Boram Lee

Dr Boram Lee

Senior Lecturer

School of Management

College of Business and Law

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Available For Media Comment.

Boram Lee, PhD in Finance, is a Senior Lecturer in Arts and Cultural Management, University of South Australia. She is specialised in the field of accounting and finance with an emphasis on behavioural studies based on psychological approaches. Boram also has a wide range of research interests in cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary studies, covering the valuation of arts and culture, creative fundraising, arts governance and accountability, artists’ labour markets, well-being and entrepreneurship.
Dr Lee is one of the recipients of the 2014 UK Arts and Humanity Research Council Cultural Value Project Research Development Grant. Prior to her academic life, she managed international tours of highly respected theatre companies, worked as a producer at arts festivals, and participated in many visual arts projects. Her professional involvement and life-long interest in theatre and the visual arts sectors led her to her current active research interests.

2023 Dr Boram Lee and Prof Ruth Rentschler secured funding of $333,000 from the Korean Foundation for International Cultural Exchange (KOFICE) to produce a dance film titled "Counterpoise" and a documentary titled "Dancing Against the Odds" as part of their Connect2Abilities project. This project is in collaboration with Restless Dance Theatre, 29 Dong Dance Theatre, and the Korean Music Project.

2023 Dr Boram Lee won the Korea Foundation Fellowship for Field Research Program.

2021 Dr Boram Lee and Prof Ruth Rentschler won multi-year funding of $150,000 from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s 2021-22 Australian Cultural Diplomacy Grants Program (ACDGP) to produce a documentary Dancing Against the Odds as part of their Connect2Abilities project.

2021 Dr Boram Lee and Prof Ruth Rentschler have won the Australia-Korea Foundation Grant $30,000 on Connect2Abilities: Creating Australia-Korea People-to-People Connections in Art & Technology project with Australia Network of Art & Technology (ANAT), Illuminate Adelaide Festival, Museum of Discovery. (MOD.) and Patch Theatre.

2019 Australian-Korea Foundation (AKF) International Relations Grants of $33,000 for the project, Connect2Abilities: Creating Australia-Korea People-to-People Connections in Disability Arts with Restless Dance Theatre, No Strings Attached Theatre of Disability, and Korea Disability Arts & Culture Center. 

2018 Le Cordon Bleu – University of South Australia Research Grants Scheme of $30,000 for the project on “Tourism and the rise of the arts: Understanding how arts events and festivals create value for the South Australian economy”

2018 Arts South Australia Research Grant of $22,000 for the project on “Tourism and the rise of the arts: Understanding how arts events and festivals create value for the South Australian economy”

2018 Adelaide Festival Centre Research Grant of $8,000 for the project on “Tourism and the rise of the arts: Understanding how arts events and festivals create value for the South Australian economy”

2014   UK Arts and Humanity Research Council (AHRC) Cultural Value Project Research Development Grant of £48,196 (FEC) on “Measuring the value of the Royal Scottish Academy New Contemporaries Exhibition as a Platform for Emerging Artists”.

2014    Institute of Charted Accountants of Scotland (ICAS) Research Award of £22,930 on “Investigating the impact of the Fair, Balanced and Understandable (FBU) Requirement on UK Auditing and Corporate Reporting”.

Year Citation
2025 Liu, J., Lee, B., & Rentschler, R. (2025). Leveraging entrepreneurial identity and technology: legitimacy of art securitization platforms. Journal Of Cultural Economics, 49(2), 327-354.
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2025 Lee, B., & Jenifer, T. (2025). Disability access and inclusion in performing arts festivals. International Journal Of Event And Festival Management, 16(3), 382-401.
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2023 Lee, B., Fillis, I., & Voranau, R. (2023). Entrepreneurial pathways for emerging creatives. Journal of Arts Management Law and Society, 53(6), 387-405.
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2023 Lee, B., Sejas Portillo, R., & Fraser, I. (2023). Balancing perspectives on performance: 'Measurement from the inside' and 'measurement from the outside'. Nonprofit Management and Leadership, 34(1), 13-34.
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2023 Fillis, I., Lehman, K., Rentschler, R., & Lee, B. (2023). Guest editorial: the online and offline impacts of Covid-19 on arts and cultural marketing. Arts and the Market, 13(1), 1-3.
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2023 Azmat, F., Rentschler, R., Lee, B., & Fujimoto, Y. (2023). Understanding social responsibility and relational pressures in nonprofit organisations. Human Relations, online, 1-29.
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2023 Lee, B., Rentschler, R., & Pinto, B. (2023). Enabling creative connections: the case of digital arts consumption. International Journal of Arts Management, 25(3), 31-45.
2023 Fillis, I., Lehman, K., Rentschler, R., & Lee, B. (2023). Arts marketing during COVID-19: a critical review and theoretical integration. Arts and the Market, 13(1), 48-63.
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2023 Rentschler, R., Fillis, I., & Lee, B. (2023). National identity and the future of branding the arts. Futures, 145(103078), 1-16.
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2023 Donelli, C. C., Rentschler, R., Fanelli, S., & Lee, B. (2023). Philanthropy patterns in major Australian performing arts organizations. Journal of Management and Governance, 27(4), 1367-1396.
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2022 Rentschler, R., Lee, B., & Subramaniam, N. (2022). Festival innovation in times of crisis. Event Management, 27(4), 559-575.
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2022 Fillis, I., Lee, B., & Fraser, I. (2022). The role of institutional relationships in shaping the career development of emerging artists. Arts and the Market, 12(2), 133-149.
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2022 Loots, E., Betzler, D., Bille, T., Borowiecki, K. J., & Lee, B. (2022). New forms of finance and funding in the cultural and creative industries. Introduction to the special issue. Journal of Cultural Economics, 46(2), 205-230.
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2022 Franklin, A., Lee, B., & Rentschler, R. (2022). The Adelaide Festival and the development of arts in Adelaide. Journal of Urban Affairs, 44(4-5), 588-613.
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2022 Lee, B., Fraser, I., & Fillis, I. (2022). To sell or not to sell? Pricing strategies of newly-graduated artists. Journal of Business Research, 145, 595-604.
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2022 Rentschler, R., Fillis, I., & Lee, B. (2022). Artists versus arts council: a longitudinal analysis of brand legitimacy. Poetics, 92(A, article no. 101623), 1-14.
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2021 Rentschler, R., Lee, B., & Subramaniam, N. (2021). Calculative practices and socio-political tensions: a historical analysis of entertainment, arts and accounting in a government agency. Accounting History, 26(1), 80-101.
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2021 Rentscler, R., & Lee, B. (2021). COVID-19 and arts festivals: whither transformation?. Journal of Arts and Cultural Management, 14(1), 35-54.
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2021 Rentschler, R., Lee, B., & Fillis, I. (2021). Towards an integrative framework for arts governance. International Journal of Arts Management, 24(1), 17-31.
2018 Lee, B., Fillis, I., & Lehman, K. (2018). Art, science and organisational interactions: exploring the value of artist residencies on campus. Journal of business research, 85, 444-451.
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2018 Lee, B., Fraser, I., & Fillis, I. (2018). Creative futures for new contemporary artists: opportunities and barriers. International journal of arts management, 20(2), 9-19.
2017 Lee, B., Fraser, I., & Fillis, I. (2017). Nudging art lovers to donate. Nonprofit and voluntary sector quarterly, 46(4), 837-858.
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2016 Lee, B., & Veld Merkoulova, Y. (2016). Myopic loss aversion and stock investments: an empirical study of private investors. Journal of banking and finance, 70, 235-246.
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2015 Lee, B., Rosenthal, L., Veld, C., & Veld Merkoulova, Y. (2015). Stock market expectations and risk aversion of individual investors. International review of financial analysis, 40, 122-131.
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2015 Fillis, I., Lee, B., & Fraser, I. (2015). Measuring the cultural value of the Royal Scottish Academy New Contemporaries Exhibition as a platform for emerging artists. Cultural trends, 24(3), 245-255.
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2011 Lee, B., & Veld Merkoulova, Y. (2011). The persistence of memory of Marilyn: The diversification potential of individual artists. Applied economics letters, 18(11), 1049-1052.
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2011 Fillis, I., & Lee, B. (2011). Internationalisation of Korean performing arts: a case study analysis. European journal of marketing, 45(5), 822-846.
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Year Citation
2025 Park, S. E., Lee, B., & Rentschler, R. (2025). Korean disability arts policy and collaborative governance. In R. Rentschler, W. Reid, & C. C. Donelli (Eds.), Source details - Title: The Routledge Companion to Governance in the Arts World (pp. 284-300). UK: Routledge.
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2024 Rentschler, R., Lee, B., Collins, A., & Yoon, J. (2024). 'I am a professional dancer': the case of professionalization in disability arts. In M. Wyszomirski, & W. Chang (Eds.), Source details - Title: Professionalization in the Creative Sector: Policy, Collective Action, and Institutionalization (pp. 227-246). US: Routledge.
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2023 Fillis, I., Lee, B., & Fraser, I. (2023). Cultural value and professionalization of emerging contemporary artists. In M. J. Wyszomirski, & W. Chang (Eds.), Source details - Title: Professionalization in the Creative Sector : Policy, Collective Action, and Institutionalization (pp. 164-183). UK: Routledge,.
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2023 Lee, B., Rentschler, R., & Park, S. E. (2023). Connect2Abilities: staging virtual intercultural collaboration during COVID-19. In A. Cachia (Ed.), Source details - Title: Curating Access: Disability Art Activism and Creative Accommodation (pp. 45-57). UK: Routledge.
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2023 Lee, B., & Kim, J. (2023). Decolonizing blood, body, and brain: from the visual practices of Jonathan Kim. In M. Sharma, & A. Alexander (Eds.), Source details - Title: The Routledge Companion to Decolonizing Art, Craft, and Visual Culture Education (pp. 323-333). US: Routledge.
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2022 Rentschler, R., Araujo, B., & Lee, B. (2022). The tempest: marketing the arts for social impact in a pandemic. In K. Kubacki (Ed.), Source details - Title: The Routledge Companion to Marketing and Society (pp. 316-328). UK: Routledge.
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2022 Fillis, I., Lee, B., & Fraser, I. (2022). Creation and consumption experience of cultural value in contemporary art. In Y. Jung, N. Vakharia, & M. Vecco (Eds.), Source details - Title: The Oxford Handbook of Arts and Cultural Management (pp. 481-496). UK: Oxford University Press.
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2020 Lee, B., & Rentschler, R. (2020). Cultural value in conflict. In K. Lehman, I. Fillis, & M. Wickham (Eds.), Source details - Title: Exploring Cultural Value: Contemporary Issues for Theory and Practice (pp. 51-65). UK: Emerald Publishing.
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Year Citation
2024 Shin, H., Baik, Y., Yoo, G., Lee, B., & Kim, J. (2024). A Foundational Study on Supporting the Activities of Artists with Disabilities Based on New Technologies. Korea: Korea Disability Arts and Culture Center.
2023 Lee, B. (2023). 2023 Ieum Art Creation Academy Result Report. South Korea: Korea Disability Arts and Culture Center.
2023 Lee, B. (2023). Expanding Inclusion and Accessibility: Disability Arts Education Methodologies in Australia: Source details - Title: 2023 Arts and Cultural Education Planning Report Arts and Cultural Education for Access and Inclusion (1). Korea: Korea Culture and Arts Education Service.
2021 Kim, I., Byun, H., Lee, B., Kim, M., & Hong, B. (2021). Building infrastructure for art & technology convergence. Korea: Arts Council Korea.
2021 Insul, K., Rawon, L., Yoonji, L., YoungJoo, K., & Lee, B. (2021). How is integrated arts education for the digital generation evolving?. Korea: Korea arts and culture education service.
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2021 Lee, B., Fillis, I., & Voranau, R. (2021). Paving pathways for creative innovators. Australia: UniSA Business.
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2020 Rentschler, R., & Lee, B. (2020). Tourism and the rise of the arts: understanding how arts festivals create value for the South Australian economy. Australia: University of South Australia.
2019 Park, S., Cho, J., Jeong, W., Ku, M., Chang, D., Chang, W., . . . Yoon, J. (2019). 2019 Culture, arts and social economy survey. Korea: Korea Arts Management Service/Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
2016 Fraser, I., & Lee, B. (2016). Fair, balanced and understandable: enhancing corporate reporting and assurance?. UK: Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland.
2014 Fillis, I., Lee, B., & Fraser, I. (2014). Measuring the cultural value of the Royal Scottish Academy New Contemporaries Exhibition as a platform for emerging artists. UK: Arts & Humanities Research Council.

  • Cultural Heritage in a Changing Climate: Australia-France Collaboration, Cwth Dept of Foreign Affairs and Trade, 08/05/2025 - 30/06/2026

  • Burdekin Shire Council Theatre and Library Service Review 2023, Burdekin Shire Council, 01/06/2023 - 30/11/2023

Courses I teach

  • TOUR 5002 Festival and Event Management (2025)
  • BUSS 5356 Managing Venues and EventScapes (2024)
  • COMM 2102 Festivals Operational Management (2024)
  • TOUR 5002 Festival and Event Management (2024)

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2022 Co-Supervisor - Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Raman Voranau
2022 Co-Supervisor - Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Gregorius Suri

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