Current PhD candidates
PhD students are essential members of the Accounting Discipline Group. The PhD program is aimed at taking the brightest minds and providing them with a set of skills which will equip them for both high level industry and academic positions. PhD topics span across the specialist areas of financial accounting, management accounting and accounting information systems.
Lkhagvajav Altansukh
Contact: Lkhagvajav.Altansukh@student.uts.edu.au
Entered PhD program: 2021
PhD supervisors: Professor Andrew Ferguson and Dr Luiz Fernando Distadio
Research interests: Extractive industry, corporate finance, capital markets
Thesis (working) title: Determinants of capital structure in the mining industry
Profile, academic background and work experience:
- Lkhagvajav is an accounting Ph.D. Candidate at the UTS Business school. His research interests include the project finance and capital structure in mining industry.
- Lkhagvajav holds a Master of Applied Finance with Merit from the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand and a Bachelor’s degree in Financial Management from the University of Finance and Economics, Mongolia. He was awarded the New Zealand Development Scholarships in 2016 and the UTS International Research Scholarship in 2021.
- Lkhagvajav has more than 10 years of industry experience as a financial and investment analyst/manager in the leading companies of Mongolia, including mining firms, investment and commercial banks.
Monica Axiak
Contact: Monica.Axiak@student.uts.edu.au
Entered PhD program: January 2019
Research topic: Taxation; capital markets; extractive industries
PhD supervisor: Professor Andrew Ferguson
Teaching areas: Introductory Accounting
Academic background: Monica holds a Bachelor of Business (Hons) majoring in accounting and taxation law, with First Class Honours, awarded by UTS. She has been included on the Dean's Merit List on four occasions, and has received the Accounting Discipline High Achiever Award twice. During her undergraduate studies, Monica participated in an exchange program at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (Asia's top university), where she studied languages (Mandarin and Arabic) and business operations. Monica's Honours thesis focused on tax-loss selling activity in Canadian microcap firms.
Work experience: Monica has five years of industry experience as a tax practitioner and accountant in the Big 4, SME and start-up spaces. Throughout this time she has provided taxation compliance and advisory services to a portfolio of clients from the ASX Top 20 (financial services sector) and high net wealth individuals with cross-border affairs. She has also managed organisational accounting and finance of a SME, and been responsible for delegate mobility and experience within a start-up. Monica currently tutors introductory accounting (financial and managerial) at UTS, and holds a position as a research assistant.
Conference presentations:
- Axiak, M.J., Ferguson, A.C. & Sherry, S., Tax-loss selling in microcap firms on the Canadian TSX Venture Exchange, UTS Emerging Accounting Researcher Consortium, Sydney, February 2019.
- Axiak, M.J., Ferguson, A.C. & Sherry, S., Tax-loss selling in microcap firms on the Canadian TSX Venture Exchange, European Accounting Association Annual Congress, Paphos, May 2019.
- Axiak, M.J., Ferguson, A.C. & Sherry, S., Tax-loss selling in microcap firms on the Canadian TSX Venture Exchange, Accounting & Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand Annual Conference, Brisbane, July 2019.
Thi Ngoc Ha Bui
Name: Thi Ngoc Ha Bui
Contact: thi.bui-1@student.uts.edu.au
PhD supervisors: Professor Andrew Ferguson and Dr Peter Lam
Research interests: Corporate governance, board functions, executive remuneration
Thesis (working) title: Board capital in early state firms
Teaching area: Accounting for Business Combination
Profile, academic background and work experience:
- Thi holds a Bachelor of Business, with First Class Honours in Accounting, from UTS and a Master of Commerce majoring in Accounting and Finance from the University of Sydney.
- Thi has worked as an analyst for an international proxy adviser for three years where her work mainly focuses on analysing executive remuneration arrangements, board composition and governance practices of Australian listed entities. Thi currently teaches second-year accounting students at UTS. Previously, Thi worked in accounting and administrative roles for five years.
Publication:
- Bui, T., Ferguson, A. & Lam, P., 2021. CEO compensation in early-stage firms: rewards for prospectivity and survival. Journal of Business Finance and Accounting. 48 (5–6), 895–928
Yan Chen
Contact: Yan.Chen-11@student.uts.edu.au
PhD supervisors: Distinguished Professor Stephen Taylor and Professor Yaowen Shan
Research interests: Financial accounting, corporate governance, machine learning
Thesis (working) title: TBA
Teaching areas: Accounting and Accountability
Profile, academic background and work experience:
- Yan completed a Bachelor of Business in 2019, majoring in Accounting and sub-majoring in Finance. She also completed a Bachelor of Business (Honours) in Accounting in 2021 and graduated with First Class Honours and University Medal.
- Yan has worked in administrative and academic roles at UTS and as a corporate governance research analyst in an American proxy advisory services company. She is currently an academic tutor for the Accounting Discipline Group at UTS.
Salim Darmadi
Name: Salim Darmadi
Contact: Salim.Darmadi@student.uts.edu.au
PhD supervisors: Professor Yaowen Shan and Distinguished Professor Stephen Taylor
Research interests: Corporate governance, corporate finance, corporate disclosure
Thesis title: The economic consequences of external audit committee members
Academic background and work experience:
- Salim is a senior analyst at the Indonesia Financial Services Authority (OJK). During his six-year career at the regulatory body, he was assigned at the Financial System Stability Department, where he conducted surveillance and regular assessment on financial system stability and was involved in an interagency coordination framework to maintain the national financial system stability. He joined a team assigned to formulate the 2015-2019 Indonesia Financial Sector Masterplan, and co-led a team to prepare and publish OJK’s Financial Stability Review.
- Salim is currently on study leave to pursue a PhD at the University of Technology Sydney. He is a recipient of a doctoral scholarship provided by the Indonesia Endowment Fund for Education (LPDP). His previous qualifications include a Master’s degree in applied finance from the University of Queensland and a Bachelor’s degree in accounting from Indonesia’s State Finance Polytechnic STAN.
- His research interests are in the area of corporate governance, corporate finance, and corporate disclosure. He has published his research papers, mostly addressing corporate governance of the Indonesian listed firms, in a number of international journals. He won an outstanding paper award from the Emerald Literati Network and Asian Review of Accounting in 2014. For his PhD thesis, Salim exploits Indonesia’s unique audit committee regime and investigates its impacts on a number of economic outcomes.
Selected publications:
- Darmadi, S. (2016). Ownership concentration, family control, and auditor choice: Evidence from an emerging market. Asian Review of Accounting, 24(1), 19-42.
- Darmadi, S., and Sodikin, A. (2013). Information disclosure by family-controlled firms: The role of board independence and institutional ownership. Asian Review of Accounting, 21(3), 223-240.
- Darmadi, S., and Gunawan, R. (2013). Underpricing, board structure, and ownership: An empirical examination of Indonesian IPO firms. Managerial Finance, 39(2), 181-200.
Selected conference papers:
- Darmadi, S., and Simorangkir, T. (2012). Family firms and cash holdings: Mitigating agency issues? International Conference on Entrepreneurship and Business Management, Jakarta, Indonesia [received the best paper presenter award]
- Darmadi, S. (2011). Board size and firm value: New evidence from two-tier board structure. 8th International Annual Symposium on Management, Surabaya, Indonesia [received the best paper award]
Scholarships/awards:
- 2018: PhD scholarship, Indonesia Endowment Fund for Education (LPDP), Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Indonesia
- 2014: Outstanding paper award, Emerald Literati Network and Asian Review of Accounting
- 2012: Best paper presenter award, International Conference on Entrepreneurship and Business Management, Jakarta, Indonesia
- 2011: Best paper award, 8th International Annual Symposium on Management, Surabaya, Indonesia
- 2010: Dean's commendation for high achievement, Faculty of Business, Economics, and Law, The University of Queensland
- 2008: Master’s degree scholarship, Australian Development Scholarship (ADS), Australian Agency for International Development
Brett Edwards
Contact: brett.edwards@student.uts.edu.au
Entered PhD program: March 2020
PhD supervisors: Professor Sue Wright
Research topics: Biological aspects of wealth in accounting
Profile: Brett is the Chief Financial Officer of Kip McGrath Education Centres Ltd, a tutoring business listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. He has 30 years of experience in accounting and reporting in a number of major Australian and international businesses, including 10 years with international accounting firm Ernst & Young. He was previously a director of GMAC Australia LLC, a division of General Motors operating in the finance segment in Australia. Brett has a Bachelor of Economics from Macquarie University, with Honours in Accounting. As part of his PhD he is researching existing concepts of wealth and accounting and their relationship with biological decision-making. The objective of the research is to explore various aspects of this relationship to seek out further areas to investigate and potentially provide a better understanding of biological factors in accounting.
Professional qualifications:
- Fellow of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand
- Graduate Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors
Leanne Gaul
Contact: leanne.m.walsh@student.uts.edu.au
Entered PhD program: July 2021
PhD supervisor: Dr Bernhard Wieder
Research topic: Stakeholder engagement by the Australian Local Government Sector in the sustainability reporting cycle.
Teaching areas: Accounting, finance, financial planning, economics
Profile, academic background and work experience: Leanne Gaul is an accounting PhD candidate at the UTS business school. After completing a Bachelor of Economics and PGrad Diploma of Education she went on to become a financial planner for 10 years, completing a Diploma of Financial Planning to become a Certified Financial Planner. Returning to study in 2013 Leanne completed a Master of Professional Accounting whilst working as a sessional academic (from 2015 to present) teaching in Auditing, Strategic and Sustainable Accounting, Accounting Information Systems, Accounting and Finance, Financial Planning, Risk Management and Insurance and Economics. Upon completing MPA she then enrolled in Bachelor of Business (Honours) completing a dual method study of stakeholder engagement by NSW Local Councils in the sustainability reporting cycle achieving a H1 result and an Executive Deans Award. Her enrolment as PhD candidate at UTS is to build and extend the research from her honours degree.
Publication:
Gaul, L. (2021). Sustainability as part of accountability and organisational reporting. Accounting and Accountability. https://oer.pressbooks.pub/utsaccounting1/chapter/sustainability-as-part-of-accountability-and-organisational-reporting/
Zahra (Frida) Hashemi Osko
Contact: Zahra.HashemiOskouei@student.uts.edu.au
PhD supervisors: Associate Professor Bernhard Wieder, DR Maria-Luise Ossimitz and Dr Ali Dorri
Research interests: Financial Technology, Blockchain, Accounting Information Systems, Business Analytics, Innovation
Thesis (working) title: How BlockChain and IoT Useful for Banking Financial Services, Exploring Challenges and Opportunities
Teaching areas: Accounting for Business Decisions A, Accounting and Accountability, Accounting for Business Decisions B
Profile, academic background and work experience:
- Frida completed her bachelor’s and Masters in Accounting and Finance. Her Master’s thesis focused on forecasting profitability and stock return with an emphasis on a firm’s life cycle based on cash flow patterns. She had over 4 years of industrial and academic accounting experience before joining UTS.
- She is working as a casual academic tutor for the Accounting Discipline Group at UTS. Her research interests are in Fintech and Blockchain areas and her current work examines the impact of blockchain and the internet of things on Australian banks.
- Frida is a recipient of the UTS President’s Scholarship and UTS International Research Scholarship in 2020.
Selected publications:
- Oskouei, Z.H., and Sureshjani, Z.H. (2021). Studying the relationship between managerial ability and real earnings management in economic and financial crisis conditions. International Journal of Finance & Economics, (26)3, 4574-4589
- Oskouei, Z.H. (2019). Linking social and economic responsibilities and financial performance: The assisting role of innovation for an oil engineering and development company. International Journal of Finance & Economics, (24)3, 1345-1354
Julia Heberle
Contact: Julia.M.Heberle@student.uts.edu.au
Entered PhD program: March 2017
PhD Supervisors: Associate Professor Prabhu Sivabalan, Dr David Bedford and Professor Christopher Chapman
Research topic: Julia’s research will examine the quality of patient-level cost data in Australian public hospitals, particularly operating room services, and the extent to which the cost data is being used to facilitate hospital management and performance.
Profile, academic background and work experience:
- Julia started work in the public hospital system as a ward clerk just over 30 years ago. In the intervening years, Julia has completed a Bachelor of Science with Distinction (Health Information Management), a Master of Public Health and has worked in numerous hospitals and across many roles. In 2012, Julia joined the NSW Health Activity Based Funding Taskforce as the Manager Funding and Costing.
- Julia has a lead role in the Financial and Performance Transformation in Healthcare Group at the UTS Business School.
- Julia is of the firm opinion that the patient cost data is one of the most valuable information resources available in the healthcare setting. It is a rich source of information that breaks down operational silos by piecing together millions of individual patient journeys each year. This information will be critical in ensuring sustainable health-care systems.
Thanh Hoang
Contact: phuongthanh.hoang@uts.edu.au
Entered PhD program: February 2023
PhD supervisors: Associate Professor Anna Bedford and Dr Le Ma
Research interests: Corporate governance, financial accounting, innovation
Thesis (working) title: Motivating CEOs to innovate: exploration and exploitation
Teaching area: Introductory Accounting
Academic background and work experience:
- Thanh completed her Accounting Honours degree with First Class Honours and was the winner of the Best Presentation Award – second prize at Deakin University Research Day for her honours thesis.
- Prior to the honours year, Thanh graduated with a master’s degree in Professional Accounting with High Distinction, a full-fee scholarship and the Dean’s Merit Award. Her bachelor’s degree was in Business (Hospitality Management), completed with High Distinction, funded by academic excellence scholarships and enriched by an exchange term in Switzerland.
- Thanh started teaching introductory accounting subjects at UTS in 2021. Her professional experience includes working as a Corporate Governance Research Assistant at Glass Lewis, an American proxy advisory firm.
Godsway Kadey
Contact: Godsway.Kadey@student.uts.edu.au
PhD supervisors: Prof. Andrew Ferguson and Dr Peter Lam
Research interests: Extractive industry, Corporate governance, Corporate Finance, Capital markets, Climate risks.
Thesis (working) title: Mineral Economics and Capital Markets.
Teaching areas: Accounting and Accountability
Profile, academic background and work experience:
- Godsway holds a B.Sc. in Earth Science (Geology) from the University of Ghana, M.Sc. degrees in Mining and Geology (Economic Geology) and Advanced Analytics (Finance and Economics) from the AGH University of Science and Technology and the SGH Warsaw School of Economics respectively.
- Professionally, Godsway has worked within the financial services sector including stints with UBS as an Associate Director (Country and Climate Risk) and J.P. Morgan as a research and data analyst.
- Recently, he was a part time Research Fellow at the Arctic Basecamp focusing on the socio-economic impacts and opportunities associated with climate change. Godsway also has operational experience within the mining industry as a geologist.
Cao Hoang Anh Le
Contact: Cao.H.Le@student.uts.edu.au
Entered PhD program: July 2018
PhD supervisors: Distinguished Professor Stephen Taylor and Associate Professor Yaowen Shan
Research topic: Financial Reporting, Corporate Governance, Capital Markets
Teaching areas: Introductory Accounting, Financial Statement Analysis
Academic background: Prior to starting her PhD program, Hoang Anh obtained her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Finance and Accounting. Her research interests include financial accounting and capital markets, with an emphasis on accounting disclosure, business valuation, corporate behaviours and executive compensation. As part of her PhD, Hoang Anh is currently working on projects in relation to non-GAAP reporting and corporate governance.
Deb Lewis
Contact: Debra.S.Lewis@student.uts.edu.au
Entered PhD program: July 2022
PhD supervisors: Associate Professor Anna Bedford, Professor Martin Bujega
Research topic: Executive Compensation Complexity: are Boards sheep following the flock or sheep in wolves' clothing?
Research areas: Executive Compensation; Complexity; Governance
Academic background and work experience:
- Deb holds a BSc in Actuarial Science from City University, London.
- She qualified as an (pensions) Actuary in the UK in 1991, before migrating to Australia, and became a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia in 1994. In 1997, she became a superannuation manager in an ASX100 listed company, and quickly added remuneration to her portfolio.
- She has worked as Head of Remuneration and worked closely with the Board Remuneration Committees of many ASX100 companies for more than 25 years.
- She has an MBA from AGSM, and is a Graduate Member of the AICD.
Lillian Li
Contact: Yi.Li-1@student.uts.edu.au
PhD supervisors: Assocoate Professor Bernhard Wieder and Dr Maria-Luise Ossimitz
Research interests: Management Accounting, Business Analytics
Thesis (working) title: The role of Business Analytics and ICT in changing Management Controls while Teleworking
Teaching areas: Introductory Accounting
Profile, academic background and work experience:
- Lillian completed a Master of Professional Accounting in 2016 at the University of Tasmania (UTAS). She had more than 3 years of industry experience in accounting prior to joining UTS. She is also a member of CPA Australia. Lillian currently holds a position as a research assistant and casual academic at UTS where she teaches introductory accounting.
- Her research interests include management controls, business analytics, ICT and teleworking. COVID-19 leads to many disruptive changes, but there is still very little is known about the precise impacts of these changes on Australian organisations. Her research intends to narrow this knowledge gap by investigating operational performance impacts of COVID-19-related changes to teleworking, management controls, and the role of ICT and business analytics in managing these changes.
Jiali Yolanda Lin
Contact: Jiali.lin@student.uts.edu.au
PhD supervisors: Professor David Brown and Dr Nicole Sutton
Research interests: Corporate Governance, Regulation and Public Policy, Corporate Accountability
Thesis (working) title: Real disciplinary effects of external regulatory monitoring: firms' responses to complaint investigations in aged care
Profile, academic background and work experience:
- Yolanda is an Accounting PhD candidate at the UTS Business School and a member of the UTS Ageing Research Collaborative. She has research interests in regulation, corporate governance and management accounting. Her current work examines the real disciplinary effects of regulatory monitoring on a firm’s compliance behaviour. As a member of the UTS Ageing Research Collaborative, she also works with researchers from multiple disciplines, industry leaders and the government on projects investigating the future development of the aged care sector in Australia.
- Yolanda has a Bachelor of Business with Honours majoring in Accounting from UTS. Her honours thesis examined problems of complaint-based regulatory systems in the Australian aged care sector. She also holds a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Political, Economics and Social Sciences from the University of Sydney.
- Yolanda is a recipient of the UTS President’s Scholarship and UTS International Research Scholarship in 2021.
Current working papers:
- McAllister, G., Sutton, N., Brown, D.A., Parker, D., Lewis, R., Rawlings-Way, O., Lin, J.Y., & Harrison, B. (2021). ‘Using public inquiries as a data source for accounting research: A systematic review’. working paper. - Currently under review at the European Accounting Review.
- Lin, J.Y., Sutton, N., Brown, D.A., McAllister, G. and Rawlings-Way, O. (2022). Regulatory ritualism: investigating breakdowns within Australia’s aged care complaint system. Working paper.
- Lin, J.Y., Sutton, N., Brown, D.A., Real disciplinary effects of external regulatory monitoring: firms' responses to complaint investigations in aged care. 2022 AFAANZ Doctoral Symposium.
Thuy (Linh) Luong
Contact: Thuy.L.Luong@student.uts.edu.au
PhD supervisors: Associate Professor Bernhard Wieder, Professor Prabhu Sivabalan and Dr Maria-Luise Ossimitz
Research interests: Performance Management, Accounting Information Systems, Business Intelligence, Business Analytics
Thesis (working) title: Performance Management and application of Cloud computing to Performance Management Systems in Small and Medium Entities
Profile, academic background and work experience: I completed a Master of Professional Accounting at UTS in 2017. I am also a member of CPA Australia since 2019. I have more than five years of industry experience in accounting firms, specialising in outsourcing finance and taxation.
Sebastian Onie
Contact: sebastian.onie@uts.edu.au
Entered PhD program: February 2020
PhD supervisor(s): Associate Professor Helen Spiropoulos and Professor Peter Wells
Research Interest: Accounting Standards and Regulations
Thesis (working) title: The Economic Consequences of IFRS 16: Evidence from Australia
Teaching areas: Accounting for Business Decision A, Accounting for Business Decision B
Profile, academic background and work experience:
- Sebastian completed his Bachelor of Business at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), majoring in Accounting and Finance in 2018. In the following year, he completed his Bachelor of Business (Honours) in Accounting with a thesis titled The Impact and Relevance of Earnings under AASB 15: Some Preliminary Evidence.
- Sebastian has worked as a casual academic tutor for the Accounting Discipline Group at UTS, teaching Accounting for first-year business students. He also has experience working as a research assistant in developing a chatbot for several accounting subjects. Currently, Sebastian teaches introductory accounting to loan officers from various financial institutions.
- Sebastian is currently undertaking his PhD in Accounting at UTS. His research interest is centred around the economic consequences related to accounting standards and regulations, specifically on the new leasing standard for Australian firms, IFRS 16.
Publications:
- Ma, L., Onie, S., Spiropoulos, H., & Wells, P. A. (2022). An evaluation of the impacts of the adoption of IFRS 15 Revenue from Contracts with Customers. Accounting and Finance, Forthcoming.
Conference presentations:
- Ma, L., Onie, S., Spiropoulos, H., & Wells, P. A. (2021, November 1). Post-implementation review of International Financial Reporting Standard 15 Revenue from Contracts with Customers [Paper Presentation]. Australian Accounting Standards Board Research Forum, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Piyush Radkar
Contact: Piyush.Radkar@student.uts.edu.au
Liudmilla Radomskaia
Contact: liudmila.radomskaia@student.uts.edu.au
PhD supervisors: Professor Martin Bugeja and Dr Samir Ghannam
Research interests: Corporate governance, executive compensation, financial and non-financial disclosures
Thesis (working) title: The role of individuals’ immigrant status in the outcomes in the director and CEO labour market
Teaching areas: Accounting for Business Decisions A, Accounting and Accountability, Accounting for Business Decisions B, Accounting Standards and Regulation
Profile, academic background and work experience: Prior to joining UTS Business School, Liudmila had worked as a corporate accountant in large companies for thirteen years managing and supervising a full range of accounting processes, including general ledger and intercompany reconciliations, payroll and taxation procedures, preparing financial statements. Her thesis examines the joint impact of individuals’ ancestry and country of birth on their representation in board leadership roles, and in the CEO positions, as well as an impact of CEOs’ immigrant background on their compensation.
Sameera Rasool
Contact: Sameera.Rasool@student.uts.edu.au
Saefudin Saefudin
Contact: Saefudin.Saefudin@student.uts.edu.au
PhD supervisors: Dr David Bond and Dr Robert Czernkowski
Research interests: Accounting, government Finance
Thesis (working) title: Accrual accounting adoption and government financial performance
Profile, academic background and work experience: My Diploma degree from the Ministry of Finance college (STAN) major in accounting from 2003-2008 in Indonesia, my master degree (2016-2018) major in accounting and finance from Flinders University SA. I am working as a public employee from 2003 to the present in the Ministry of Finance, Indonesia.
Mikhail Shashnov
Contact: Mikhail.Shashnov@student.uts.edu.au
PhD supervisors: Associate Professor Roman Lanis, Professor Peter Wells, Dr Brett Govendir and Dr Greg Pazmandy
Research interests: Taxation, executive compensation, corporate tax aggressiveness
Thesis (working) title: The impact of CSR report restatements on tax aggressiveness
Teaching areas: Small Business Management and Accounting
Profile, academic background and work experience: Mikhail holds a Bachelor of Economics majoring in Finance (The National Research University – Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia) and a Master of Professional Accounting (The University of Technology Sydney). Mikhail has held a range of positions including economist, financial analyst and academic researcher. Mikhail has research interests in taxation, tax aggressiveness and data science.
Kate Suppel
Contact: kate.p.suppel@student.uts.edu.au
PhD supervisors: Professor Andrew Ferguson and Dr Peter Lam
Research interests: Mining, project finance, capital structure
Thesis (working) title: Project Capital Structure and Long Run Performance
Teaching areas: -
Profile/Academic Background and Work Experience: Kate holds a Bachelor of Engineering (honours) from the University of New South Wales. Kate holds a Master of Engineering Management and PhD in Engineering from the University of Newcastle. Kate had previously worked in the mining, refining, power generation and manufacturing industries and has worked for such companies as Alcoa, Rio Tinto, and Orica primarily in asset management engineering roles. It was through this experience that Kate developed an interest in understanding the financing process for mining companies. As part of her accounting PhD, she is researching the many facets of project financing including the project capital structure, market reactions to project capital approvals, long-run project performance and the effect of corporate governance.
Nadeem Ahmed Tahir
Contact: nadeemahmed.tahir@uts.edu.au
PhD supervisors: Associate Professor Roman Lanis, Professor Peter Wells and Dr Brett Govendir
Research interests: Corporate tax avoidance
Thesis (working) title: The impact of goodwill impairment and firm growth on corporate tax aggressiveness- an empirical evaluation
Teaching areas: Accounting, auditing and taxation
Profile, academic background and work experience:
- Nadeem is an academic and accounting professional. His two master degrees are MBA (tax management) and professional accounting with merit. He completed his higher education certificates in 2011 from Australian National University, Canberra and worked as a senior taxation officer for 11 years. His academic career started as a lecturer in 2016 and brings with him the wealth of experience in delivery advance accounting, auditing and taxation concepts in interesting, interactive and innovative manner evident from his exceptionally high student feedback surveys and teaching awards.
- As a professional, Nadeem is an active and full member of Certified Practicing Accountant (CPA) from CPA Australia.
Jiaqi Wang
Contact: Jiaqi.wang-4@student.uts.edu.au
PhD supervisors: Professor Martin Bugeja and Professor Yaowen Shan
Research interests: Corporate Governance, Director Elections, Proxy Votes
Thesis (working) title: Nature and Consequences of Director Elections
Profile, academic background and work experience: Jiaqi Wang completed a Bachelor of Business (Honours) at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) in 2020. She is Dean’s Merit, Accounting High Achiever award, and The Plato Investment Management Scholarship for Women in Finance owner. She had working experience as a customer support executive in IC Markets, Australia’s top online trading company. Her prominent role was educating clients about the company’s trading products and procedures and analysing and investigating trades. Jiaqi had a six-month contract with the ATS Accountants & Partners, whose primary role was lodging taxes for individuals and small companies. For academic experience, she had a five-month contract and a three-month contract working as a research assistant at UTS Business School while completing her undergraduate studies. The projects are data collection for director election votes at AGM and for CEO remuneration plans, respectively.
Raechel Wight
Contact: Raechel.Wight@uts.edu.au, orcid.org/0000-0001-7133-4882
Entered PhD program: July 2018
PhD supervisors: Professor Peter Wells, Dr James Wakefield and Dr Jessica Frawley (USYD)
Research topic: Raechel’s research interest lies in how to effectively use technology to enhance student learning.
Teaching areas: Introductory Accounting, Cost Management Systems, Management Decisions and Control
Profile, academic background and work experience:
- Raechel completed her honours degree in accounting education at UTS in 2012. She has extensive experience as the previous Accounting Editor at a digital publisher creating interactive online accounting resources for university students in both Australiasia and the United States. She previously worked as an auditor for Deloitte, Sydney.
- Raechel is currently a Sessional Academic Tutor for the Accounting Discipline Group at UTS. In this role she is involved in teaching, subject development and mentoring of new tutors. She is frequently involved in education projects designed to enhance the learning experiences of students. She has been the recipient of various teaching and learning grants at UTS and in 2017 was awarded a UTS Learning and Teaching Citation for cultivating creative possibilities in accounting education.
Publications:
- Cummins, A.M., Wight, R., Watts, N. & Catling, C. 2018, ‘Introducing sensitive issues and self-care strategies to first year midwifery students’, Midwifery, vol. 61, pp.8-14. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2018.02.007
- Smith, R., Wight, R. & Homer, C.S. 2018, ‘Asking the hard questions’: Improving midwifery students’ confidence with domestic violence screening in pregnancy’, Nurse Education in Practice, vol.28, pp.27-33. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nepr.2017.05.006
Suying Zhao
Contact: Suying.Zhao@student.uts.edu.au
Entered PhD program: February 2020
PhD supervisors: Professor Sue Wright, Associate Professor Jonathan Tyler and Dr Robert Czernkowski
Research topics: The impact of accounting standards on Australian firms
Teaching area: Accounting for Business Decisions
Profile: Suying obtained her degree Master of Professional Accounting in Australia.
Lainey Zu
Contact: yanglan.zu@uts.edu.au
PhD supervisors: Professor Martin Bugeja and Professor Yaowen Shan
Research interests: Mergers and Acquisitions, Corporate Governance, Corporate Disclosure
Thesis (working) title: TBA
Teaching areas: Financial Accounting, Management Accounting
Profile, academic background and work experience: Lainey holds a Master’s degree in Accounting, a First Class Honours degree in Accounting with a University Medal, and a Bachelor of Management. She has worked as a research assistant for the Accounting Discipline Group. She currently tutors accounting subjects at UTS.