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Academic staff - School of Accounting, Economics and Finance

Accounting

Staff member	Research interests
Claire Beattie	Performance measurement in the public sector; environmental reporting; qualitative research methodologies in accounting research.
Professor Peter Best	IT governance processes and measurement, information systems security (SAP), knowledge based systems, fraud detection, anti-money laundering and audit trail analysis
Suzy Byrne	Management accounting; small business; accounting education.
Karyn Byrnes	Small and medium enterprise.
Professor Julie Cotter	Financial accounting and disclosure; capital markets research and the role of security analysts; corporate reporting quality; carbon and sustainability disclosures.
Christina James-Overheu	Corporate governance; management accounting; SMEs, CSR reporting, accounting for sustainability and recycled water
Dr Kieran James	Accounting education from a critical perspective; accounting for goodwill and intangible assets; African accounting and capital markets.
Associate Professor Marie Kavanagh	Accounting and business education, business combinations and management of change and ethics.
Raymond Leong	Accounting and business education, Co-operative education, Work Integrated Learning.
Johanna Makin	Accounting education (graduate attributes; technical versus generic skills; student perceptions on career readiness; professionals' perceptions on graduate accountants; affects of peer/career mentoring on student performance).
Dr 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.
John Pifko	Accounting education; management accounting.
Dr 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.
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.

Economics

Staff member	Research Interests
Dr 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.
Dr Geoff Cockfield	Agri-environment policy; farm forestry policy; regional development policy.
Associate Professor Jeff Gow	Health economics; socio-economics of HIV/AIDS
Dr 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
Dom Pensiero	Business forecasting; econometrics; market research and statistics; finance and statistics.
Dr 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.
Dr Shane Zhang	Economic policy; national and international economic issues

Finance and Banking

Staff member	Research interests
Dr Ariful Hoque	Finance and Banking.
Dr Peter Phillips	Economics and finance; defence economics; asset pricing; methodology.
Lujer Santacruz	Personal financial planning in Australia.
Boyd Scheuber	Insights into and relationships within Australian Futures markets.
David Troedson	Share market analysis; banking and e-finance.
Dr 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.

Sustainable business

Staff member	Research interests
Dr Geoff Cockfield	Agri-environment policy; farm forestry policy; regional development policy.
Dr Tim Cadman	Sustainable business development; global governance; evaluating the quality and legitimacy of multi-level, multi-stakeholder institutions; forest management; climate change; environmental politics and policy.
Ian Eddington	Safety, health and environment.
Dr Tek Maraseni	Socioeconomic impacts of climate change; Comparing land use systems by incorporating greenhouse gases and traditional benefits; Market-based instruments: development, implementation and issues; Issues with National and International Emissions Trading Systems, Joint Implementation and Clean Development Mechanism; and Harvesting and marketing aspects of timber and non-timber forest products.

Politics

Staff member	Research interests
Dr Geoff Cockfield	Agri-environment policy; farm forestry policy; regional development policy.
Dr 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.