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) Jenna Schott

Academic Staff

Position Research Interests
Professor
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
Geoff Cockfield Agri-environment policy; farm forestry policy; regional development policy.
Associate Professors
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.
Peter Phillips Economics and finance; defence economics; asset pricing; methodology.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Md Shahiduzzaman Microeconomics, environmental economics, carbon tax, socio-economic impacts of digital technology, monetary policy.
Sayan Chakrabarty  
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.
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
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.
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.
Shane Zhang Economic policy; national and international economic issues.
Lecturers
Glenda Adkins  
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.
Bonnie Hampson Strategic Management Accounting
Christina James-Overheu Corporate governance; management accounting; SMEs, CSR reporting, accounting for sustainability and recycled water
Raymond Leong Accounting and business education, Co-operative education, Work Integrated Learning.
Teruyo Omura  
Ratna Paudyal Microfinance and Social Development
Accounting Education
Dom Pensiero Business forecasting; econometrics; market research and statistics; finance and statistics.
Afzalur Rashid  Corporate Governance, Corporate Intellectual Capital Reporting, Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting, Earnings Management
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.