School of Accounting, Economics and Finance

 Management and professional staff

Position

Staff member

Head, Accounting, Economics and Finance School Roger Lawrey
Administration Officer (Accounting, Economics and Finance) Chris Hazel
Executive Assistant  to Head of School (Accounting, Economics and Finance) Brenda Ballingall

Academic Staff

Position

Staff member

Research interests

Professors
Julie Cotter Financial accounting and disclosure; capital markets research and the role of security analysts; corporate reporting quality; carbon and sustainability disclosures.
Jeff Gow Health economics; socio-economics of HIV/AIDS
Marie Kavanagh  Accounting and business education, business combinations and management of change and ethics.
Chandrasekhar Krishnamurti Market microstructure, Corporate governance, Emerging markets, International Finance and Carbon Finance
Associate Professors Geoff Cockfield Agri-environment policy; farm forestry policy; regional development policy.
Kieran James Accounting education from a critical perspective; accounting for goodwill and intangible assets; African accounting and capital markets.
Joseph Mula Family business and SMEs; e-systems (including e-learning; e-business; e-government; e-health); management accounting (particularly behavioural and control/performance); transnational information systems; strategic planning in virtual organisations.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow Md Shahiduzzaman Microeconomics, environmental economics, carbon tax, socio-economic impacts of digital technology, monetary policy.
Senior Lecturers Khorshed Alam Environmental and resource economics; applied econometrics; economic policy analysis; health economics; economics of water (including water pricing; trading; policy and reform; demand modelling); cost-benefit analysis; non-market economic valuation; market-based instruments; sustainability; socio-economic-environmental impact assessment; economic and environmental issues of developing countries.
Suzy Byrne Management accounting; small business; accounting education.
Ian Eddington Safety, health and environment.
Peter Phillips Economics and finance; defence economics; asset pricing; methodology.
Geoff Slaughter Environmental management accounting and environmental reporting; integration of management accounting systems and financial management techniques to facilitate profitable and sustainable natural resource management in agribusiness.
Taiji Watanabe Economic microstructures; law and economics; corporate finance and governance; derivatives; market structures; risk and uncertainty; auction theories; financial laws; international public and private laws.
Lecturers
Claire Beattie Performance measurement in the public sector; environmental reporting; qualitative research methodologies in accounting research.
Karyn Byrnes Small and medium enterprise.
Frank Elston  
Phil Griffiths

Australian political history; the development and restructuring of capitalism in Australia; crisis in Australian history; the nature and uses of racism; the politics and history of the labour movement; class analysis.

Christina James-Overheu

Corporate governance; management accounting; SMEs, CSR reporting, accounting for sustainability and recycled water

Rasheda Khanam    Inequality in Health; child and maternal health; health, socioeconomic status and lifestyle factors; economic evaluation and health; the economics of child labour and schooling; health, nutrition, fertility and mortality in developing countries; poverty and welfare issues in developing countries; social policy issues; maternity leave and female labour force participation; impact of health on labour market outcome; applied econometrics
Raymond Leong Accounting and business education, Co-operative education, Work Integrated Learning.
Dom Pensiero Business forecasting; econometrics; market research and statistics; finance and statistics.
Mafiz Rahman Bilateral trade; regional integration and economic cooperation; South and South-East Asian economies; child labour; issues of development; multinational corporations and LDCs, applied econometrics, health economics, Australian housing market.
Lujer Santacruz Personal financial planning in Australia.
Albert Scott Accounting Information Systems
David Troedson Share market analysis; banking and e-finance.
Mark Vallely Economics of accounting policy choice; regulation of accounting; capital markets-based research in accounting; relationship between share prices and the information in accruals; accounting education; analysis of the implications of student diversity for their performance in an introductory accounting course.
  Shane Zhang Economic policy; national and international economic issues.
Associate Lecturer Ratna Paudyal