Research

Potential PhD supervisors

The Faculty of Business and Law has potential PhD supervisors covering a wide range of research interests (listed below in the respective schools within the Faculty of Business and Law). Please note that these supervisors have specific areas of interest and can decide if they wish to offer supervision to PhD students. It should also be noted that any potential supervisor will require a dissertation proposal that they could evaluate to decide whether they can offer supervision.

School of Accounting, Economics and Finance

Name	Qualifications	Position	Area of expertise/interest
Professor Roger Lawrey	BSc(Hons) NE London Ploy, MLitt Aberdeen, PhD Qld	Professor (Economics)	Energy/environmental/natural resource economics; public utility pricing; knowledge economy.
Dr Julie Cotter	PhD Qld	Professor (Accounting)	Climate change and carbon disclosure; climate change risk management; carbon abatement and energy efficiency reporting; equity valuation impacts of climate change; climate change reporting and management standards; pricing of climate change risks and impacts; climate change governance.
Dr. Chandra Krishnamurti	PhD Iowa, CFA	Professor (Finance)	Corporate Governance, Corporate Finance, Market Microstructure, Emerging Markets and Carbon Finance
Professor Geoff Cockfield	PhD UQ	Associate Professor (Government & Economics) & Deputy Dean	Rural policy; regional and community development; farm forestry: policy and planning; ecosystem services markets in agricultural landscapes.
Dr Jeff Gow	PhD Monash	Associate Professor (Economics)	Health economics; socio-economics of HIV/AIDS; research design; survey design.
Dr Khorshed Alam	PhD Murdoch	Senior Lecturer	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; and economics of climate change mitigation and adaptation.
Associate Professor Joseph Mula	PhD Griffith	Senior Lecturer	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.
Associate Professor Peter Phillips	PhD USQ	Senior Lecturer (Finance & Banking)	Defence economics, especially the study of terrorism; The optimal operation of Self Managed Superannuation Funds; The language and literature of economics, especially from an Austrian perspective.
Dr Taiji Watanabe	PhD State University of New York JD UQ	Senior Lecturer	Market microstructures; risk and uncertainty; industrial organisation; financial market regulations; corporate finance; derivatives; international finance; portfolio management; law and economics; financial and corporate laws; public and private international law; legislative impact on the industry and individuals; economics of crime.
Dr Glenda Adkins	PhD USQ	Lecturer	Crime economics; organised crime and drug market analysis; law and order policy analysis; economic policy analysis.
Dr Phil Griffiths	PhD ANU	Lecturer	Australian political history; the development of capitalism in Australia; crisis in Australian history; the nature and uses of racism; the politics and history of the labour movement.
Dr Rasheda Khanam	PhD Sydney	Senior Lecturer (Economics)	Inequity in health; child and maternal health; socioeconomics status and lifestyle factors; economic evaluation and health; environmental health; 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 population; impact of health on labour market outcomes; applied econometrics.
Dr Mafiz Rahman	PhD Sydney	Lecturer	Trade and environment; international trade and international business; regional integration and economic cooperation; multinational corporations and developing countries; child labour and poverty; micro credit programs in developing countries; issues of development; applied econometrics; health economics; South and South-East Asian economies; Australian housing market.
Dr Afzalur Rashid	PhD Wollongong	Lecturer	Corporate Governance, Corporate Intellectual Capital Reporting, Corporate Social and Environmental Disclosures (Sustainability Reporting), Earnings Management

School of Information Systems

Name	Qualifications	Position	Area of expertise/interest
Dr Mustafa Ally	PhD USQ	Lecturer	Technology adoption, electronic commerce, online payment systems, online consumer behaviour, mobile technologies, social media, web design and usability
Dr Aileen Cater-Steel	PhD Griffith	Associate Professor	Software process improvement; IT service management.
Dr Raj Gururajan	PhD ECU	Professor	Wireless applications; computer security; IT policy and management; software engineering and management; educational technology.
Dr Abdul Hafeez-Baig	PhD USQ	Senior Lecturer	Wireless and healthcare; health informatics; healthcare and information technology; mobile learning; adoption, diffusion and infusion of information technology in healthcare; technology management and integration; networking and integration of wireless handheld devices; reengineering of business processes.
Dr Michael Lane	PhD USQ	Senior Lecturer	Information security and privacy in e-commerce, social networking and cloud computing environments, mobile computing applications in private and public sector organisations, digital divide in rural and regional communities, business intelligence and big data analytics, and IT leadership - changing role of CIO
Dr Dave Roberts	PhD USQ	Senior Lecturer	Information systems education; adoption and implementation of software.
Dr Jeffrey Soar	PhD UTS	Professor	e-Health; informatics for ageing and aged care; telehealth; assistive technologies for independent living and home-care; ICT for public safety; strategic planning; organizational change; leadership; benefits realization; business-IT alignment; IT management; project rigour; quality systems; IT for economic development.
Dr Wui-Gee Tan	PhD QUT	Senior Lecturer	IT project management; IT service management; IT outsourcing; Information security governance.
Dr Mark Toleman	PhD Qld	Professor Head of School	Policy evaluation, university governance, community support tool development, information technology service management (ITSM), information technology governance, design science, agile methods, agile system development methodologies, human-computer interaction and usability.
Dr Jianming Yong	PhD SwinburneUT	Senior Lecturer	Advanced networking; internet technology; m-commerce; e-business; data integration; workflow systems; information system security; network management; web service for SMEs.

School of Law

Name	Qualifications	Position	Area of expertise/interest
Professor Reid Mortensen	PhD Queensland	Professor	Lawyers’ ethics, rural lawyers, private international law, legal philosophy (natural law, ethics of virtue, historical jurisprudence, religion and state).
Professor Mike Robertson	PhD Griffith	Professor	Lawyers’ ethics, citizens’ access to law and the legal system.
Dr Anthony Gray	PhD UNSW	Associate Professor	Constitutional law; human rights; conflict of laws/international law.
Dr Rachel Baird	PhD Melbourne	Senior Lecturer	Law of the sea (including resource management maritime boundaries, pollution), international environmental law, Australian environmental law, climate change law, law and coastal management.
Dr James Mayanja	PhD Monash	Senior Lecturer	Corporate law (law relating to takeovers and mergers; directors' duties; corporate governance).
Dr Des Taylor	PhD Queensland	Senior Lecturer	International trade and business law, European Union law.

School of Management and Marketing

In the School of Management & Marketing, we are currently interested in dissertation proposals on:

international human resource management
strategic thinking of strategy leaders
knowledge management in organisations
SME human, social and economic sustainability
sustainable tourism
green marketing, sustainable communities and sustainable technology/social media
sports marketing

Name	Qualifications	Position	Area of expertise/interest
Dr Ronel Erwee	PhD Pret	Professor (Management)	International management; entrepreneurship; career development of adults; women in organisations/equal opportunity and organisational behaviour and leadership.
Dr Margee Hume	PHD Qld	Associate Professor (Marketing)	Services management; technology enablement; and sustainable consumption
Dr Peter A Murray	PhD UWS	Associate Professor	Gender studies & women in management. Organisational learning for change
Dr Jane Summers	PhD Qld	Associate Professor (Marketing) & Associate Dean (Learning & Teaching)	Sports marketing; consumer behaviour.
Dr Retha Wiesner	PhD Pret	Associate Professor	(1) Managing business and environmental sustainability in small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs); and (2) Employee management, organisational change and strategic planning in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
Dr Latif Al-Hakim	PhD Wales	Senior Lecturer	Supply chain management; business process re engineering; intelligent decision support system; enterprise resource planning; agile manufacturing.
Dr Melissa Johnson Morgan	PhD Qld	Senior Lecturer	Globalisation of sport; sports consumption of generation Y; experiential consumption of sport; sport and social marketing.
Dr Eric Kong	PhD Monash	Senior Lecturer	B2B marketing; international business and marketing; relationship marketing; agribusiness and agrimarketing; tourism marketing; healthcare marketing.
Dr Heather Maguire	PhD USQ	Senior Lecturer	Psychological contracting; trust as a critical element of supply chain relationships; the relationship between information management, corporate governance and corporate risk; information quality and business sustainability.
Dr Bruce Millett	PhD Griffith	Senior Lecturer	Dynamics and strategies of organisational change and learning; creative leadership.
Dr Michael Mills	PhD Pittsburg	Senior Lecturer	Further development, scaling, and empirical application of the Aakar and Mills (2005) Strategic Continuum conceptual model; further development of more holistic, creative techniques and methods in market research; further research into creativity and the art side of the science vs. art debate with respect to managerial decision-making.
Dr Mehryar Nooriafshar	PhD Manchester	Senior Lecturer	Design and delivery of teaching materials through web based multimedia formats; knowledge-based planning and scheduling; developing expert systems for business application; designing and developing quantitative and heuristics models for business applications.
Dr Jon Whitty	PhD Qld	Senior Lecturer	Project Management; Evolutionary Psychology of Management; Memetics
Dr Ray Gordon	PhD QUT	Lecturer	Global Responsible Leadership (GLR): theory and practice Theory development, including formal conceptual definitions, theory domain, explained relationships and predictions; theory building measurement instruments, enablers, inhibiters, antecedents, correlates and consequences. Key variables of interest, including hope, courage, ethics, governance, strategy skills, attributes, barriers, and general dimensions such as sustainability Practice and application of GRL: applicable levels, strategic initiatives - regional, national and organisational integration and differentiation, organisational change, entrepreneurship and education.
Dr Hoda McClymont	PhD USQ	Lecturer	Database marketing; health marketing; international tourism.
Dr Karen Miller	PhD Newcastle	Lecturer	Consumer behaviour (particularly from the psychological perspective); branding (from the consumers' perspective, i.e. brand-image and brand assessments); research methods (various ways of discovering, exploring and examining information in relation to consumers and brands); Generation Y and sports marketing, particularly in the area of branding from a consumer perspective.
Dr Eric Ng	DBA USQ	Lecturer	Business-to-business marketing; relationship marketing; international marketing; healthcare marketing; agrimarketing; tourism marketing.
Dr Joe Zhou Peng	PhD USQ	Lecturer (Mandarin Speaking)	Image and identity studies in management and marketing; international marketing of higher education services to Chinese students; China specific cultural issues and their implication for management and marketing.
Dr Ranga Chimhundu	PhD Otago	Lecturer	FMCG (fast moving consumer goods) marketing; brand/product management; manufacturer brands (national brands) and retailer brands (private label); marketing management;and marketing strategy .
Dr Frances Woodside	PhD USQ	Lecturer	Consumer behaviour/marketing (particularly fast moving consumer goods; sustainability; retailer loyalty; sustainable lifestyles; packaging and promotion; integrated marketing management).