreneurs address the opportunities and challenges that exist by virtue of their geographic location.

To conduct this research, she traveled to many communities within rural and remote parts of Vancouver Island and the surrounding smaller islands. This work is of interest to individuals, small business owners and the communities as they work to sustain their communities economically and socially as well as government policy makers.

Dr. Siemens is also exploring academic entrepreneurship, teams and collaborations. Funded through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, this research has focused on the nature of collaboration within multi-disciplinary and geographically dispersed teams, with the objective of developing effective work practices to maximize the benefits while minimizing the associated challenges.

She is part of several large grants where she serves as management advisor. In addition, Dr. Siemens is studying collaboration within these grants to trace the development of a collaboration as it is underway, rather than as reflection at a project’s end.

Courses taught

• ADMN 311: Introduction to Public Administration
• ADMN 420: The Public Policy Process
• ADMN 470: Business and Government Relations
• ADMN 504: Public Sector Governance
• ADMN 556: The Public Policy Process
• CD 505: Community Based Research Methods
• CD 506: Enterprise Development for Community Benefit
• CD 516: Government, Business and Non-profit Sector Relations
• CD 517: Transformational Change
• COM 220: Organizational Behaviour
• COM 321: Organizational Behaviour and Design
• COM 440: Business and Government Relations
• ENT 402: Entrepreneurship and Small Business

Professional appointments & memberships

• Visiting professor, School of Humanities and Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney, Australia
• Visiting scholar, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, University of Tokyo, Japan
• International visiting scholar, University of Passau, Germany
• The Association for Nonprofit and Social Economy Research
• Canadian Society for Digital Humanities / Société canadienne des humanités numériques

Video

In this video, Lynne discusses her research on rural community economic development and the challenges small businesses in those areas face.