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Potential PhD supervisors

The Faculty of Business has potential PhD supervisors covering a wide range of research interests.

School of Accounting, Economics and Finance
School of Information Systems
School of Law
School of Management and Marketing

School of Accounting, Economics and Finance

Name	Qualifications	Position	Area of expertise/interest
Dr Glenda Adkins	PhD USQ	Lecturer	Crime economics; organised crime and drug market analysis; law and order policy analysis; economic policy analysis.
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.
Dr Pran Boolaky	PhD Reading	Lecturer (Auditing/Financial Accounting)	Accounting development in developing countries; Armonisation of financial reporting; problems and challenges of IFRS in developing countries and small islands economies; Sustainability Reporting-Harmonisation of disclosure and practices; Corporate Governance.
Dr 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 Julie Cotter	PhD Qld	Professor (Accounting)	Financial accounting and disclosure; Capital markets research and the role of security analysts; Corporate reporting quality; Carbon and sustainability disclosures; Governance.
Dr Jeff Gow	PhD Monash	Associate Professor (Economics)	Health economics; socio-economics of HIV/AIDS; Research design; Survey design.
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 Kieran James	PhD Curtin	Senior Lecturer	Accounting education and minority group employment prospects; accounting for goodwill and intangible assets; internal auditing; African accounting and capital markets.
Dr Rasheda Khanam	PhD Sydney	Lecturer (Economics)	Inequality in Health; Child and Maternal Health; Health, Socioeconomic Status and Lifestyle factors; Economic Evaluation and 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 Participation; Impact of Health on Labour market outcome; Applied Econometrics.
Dr Tek Maraseni	PhD USQ	Postdoctoral Research/Teaching Fellow	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.
Dr 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.
Dr Peter Phillips	PhD USQ	Senior Lecturer (Finance & Banking)	Asset pricing; the microeconomics of financial markets - particularly the behaviour of economic agents under risk and uncertainty.
Dr Mafiz Rahman	PhD Sydney	Lecturer	International Trade and International Business; Regional Integration and Economic Cooperation; Multinational Corporations and Developing Countries; Child Labour and Poverty; Micro Credit Program in Developing Countries; Issues of Development; Applied Econometrics; Health Economics; South and South-East Asian Economies; Australian Housing Market
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.

School of Information Systems

Name	Qualifications	Position	Area of expertise/interest
Dr Aileen Cater-Steel	PhD Griffith	Associate Professor	Software process improvement; IT service management.
Dr Raj Gururajan	PhD ECU	Professor Associate Dean (Research)	Wireless applications; computer security; IT policy and management; software engineering and management; educational technology.
Dr Michael Lane	PhD USQ	Senior Lecturer	Strategic mangement of ICT including sustainable use of ICT; changing role of CIO, information security management; wireless and mobile computing; visual representation of data improving decision making.
Dr Jeffrey Soar	PhD UTS	Associate Professor	e-Health; informatics for ageing and aged care; telehealth; assistive technologies for independnt living and home-care; ICT for public safety; strategic planning; organizational change; leadership; benefits realization; business-IT alignment; IT management; project rigor; quality systems; IT for developing countries.
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	Agile methods; software development tools; human-computer interaction; web design 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
Dr Anthony Gray	PhD UNSW	Associate Professor (Law)	Constitutional law; human rights; conflict of laws/international law.
Dr James Mayanja	PhD Monash	Senior Lecturer	Corporate law (law relating to takeovers and mergers; directors' duties; corporate governance).

School of Management and Marketing

Name	Qualifications	Position	Area of expertise/interest
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 Narelle Beaumont	PhD Griffith	Lecturer	Ecotourism, environmental interpretation and environmental attitudes; community and local government involvement in tourism planning; sociocultural, environmental and economic impacts of tourism on local communities; social carrying capacity in tourist and recreation areas; visitor management in protected areas.
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 Ray Gordon	PhD QUT	Lecturer	Leadership; organisational behaviour; leading organisational change; entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation; small and medium enterprise development; energy psychologies, research methods and the use of structural equation modelling and directed acyclic graphs.
Dr Eric Kong	PhD Monash	Senior Lecturer	Non-profit strategic management; intellectual capital; knowledge management
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 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 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 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 Denis Rose	PhD QUT	Lecturer	Sustainable leadership; sustainable cultures; sustainable HR
Dr Jane Summers	PhD Qld	Associate Professor (Marketing) & Associate Dean (Learning & Teaching)	Sports marketing; consumer behaviour.
Dr Ben Swanepoel	PhD South Africa	Associate Professor	Strategic leadership; leadership and management development; managerial and organisational leadership; strategic human resource management; organisational transformation and change; employment relations; creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship; leadership and creativity; staff loyalty and customer loyalty; corporate social responsibility, business ethics and sustainability.
Dr Vimolwan Yukongdi	PhD Melbourne	Senior Lecturer	Women in management in Asia; leadership; employee participation in decision-making; work teams; human resource practices and organisational performance.
Dr Retha Wiesner	PhD Pret	Associate Professor	Management and organisational change in small and medium sized enterprises; organisational restructuring and change; organisational behaviour; human resource management.
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.