Cheree Topple

Cheree is a Senior Lecturer in Management with international expertise in cross-country projects that address sustainable development, corporate sustainability, and ethical supply chains. She has worked with the Commonwealth Secretariat to map the alignment of national sports policy to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Global Reporting Initiative Organization (GRI) – the leading organisation setting global sustainability standards to support and develop global strategies, and also Fairtrade ANZ.

More recently, Cheree has been active in Geo-Business research within Swinburne’s Innovative Planet Research Institute, building a network of universities for collaboration across the Asia Pacific focused on sustainability, climate change, clean energy and geo-resilience action. She is also a leader of the career development team of the Swinburne Women’s Academic Network (SWAN) and is engaged in supporting scientists in their research commercialisation activities along with infusing entrepreneurship education across university programs.  

As a leader in experiential and authentic learning and assessment, Cheree has been awarded the Vice Chancellor’s Teaching Excellence (HE) Team Award for 2023 and Faculty of Business and Law Teaching Excellence Awards in 2020 and 2023. Her teaching innovation is also recognised at a national level as a multiple recipient of New Colombo Plan Mobility grants from the Australian government that enable students to experience short term study abroad opportunities in Asia.

During her time at Swinburne, Cheree has held the leadership roles of Deputy Chair, Management and Marketing; Director of Undergraduate Capstone Units; Discipline Leader of Management; and, Program Director of the Graduate Certificate of Management Studies. Through these roles Cheree has driven continuous improvements at the department level for learning and teaching through assurance of learning, mapping course curricula, course and major refreshes, and mentoring colleagues in the School of Business, Law and Entrepreneurship.