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; International Financial Reporting Standards; earnings quality.
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.
Alan Keighran	Accounting.
Raymond Leong	International financial reporting standards; corporate distress/collapse.
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.
Penny Richards	Student transition and retention issues; developing a holistic approach to developing a student support network.
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
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.

Finance and Banking

Staff member	Research interests
Dr Sarath Delpachitra	Banking and financial management; economic and financial forecasting; micro credit and insurance; microfinance; corporate finance and planning; cooperative banking; rural credit.
Michelle Goyen	Disaggregating the influences on IPO underpricing; how rational and potentially irrational behaviours contribute to the understanding of the underpricing phenomenon; ethical investment; IPOs; accounting; education.
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.
Ian Eddington	Safety, health and environment.
Dr Cassandra Star	International environmental politics; Australian environmental politics; the politics of climate change; international relations theory; higher education policy; environmental sociology.

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.
Dr Cassandra Star	International environmental politics; Australian environmental politics; the politics of climate change; international relations theory; higher education policy; environmental sociology.