PhD

Eiman Algharaballi is conducting a PhD in 'Earnings management practices and subsequent firm performance of companies listing on the Kuwait Stock Exchange (KSE)'.

Supervisor: Professor Julie Cotter

Ali Ahmad Almihoub is conducting a PhD in 'Utilizing a marginal abatement cost curve approach to develop a low green house gas plan: Case studies of energy management in multiple sectors across a rural region (Toowoomba-Australia)'.

His key research areas are:

• Marginal Abatement Cost Curve (MACC)
• Sectoral Firms
• Reducing GHG

Supervisor: Associate Professor Joseph Mula

Ahmed Younis Al-Sabawy is conducting a PhD in 'Measuring e-learning system success'.

His key research areas are:

• E-learning systems
• E-learing system success
• Information system success
• Service delivery quality in the electronic systems

Supervisors: Associate Professor Aileen Cater-Steel and Professor Jeffrey Soar

Nagib Bayoud is conducting a PhD in ‘An empirical study of the relationship between corporate social responsibility disclosure and organizational performance in developing countries, the case for Libya’.

His key research areas are:

• The impact of corporate social responsibility disclosure on organisational performance
• Evaluation of corporate social responsibility disclosure in Libya
• Examination of the relationship between corporate social responsibility disclosure and financial performance
• Examination of the relationship between corporate social responsibility disclosure and employee commitment
• Examination of the relationship between corporate social responsibility disclosure and corporate reputation

Supervisors: Professor Marie Kavanagh and Dr Geoff Slaughter

Kamal Mehemed Eljayash is conducting a PhD in 'Differences in environmental disclosure between International oil companies and national oil companies in Libyan oil sector'.

His key research area is:

• The study the external factors affecting the disclosure of environmental ( culture, legal and policy systems, and level of economic development ) using content analysis

    Supervisor:  Dr Kieran James

Shelly Grist is conducting a PhD in ‘Adapting open source development model for the development of environmental data’. 

                Supervisors: Professor Mark Toleman and Dr Geoff Slaughter

Caroline Hart is conducting a PhD in ‘Sustainability of regional and remote law firms in Queensland’. 

                Supervisors: Professor Reid Mortensen and Associate Professor Retha Wiesner

Sophia Imran is conducting a PhD in ‘Towards a sustainable integrated systems approach to tourism management in protected areas’.

Her key research areas are:

• How differing interest (attitudes), understanding (perceptions) and capacity (involvement) of multiple stakeholders influence conservation outcomes that need to be studied and addressed to work towards sustainable tourism development in protected areas
• The link between sustainable tourism development and postmodern integrated organizational management approaches based on networks and partnerships
• Relevance of social, economic, environmental and institutional dimensions of sustainability to the values and perceptions of different stakeholder groups attributed to tourism in protected areas

Supervisors: Dr Khorshed Alam and Dr Narelle Beaumont

Christina James-Overheu is conducting a PhD in ‘Recycled water in Queensland: building a model for the full cost of recycled potable water’. 

                Supervisors: Professor Marie Kavanagh and Dr Geoff Slaughter

Jane Lu is conducting a PhD in ‘Emissions trading in China: Lessons from Taiyuan City’. 

                Supervisors: Professor Geoff Cockfield and Dr Shane Zhang

 M S Arifeen Khan Mamun is conducting a PhD in 'Impact of Information and Communication Technology in teaching and learning in the Australia: evidences from three universities'.

His key research areas are:

• Does ICT bring about any changes in the outputs in the Australian universities?
• Are there any differences between web-based based distance learners and face to face learners in terms of their learning outcomes? If yes, to what extent the differences exist?
• What are the key determinants of different student’s learning outcomes?
•  Is web based learning distance learning method cost-effective? 

Supervisors: Dr Rasheda Khanam and Dr Mafiz Rahman 

Marhaini Mohd Noor is conducting a PhD in ’Assessing the impacts of rural internet centre programs on the quality of life in rural areas of Maylasia’.

Her key research areas are:

• As an evidence of the effectiveness of community informatics programs
• Testing the concept of ‘QoRL’
• Developing the empirical studies of building social capital
• Examining an application found for program improvement

Supervisors: Associate Professor Geoff Cockfield and Dr Michael Lane

Renzo Mori Junior is conducting his PhD in 'Reducing the stakeholders’ assurance expectation-performance gap for Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) sustainability reports in Brazil'.

Renzo's research aims to assess the extent of the stakeholders' assurance expectation-performance gap for Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) sustainability reports, understand the components of the gap, identify the reasons for the gap and propose ways to reduce this gap. His study will also propose the GRI's content index table as an instrument to improve transparency and some recommendations to reduce the stakeholders' assurance expectation-performance gap in the current assurance process for GRI reports.

His key research areas are:

• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Sustainability Reports
• Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Framework
• Assurance Processes
• Stakeholders' expectations for sustainability reports

Supervisors: Professor Julie Cotter and Professor Peter Best

Odhiambo (John) Odera is conducting his PhD in 'Examination of social and environmental disclosures in Nigerian oil companies'.

His key research areas are:

• The quantity and quality of social and environmental disclosures in Nigerian oil companies
• The host communities perceptions on social and environmental performance of Nigerian oil companies
• Social and environmental disclosures the Nigerian oil companies make to satisfy the host communities 
• Social and environmental disclosures the Nigerian oil companies make to compensate for the loss of earnings resulting from sabotage of their installations and kidnappings of their workers
• The differences between Nigerian public, private, local, foreign and multinational oil companies in regards to the disclosure of social and environmental data

Supervisors: Dr Albert Scott and professor Jeff Gow

Anjan Roy is conducting a PhD in ‘Carbon trading and co-management for forest sustainability: the case of the Sundarbans mangrove forest in Bangladesh’. 

            Supervisors: Dr Khorshed Alam and Proessorf Jeff Gow

Rashid Sarker is conducting a PhD in ‘The impact of an adaptation to climate change on Rice Farming in Bangladesh’. 

            Supervisors: Dr Khorshed Alam and Proessorf Jeff Gow

Sami Shibani is conducting a PhD in ‘Emissions trading and sustainable development: A case study of the Libyan manufacturing industry’.

Supervisors: Dr Khorshed Alam and Professor Jeff Gow

Anup Shrestha is conducting a PhD in ‘Software-mediated process assessment in IT service management: development and evaluation of standards-based tools to facilitate continual improvement.’ 

            Supervisors: Dr Wui-Gee Tan and Associate Proefssor Aileen Cater-Steel

Gazi Ashir Uddin is conducting a PhD in 'Population Growth and Sustainability: Economic Issues and Policy Implications for Regional Australia'.

His key research areas are:

• Overall dynamics of population structure in Australia
• Population changes and regional development
• Population ageing and sustainability
• Environmental Sustainability

Supervisors: Dr Khorshed Alam and Professor Jefff Gow

 Graham Young is conducting a PhD in ‘Strategic approaches for sustainability in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)’.

Supervisors: Associate Professor Retha Wiesner and Dr Bruce Millett