2007 Annual Report FBE

Annual Report 2007Outlook 2008

Annual Report 2006 Outlook 2007 01

3 Message from the Dean

5 The University of Melbourne

6 Faculty of Economics and Commerce

9 Academic Programs

13 Research and Research Training

14 Internationalisation

17 Staffing

19 Distinctions and Awards

20 Business and Community

22 Statistical Tables

25 Research Grants awarded in 2007

29 Departmental Profiles

32 Centres in the Faculty

37 Graduates of the Faculty

39 Alumni

41 People in the Faculty

ContentsThe Masters program provided mewith a new thirst for knowledgeand an increased awareness ofinnovative thinking, which I haveapplied to my current role withgreat advantage and reward.Scott North, MBIT 2006, Head of Risk Scenarios and Systems, Risk Management, NAB

Cover: Marcus Chan, Bachelor of Commerce 2004, Executive, Legend Worldwide Holidays, Malaysia

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The year also saw the final groundwork being laid for the launch of the New Generation Bachelor ofCommerce in 2008. This work had two major goals to develop the degree’s curriculum and structure andto communicate the Melbourne Model changes tostudents, parents, schools and the business community.

Our key message for these stakeholders is that theNew Generation Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) offers an enhanced professional preparation for ourgraduates. The new curriculum provides the samedepth of professional specialisation as the old, while breadth studies and implementation of newexperiential learning opportunities will further enhancethe employability of our graduates. Importantly, the BCom continues to enjoy professional accreditationin accounting, actuarial studies and finance.

We are pleased to say our message was heard ‘loud and clear’, as we experienced a significant boost in demand for the BCom among school leavers. This resulted in an increase in the ENTERscore to 95.6. The successful outcome of the launch of the New Generation BCom and the subsequenthigh ENTER score reinforces its position as thepremier undergraduate business and economicsprogram in Victoria and, arguably, in Australia.

2007 was also a ‘red letter’ year with respect to our graduate programs. On the 26th of October, the Melbourne Graduate School of Management was formally launched, along with the full suite of the University’s graduate schools, by the Chancellor of the University, Mr Ian Renard.

The Melbourne Graduate School of Management willbe responsible for the delivery of all of the Faculty’sgraduate programs, including coursework and researchdegrees. The establishment of the new GraduateSchool gives us the opportunity to fully review theentire range of graduate programs, ensuring theyremain at the ‘cutting edge’ of industry, research and pedagogical developments.

We are confident that both of these new endeavourswill deliver a highly rewarding experience for ourstudents.

Our teaching performance is, once again, outstanding.We have received significant national recognition forthe innovative teaching of our individual academics, as well as for our collective performance with a topranking in the Commonwealth teaching and learningperformance fund.

A number of initiatives have also been launched toenhance the study and campus experience for ourstudents.

In the last weeks of 2007, two integrated studentcentres were established at separate locations for undergraduate and graduate students. Byconcentrating a wide range of administration andsupport services into a single, well-designed facility,each of these student centres will improve access for students seeking to manage their enrolmentsand student life.

One of the key elements of the student centre model is the Student Experience team, to beintegrated in each centre. These teams will deliverprograms including orientations, mentoring and social events to enrich the campus experience for all of our students.

The Faculty’s industry links were greatly strengthenedduring the course of 2007. A key development wasthe inauguration on the 21st of November of theFaculty Advisory Board. Chaired by Mr Peter Yates,Chairman of Peony Capital, the Board was describedby the Financial Review as a ‘dream team’ ofAustralian business. The Board members are Ms Sally Capp, CEO of the Committee for Melbourne;Seek co-founder, Mr Paul Bassat; former President of the Australian Business Council, Mr Hugh MorganAC; Mr Chris Leptos AM Managing Partner at Ernst & Young; Dr Ian Macfarlane AC, former Governor of the Reserve Bank; Mr Terrence Campbell AOChairman of Goldman Sachs JBWere; Ms PatriciaCross, a Director of Wesfarmers Limited, NationalAustralia Bank Limited, Qantas and the MurdochChildren’s Research Institute; Mr Peter Gunn,Managing Director of the PGA Group Pty Ltd; Mr Kevin Wong, former Managing Director of JPMorgan; Dean of the Faculty of Economics andCommerce, Professor Margaret Abernethy; andDeputy Dean of the Faculty, Professor Bruce Grundy.

Message from the Dean2007 was another year of ground-breaking developments for the Faculty of Economics andCommerce. The Faculty was actively engaged in the development of the Melbourne Model reformsand we were a key participant in the formal launch of the Melbourne Model on the 17th of April.

In 2008 we will continue to implement initiatives to become the leading Economics and Commerce Faculty

and Graduate School of Management in the region and one of the best in the world.

Professor Margaret Abernethy, Dean

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Knowledge Transfer activities took several strong steps forward in 2007 with the launch of Insights, anew Faculty journal. Insights publishes the best of ourpublic contributions, edited for a general readership. It makes for topical and thought-provoking reading,available online at http://insights.unimelb.edu.au.

The Faculty continued to strengthen its researchprogram in 2007. During the year, eight new AustralianResearch Council Discovery Grants were awarded toFaculty researchers. Our overall application successrate was three times the national average. Ourresearchers continue to work in areas that reflect the concerns of our society, creating projectpartnerships with the National Water Commission and the Brotherhood of St Lawrence.

We are seeing returns on our efforts to provide highquality support for research higher degree students.The latest Quality of Research Supervision surveynoted our major improvements in the ‘researchercohort experience’ of our PhDs.

Our PhDs continue to produce outstanding research,earning significant national and international accolades.

2007 also saw ongoing expansion and refinement of the scholarship program for international and domesticstudents, ensuring the brightest applicants are notprevented from studying with us for financial reasons.

In 2008 we will continue to implement initiatives to become the leading Economics and CommerceFaculty and Graduate School of Management in the region and one of the best in the world by:

Y maintaining and enhancing our strong emphasis on conducting and publishing world-class research

Y further developing our program offerings, especiallyin the Melbourne GSM at graduate level, to providea full suite of graduate career entry and careerdevelopment programs across the business andeconomics disciplines

Y enhancing our state-of-the-art infrastructure withthe completion of our new faculty building inBerkeley Street

Y further improving the student experience in the Faculty and Melbourne Graduate School of Management, with the implementation ofdedicated student experience teams in both theundergraduate and Graduate School Student Centre

Y boosting links with industry, government and thecommunity, in particular through the activities of the Faculty’s Advisory Board

Y raising the profile and the prestige of theMelbourne Graduate School of Management.

I would like to acknowledge and thank the manyfriends of the Faculty who have supported andassisted us this past year with their endeavours both within and beyond the University community.

I hope that you will find this report on the activities of the Faculty in 2007 and the profile of the academicand professional staff of interest.

Please do not hesitate to contact the Faculty if youwould like more information.

Professor Margaret A. Abernethy

Dean


Melbourne is a globally significant research institution.It is Australia’s largest university in terms of bothresearch expenditure and income, and is the country’ssecond largest research and development organisation.This position is enhanced by its proximity to so manyof the nation’s independent medical research institutes in Parkville.

University of Melbourne staff include Nobel laureates,eminent scholars, award-winning researchers and manyinternationally renowned academics. In all disciplines,Melbourne is active in international networks ofscholarship and collaboration, offering excellentacademic and research prospects to its students.

The University of Melbourne is a vibrant institutionwith a reputation for excellence built over 155 years.Our success has been achieved by insisting oninternational excellence and alignment with global best practice in teaching and research.

Throughout 2007, the University devoted much effortto develop ‘the Melbourne Model’ for implementationin 2008. The Melbourne Model comprises a majorcurriculum reorganisation that aligns the University of Melbourne with European and US higher educationpathways. Focusing on a ‘3+2’ model of three-yearundergraduate and two-year professional and researchmasters degrees, the Melbourne Model promisesstudents an educational experience attuned to thechallenges of the 21st century.

The Melbourne Model also commits the University to place an equal emphasis on research, teaching andcommunity engagement, or ‘Knowledge Transfer’.These three strands of activity form a ‘triple helix’, a DNA that will shape all of the university’s activities as it seeks to become one of the world’s leadinguniversities.

The University community is made up of 40,000students, including more than 9,000 internationalstudents from a least 100 different countries. Thereare more than 6,500 staff working in the University.

The University offers 29 undergraduate degrees but,from 2008, the majority of enrolments will be in the six ‘New Generation’ degrees developed under theMelbourne Model. These degrees, in Arts,

Biomedicine, Commerce, Environments, Music and Science, provide a broad and deep, discipline-based education and act as pathways to graduateprofessional degrees in agricultural science, appliedcommerce, architecture, engineering, law, medicine,nursing and teaching.

In addition to the new graduate professional degrees,the University continues to offer traditional graduateand postgraduate certificates, diplomas and mastersdegrees including masters by coursework and byresearch. With over 3000 students in research higherdegrees, the University confers more Doctors ofPhilosophy and higher doctorates than any otherAustralian institution.

There are 12 faculties and schools in the University:Architecture, Building and Planning; Arts; Economicsand Commerce; Education; Engineering; Law;Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences; Music;Science; Veterinary Science; Land and Food Resources and the Victorian College of the Arts.

As professional education moves to graduate levelunder the Melbourne Model, many of these facultieshave launched graduate schools or are making thetransition to become graduate schools. New graduateschools include the Melbourne School of Design, theMelbourne School of Engineering and the MelbourneGraduate School of Management.

The University of Melbourne is a member of theprestigious Group of Eight, comprised of the leadingcomprehensive, research-intensive universities inAustralia. In addition, the University is a member ofUniversitas 21, an international network of leadingresearch-intensive universities. Universitas 21facilitates collaboration and cooperation between the member universities and creates entrepreneurialopportunities larger than could be achieved individually,or through traditional bilateral alliances.

The main University campus covers 20 hectares and islocated at Parkville, adjacent to the Melbourne centralbusiness district and near Carlton’s vibrant LygonStreet precinct. A number of residential colleges andstudent apartments are located close to the campus.

The University of MelbourneEstablished in 1853, the University of Melbourne is a public-spirited institution that makesdistinctive contributions to society in research, teaching and knowledge transfer. The University is consistently ranked as Australia’s premier tertiary institution and is placed 27th in the world in2007 in the Times Higher Education Supplement World University Rankings.


History

The Faculty has a proud record of innovation inteaching, and excellence in research. Economics hasbeen taught at the University of Melbourne since itsfoundation, commencing with the appointment of W.E.Hearn as professor of history and political economy in1855. The Faculty itself was established in 1924 andteaching commenced in the Bachelor of Commercethe following year. The founding Dean of the Faculty,Professor Sir Douglas Copland, was a leading figure in Australian economics and politics until his death in 1971. The Faculty’s 500 seat Copland Lecture Theatre perpetuates his memory.

The Faculty of Economics and Commerce has alwaysbeen a pioneer in Australian business education. In the 1930s, it led the way by teaching marketing and, in 1954, it appointed Australia’s first full-time professorof accounting, A.A. Fitzgerald.

The Faculty first offered the MBA degree in 1963 (now taught in the Melbourne Business School) and has remained a leader in graduate education.Masters degrees in business and IT, applied finance,international business, applied commerce andaccounting were all introduced as timely responses to shifts in the economic and business landscape.

During its long history, the make up of the Faculty’sstudent population has changed considerably. In 1925,the first students in the BCom were predominantlypart-timers, also working in commerce in the city ofMelbourne. Today, the degree takes a large cohort offull-time students, recruited from high-performingschool-leavers both in Australia and overseas.

The Faculty has an extensive alumni body, numberingsome 33,000 students who have graduated since itsfoundation 80 years ago. Many of these graduates now occupy senior positions in business, governmentand academia, in Australia and around the world.

Current Profile

The Faculty is a leading centre of business andeconomics education, research and innovation.

Our academic staff make key contributions toprofessional and public debate through publications in the international scholarly literature, conferences,lectures and executive education. They are alsoregularly invited to provide expert advice to the highestlevels of industry and government, both nationally andinternationally and have won numerous awards inteaching and research excellence.

Faculty of Economics and CommerceThe aims of the Faculty of Economics and Commerceat the University of Melbourne are to:

Y conduct and disseminate research of internationalstanding in the disciplines of accounting, actuarialstudies, economics, finance, business informationsystems, management and marketing

Y provide the highest quality of teaching and training to students drawn from the brighteststudents in Australia and overseas

Y develop close and mutually beneficial relationshipswith business, government, the not-for-profit sector and the professions, both nationally andinternationally.

Teaching and research is undertaken by fourDepartments: Accounting and Business InformationSystems, Economics, Finance, and Management andMarketing. The Centre for Actuarial Studies is locatedin the Department of Economics. The MelbourneInstitute of Applied Economic and Social Research isalso part of the Faculty. Our departments collaborateclosely in both teaching and research.

The Faculty also includes a specialist Teaching andLearning Unit (TLU), which was the first of its kind in Australia. The Unit is instrumental in supportingstudent learning, the development of innovativeteaching practices and improving the teaching andlearning culture throughout the Faculty.

Some 8,640 students are enrolled in the variousdegrees and diplomas offered by the Faculty.Approximately 6,380 students, representing 25% ofundergraduates in the University, are enrolled in theBCom, either as a single degree, or, more commonly,in combination with another degree such as Arts, Law, Engineering, or Science. Over 1,800 students are enrolled in postgraduate diplomas and degrees,including 145 in research higher degrees.

In 2007, the Faculty taught in excess of 5,450 full-timeequivalent students. Of this load, 40 percent areAustralian students paying under an income contingentloan scheme (HECS) with some government subsidy, 50 percent are international students and 10 percentare full fee-paying Australian students.

There are 190 full time equivalent academic staffemployed in the Faculty, supported by 134 professional staff.

Melbourne is an amazing city, and the University of Melbourneembodies the best aspects of its culture.Jane Chynoweth, current BCom student, Australia


2007 Faculty Highlights

In addition to the successful launches of theMelbourne Model, the New Generation Bachelor ofCommerce and the Graduate School of Management,covered in the Dean’s message, the Faculty enjoyedmany additional highlights in 2007.

In 2007 the bi-annual journal Insights was launched as a major Knowledge Transfer initiative. In twoissues, pitched at the general reader, Insights coveredtopics including the booming Chinese economy,Amazon deforestation and climate change, globalpoverty and trade protectionism. The Faculty is also publishing a regular Knowledge Transfer flyer,detailing the latest projects and initiatives in which wecollaborate or engage with the community and industry.

The inauguration of the Faculty Advisory Boardrepresents a major step towards a richer dialogue with the business community, one that we believe will be mutually beneficial.

In August, the Department of Economics opened its new laboratory for Experimental Economics. Thelaboratory simulates complex economic scenariosincorporating behavioural elements from participants.Experimental economics is a burgeoning field, and a new undergraduate subject offers our students the opportunity to explore it. One of the partnersfunding the laboratory, the Victorian Department of

Treasury has become a major client for training andresearch in the use of experimental economics. Otherpartners in the Experimental Economics Laboratoryinclude the Economic Design Network, the Faculty of Economics and Commerce and the Office of theVice-Chancellor.

At the date of writing, the Faculty’s new Berkeley Street building is up to its 10th storey and constructionis proceeding rapidly. It is anticipated all floors will be completed by mid-2008 and the fit-out will thencontinue until building hand over in February 2009.

The Faculty’s success in winning competitive researchfunding exceeds that of previous years. Grants wereawarded to 'traditional' research projects as well as to industry partnerships indicating the academic andpublic relevance of our endeavours.

In 2007, Faculty staff earned very high profilerecognition for their teaching. Inspiring and innovativeteaching by individual academics was recognised witha prestigious Carrick Award and two Carrick Citations(see the Awards and Distinctions section for full details).

The very high overall standard of our teaching isrecognised in the University’s top ranking in theBusiness, Law and Economics discipline group of the2008 Learning and Teaching Performance Fund. ThisCommonwealth fund aims to reward excellent teachingstandards in Australian Universities and, in 2008, willdistribute $83.3million across the university sector.

Undergraduate

In 2007, the following undergraduate courses wereoffered by the Faculty of Economics and Commerce:

Bachelor of Commerce

Bachelor of Commerce (Management)

Bachelor of Commerce (Honours)

The Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) and Bachelor ofCommerce (Management) are three year, full-timeprograms. The honours degree requires a further one year of full-time study. The bachelor degree aimsto develop powers of critical analysis that can beapplied in many fields, and provides professionaltraining for a wide variety of professions. The honoursprogram allows students to undertake specialisedstudy and research in an area of interest, developinganalytical and research skills to a higher level.

From 2008, the New Generation Bachelor ofCommerce (BCom) retains the depth and professionalemphasis of the original degree, while offering theopportunity to gain additional breadth of learning. Thecore program comprises five compulsory subjects.Students then choose a major from one or more ofaccounting, actuarial studies, business, economics,finance, management and marketing. Breadth isdeveloped by taking subjects outside the core programof commerce, and makes up between a quarter and athird of the degree. Breadth studies enable students to tap other bodies of knowledge, methods of enquiry,personal and professional skills, and ways of learning.

In 2008, the clearly-in ENTER for a Commonwealthsupported place in the New Generation Bachelor ofCommerce was 95.60, representing the top 4.4 percentof students in the state, with comparable levels forinterstate and international students. The standard ofentry increased from 2007, signifying a positive marketresponse to the Melbourne Model and the NewGeneration BCom.

The total number of students enrolled in the Bachelorof Commerce in semester 2 2007, either as a singledegree or as a combined degree, was 6,830. For theNew Generation BCom in semester 1 2008, 644Commonwealth Supported Places have been offered.

Faculty engagement with the school communityincluded the Accounting Extension Program, MasterClass program, school visits, and representation atexpos in metropolitan and regional Victoria andinterstate, as well as on-campus activities promotingthe Melbourne Experience.

In 2007, over 500 high-achieving Year 10 students,representing over 100 schools, participated in theMaster Class program. Four of our academics offeredclasses, covering topics such as ‘Australians are livinglonger – will their retirement savings last?’ and ‘The art of persuasion: does advertising really work?’

Over 8,000 prospective students and parents visitedthe Faculty during Open Day in August. A series ofinformation events on the New Generation BCom was also well attended later in the year.

The Faculty continued to support student programssuch as the Student Ambassador Leadership Programand the Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) in 2007. The team SIFE represented five faculties across theUniversity and competed in New York for the SIFEWorld Cup, after winning the national competition.

Twenty-two undergraduate students and four graduatestudents in the Faculty took part in the StudentAmbassador Leadership Program. As part of thisprogram, students chose either a community project,university service, or to volunteer at least 40 hours inthe community with organisations including EngineersWithout Borders, People Outdoors, Vic Aids Council,Scared Heart Primary School, Cystic Fibrosis Victoriaand the New Hope Foundation.

Bachelor of Commerce students were recognised fortheir academic achievements at the annual Dean’sAwards Ceremony. The guest speaker was Ms SallyCapp, CEO Committee for Melbourne, and Mark Chicu(BCom(Hons) 2006) was the inaugural student speaker.Increased Faculty engagement with industry and thecommunity resulted in generous support for studentsthrough sponsored scholarships and prizes, with sixnew awards set up in 2007.

The Faculty’s seven undergraduate student societieswere again very active, offering opportunities forstudents to develop personal and professionalnetworks and engage in leadership roles.

Academic Programs

It makes me proud to come to classeveryday knowing how good ouruniversity actually is.Aakash Chugani, current BCom student, Thailand


Results of the 2006 Graduate Destination Survey were released in 2007, showing BCom graduatescontinue to perform well. A snapshot of outcomesshows:

Y of those available for full-time work, 86.3% were working full time

Y work sector destination: 93% private sector, 7% government

Y median salary $44,000 (national averages:Accounting, $37,000; Business Studies, $39,000;and Economics, $42,000)

Y over half of those looking for employment foundwork in organisations providing accounting services(32%), finance/insurance services (13%) andbanking services (13%)

Y 40.7% reported their job as a career position and 52.6% reported it was a stepping stone to a career position

Y 94.5% described their current position as eitherdirectly related or somewhat related to theircompleted course

Y 94.4% were very satisfied or moderately satisfiedwith their current job.

For the last time before the implementation of theMelbourne Model, the Bachelor of Commerce andBachelor of Commerce (Management) were offered in2007 as a combined degree with each of the following:

Bachelor of Agricultural Science

Bachelor of Arts

Bachelor of Arts (Media and Communications)

Bachelor of Engineering

Bachelor of Information Systems

Bachelor of Laws

Bachelor of Music

Bachelor of Science

Each combined course is a five year full-time programafter which students graduate with two degrees.

Graduate Programs

All graduate programs are now offered under the banner of the Melbourne Graduate School ofManagement. The Melbourne GSM was launched on October 26, 2007 and, since then, it has beenconsolidating its position in the graduate marketthrough a series of recruitment events and high profile advertising campaigns.

The Melbourne Graduate School of Management isfocused on providing business education for recentgraduates and specialist programs for professionals in the early and middle stages of their career.

Program content spans the fields of accounting,actuarial studies, business and IT, economics, finance,human resource management, international business,management and marketing. These programs aremature and successful offerings which align well with the Melbourne Model agenda.

The PhD program is also offered through theMelbourne GSM, for more details see the Researchand Research Training report on page 13.

Some changes to the program suite were made during 2007, with the Master of Applied Commerce(Management) being launched to replace the threespecialist MAC programs in Human ResourceManagement, Operations Management andOrganisational Change.

A review of our most popular graduate program, the Master of Applied Commerce, was undertakenwith recommendations to be tabled and approved in 2008 for launch in 2009.

With its team of fourteen staff, the MelbourneGraduate School of Management provides very high standards of service and support for studentsincluding comprehensive orientation for new students,a busy roster of social events and support for studentgroups as well as the day to day management ofstudent affairs.

More than 1800 graduate students were enrolled in masters and research higher degrees programs in 2007 up from 1600 in 2006 and 1474 in 2005.Graduates enjoy excellent career outcomes, rewardingclassroom experiences and high levels of support fortheir academic and professional development.

The BCom has given me a new outlook on thebusiness world around me, improving mymathematical, analytical and logical skills.

Nira Sonah, current BCom student, Mauritius


We were successful in attracting ARC funding, witheight new Australian Research Council Discoverygrants awarded to Faculty researchers. The overallsuccess rate of 66 per cent was very pleasing given anational success rate of 21.4 percent. The Faculty wasalso awarded two new ARC Linkage grants in 2007demonstrating our commitment to work with industrypartners on projects of social relevance. Dr RosannaScutella from the Melbourne Institute is working with the Brotherhood of St Laurence on a projectinvestigating job retention for disadvantaged jobseekers. Associate Professor Michael Davern andProfessor Colin Ferguson are working with the SouthWest Alliance of Rural Health to model the adoptionand use of virtual services technologies for rural andregional healthcare.

The Faculty’s researchers continue to work acrossdisciplines and institutions to carry out topical researchon issues affecting our changing society. Dr BradPotter and Professor Nasser Spear from theDepartment of Accounting and Business InformationSystems, for example, were awarded a one-yearresearch grant of $182,607 from the National WaterCommission to undertake a project titled ‘Developing a conceptual framework for water accounting’, beingundertaken with A/Professor Keryn Chalmers andProfessor Jayne Godfrey from Monash University. Dr Angela Paladino from the Department ofManagement and Marketing conducted research into buyer behaviour and the decision to move to

environmentally sound electricity, which attractedsignificant media interest throughout the year.

The Faculty’s Honours students apply for a Kinsmanstudentship which provides them with the opportunityto work with their supervisor to turn their Honoursthesis into a journal article. Kinsman scholars publish in a wide range of journals and present at academicconferences around the world.

The Faculty successfully recruits research higherdegree students of the highest calibre and providestop-quality academic supervision. In 2007 the Facultyachieved a very high ranking with regard to overallsatisfaction in the latest Quality of ResearchSupervision survey. The survey noted the Faculty’smajor advances with regard to cohort experiences,citing improved computer access, support forconferences and fieldwork, a successful social events program, scholarship support programs andcareer advice upon graduation contributing to thestudents experience whilst undertaking their PhD.

Our PhD graduates continue to be recognisedinternationally for the quality of their research. Dr Carlin Dowling from the Department of Accounting and Business Information Systems was awarded the2007 Outstanding Dissertation Award by the AmericanAccounting Association (Information Systems Section)for her thesis which investigated the antecedents ofappropriate audit support system use.

Research and Research TrainingGraduate Careers CentreIn the Melbourne GSM, professional careerdevelopment services are provided by the GraduateCareers Centre, a team of three specialists who delivera wide range of programs, facilitate career mentoring,internships and provide individual consultations.

This service range aims to create career enhancementopportunities for students in all stages of their careerdevelopment.

In 2007 the Graduate Careers Centre’s services andprograms included:

Y the fortnightly Career Minutes eNewsletter thatkept students up-to-date with career news andevents

Y the interactive Career Hours workshops, whichengaged over 200 students in knowledge and skill building activities essential for their careeradvancement. These workshops also provided anopportunity for local and international students tocommunicate with each other in a professionallyfocused setting

Y more than 200 personalised career strategysessions where students could developed individualplans, spanning from goal clarification throughopportunity awareness to industry engagement and set the stage for future career success

Y the use of the Online CV Book, which is asignificant channel for connecting students to work opportunities. Over 300 students created their online CV and the CV Book was also used by employers

Y a Career Day in each semester providing vital skillbuilding, networking and engagement sessions with employers, professional associations, industryexperts and successful alumni. Participants includedrepresentatives from Accenture, PwC, Deloitte,Ariba, Victorian State Government, AAMI, togetherwith CPA and ICA

Y career mentoring opportunities for 50 selectedstudents, who were guided towards their goals by experienced industry mentors

Y a higher number of paid and unpaid internshipopportunities structured to deliver maximumbenefits to all parties by allowing students withrelevant experience and professional knowledgecongruent to the needs of a business to beengaged in useful corporate work experience.

By delivering these career development opportunitiesand engagement models, the Postgraduate CareersProgram has been pursuing its objective to ‘Access >Engage > Achieve’ while facilitating knowledgetransfer and community engagement. This is also inline with companies’ corporate citizenship priorities aswell as the Growing Esteem strategy of the University.

The following graduate programs are offered by theFaculty of Economics and Commerce:Graduate Certificate in Business ForensicsGraduate Diploma in Actuarial StudiesGraduate Diploma in EconomicsGraduate Diploma in Management StudiesPostgraduate Diploma in EconomicsPostgraduate Diploma in FinanceMaster of AccountingMaster of Applied CommerceMaster of Applied Commerce (Accounting)Master of Applied Commerce (Business Analysis and Systems)Master of Applied Commerce (International)Master of Applied Commerce (Management)Master of Applied Commerce (Marketing)Master of Applied FinanceMaster of Business and Information TechnologyMaster of Financial ManagementMaster of Human Resource ManagementMaster of International BusinessMaster of Commerce in Management (by Advanced Seminar and Shorter Thesis)Master of Commerce (coursework)Master of Commerce (by thesis)Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)PhD in ManagementPhD with Coursework (Accounting and Business Information Systems)PhD with Coursework (Economics)PhD with Coursework (Finance)

Throughout 2007, the Faculty continued to publish in high-quality national and international journals,increased its strong success rate in attracting competitive research funding and built its cohort oftalented PhD and Masters students.

The experience and knowledge of thelecturers was most helpful in getting a firm grasp on applying theories to practice.Alexandre Tsymbalov, Master of Applied Commerce 2007, Associate Business Banker, NAB


Partner institutions forexchange programs

AustriaUniversity of Vienna

CanadaMcGill University Queen’s University University of British Columbia University of Toronto

BrasilUniversidade de São Paulo

ChilePontificia Universidad Católica deChileUniversidad Adolfo IbañezUniversidad de Chile

China (People’s Republic of) Chinese Academy of SciencesChinese Academy of SocialSciencesFudan UniversityNanjing UniversityNankai UniversityPeking University Tsinghua UniversityUniversity of Hong KongUniversity of Science andTechnology of China

ColombiaUniversidad de Los Andes

DenmarkUniversity of Copenhagen

FinlandUniversity of Helsinki

FranceBordeaux I – University, Sciences,TechnologiesBordeaux II – Victor SegalenUniversityBordeaux III – Michel de MontaigneUniversityBordeaux IV – MontesquieuUniversityHautes Etudes Commerciales(HEC) ParisInstitut d’Etudes Politiques(Sciences Po)Lyon II – Lumiere UniversityLyon III – Jean Moulin UniversityParis VII – Denis Diderot University

GermanyAlbert Ludwigs University FreiburgEuropean Business SchoolFree University of BerlinHumboldt UniversityTechnical University of BerlinUniversity of Heidelberg

IndiaIndian Institute of Science

IndonesiaGadjah Mada UniversityUniversity of Indonesia

IrelandUniversity College, Dublin

ItalyUniversity of BolognaUniversity Ca’ Foscari VeniceUniversity of Commerce ‘LuigiBocconi’University of PadovaUniversity of PerugiaUniversity of Siena

JapanDoshisha UniversityHitotsubashi UniversityJapan Women’s UniversityKeio UniversityKyoto University Ritsumeikan University Sophia UniversityTokyo Institute of Technology

KoreaKorea Advanced Institute ofScience and TechnologyKorea UniversityPohang University of Science and TechnologySeoul National University

LatviaUniversity of Latvia

LithuaniaVilnius University

MalaysiaUniversity of Malaya

MéxicoInstituto Tecnológico de Monterrey

Diversity remains a key priority in our internationalrecruiting and work to develop our markets in India, in particular, is an ongoing focus. Our scholarshipprogram continues to provide study opportunities forapplicants from our region and further afield. Theprogram is also targeted to provide opportunities to applicants from developing economies.

Some of our internationalisation highlights in 2007include:

Y expansion of the dual degree agreement with Universitas Gadjah Mada to cover bothundergraduate and graduate programs

Y negotiation of a dual degree agreement with Universitas Indonesia

Y exploration of potential dual degree links in Europe and South Asia

Y increased student diversity with successfulrecruitment from markets such as Mauritius,Taiwan, Vietnam, and the Philippines

Y streamlined entry requirements to avoidovercrowding from major markets like China, while still ensuring access for the highest standard applicants.

Delivering international professional experiences for our graduate students is a high priority, with significantprograms launched in 2007. The Thai Mobility Programtakes a group of students, local and international, to spend 10 days in Thailand, consulting for twoorganisations. The consulting projects are genuinebusiness challenges and the project offers ourstudents exposure to real business scenarios thatdemand analysis and solutions drawn from the fullbreadth of knowledge acquired through their studies.

Another initiative, truly representative of the globalinformation economy, is the ‘Virtual Internship’ inwhich our students conduct online analysis of Chinesebusinesses listed on the New York Stock Exchange.The internship host is a New York based companyspecialising in web based financial analysis. Studentsare given project assignments and check in with thecompany online. The Melbourne GSM’s GraduateCareers Centre facilitates the project, ensuringstudents gain a maximum of professional learning from the experience.

InternationalisationIn 2007 the faculty maintained a strong level of international applications and enrolments in spite of a general downturn in international recruiting throughout Australia. We strengthened our linkswith a number of international universities and we continue to attract high profile academic visitorsfrom around the world.

Study Abroad and Exchange Opportunities

An important part of the Faculty and the Melbourne Model agenda is ensuring that our students have a genuinelyinternational experience, by being exposed to international students in Melbourne and having the opportunity tostudy at partner institutions overseas. The Faculty welcomed over 110 students from study abroad and exchangepartners in 2007. Scholarships were made available for students from Melbourne to study at partner institutionsoverseas and many Melbourne students went on exchange to countries including the UK, USA, Italy, Germany and the Netherlands.

The Faculty of Economics and Commerce currently has exchange programs with the following institutions.Students from these institutions can apply to study with the Faculty and our current students can also apply tostudy at these institutions. Students of institutions not listed are invited to apply for the Study Abroad programwithin the Faculty.


New Academic Appointments andPromotions

Faculty SecretariatProfessor Greg Whitwell – Professorial Fellow and Associate Dean (Academic Programs)

Professor Nasser Spear – Associate Dean(International)

Associate Professor Kim Watty – Director, Teaching and Learning Unit

Chi Baik – Lecturer, Teaching and Learning Unit

Accounting and Business Information SystemsEu-Jin Teo – Senior Lecturer; Anthony Coralluzzo,Tristan Webster and Zhengwai Hu – Senior Tutors; Sue Burdett, Dr Mohamed Elbashir, Jessica Stagnitti –Research Assistants.

EconomicsProfessor Ian King – Chair in Economics; ProfessorAnne van den Nouweland – Director of the EconomicTheory Centre; Dr Roland Hodler, Dr Simon Loertscher,Dr Georgy Artemov – Lecturers; Dr Hadi Yektas –Research Fellow.

FinanceDr Jonathan Dark, Dr Rayna Brown, Dr Les Coleman –Senior Lecturers; Dr Ali Akiyol, Dr Carsten Murowski –Lecturers.

Management and MarketingProfessor Bryan Lukas – Head of Department;Professor Anne-Wil Harzing – promotion to Professor;Associate Professor Damian Power – promotion toAssociate Professor; Dr Phil Harris – Senior Lecturer in Marketing; Dr Brent Coker – Lecturer in Marketing;Dr Helen Hu – Lecturer in International Business; Dr Shu-Jung (Sunny) Yang – Lecturer in OperationsManagement; Ms Valerie Contronei-Baird – Head Tutor.

Melbourne InstituteProfessor Stephen Sedgwick – Director; Dr EddaClaus, Dr Nicolas Hérault, Ms Stefanie Schurer, Mr Peter Sivey, Dr Sam Tsiaplias – Research Fellows;Mr Clinton Hayes – Survey Methodologist – HILDA;Ms Rezida Zakirova – Research Officer; Ms LeanneEllis – Research Assistant.

Farewells

Professor Marcia Devlin – Director, TLU

Dr Gayle Morris – Senior Lecturer, TLU

Dr Isabel Metz – Management and Marketing

Dr Michael Beverland – Management and Marketing

Dr Chin Nam Low – Research Fellow, MelbourneInstitute

Manjari Meheta – Lecturer, Accounting and BusinessInformation Systems

StaffingThe NetherlandsErasmus University of Rotterdam,School of ManagementLeiden UniversityUniversity of Amsterdam

New ZealandUniversity of Auckland

NorwayNorwegian School of Economicsand Business Administration (NHH)University of Oslo

PerúUniversidad del Pacifico

PhilippinesUniversity of the Philippines

SingaporeNanyang Technological UniversityNational University of Singapore

SpainUniversity of GranadaUniversity of Salamanca

Sultanate of OmanSultan Qaboos University

SwedenLund UniversityUppsala University

TaiwanNational University of Taiwan National Tsing Hua University

ThailandChulalongkorn UniversityThammasat University

United KingdomHeriot-Watt UniversityUniversity of BirminghamUniversity of EdinburghUniversity of GlasgowUniversity of ManchesterUniversity of Nottingham

United States of AmericaBoston College Georgetown University

New York University (SternBusiness School)Pennsylvania State UniversityUniversity of California – Berkeley – Davis – Irvine – Los Angeles – Riverside– San Diego – Santa Barbara – Santa Cruz University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignUniversity of MichiganUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel HillUniversity of PennsylvaniaUniversity of Southern CaliforniaUniversity of Texas at AustinUniversity of VirginiaUniversity of Washington Washington University in St Louis(Olin School of Business)

Dr Ali Akyol joined the Department of Finance in 2007


Bachelor of Commerce/Bachelor of Science graduateJohn Feddersen became the Faculty’s secondconsecutive Victorian Rhodes Scholar. John will go to Oxford University to take an MPhil in economics.

The Institute of Actuaries of Australia has awardedProf David Dickson, Director of the Centre forActuarial Studies, the 2006 H.M. Jackson MemorialPrize for excellence in published papers for his book‘Insurance Risk and Ruin’.

Dr Sean Pinder, Finance, was awarded the PearsonEducation Accounting/Finance Lecturer of the YearAward, endorsed by AFAANZ and judged by theEducation Directors of CPA Australia, the ICAA and the NZICA.

Dr Carlin Dowling, Accounting and BusinessInformation Systems, was awarded the AAAInformation Systems Section 2007 OutstandingDissertation Award for her dissertation, The Ante -cedents of Appropriate Audit Support System Use.

Three of our academics were selected as University of Melbourne nominees for the Carrick Citations foroutstanding contributions to Student Learning in 2007.

The Australian Government’s Carrick Institute forLearning and Teaching in Higher Education wasestablished in 2004 to provide national focus for theenhancement of learning and teaching in Australia.

Associate Professor Lea Waters, Management and Marketing,won a Carrick Award for TeachingExcellence.

Professor Jeff Borland, Economics, received a Carrick Citation ‘for two decades of teaching of largestudent cohorts in economics, including innovationcurriculum design and resource management tosupport student learning’.

Dr Angela Paladino, Management and Marketing,received a Carrick Citation ‘for exceptional innovationand influence in creating authentic and contemporarylearning experiences for undergraduate studentsstudying in the ‘marketing’ field’.

Mr Phil Cobbin, Accounting and Business InformationSystems, was awarded the 2007 VangermeerschManuscript Award. This award is made by theAcademy of Accounting Historians for the bestresearch manuscript in Accounting History presentedat an accounting conference in 2006 for a paper titled‘The best brains in public accountancy – The restrictedmembership of the Army Accountancy Advisory Panel1942–1945’.

Dr Nikos Nikiforakis, Economics, received acommendation as part of the University’s KnowledgeTransfer Excellence Awards. The Commendation is in recognition of Nikos’ efforts in the various trainingmodules and other related work that he hasundertaken for the Victorian Department of Treasuryand Finance.

Professor Stewart Leech, Accounting and BusinessInformation Systems, received an ICAA MeritoriousService Award, recognising his long record of serviceto the accounting profession and, in particular, theICAA. The award was granted for Stewart’s service to Education within the Institute.

Dr Angela Paladino won the Pearson ANZMACEmerging Marketing Educator of the Year Award 2006.The award is made to the person judged to have bestdemonstrated a course design, content, process anddelivery to advance their students knowledge andunderstanding of, and capability in, the field ofmarketing.

Angela also received a Best Paper award for the Strategy and Market Orientation Track at the ANZMAC conference. The paper was titled Analysingthe Characteristics and Consequences of ResourceOrientation: An Empirical Study and was jointly written with Danielle Chmielewski.

Yuelan Chen and Vicar Valencia from theDepartment of Economics were awarded ‘BestPresentation’ – the only prizes awarded at the Annual Economics and Business PhD Conference held 31 October – 2 November, 2007.

Dr Elison Lim, Management and Marketing, receivedthe ANZMAC Emerging Marketing Researcher of theYear Award 2007.

Dr Isabel Metz, Management and Marketing, won the Best Paper Gender and Diversity in OrganisationsStream ANZAM 2007 for her paper on ‘Women Leaveto Have Babies: Fact or Fiction?’ an investigation ofwomen leaving the banking sector.

Distinctions and Awards

Associate Professor Lea Waters received a nationalCarrick Award for Teaching Excellence in 2007.


Conferences and workshops

On February 9 the Teaching and Learning Unit hostedthe third annual ‘Quantitative Analysis of Teaching andLearning in Higher Education in Business, Economicsand Commerce Forum’.

On 20th March 2007, the Department of Accountingand Business Information Systems sponsored aknowledge management seminar open to members of the public. Mr Arthur Shelley, former GlobalTechnology Knowledge Manager for Cadbury-Schweppes PLC gave the Keynote Address.

The Department of Finance hosted the NYU DownUnder Derivatives Conference on 29 March 2007. The conference speakers included prominent financeacademics from the Stern School of Business, theUniversity of Manchester and NUS. Keynote speakerwas Professor Rob Engle, Nobel Laureate.

Professor Terrance O’Dean, the Willis H. BoothProfessor of Banking and Finance at the Haas School of Business at the University of California-Berkley, gave a seminar at the Melbourne Centre for FinancialStudies on 12 July 2007, jointly sponsored by theDepartments of Accounting and Business InformationSystems and the Department of Finance.

The Department of Finance hosted the Correlationsand Copulas Conference on 21 September 2007. The conference was co-hosted by the ARC FinancialIntegrity Research Network, the School of AppliedStatistics and Finance at ANU, and the MCFS. Theprogram featured speakers from overseas andinterstate. The audience included a large number of Melbourne finance practitioners and academicsfrom a number of Melbourne universities.

A conference entitled ‘The Information EconomicsRevolution – a conference in honour of Sir JamesMirrlees’ was held in conjunction with the MelbourneBusiness School, Faculty of Economics andCommerce and the Economic Design Network on 14-15 March 2007.

All departments ran regular seminars and workshopsthroughout the year.

Student conferences and events

The Faculty sponsored the 2007 FinancialManagement Association of Australia ‘Be InspiredWomen’s Forum’ held at NAB Docklands.

The Faculty sponsored the AIESEC Australia JulyNational Conference 2007, held at the University of Melbourne.

Public Lectures

The annual Ken Spencer Memorial Lecture was held on 5 March. Jointly sponsored by the FinancialReporting Council and the three professionalaccounting bodies, the Department of Accounting andBusiness Information Systems was proud to host theevent on campus. The topic, ‘Keep it Simple, Stupid!Can Global Standards be Principle Based?’ waspresented by Sir David Tweedie, Chairman of the International Accounting Standards Board.

A special public seminar jointly organised by theDepartment of Management and Marketing and the Melbourne Business School, was delivered by His Excellency Mr Gligor Tashkovich, Minister for Foreign Investment, Republic of Macedonia on 12 July 2007. The title of the seminar was ‘Challenges and Opportunities of Investing in Emerging Markets: Macedonia Case Study’.

The 2007 Miegunyah Public Lecture was delivered by Professor John Heywood of the University ofWisconsin – Milwaukee on 1 August 2007. Hisaddress was on ‘A Comparative View of Unions,Involvement and Productivity’.

The Department of Accounting and BusinessInformation Systems and CPA Australia jointly hostedthe 68th Annual Research Lecture, ‘The Use andMisuse of Intelligent Systems in Accounting: The Risk of Technology Dominance’ presented byProfessor Stewart Leech on 10 September 2007.

Professorial Fellow Paul Smyth, General Manager,Social Action Research for the Brotherhood of StLaurence delivered the 22nd Annual Foenander Public Lecture on 3 October 2007.

The Max Corden lecture, titled ‘Globalisation, Crisesand Growth’, was given by Professor Sebastian

Edwards, Henry Ford II Professor of InternationalBusiness Economics, University of California, LosAngeles (UCLA) on Thursday October 11 2007.

Professor Raymond Zammuto gave a public lecture titles ‘Managerial Ideologies and CorporateCultures’ on 27 November 2007.

The 2007 Downing Lecture was delivered on 6 December by Professor Steve Pudney of theInstitute for Social and Economic Research at theUniversity of Essex. The lecture was titled "Drugspolicy: a role for economic research?"

Industry links

During 2007 the Faculty established an Advisory Board to contribute to the leadership of the Faculty and advise on the establishment of the MelbourneGraduate School of Management and theimplementation of the New Generation Bachelor of Commerce. The Advisory Board also plays a keyrole in keeping the Faculty in touch with issuesaffecting the business community and ensures thatour programs continue to meet industry needs.

Former Reserve Bank Governor Ian Macfarlane is oneof the many eminent business and community leadersthat make up the Advisory Board. The board is chairedby prominent business leader and Chairman of PeonyCapital, Mr Peter Yates, and includes Committee forMelbourne CEO Sally Capp, Seek co-founder PaulBassat and former Western Mining CEO Hugh Morgan.

Awards were sponsored by the following organisationsin 2007:

Being part of the Economics and Commerce CareerMentoring Program was a significant step towardssuccess for 55 selected graduate students who werematched with industry mentors according to theirdegree specialisation and interest. In 2007 Mentorscame from a very wide range of professional fieldsfrom the private and public sectors alike, many ofthem University of Melbourne alumni, interested to be part of successful mentor-mentee relationshipsenabling students to gain insights into specificindustries and begin to develop personal andprofessional networks.

Mentors came to the ten-month program from large,medium and small organisations including Deloitte,Telstra, KPMG, AAMI, JP Morgan Chase Bank Berhad,Halstead Financial Services, Commonwealth Bank,Department of Human Services Victoria, Synergy Plus,CSIRO, MediGroup Australia, Hobsons, Cubit MediaResearch, and Toll Holdings Ltd.

The Department of Management and Marketing have had much positive feedback about their third year Management Practicum subject, where studentsare teamed into groups and assigned to a PracticumOrganisation. In 2007, students undertook placementsat a range of business and government organisations.This subject gives students to opportunity to explore a host-specified business project of strategicimportance and produce and present a reportproposing recommendations. The participatingorganisations identify the scope, opportunities andconstraints of the project, and students learn to workwith unstructured and incomplete information, anddevelop essential planning, research, and teamworkskills. There are a limited number of places in thissubject, and students are selected on the basis ofacademic merit.

Business and CommunityFaculty members contribute to professional and public debate through a range of conferences,lectures, short courses and articles in the print media. In turn, representatives of the businesscommunity, government and non-profit bodies provide major input into the activities of the Faculty through membership of advisory boards, and participation in conferences and seminars.Some of the Faculty’s 2007 activities are listed below.

Australian FinanceConference

Bain and Company

Booz Allen Hamilton

Citigroup

Commercial TravellersAssociation of Victoria

CommInsure

CPA Australia

DDB Melbourne

Deloitte

Department ofEmployment andWorkplace Relations

Deutsche Bank

Economic Society of Australia

Ernst & Young

Finsia

The Institute of Actuaries of Australia

KPMG

Oracle Corporation

Taxpayers Australia Inc

Tillinghast

Trowbridge Deloitte

UBS

UMCAS

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Statistical tables

International Total Course students enrolments

BA/BCom 75 862

BAgr/BCom 0 2

BAgrSc/BCom 0 15

BCom 1820 3581

BCom(Hon)/BIS 0 4

BCom(Hons) 45 135

BCom(Hons)/BSc 0 3

BCom(Hons)/LLB 1 12

BCom/BIS 21 206

BCom/BPC 16 100

BCom/BSc 21 335

BCom/LLB 150 413

BE(IT)/BCom 33 120

BE/BCom 132 592

Total Undergraduate 2314 6380

Certificates 0 7Diplomas 7 40Masters (CW) 1065 1621Masters (Res) 17 41PhD 35 104

Total Graduate 1124 1813

Total 4566 10026

Table 1 Numbers of Unique Students Enrolledin a Faculty Course in 2007

Table 3 Full-Year Teaching Load by Nature of Enrolment, 2007

Australian International AustralianLevel subsidised fee-paying fee-paying Total

Bachelors (Pass) 1995 1756 250 4001Bachelors (Hons) 85 44 2 131Diploma 0 9 22 31Masters (CW) 26 864 302 1192Masters (Res) 3 2 0 5PhD 56 40 1 96

Total 2164 2715 577 5456

Note: Components may not add to totals owing to rounding

Table 4 Full-Year Teaching Load by Department, 2007

Higher HigherUnder- Degrees Degrees

Department graduate Diplomas (Coursework) (Research) Total

Accounting 935 3 425 9 1371

Economics 1346 15 171 32 1563

Finance 1011 6 199 13 1229

Management 840 8 397 44 1289

MIAESR 3 3

Total 4132 31 1192 101 5456

Table 2 Teaching Load, 1997-2007

Other than Higher Higher

Year Degree Degree Total

2007 4163 1293 5456

2006 3993 1094 5087

2005 3997 941 4938

2004 3840 727 4567

2003 3793 571 4364

2002 3570 419 3989

2001 3264 331 3595

2000 3073 266 3439

1999 3147 256 3403

1998 2864 220 3084

1997 2621 174 2795

Table 6 Research and Research Staff by Category

Category Number

Professor 31.0

Above Senior Lecturer 32.4

Senior Lecturer 29.8

Lecturer 47.6

Below Lecturer 7.3

Total 148.1 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007

100%

80%

60%

40%

20%

0%2003 2004 2005 2006 2007

18.9%19.1%

8.4% 5.1% 5.2%

52.9% 57.2%66.8%

57.4%

Other

Salary

Non-salary

Research income

Student fee income

DEST operating grant

60

50

40

30

20

10

0

Table 5 Number of Academic and Professional Staff by Department

Teaching and Research Research Only Professional StaffDepartment Full-time Casual Full-time Casual Full-time Casual

Faculty General 8.8 0.2 0.6 – 81.5 6.5

Accounting & Bus InfoSys 33.0 15.2 – – 9.9 4.1

Economics 41.4 38.7 3.0 – 15.4 2.4

Finance 23.3 12.8 1.4 – 10.0 2.6

Management & Marketing 40.6 11.7 – – 9.8 3.8

MIAESR 1.0 – 36.9 – 7.7 1.0

Total 148.1 78.6 41.9 – 134.3 20.4

Table 8 Sources of Revenue

Table 7 Total Operating Expenditure 2007

Not included in non-salary costs is theUniversity Overhead of$39.369m Trust fundtransfer of $0.040m or other costs.

19.3%12.5%

1.6%

67.7%

11.4%

15.4%

5.5%

19.8% 18.6% 18.2% 19.1%

Notes: Components may not add to totals owing torounding. Higher Degrees(Research) total forEconomics includesActuarial Studies.

$mill

ion


Australian Research Council –Discovery Project SchemeAdministered by the University of Melbourne

Share Buybacks and InformationAsymmetry: Winners and LosersA/Professor C A Brown,A/Professor J C Handley,A/Professor A S Lamba

Location Based Personalisation inMobile Commerce (MCommerce)Dr S Ho, Professor K Tam

Bayesian Analysis of TreatmentEffects in Experiments withImperfect ComplianceDr L Jacobi

The Pricing and Risk Managementof Reverse Mortgages in theAustralian MarketA/Professor M S Joshi, ProfessorD C Dickson, Dr D G Pitt

Three Decades of FinancialDistress and CorporateRestructuring in AustraliaProfessor P Kofman, Dr H WChan, Professor B D Grundy

Accelerating ExpertiseDevelopment Using KnowledgeStructures and Expert SystemsProfessor S A Leech, Professor S G Sutton, Professor V Arnold,A/Professor J Rose

An Empirical Analysis of StructuralCost Management DecisionMakingProfessor A M Lillis, A/Professor S W Anderson

Effects of Private Health Insurance on Health Care Usageand Health Outcomes in AustraliaDr J Yong, Dr A Palangkaraya,Professor J W Freebairn

Australian Research Council –Linkage Grant SchemeAdministered by the University of Melbourne

An Evidence Based Approach to Developing Human and Social Capital in OrganisationsA/Professor M Kraimer,A/Professor S Seibert, Dr L D SargentIndustry Partner: Deloitte

Aged Care in Crisis? The Effects of Work Organisation on Nurse,Resident and OrganisationalOutcomesDr L D Sargent, A/Professor W G HarleyIndustry Partner: AustralianNursing Federation (VictoriaBranch)

Understanding Cycles in MineralCommodity Price, a Market Modelwith UncertaintyA/Professor F J VazquezAbad,Professor D Dufresne, Dr MMenabde, Professor A van denNouwelandIndustry Partner: BHP Billiton

Administering Organisation:Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Administered by other Institutionswith Faculty of Economics andCommerce Chief Investigators

Information Technology (IT) AuditMethodologies in the AustralianPublic Sector: AddressingMandatory Requirements of International StandardsProfessor P F Green, Dr G JRidley, Professor C B Ferguson, Dr P J CoramIndustry Partners: CPA Australia,Institute of Chartered Accountantsin Australia, Tasmanian AuditOffice

Administering Organisation: The University of Queensland

Ageing Baby Boomers in Australia(ABBA): Informing Actions forBetter RetirementProfessor H L Kendig, Dr Y DWells, Professor M P Wooden, Dr K M O’Loughlin, Professor D A De VausIndustry Partners: NationalSeniors, AARP

Administering Organisation: The University of Sydney

Carrick Institute For Learningand Teaching in HigherEducation National GrantsAddressing the on-going Englishlanguage growth of internationalstudentsMartin Davies (TLU) along withrepresentatives from Monash,Edith Cowan, Macquarie andDeakin universities.

Measuring Student Experience:The Relationship betweenTeaching Quality Instruments(TQIs) and the Course ExperienceQuestionnaire (CEQ)Joe Hirschberg, Jenny Lye(Economics) and Carol Johnstonand Martin Davies (TLU)

The University of MelbourneEarly Career Grants

Accounting and BusinessInformation SystemsAudit Support System Adaptation:Issues Encountered by AuditorsSwitching FirmsDr Carlin Dowling

EconomicsIdentifying External Benefits from Sanitation Improvements:Evidence from Indonesia Dr Manisha Shah

Research Grants awarded in 2007 for projects commencing in 2008

Belinda Allen (ARC Fellow), Associate Professor Bill Harley and Dr Leisa Sargent are investigating the state of aged care in Australia, in partnership

with the Australian Nursing Federation.


PhD Theses Completed

Accounting and BusinessInformation SystemsStrategic Information Systems and Organizational Performance:Testing an Integrated Model of Business Value CreationMohamed-Elmutasim Z Elbashir

Discriminating Accounting Signalsfrom Noise: An InformationAggregation PerspectiveYeng Wai Lau

Exploring the Dynamics ofManaging Interfirm Relationships:With a Focus on Non-EquityStrategic AlliancesYee Shih Phua

EconomicsOutsourcing Decisions of aMultinational: a Theoretical Modeland Empirical Evidence fromToyota, Southeast AsiaWitada Anukoonwattaka

The Attainment and Influence of Skill in AustraliaDavid William Johnston

Estimation and Testing of aFractionally Integrated ModelUnder HeteroskedasticityHsein Yoong Kew

Uncertainty of Outstanding Claims LiabilitiesKa Ki Jackie Li

Monetary Policy and ExchangeRate VolatilitySze-Young Lim

Fair Valuation of InsuranceLiabilities: A Case StudyManabu Sato

Testing for Financial Contagion:Theory and ApplicationsLei Ming Chrismin Tang

Efficiency and ProductivityAnalysis of Australian BankingSector Under DeregulationSu Wu

FinanceAn Empirical Study of CorporateBond Pricing with UnobservedCapital Structure DynamicsIan Campbell MacLachlan

Management and MarketingThe Impact of Knowledge Strategy and Knowledge Capability on PerformanceRodger Mitchell Casselman

The Relationship BetweenMotivation and Effort in theImplementation of ISOManagement Systems andOrganisational PerformanceMei Feng

Management Practices thatEnhance Innovation Intensity and Performance in Biotechnology FirmsJohn Phillip Morgan

The Weaving of the Web: The Discursive Construction,Dynamics, and Implications ofMetaphors on Internet PortalsZelinna Cynthia Pablo

Knowledge Sharing ThroughInpatriate Assignments inMultinational Corporations: A Social Capital PerspectiveBjoern Sebastian Reiche

Employees’ Readiness andCommitment to Change: TheMissing Links to SuccessfulCustomer RelationshipManagement ImplementationPhilip Po Luk Shum

Melbourne Institute of AppliedEconomic and Social ResearchAspects of Propensity ScoreMatchingWang-Sheng Lee

An Empirical Investigation intoEquity Market Feedback andMomentum, Co-movement, and the Macroeconomic Contentof Pricing FactorsSarantis Tsiaplias

Melbourne Institute of AppliedEconomic and Social ResearchThe Effect of Women’s‘Involuntary’ Lifestyle on their Life SatisfactionDr Sung-Hee Jeon

Faculty Research Grants

EconomicsMatching Markets in Australia:Examples and EvaluationProfessor Jeff Borland

Community-Led SanitationInterventions: The Role of Social CapitalA/Professor Lisa Cameron, Dr Manisha Shah

Unit Root Tests in the PossiblePresence of Structural BreaksA/Professor David Harris

Oil, Ethnicity and Civil Wars Dr Roland Hodler

A Numerical Investigation of the Asymptotics of BinomialApproximations to the American Put Option A/Professor Mark Joshi

Multilateral Matching, Bargaining,and the Wage DistributionProfessor Ian King

The Impact of Property Rights in Experimental MarketsDr Nikos Nikiforakis

Dividing MoneyProfessor Nilss Olekalns,Professor Ian McDonald,Dr Nikos Nikiforakis

Macroeconomics of Transition:Theory and EvidenceDr Lawrence Uren

FinanceEuropean IPOs Targeted at U.S.Investors: The Effect of Enron and Sarbanes-Oxley on Initial IPO DiscountsDr Ali Akyol

Understanding the Risks in and Rewards for Pairs-TradingDr Michael Chng

Management and MarketingThe Timing of Entry of LineExtensions: A Firm-Based and Market-Based PerspectiveDr Danielle Chmielewski

Improving ManagementCommunication in the AustralianBusiness CommunityDr Jennifer Frahm

The Effectiveness of HumanResource Management in the Australian Private SecurityIndustry: A Preliminary StudyA/Professor Bill Harley, Professor Graham Sewell

The Networked MultinationalCorporation: An Investigation of Australian SubsidiariesDr Stewart Johnston, A/Professor Christina Cregan

Global Manufacturing ResearchGroup: Survey of AustralianManufacturing Practices and PerformanceA/Professor Damien Power

Melbourne Institute of AppliedEconomic and Social ResearchInterrelated Dynamics of Income and HealthDr Hielke Buddelmeyer, Dr Lixin Cai

Not all Monetary Policy Shocks are Created EqualDr Edda Claus

Dynamic Adaptations of Well-Being and Ill-Being in Panel DataDr Wang-Sheng Lee, Dr Umut Oguzoglu

Examining Feedback, Momentum,and Overreaction in NationalEquity MarketsDr Sarantis Tsiaplias

Estimating Adverse Selection in the Private Health InsuranceMarket in AustraliaDr Julia Witt

Faculty Early CareerResearcher Grants

Accounting and BusinessInformation SystemsFactoring Dispersion into HighKnowledge Specificity: A Typology of Control DesignsDr Viravalli G Sridharan

EconomicsTrade and Welfare Implications of Interstate Trade Frictions inIndiaDr Russell Hillberry

The Impact of Property Rights in Experimental MarketsDr Nikolaos Nikiforakis

FinanceUnderstanding the Risks in and Rewards for Pairs-TradingMr Michael Chng

Management and MarketingProbing Payola: The Effects ofCorporate Corruption in RadioBroadcastingDr Joeri Mol

Melbourne Institute of AppliedEconomic and Social ResearchUsing Prior Information to Forecast Turning PointsDr Michael Chua, Dr Ching Nam Low

Labour Supply Modelling in a CGE-Microsimulation ModelsDr Nicolas Herault

Estimation of Dynamic Non-Linear Panel Data Models: A Simulation StudyDr Wang-Sheng Lee, Dr Umut Oguzoglu


Department of Accounting and BusinessInformation Systems

The Department of Accounting and BusinessInformation Systems is one of the largest and oldestaccounting departments in Australia. It attracts thehighest calibre of academic staff enabling it toestablish itself as a leader in research, teaching and learning.

Part of the Department’s success has been its ability to respond to the demand of industry and the profession by providing high quality graduates,conducting cutting-edge research, and providingcustomised non-credit programs for both industry and the profession. Many of our graduates have goneon to become leaders in industry, government and theprofession. The Department is building on its positionas one of the leading accounting departments inAustralia by focusing on its core strengths inaccounting, business analysis and accountinginformation systems.

The Department’s programs are dynamic and evolvingto meet the changing requirements of the businessworld. Strong links to the community and industryallow the Department to tap into current issues andindustry requirements, work with leading figures andoffer the best to its students.

The Department has a strong research profile. Its PhD program, comprising one year of coursework andtwo-year full-time thesis, is one of the most active andrespected in the region. Several of the Department’s30 academic staff currently hold ARC grants and serveon the editorial board of a number of leadinginternational academic journals.

Department of Economics

The Department of Economics at the University ofMelbourne is the leading Economics department inAustralia. It is a large department with 58 teaching and research staff. The Department includes theCentre for Actuarial Studies.

The Department is committed to achieving the higheststandards in research in economics and econometricsby making contributions to international knowledgethat are publishable in leading international journals,and by undertaking international quality research on the Australian economy and economic policy issues.

There is a strong emphasis within the Department onencouraging a good research culture and promotingcollaboration. Major areas of research are: economictheory; econometric theory; microeconomic andmacroeconomic analysis and policy design; theAustralian macro-economy; operation of financialmarkets; health and well-being; Asian economies and the economics of international trade anddevelopment; and the economics of education.

The Department places a high value on its teachingprogram and the quality of that program. Its objectivesare to offer excellent and innovative teaching in bothundergraduate and graduate programs and to offer a set of subjects that meet the requirements ofstudents while being up-to-date with developments in the disciplines of economics and econometrics.Teaching covers the core areas of microeconomics,macroeconomics and quantitative methods/econometrics, as well as most other specialist areas such as monetary economics, game theory,development economics, environmental economics,and economic history.

There is a long tradition within the Department of providing policy advice and expert opinions togovernment and private organisations. Members of the Department serve on government inquiries and boards, and undertake work for a wide variety of international agencies.

Departmental ProfilesMaster of Commerce (byThesis) ManagementOutsourcing and OffshoreProduction in China by Companies in AustraliaMr Jeffrey Jian Wang

Faculty Honours (Research)ScholarshipsIn 2007, eighteen Honoursstudents were awardedstudentships to work withacademics to develop theirresearch essays into publishable journal articles.

Accounting and BusinessInformation SystemThe Effects of the IFRS Adoptionon the Costs of the Audit FunctionE De George

Actuarial StudiesOptimal Levels of Reinsurance in the Classical Risk ModelC Beveridge

EconomicsPreference Anomalies and SimpleHeuristicsL Blanckenberg

Contract Design for a MatchingMarket: Victoria’s Market forRevegetation ContractsI Burfurd

Proprietary Innovation in thePresence of Open SourceDevelopmentM Chicu

Global and Regional Cooperationwith Heterogenous ComplianceP Doupe

Changing PopulationDemographics and GrowthA Goldbloom

The Impact of Monetary PolicyNews on the Exchange Rate:Evidence from Australia and the USA Gray

The Effect of Children onWomen’s Earnings: Evidence from Australian DataL Krepp

Examining the Transition of Older Australian Workers to Full and Partial RetirementJ Thomson

What is the Relationship betweenIncome and Health for IndigenousChildren in Australia?K Vardy

FinanceWarranting Attention: ARetrospective Study ofEndowment WarrantsS Denham

Negative Cash Flows: MoreInsight into the Effects of Financial Constraints on Cash Flow SensitivitiesE Fung

The Implications of InformationLeakage for the Choice of M&A AdvisorA Zhu

Management and MarketingSelling Out or Selling Soul:Balancing Authenticity and MarketRelevance in the Fashion IndustryP Chen

Australian Service SMEs in China:Determinants of InternationalSuccessK Donovan

Antecedents and Consequencesof Career PlateauM Haydock

Analysing the Effects of Prestigeon Environmental Attitudes and Behaviours Upon Low-Involvement Purchases: Does Branding Matter?M Yeoh

Visiting Research ScholarGrantsThe following international visitorswere supported in 2007.

Accounting and BusinessInformation SystemsProfessor S Anderson (Rice University, USA)

Professor P Easton (University of Notre Dame, USA)

Professor J Francis (University of Missouri, USA)

EconomicsProfessor J C van Ours (TilburgUniversity, The Netherlands)

Professor P Schmidt (MichiganState University, USA)

Professor J Kennan (University of Wisconsin, USA)

Management and MarketingProfessor K M Kacmar (TheUniversity of Alabama, USA)

Professor C Snow (PennsylvaniaState University, USA)

Professor U Juttner, (CranfieldUniversity, UK and University of Applied Sciences, Lucerne,Switzerland)

Professor A Madhok (York University, Canada)

Dr Fabrice Roth (IAE LyonUniversity, France)

Melbourne Institute of AppliedEconomic and Social ResearchProfessor P Sloane (University of Swansea, UK)

Professor R Drago (PennsylvaniaState University, USA)

Dr J Frick (Techincal University,Berlin, Germany)

Professor M Ryan (University of Aberdeen, UK)


Department of Finance

Finance has been taught at the University ofMelbourne for many years, but a separate departmentspecialising in finance was not established until July2001. The Department now has 25 full-time academicstaff, 7.8 EFT professional staff and a large number ofsessional teaching staff. In 2007, the Department ofFinance had approximately 9,680 subject enrolments,of which 7,800 were undergraduate, and 1,880 were postgraduate students. The Department has aparticularly strong honours program with intakerestricted to around 40 of the very best undergraduatestudents. A suite of postgraduate programs is offered,ranging from the practitioner-oriented Master ofApplied Finance and Master of Financial Managementto the more academically-oriented Master ofCommerce in Finance and the PhD in Finance.

Current research interests of department staff span the field of finance and include asset pricing,derivatives, corporate finance, market microstructure,financial institutions, real estate finance andinternational finance. The Department is particularlystrong in derivatives research, with the MelbourneDerivatives Research Group as a focal point. Tosupport its research activities, the Department hasaccess to all major financial databases, includingWRDS, Datastream, Bloomberg and IRESS.

The Department of Finance is committed to know -ledge transfer. The Department is one of the foundingmembers of the Melbourne Centre for FinancialStudies, established in 2005 to foster a partnershipbetween public and private sectors, and industry andacademia. Department staff members offer tailoredexecutive education programs, actively participate inprofessional associations, and are frequently invited toconsult for the finance and corporate industry and forthe public sector. In exchange, finance practitionersactively participate in our teaching programs, byproviding applied topics lectures in our undergraduatefinance program and by lecturing specialist subjects in our professional graduate programs.

Department of Management and Marketing

The Department of Management and Marketingprovides integrated education in the disciplines ofmanagement and marketing. The main competenceareas in management are human resourcemanagement and industrial relations, internationalmanagement, managing business and organisation and operations management. The main competenceareas in marketing are marketing management andcommunication and customer strategy.

At the undergraduate level the Department has offereda Bachelor of Commerce (Management) and a numberof professional and practitioner Masters-level degrees.The overarching pedagogical aim of the Department is to develop in students strong leadership capabilitiesin the practice of management and marketing.

There is also a strong focus on research in theDepartment, which supports five research centres: the Melbourne Centre for International Business, theCentre for Global Innovation and Entrepreneurship, theFoundation for Sustainable Economic Development,The Centre for Human Resource Management andThe International Centre for Research in OrganisationalDiscourse, Strategy and Change.

The student load in the Department is over 1,200 full-time equivalents, with over 750 undergraduate and 250 postgraduate students. There are 20 honoursstudents and over 55 PhD students in a wide range of areas reflecting the diverse theoretical traditions and methodologies represented in the Department.Full-time academic staff numbered 39 in 2007.

Melbourne Institute of Applied Economicand Social Research

The Melbourne Institute is a research department ofthe Faculty of Economics and Commerce. Establishedin 1962 under the leadership of Professor RonaldHenderson, it was the first research institute of its kind in Australia. It has had six Directors: RonaldHenderson, Peter Dixon, Richard Blandy, PeterDawkins, John Freebairn and Stephen Sedgwick.Throughout its history, the Melbourne Institute hasmade significant contributions to economic and socialresearch on Australia and contributed strongly toeconomic and social policy analysis, debate anddevelopment.

In 2007, it had a staff of about 47 as well as a number of honorary appointments.

The Melbourne Institute operates in four researchareas:

Y labour economics and social policy

Y applied macroeconomics

Y industrial economics

Y health economics.

The Melbourne Institute is also the home of Australia’smajor longitudinal survey of Household, Income andLabour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA), which is led bythe Melbourne Institute’s Deputy Director, ProfessorMark Wooden, under a contract with theCommonwealth Department of Families, Housing,Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA).

As well as contributing strongly to the academicliterature in applied economic research, both inAustralia and internationally, the Melbourne Institutehas a long-standing tradition of working closely withbusiness, government and community groups byproviding research and consultancy services.

During 2007, major clients of the Melbourne Instituteincluded the Australian Government Departments of Families, Housing, Community Services andIndigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA) and Employment andWorkplace Relations (DEWR), Victorian Department ofTreasury and Finance, Westpac Banking Corporation,TD Securities and the Reserve Bank of Australia, aswell as the University of Melbourne. Currently, theMelbourne Institute has a major research contract forthe provision of social policy research with DEWR.

The Melbourne Institute has also been successful inwinning substantial ARC funding, both Discovery andLinkage grants. It is home to a NHMRC grant toconduct a longitudinal survey of Doctors, known asMedicine in Australia: Balancing Employment and Life (MABEL). The first wave of the survey is plannedfor May 2008.

The Melbourne Institute also provides postgraduateeducation at the PhD level.

The Melbourne Institute is the home of one ofAustralia’s leading academic journals in Economics, the Australian Economic Review. This has a strongpolicy focus and a readership that extends beyond the academic community. The Australian EconomicReview is included in the prestigious Social SciencesCitation Index (only the second non-specialisteconomics journal from Australia to be included).

The Melbourne Institute publishes regular economicindicator reports such as the Westpac – MelbourneInstitute Indexes of Economic Activity; the Westpac –Melbourne Institute Survey of Consumer Sentiment;the Melbourne Institute Survey of Consumer Inflation -ary Expectations; the Melbourne Institute WagesReport; the TD Securities – Melbourne InstituteMonthly Inflation Gauge; and the Manpower –Melbourne Institute Employment Report.


The Economic Theory Centre

The key objectives of the Centre are to facilitateinternational affiliations and international researchlinkages, including for research training, and to be afocus for external research funding in economic theory.

The Centre is jointly operated with MelbourneBusiness School. The Director of the Centre isProfessor Joshua Gans. The Centre has adistinguished international Advisory Board.

The Centre for Microeconometrics

Located within the Department of Economics, theCentre is a focal point for research in microecono -metrics. Its members, staff and PhD students aredrawn from the Department and the MelbourneInstitute of Applied Economic and Social Research.The Centre is concerned with the development,evaluation and application of microeconometricmethods. Branches of economics currently researched by the Centre include consumerexpenditure analysis, environmental economics, labour economics, health economics, transporteconomics, measurement of inequality and poverty,and measurement of productivity and efficiency.Methodological research includes panel data methods and discrete choice modelling and estimation.

The Centre hosts national and international visitors,holds regular workshops to discuss work in progress,and holds occasional conferences involving otherresearchers from Australia and overseas, includinggroups from industry and government departments.

The Centre held a one-day workshop on 23 March,2007 at which the presenters were Peter Schmidt(Michigan State University), Christine Amsler (MichiganState University), Murray Smith (University of Sydney),Holger Sieg (Carnegie Mellon University), and TrevorBreusch (Australian National University).

The Centre hosted the following visitors in 2007:John Kennan, University of WisconsinArild Angelsen, Norwegian University of Life SciencesCharles Plott, California Institute of TechnologySubha Mani, University of Southern CaliforniaRaj Arunachalam, University of MichiganDavid Ribar, University of North Carolina atGreensboroughAsadul A Islam, Monash UniversityRodney Strachan, University of QueenslandJennifer Foster, University of South Australia

Tatyana Chesnokova, University of AucklandVasilis Sarafidis, University of SydneyStephen Whelan, University of SydneyChikako Yamaguchi, Australian National UniversityAndrew Leigh, Australian National UniversityFrank Vella, Georgetown UniversityJan van Ours, Tilburg UniversityAnne Line Bretteville-Jensen, Institute for Alcohol and Drug Research, NorwayThor Thoresen, Statistics Norway.Peter Schmidt, Michigan State UniversityChristine Amsler, Michigan State UniversityMurray Smith, University of SydneyHolger Sieg, Carnegie Mellon UniversityTrevor Breusch, Australian National UniversityThe Director of the Centre is Professor Bill Griffiths

The Centre for Macroeconomics

The Centre for Macroeconomics is a joint centre of theDepartment of Economics and the Melbourne Instituteof Applied Economic and Social Research. The mainobjective of the Centre is to foster research, researchtraining, and teaching in macroeconomics at theUniversity of Melbourne.

The Centre seeks to:

Y facilitate international affiliations and internationalresearch linkages

Y facilitate the training of research students

Y be a focus for external research funding

Y organise conferences and workshops

Y encourage research-based policy advice.

The Centre has been involved in the organisation ofthe Australasian Macroeconomics Workshop, hashosted international and Australian visitors and has a weekly seminar series. Members of the Centreresearch topics such as monetary and fiscal policies,the analysis of business cycles, interactions betweenthe labour market and the economy, and the linkagesbetween the domestic and world economies. TheDirector of the Centre is Professor Ian King.

The Centre for Actuarial Studies

The Centre for Actuarial Studies is located in theDepartment of Economics. The Director of the Centre is Professor David Dickson.

The Centre offers a program which is fully accreditedby the Institute of Actuaries of Australia.

Graduates who obtain marks above prescribed levels in certain subjects can receive exemptions from the Institute of Actuaries of Australia and/or theInstitute/Faculty of Actuaries (UK). The Centre alsooffers distance education.

Staff within the Centre are active researchers withactuarial interests ranging from the more theoretical to the practical. Staff interests necessarily span the full spectrum of expertise required for professionalaccreditation, but the Centre is internationally knownfor its research in the areas of ruin theory and financialmathematics.

The Centre’s research is highly recognised on theinternational scene and adds strongly to its reputation.The international links of the Centre are also evidentwith regular visits from leading academics and anumber of students involved in exchange programs.

The Centre maintains strong links with the actuarialprofession and related areas within Australia. Theselinks are highlighted by the presence of high profileactuaries on the Centre’s Advisory Board and theUniversity of Melbourne Actuarial Foundation.

The Asian Economics Centre

The Asian Economics Centre is located within theDepartment of Economics and serves as a forum forbringing together those with an interest in research onAsian economies and economic development issues.

The Centre’s objectives are:

Y to initiate and develop research into Asianeconomies and Australia-Asia economic relations,and build collaborative links and partnerships withAustralian and international research groupsengaged in similar research.

Y to foster and promote informed discussion on theeconomics of Asian countries within academia,business and industry, the government sector and the wider public.

Y to encourage and provide advice on the teaching of subjects related to economics of Asian countriesat the undergraduate, graduate and continuingeducation levels.

The Director of the Centre is Associate Professor Sisira Jayasuriya.

Centres in the Faculty


The Centre for Human ResourceManagement

Established in 1999, and located within theDepartment of Management and Marketing, theCentre for Human Resource Management (CHRM)operates as a bridge between the academic andbusiness communities. Its aim is to facilitate researchon employment issues and disseminate research findings to impact practice and policy.

The Centre’s members bring a broad range ofdisciplinary perspectives (from industrial relations,psychology, economics and sociology) andmethodological expertise to bear upon contemporaryhuman resource challenges. They regularly engage incollaborative work with industry partners to addressproblems of mutual interest. The key research focus is on human resource management and employmentrelations in the Asia-Pacific region, North America and Europe.

The CHRM organises seminars, lecture series, andBusiness Forum events designed to promote researchon human resource management topics and developthe careers and skills of HRM researchers. The Centreregularly hosts international visitors and in 2005-2007is sponsoring a series of research methods workshopsfor academic researchers. In line with its internationaloutlook, the Centre encourages collaborative researchprojects with leading overseas universities andarranges research of international scholars in the fields of human resource management andemployment relations.

The Centre also works with Australian businesses and government institutions on both collaborative and consultative projects and facilitates researchopportunities with the professions, employers, tradeunions and governments (including governmentdepartments). Research findings are disseminatedthrough academic publications, working papers,seminars and conferences.

The Director of the Centre is Associate ProfessorMichelle Brown.

The International Centre for Research inOrganisational Discourse, Strategy andChange

The International Centre for Research in OrganisationalDiscourse, Strategy and Change was launched in 2001with the aim of establishing itself as a world leader inorganisational discourse. The Centre is located in theDepartment of Management and Marketing, and isheaded in Melbourne by Professor Cynthia Hardy. Itlinks international researchers who share an interest in developing and applying discourse methods in thestudy of organisations. It brings together researchersfrom different disciplinary backgrounds, provides acritical mass in research expertise, facilitates cross-disciplinary research, provides a banner for newresearch initiatives, provides contacts and support for doctoral students, and provides resources forworkshops, studies, and other activities.

From the original institutional partners – the Universityof Melbourne, the University of Sydney and McGillUniversity (Centre for Strategy Studies inOrganisations) – the Centre has grown and issupported by leading international managementschools at King’s College, the University of London, the Judge Institute of Management, University ofCambridge, the University of Leicester, Lund University and Texas A&M University.

The Centre’s objectives are:

Y to establish a leading group of world class scholars in organisational discourse in order tofacilitate research on organisational discourse,strategy and change

Y to encourage collaborative research projects among leading universities in the field oforganisational discourse

Y to disseminate research findings on discourseanalysis and its applications through academicpublications, seminars and conferences

Y to facilitate research and teaching interchangesamong scholars who work in this area

Y to increase opportunities for researchers interestedin discourse analysis to interact through specificinitiatives, such as workshops, conferences, etc.

Y to facilitate collaborative links regarding researchand postgraduate training in the field oforganisational discourse.

The Melbourne Centre for InternationalBusiness

The Centre began in 1998 as the Australian Centre for International Business, a collaborative venturebetween the University of Melbourne and theUniversity of New South Wales. During the early years of the Centre’ s existence a number of business reports and a major project on Diversity in the workplace were produced. From 2003 themanagement of the Centre reverted to the Universityof Melbourne. In 2007 the name was changed to the Melbourne Centre of International Business(MCIB) and it continues to deliver leading edgeinternational business research.

The MCIB seeks to conduct ground breaking researchin international business, to educate future leaders ininternational business and to consult with businessand government on matters of policy. The Centre iseclectic in its interdisciplinary areas but has particularexpertise in international business strategy andmanagement, international/cross-cultural humanresource management, international business ethics, and business and economic history.

A major initiative realised early in 2007 was the publication of Dick & Merrett (eds), TheInternationalisation Strategies of Small-Country Firms: The Australian Experience of Globalisation(Elgar, Cheltenham, UK). Members of the MelbourneCentre for International Business have also publishedover 20 books and 200 research papers, conferenceproceedings, chapters in books and consulting reportsspanning all fields of international business research.Working papers are published on the websitewww.managementmarketing. unimelb.edu.au/mcib/.

MCIB is represented at the Academy of InternationalBusiness/ANZIBA, PACIBER and AUSPECC. It also hosts the joint editorship of the AustralianEconomic History Review (Stephen Morgan) andthe Southeast Asia Publications Series of the AsianStudies Association of Australia (Howard Dick).

Co-Directors of the Centre are Professors DavidMerrett and Howard Dick.

Centre for Global Innovation Management(Incorporating the Euro-AustralianCooperation Centre)

The Centre for Global Innovation and Entrepreneurship(CGIE) is based in the Department of Management and Marketing. The Centre has grown out of the Euro-Australian Co-operation Centre for GlobalInnovation and Entrepreneurship, which is nowincorporated into the CGIE. The CGIE missionstatement is:

‘to successfully compete for government and industryfunding to conduct qualitative and quantitative researchon innovation management and entrepreneurshipinvolving Large and Small to Medium Enterprises(SMEs) in Australia, Europe, Asia and USA, and topublish the results in high ranking international journals.’

The Director of the Centre is Associate Professor Milé Terziovski.

The Centre has an Advisory Board drawn from industry and has strong links with Australiangovernment departments and the private sector.

The Centre is concerned with research on globalinnovation management and entrepreneurship. TheCentre carries out research funded by the AustralianResearch Council and the Department of EducationScience and Training, and undertakes contract and joint project research with collaborators through theEuropean Union research framework program.

Foundation for Sustainable EconomicDevelopment

The Department of Management and Marketing hosts the Foundation for Sustainable EconomicDevelopment (FSED). The Foundation was established in 2000 with a mission to create and disseminateresearch to increase the awareness and effectivenessof management practices that deliver betterorganisational performance and less wasteful products and processes.

The Foundation has produced a number of researchpapers and commissioned reports, including TheCollaborative Games in 2001. A significant projectinvestigated corporate sustainable development, fundedby the Australian Business Foundation. The FSED’slatest project involves a significant multi-university ARC Linkage project on ‘Work and Social Cohesion’.

The Director of the Centre is Professor Danny Samson.


The Centre holds regular workshops and exchangesthat bring leading international scholars to Australia; it provides opportunities for academics and doctoralstudents to engage with institutional partners; and itsmembers have contributed to an ongoing stream ofresearch publications on the role of discourse inorganisations.

Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia

The Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia is a collaborative centre of the Faculty of Law, the Faculty of Economics and Commerce, and the Melbourne Business School. It has corefunding from IP Australia.

The Director of the Institute is Professor AndrewChristie, Faculty of Law. The Associate Director, from the Faculty of Economics and Commerce is Dr Elizabeth Webster. Other contributors from thisFaculty include Drs Paul Jensen, Alfons Palangkaraya,Jongsay Yong, Nisvan Erkal, Michael Chua; ProfessorsBill Griffiths and Don McLaren and Ms Anne Leahy.

The Melbourne Centre for Financial Studies

The Melbourne Centre for Financial Studies (MCFS)was established in 2005 to help develop the reputation of Melbourne as a centre of financial research,education and practice. This was an initiative theVictorian Government which also provided seedfunding for the first three years. The MCFS wasestablished as a joint venture, consisting of aconsortium of Melbourne, Monash and RMITUniversities, together with Finsia. The threeuniversities and Finsia have re-committed financial and in-kind support for a further three years of MCFS funding.

The strategic positioning of the Centre is based on:

Y increasing general awareness of the extent of theoverlap in research interests between ‘town andgown’

Y encouraging further development of that overlap in Melbourne

Y identifying mutually beneficial opportunities for ‘town and gown’ by developing superior knowledge about research interests and needs and the location of skills and information necessaryto meet those needs.

The Melbourne Centre’s activities include:

Y identifying and communicating information aboutresearch opportunities for mutual benefit of ‘townand gown’

Y developing a database of knowledge and skill setsavailable

Y facilitating interaction (matching demand for andsupply of specific research activities) between‘town and gown’

Y publicising outcomes from such interaction toincrease awareness of the potential benefits

Y developing and exploiting commercial opportunitiesarising from research activities facilitated and fromits positioning in the market for financial research

Y funding high quality academic research which willenhance the international reputation of Melbourneas a centre of financial research, practice andeducation.

The research agenda of the Melbourne Centre involves an emphasis on innovative, cutting edgeresearch which provides opportunities for the furtherdevelopment of the Melbourne finance industry as a result of the accumulation of knowledge capital.Identifying areas of potential strengths which can becapitalised upon, and new and emerging marketswhere opportunities exist is crucial to this role. In that regard, the Melbourne Centre has established an Industry Advisory Committee of prominent financeindustry practitioners to provide input and advise onthe direction of its research agenda.

The Director of the Centre is Professor Kevin Davis.

Business

Mr Ross Adler, Chairman and CEO, Amtrade International Pty Ltd

Ms Elizabeth Alexander (AM),Chairperson, CSL Limited

Mr Peter Barnes, Director, Ansell Limited

Mr Paul Bassatt, Joint CEO and Co-Founder, Seek Ltd

Mr Philip Brass, Non-ExecutiveDirector, Globe International

Mr Anthony Burgess, Head,Mergers and Acquisitions Europe, Deutsche AG

Mr Terrence Arthur Campbell,Executive Chairman, GoldmanSachs JB Were Pty Ltd

Ms Sally Capp, CEO, Committee for Melbourne

Mr Robert Champion DeCrespigny (AC), Chairman, Mineral Securities

Mr Dick Chan, Executive Chairman, Anglo EasternPlantation PLC, UK

Mr Mark Chiba, Chairman,Longreach Group

Mr Tim Colebatch, CanberraEconomics Editor, The Age

Mr William Conn (OAM),Consultant, Merril Lynch

Mr Laurence Cox (AO), Executive Director, MacquarieBank Limited

Mr Timothy Cox, Partner,PricewaterhouseCoopers

Mr David Crawford,Allens Arthur Robinson

Mr Matthew Davey, ChiefExecutive Officer, Virgin Mobile(Australia) Pty Ltd

Mr Craig Dunn, Chief ExecutiveOfficer, AMP Limited

Mr Thomas Elliott, Director, M M & E Capital, Pty Ltd

Ms Gloria Goh, Ernst & Young,Malaysia

Mr Charles Goode (AC), Chairman,ANZ Bank

Mr Ben Gray, Head of Australiaand New Zealand, NewbridgeCapital

Mr Peter Gunn, Managing Director, PGA Group

Mr Richard Hong, Director, BETA Software Technologies

Ms Merran Kelsall, Director,Melbourne Water Corporation

Mr Russell Kennett, ManagingDirector, State Street Bank andTrust Company

Mr David Kingston, Principal, K Capital Group

Mr Chris Leptos (AM), ManagingPartner-Government Services,Ernst & Young

Mr Leon L’Huillier, Director,Woolworths Group

Mr Alwyn Lim, Principal, AlwynLim & Co

Mr Alastair Lucas, Vice-Chairmanand Managing Director, GoldmanSachs JB Were

Ms Sally Macdonald, ManagingDirector, Oroton Group

Mr Geoffrey Manchester, CEO,Intrepid Travel

Mr Gary Morgan, ExecutiveChairman, Roy Morgan Research

Mr Hugh Morgan (AC), Principal,First Charnock

Mr Rupert Myer (AM), Chairman,Myer Family Company Pty Ltd

Mr Andrew Raftis, Senior VicePresident of Internal Audit, AXA Financial Inc

Mr Tjahaja Riady, Deputy CEO,Lippo Karawaci

Mr Paul Rizzo, Non-ExecutiveDirector, Bluescope Steel

Mr Irvin Rockman (CBE),Chairman, Northrock Group

Mr Irving Saulwick (AM),Chairman, Irving Saulwick & Associates

Mr Peter Scanlon, Founder,Scanlon Foundation

Mr Anthony Shepherd, Chairman,Transfield Pty Ltd

Mr Asgari Stephens, Principal,Intelligent Capital Sdn Bhd

Mr James Sutherland, CEO,Cricket Australia

Ms Lei Tan, CEO, Tan and TanDevelopments Berhad

Mr Christopher Thomas, Managing Partner, Egon Zehnder International SA

Mr Richard Tsiang, Senior VicePresident, CFO, MGM GrandParadise Limited

Mr Darryl Wade, Director and Co-Founder, Intrepid Travel

Mr Kevin Wale, President andManaging Director, GeneralMotors China Group

Graduates of the Faculty

Graduates of the Faculty over the last 76 years have been leaders in business, public policy andacademia. Below is a list of current prominent alumni.


Today we have more than 33,000 active alumni, morethan 7000 of whom live and work outside Australia.Many have gone on to become leaders in their fields,making major contributions to communities, industryand government.

A benefit of this legacy of success is that, as anacademic institution, we are well connected. Many ofMelbourne’s leading business executives contribute toour programs as occasional lecturers, student mentors,providers of internships, and expert judges for businessplanning and case study competitions.

These connections with a dynamic businesscommunity provide Melbourne students with learningopportunities that few other institutions can match.

The Faculty has committed resources to increase our interaction with alumni and in 2007 we continuedengagement with Alumni through the University of Melbourne Commerce Alumni Society (UMCAS). A new UMCAS President and Vice-President wereelected at this year’s AGM, on 11 July. Mr RossCameron, is the new President and Mr ChristopherLeptos AM, Vice President. In conjunction withUMCAS we held two young alumni networkingevents, the AGM of UMCAS, the 45 plus year out reunion and a Christmas luncheon. All eventsshowed increased alumni participation.

The Hon Dr Jeffrey Kennett AC was guest speaker at this year’s UMCAS AGM Dinner, held in the Ormond College Dining Hall. Dr Kennett spoke forclose to an hour on Beyond Blue, taking questions at the end of the session.

The Faculty held the launch of Insights, our new publicinterest journal, at The Apartment in the MelbourneCBD, on 1 May, with Mr Tom Elliott as guest speaker.

The Advancement Unit ran a seminar program forMalaysian alumni, our largest national group. AssociateProfessor Michael Davern presented the first of theseseminars, on Friday 25 May, on the topic of InformationDriven Markets. The day-long forum involved threesessions, Politics/International, Corporate, andCommunity, encompassing speeches by a range of well-known and respected politicians, businesspeople and community leaders. Further seminars were held with Professor Danny Samson andProfessor Nasser Spear.

A primary aim of the Advancement Unit is to promotegreater links with industry and community throughteaching programs, research, volunteerism, studentengagement, and networking. We are currentlydeveloping these links through mentoring, internshipsand scholarships, and we are continually looking forother ways to expand industry and alumni relations.

In July we held a Student Leadership Forum, inviting100 of our highest achieving undergraduate studentsto consider the challenges business leaders will face in2020. The Honourable Mr John Brumby MP, Treasurerof Victoria, was the keynote speaker for the forum.Other speakers included: Mr Mark Thirwell, Director(International Economy); Mr Ian Wilcock, StateDirector, Victorian State Office, Department of ForeignAffairs and Trade; Professor Ann Capling; Mr LindsayFox AO, founder and non-Executive Chairman, FoxGroup Holdings; Mr Ahmed Fahour, CEO of NationalAustralia Bank (NAB); Ms Janine Kirk AM, Partner,Ernst & Young; Ms Mary Wooldridge, Shadow Minister for Mental Health; Mr Simon McKeon, ExecutiveChairman, Macquarie Bank; and Mr Joseph Elu,Chairman of Indigenous Business Australia.

Other events for the year included three NobelLaureate dinners, and the Dean and Director met with alumni in London, New York, Hong Kong,Indonesia and Singapore.

Alumni

Mr Freeman Wang, ManagingDirector, Hong Kong OrientalResources Investment Ltd

Mr Brian Watson, ExecutiveChairman, Georgica Associates Pty Ltd

Mr David White, Director, Hawker Britton, Melbourne

Mr Kevin Wong, Chairman, J.P.Morgan Chase Bank Berhad

Mr Peter Yates, Chairman, Peony Capital

Mr Eu Yeow, Minolta MarketingSdn Bhd

Public Service

The Hon John Brumby, Premier of Victoria, Department of thePremier

Mr Michael Carmody (AO), CEO, Australian Customs Service

His Excellency Mr Jeffrey Hart,High Commissioner, AustralianHigh Commission (Nigeria)

The Hon Senator Rod Kemp,Senator for Victoria, Senate

The Hon Jenny Macklin, Ministerfor Family, Housing, CommunityServices and Indigenous Affairs,House of Representatives

Professor Carrick Martin,Chairman, Professional StandardsBoard for Patent and Trade MarksAttorneys, IP Australia

Dato Mustapa bin Mohamed,Higher Education Minister, PrimeMinister’s Department, Malaysia

Mrs Brenda Shanahan,Chairperson, St Vincent’s Health

The Hon Tony Smith, Shadow Minister for Education,Apprenticeships and Training,House of Representatives

Senator Mechai Viravaidya (AO),Founder and Chairman, Populationand Community DevelopmentAssociation, Thailand

Mr Ian Watson, Senior DeputyPresident, Australian IndustrialRelations Commission

Dr Lynne Williams, DeputyDirector – Victorian Department of Treasury and Finance

Emeritus Professor Ross Williams,Professorial Fellow MIAESR, The University of Melbourne;Member, Commonwealth Grants Commission, AustralianGovernment, Higher Education

Education

Professor Max Corden (AC),Professorial Fellow Department of Economics

Professor Jayne Godfrey, DeputyDean – Research, Faculty ofBusiness and Economics, Monash

Professor Robert Gregory (AO),Head, Economics Program,Australian National University

Emeritus Professor Colin GeoffreyHarcourt, Cambridge University,Jesus College

The Hon Emeritus Professor Joe Isaac (AO), Department ofManagement and Marketing, The University of Melbourne

Professor Stewart Leech, Head of Department of Accounting and Information Systems, TheUniversity of Melbourne

Dr Fred McDougall, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic), The University of Adelaide

Professor Gary Sampson, Visiting Professor, INSEAD

Professor Richard Southby,Executive Dean and DistinguishedProfessor of Global Health George Washington University

Mr Tom Elliott, BCom 1989, BA (Oxford), at the Insights launch


Department of Accounting and

Business Information Systems

Head of Department and Professor

of Accounting and Business

Information Systems

LEECH, STEWART: BCom Melb MEc Tas FCA FCPA MACS PCPResearch Interests: Accountinginformation systems, decision makingin corporate recovery, intelligentdecision aids, enterprise resourceplanning systems.

Dean of Economics and Commerce

and Professor of Accounting

ABERNETHY, MARGARET: BEc PhD LaTrobeResearch Interests: Strategy and design of control systems,management control in hospitals,costing and performancemeasurement systems inmanufacturing and service industries.

Fitzgerald Chair of Accounting

LYON, JOHN: BCom MFM Qld PhD OhioResearch Interests: Empirical methods in accounting and finance,earnings announcements and thepricing of audits.

G.L. Wood Professor of Accounting

SPEAR, NASSER: BEc Syria MSc PhD N TexasResearch Interests: Capital markets-based research, international financialreporting, contracting research, initialpublic offerings, security valuation,accounting for extractive industries.

Professor of Business Information

Systems

FERGUSON, COLIN: BBus Swin MEc NE PhD GDipComp Deakin CA FCPA MACSResearch Interests: Businessinformation systems, businessforensics, economics of auditing and auditor behaviour, fraud andcorporate governance.

Professor of Management

Accounting

LILLIS, ANNE: MCom PhD MelbResearch Interests: Managementcontrol systems design, strategy and performance management,evaluating strategic capitalexpenditures, corporate downsizing,structural cost management.

Associate Professors

DAVERN, MICHAEL: BCom Tas PhD MinnesotaResearch Interests: Informationvaluation and use, decisiontechnologies, revenue yieldmanagement, behaviour in information environments.

SCHULTZ, AXEL KLAUS-DIETER:BCom MCom PhD UNSWResearch Interests: Managementaccounting, behavioural accounting.

PINNUCK, MATTHEW: BCom PhD MelbResearch Interests: Financialaccounting, behaviour of fundmanagers.

Senior Lecturers

COBBIN, PHILLIP: BBus RMIT MEd Melb DipEd SCVic CAResearch Interests: Market for auditservices, history of accounting andaudit, accounting education history.

CORAM, PAUL: BEc FlindersGradDipEd Adelaide PhD ANUResearch Interests: Audit quality,behavioural research in assurance and financial accounting, accountingeducation.

DOWLING, CARLIN: BCom Tas PhD MelbResearch Interests: Audit supportsystems, system restrictiveness, audittechnology use, audit firm control.

GRAFTON, JENNIFER: BCom PhD MelbResearch Interests: Managementcontrol system design and use in the not-for-profit sector, design and control of inter-organisationalnetworks, performance managementand research methods.

HO, SUSANNA: BEng MPhil PhDHKUSTResearch Interests: Technologyadoption, electronic commerce and personalisation technology.

LIM, NENA: MSc Georgia State MA Lancas PhD QldResearch Interests: Innovationdiffusion, internet security, digital piracy.

POTTER, BRAD: BCom PhD Deakin CPAResearch Interests: Contractingresearch, accounting for public sector entities, international financialreporting, the development of financial reporting regulations

SRIDHARAN, VIRAVALLIGOVINDARAJAN: BComBharathidasan PhD AucklandResearch Interests: economics of managerial accounting systems,strategy-control systems interfacewithin firms.

TEO, EU-JIN: BCom LLB Melb FTIA (From July 2007)Research Interests: Current legalissues, accounting and the law,taxation law, commercial law,government law.

WISE, TREVOR: MCom Auckland PhD Melb CPA ACA-NZ CMA-NZResearch Interests: Accounting theory, financial accounting.

Lecturers

BOYS, NOEL: BBus RMIT DipEdHawthorn GradDipEd MelbResearch Interests: Financialaccounting, design and delivery of graduate training programs for accounting firms.

CUSACK, GREG: BBus RMIT DipEd RMIT CPAResearch Interests: Accounting reports and analysis, teaching andlearning strategies in accounting.

HRONSKY, JANE: BBus MComPGDipBus Curtin CPAResearch Interests: Audit judgement,communication issues in financial and audit reporting.

LEE, MICHAEL: BEc MCom Monash GDipAppFin&Invest SIAResearch Interests: Enterpriseresource planning systems, supplychain systems, performancemanagement design, business caseevaluations, project managementimplementation.

LEE, RICHARD: BEc Monash DipEd SCVic CPAResearch Interests: Financial reporting,accounting policy choice, executivecompensation, accounting education.

People in the Faculty

Professor Nasser Spear is Associate Dean(International), Director of the Master of AppliedCommerce, and Director of the PhD program in

the Department of Accounting and BusinessInformation Systems.


Truby Williams Professor of

Economics

CREEDY, JOHN: BSc Brist BPhil Oxf FASSAResearch Interests: Incomedistribution, public economics, laboureconomics, history of economicanalysis.

Professors of Econometrics

GRIFFITHS, WILLIAM: BAgEc (Hons)UNE PhD Illinois FASSAResearch Interests: Applied BayesianEconometrics

MARTIN, VANCE: BEc (Hons) MEcPhD MonashResearch Interests: Econometrics,time series analysis, monetaryeconomics, macroeconomics.

Professorial Fellow

LIM, GUAY: MEc Adel PhD ANUResearch Interests: Modelling thebehaviour of exchange rates, risk andvolatility, estimating option pricingmodels, financial econometrics,international monetary economics.

OURS, VAN JAN: MSc Delft MSc PhDErasmusResearch Interests: Health Economics,Labour Economics

VAN DEN NOUWELAND, ANNE: BAMaths MA (Maths) Nijmegen PhDTilburg UniversityResearch Interests: (Applied) gametheory, mathematical economics,microeconomics.

Readers/Associate Professors

CAMERON, LISA: BCom (Hons)MCom (Hons) PhD Prin Research Interests: Developmenteconomics, Asian economies(especially Indonesian), appliedmicroeconometrics, labour economics.

DIXON, ROBERT: BEc (Hons) MonashPhD KentResearch Interests: Macroeconomics,industrial economics, Marxianeconomics, regional economics.

GANGADHARAN, LATA: BA (Hons)Delhi MA Delhi School of Eco PhDUSCResearch Interests: Experimentaleconomics, environmental economics,institutions and development.

HARRIS, DAVID: BEc (Hons) JamesCook PhD MonashResearch Interests: Time seriesanalysis.

HENRY, OLAN: BA (Hons) Dub MAPhD ReadingResearch Interests: Econometricmodelling and forecasting of assetmarket volatility, term structuremodelling, the inflation hedgingcharacteristics of property and property serviced in the U.K.

HIRSCHBERG, JOSEPH: MA CalifPhD, SCalifResearch Interests: Electricitydemand/rates, labour discrimination,demand analysis, cluster analysis.

JAYASURIYA, SISIRA: BEc (Hons)Ceylon MEc PhD ANUResearch Interests: Macroeconomics,agricultural economics, developmenteconomics, international trade andcapital, and international politicaleconomy.

LYE, JEANETTE: MA, PhD CantResearch Interests: Non normaldistributions, applications of multi -modality, modelling of exchange rates,theory and application of non linearmodels, general applied econometrics.

MacLAREN, DONALD: BSc (Agr)(Hons) Aberd MS PhD CornellResearch Interests: Agricultural tradepolicy, agriculture and the World TradeOrganisation, the I-O structure ofinternational commodity markets.

NORMAN, NEVILLE: BCom (Hons)MA Melb PhD Camb Research Interests: Industrial pricingas influenced by tariffs, exchange ratesand world price movements, healtheconomics, trade practices economicissues and the economics of e-commerce.

SHIELDS, KALVINDER: BA (Hons) MA Reading PhD LeicesterResearch Interests: Econometricmodelling of the dynamics of emergingEastern European financial markets,survey-based expectations inmacroeconomic models forecasting,sectorial disaggregation data in appliedmacroeconomics.

SHIELDS, MICHAEL: BA (Hons)Staffordshire MSc Health UNY PhDLeicesterResearch Interests: Economics ofimmigration, economics of labourmarket discrimination, labour marketfor medical professions.

Senior Lecturers

DE FONTENAY, CATHERINE: BA(Hons) McGill PhD StanfordResearch Interests: Developmenteconomics, industrial organisation,theoretical and empirical bargainingtheory.

HARDING, DON: MEc ANU PhD YaleResearch Interests: Macroeconomics.

HILLBERRY, RUSSELL: BS MinnesotaPhD IndianaResearch Interests: Economicgeography, international trade.

RAIMONDO, ROBERTO: Laurea MilanPhD (Mathematics) SUNY PhDBerkeleyResearch Interests: Economic theory,financial economics.

SKEELS, CHRISTOPHER: BEc (Hons)PhD MonashResearch Interests: Econometrictheory.

SMITH, RHONDA: BCom (Hons) MA(Hons)Research Interests: Economics oftrade practices, economic policytowards industry.

WILLIAMS, JENNY: BEc ANU MEcPhD RiceResearch Interests: Micro -econometrics, health economics.

Lecturers and Research Staff

ARTEMOV, GEORGY: SpecialistMoscow State MA CEU PhD BrownResearch Interests: Mechanismdesign, matching theory,microeconomic theory

BASOV, SUREN: MA New EconomicSchool (Moscow) DipEng (Physics)PhD BostonResearch Interests: Economic theory,mathematical economics, contracttheory, industrial organisation, laboreconomics.

CLARKE, ANDREW: BA MEc Syd PhDMcMasterResearch Interests: Labour economics,macroeconomics, econometrics.

COELLI, MICHAEL: BCom (Hons)UNSW MA PhD British ColumbiaResearch Interests: Labour economics,applied microeconometrics, publiceconomics, economics of education.

ERKAL, NISVAN: BA Macalester MAPhD MarylandResearch Interests: Industrialorganisation, microeconomic theory.

MEHTA, MANJARI: MScTech PhDHouston (Until July 2007)Research Interests: Mergers andacquisitions, systems integration,strategic alignment, knowledgemanagement.

PAN, GARY: BBA Sing, MPhil PhDManc (Until July 2007)Research Interests: ProjectManagement, escalation theory,dynamic capability development,enterprise systems and managementinformation systems.

PARKES, ALISON: BCom WollongongMBA MasseyResearch Interests: Workflow systemsreliance, task complexity, decisionalguidance, decision support systems.

STAMATELATOS, ANNA: BSc BEcBBusAcc DipEd Monash CMA CPAResearch Interests: Managementaccounting, financial accounting, capital markets, accounting education.

TAYLOR, SARAH: BCom SydneyResearch Interests: Financialaccounting, auditing and accountability.

VASSALLO, PETER: BAppSci BArchCanberra MCom Sydney PhD UTSResearch Interests: Corporategovernance, real investments, financial statement analysis.

VESTY, GILLIAN: BBusAcc MBus VU RN Div1Research Interests: Actor-networktheory, management accounting.

Senior Tutors

CORALLUZZO, ANTHONY: BComMelb

COSTABILE, MARC: BCom Melb

ELBASHIR, MOHAMED: BBuss Sudan MBus VU PhD Melb

HU, ZHENGWAI: BCom Melb (From July 2007)

GOSAIN, PRIYANKA: BCom Melb

LINGGO LIONG, JOANA: BCom Melb

WEBSTER, TRISTAN: BCom Melb

Professors Emeritus

NICOL, ROBERT EDWARD GEORGE:BEc Syd MBA PhD Calif FAPA MCT

WRIGHT, KENNETH: BMetE DComMelb FASA FASSA FAIM

Professorial Fellows

EASTON, PETER: BAgSc BEc AdelPhD Berkeley DipTT SA DipFinMgtUNEResearch Interests: Financialstatement analysis, equity securityvaluation, estimation of the expectedrate of return on equity investments.

FRANCIS, JERE: BSc Drake MScMinnesota PhD DEcon UNEResearch Interests: Economics ofauditing, the effect of auditing on thequality of financial reporting, corporategovernance, international accounting.

SUTTON, STEVE: BSA MAcc PhDMissouriResearch Interests: Accountinginformation systems and assurance,impact of KBS on individual decisionmaking and on user knowledgeacquisition/learning, IS assurance,business risk in B2B e-Commercerelationships, risk analysis in supplychains.

Principal Fellows

ANDERSON, SHANNON: BSEPrinceton MA PhD Harvard

ARNOLD, VICKI: BA MBA PhDArkansas

BURROWS, GEOFFREY HERBERT:MCom DipEd Melb FCPA

COLLIER, PHILIP: BSc Hull MSc Essex

Senior Fellows

ALFREDSON, KEITH: BCom QldAAUQ FAICD FCA FCPA FNIA

BOUWENS, JAN: MFin PhD Tilburg

Fellows

LESLIE, STEWART: BCom FCA

POUND, HAYDN: BBus Deakin MBAMelb/Chicago CPA

Professional Staff

ANDERSON, SHERRYL: MBA MComLaw DeakinPosition: Department Manager

BARNES, SOPHIE: BA GradDipBusEdith CowanPosition: Manager, Academic Services

CARBONE, CATHYPosition: Front Office Administrator

CROSER, REBECCA: BDesGradDipArts SAPosition: Student Administrator(Until August 2007)

DECOLONGON, JENNIFER:DipDramArts VCA BA MelbPosition: Research Administrator

GRAVIER, LACHLAN: BBus LaTrobePosition: Finance and ResourcesOfficer

KOZLOWSKA, SHEENA: Cert IIIBusAcc Cert IV Train&Assess TAFEPosition: Administrative Assistant

MCNAMARA, KERRYPosition: Front Office Administrator

MITCHELL, STEVEN: BA DML MelbPosition: Administrative Assistant

PEDLEY, SARAH: BA Melb DipItalPerugiaPosition: Student Administrator (UntilNovember 2007)

RAJENDRAN, SANJEV: BEng BA MelbPosition: Applications Developer

ROBINSON, LOREL: Cert IIIBusAdmin TAFEPosition: Personal Assistant to theHead of Department

Department of Economics


of Economics

OLEKALNS, NILSS: BEc (Hons) AdelMEc ANU MA West Ont PhD LaTrobeResearch Interests: Macroeconomics,applied econometrics.

Professors of Economics

BARDSLEY, PETER: BSc (Hons) ANUPhD DurhResearch Interests: Economic theory,mathematical economics, gametheory, information and strategicbehaviour, organisational design andtheory of the firm, theoretical finance.

BORLAND, JEFF: MA Melb PhD YaleFASSAResearch interests: Operation of labourmarkets in Australia, program andpolicy design and evaluation, appliedmicroeconomics (economics ofsports), Australian economic history.

FREEBAIRN, JOHN: MAgrEcon NEPhD Davis FASSAResearch Interests: Taxation reform,labour economics, especiallyemployment, natural resourceeconomics, and especially water.

KING, IAN: BA (Hons) Concordia MAPhD Queens OntResearch Interests: Macroeconomic,applied, search, monetary,unemployment theory, life expectancyand growth, language acquisition.

McDONALD, IAN: BA (Hons) Leic MA Warw PhD SFraser FASSAResearch Interests: BehaviouralEconomics and Macroeconomics.


Senior Lecturers

FITZHERBERT, RICHARD: BSc (Hons)Syd FIA FIAA FFinResearch Interests: Stochasticinvestment models, investments.

LI, SHUANMING: BSc Tianjin MEcRenmin PhD ConcordiaResearch Interests: Risk and ruintheory, stochastic modelling ininsurance and finance, actuarialscience.

PITT, DAVID: BEc BSc Macquarie PhD ANU FIAAResearch Interests: Analysis ofdisability income insurance portfolios,stochastic modelling in actuarialscience.

Lecturer

WU, XUEYUAN: BSc MSc Nankai PhD HKUResearch Interests: Correlated riskmodels, ruin theory, recursivecalculations for ruin probabilities.

Professorial Associate

TAYLOR, GREG: BA PhD PhD FIAFIAA FIMA CMath AOResearch Interests: Modelling ingeneral insurance.

Honorary Senior Fellows

GRIBBLE, JULES: BSc (Hons) AdelPhD St Andrews FIAA FCIA FSA

HARSLETT, GRANT: BSc (Hons) AdelFIA FIAA ASA

TRUSLOVE, ALLEN: BSc(Hons) PhDMonash MBA Deakin FIA FIAA

Department of Finance


of Finance

KOFMAN, PAUL: MEc PhD ErasmusResearch Interests: Price discovery inregulated financial markets, extremevalue analysis and financialapplications, insurance rate making,asset allocation design.

Deputy Head of Department and

Associate Professor

BROWN, CHRISTINE: MSc DipEd PhD SF FinResearch Interests: Pricing derivativesecurities and innovations in financialmarkets, derivative markets, valuationof real options, modelling credit risk,financial institutions management,capital budgeting, share buybacks,bank regulation and implementation of Basel 2, infrastructure financing.

Commonwealth Bank Group

Professor of Finance

DAVIS, KEVIN: BEc (Hons) Flin MEcANU F Fin FFTPResearch Interests: Financialinstitutions management, treasurymanagement, financial engineering,corporate financial policy, financialmarkets.

Professors of Finance

BROWN, ROB: MEc Syd FCPA SF FinResearch Interests: Interest rateswaps, management and regulation of financial intermediaries.

GRUNDY, BRUCE: BCom (Hons) QldPhD ChicagoResearch Interests: Derivatives,corporate governance, real options, thestructure of the mutual fund industry,momentum trading strategies, cost ofcapital with classical and imputationtax regimes.

WHEATLEY, SIMON: MA (Hons)Aberdeen MA S Fraser PhD RochesterResearch Interests: Investments,international finance.


CHAN, HOWARD: BCom (Hons) Melb MEc PhD Monash CPAResearch Interests: Asset pricing,market efficiency, capital markets and the role of analysts as informationintermediaries, pricing of securities and the role of liquidity and cycles in markets, derivative securities.

HANDLEY, JOHN: BCom BMath Newc MCom (Hons) PhD F FinResearch Interests: Corporate finance,derivative security pricing and corporatefinance applications of derivativesecurity pricing including the design of financial securities, cost of capital,corporate valuation and real options.

LAMBA, ASJEET: BA (Hons) DelhiMBA Mich PhD Wash CFAResearch Interests: Liquidity andefficiency of equity markets,information transmission across equity markets, valuation implicationsof corporate events.

SAWYER, KIM: BSc UWA MEc PhDANUResearch Interests: Finance theory,quantitative finance, behavioral finance,corporate governance.

SCHWANN, GREG: BA (Hons) QueensMA (Ec) PhD British ColumbiaResearch Interests: Real estatefinance, real estate economics, real estate backed derivatives.

Senior Lecturers

BROWN, RAYNA: BA Macq MCom(Hons) PhD Melb SA FinResearch Interests: Regulation offinancial institutions, real estate finance.

CHANG, XIN: BA Tsinghua MPhilPBOC PhD HKUSTResearch Interests: Corporate finance.

CHNG, MICHAEL: BCom (Hons)M.Com (Hons) PhD Melb Research Interests: Price discovery,cross-market trading dynamics, tradingstrategies.

COLEMAN, LES: BEng (Hons) MelbBSc (Econ) (Hons) London MEc SydPhD Melb CFTP (Snr)Research Interests: Risk strategy,behavioural finance, wagering markets,applied corporate finance, agriculturaland resources finance, corporatecrises, practical applications ofacademic research.

PINDER, SEAN: BCom (Hons) MonashPhD Newc SA FinResearch Interests: Issues relating tothe valuation of derivative securitiesand the analysis of corporate financialdecision-making.

SCHEULE, HARALD: MBA DBARegensburgResearch Interests: Financial riskmeasurement and management.

SHEKHAR, CHANDER: BS Punjab MS Virginia PhD Penn StateResearch Interest: Economic modelsof financial markets, market forcorporate control, initial publicofferings, corporate restructuring.

Lecturers

AHARONI, GIL: BA MBA PhD Tel AvivResearch Interests: Asset pricing

AKYOL, ALI: BA PhD AlabamaResearch Interests: Corporate financeand governance, corporate control,IPOs, and market efficiency

BUCHANAN, BONNIE: BSc (Hons)NSW MAppSc RMIT PhD GeorgiaResearch Interests: Corporategovernance, financial fraud, law and economics.

GYGAX, ANDRE: lic oec HSG St.Gallen MSc MBA Colorado PhD MelbResearch Interests: Entrepreneurialfinance, industrial organisation,dynamic social networks.

HODLER, ROLAND: MA PhD BernResearch Interests: Economicdevelopment, political economy,international economics.

JACOBI, LIANA: MA, PhD WashingtonResearch Interests: Econometrics,applied econometrics, laboureconomics, macro and monetryeconomics.

LI, SHUNYUN (MAY): BS MA RenminMS PhD Texas at AustinResearch Interests: Macroeconomicimplications of financial frictions,business cycle modelling, monetarypolicy transmission mechanism,venture capital, contract theory.

LOERTSCHER, SIMON: MA PhD Bern Research Interests: Industrialorganisation, mechanism design,political economy.

NIKIFORAKIS, NIKOS: BA (Bus)Athens MA PhD LondonResearch Interests: Experimentaleconomics, behavioural economics,industrial organisation, publiceconomics, game theory.

SHAH, MANISHA: BA Berkeley MScLSE MS PhD BerkeleyResearch Interests: Microeconomics,development economics, healtheconomics, policy analysis

UREN, LAWRENCE: BEc (Hons) ANUResearch Interests: Macroeconomics,labour economics.

YEKTAS, HADI: MA PhD PittsburghResearch Interests: Auction yheory,mechanism design, game theory,microeconomic theory, industrialorganisation


CORDEN, WARNER MAX: BEc PhDLSE FASSA

GANS, JOSHUA: BEc Qld PhDStanford

TAYLOR, GREGORY: BA PhD FIA FIAAFIMA

WILLIAMS, PHILIP: MEc Monash PhDLSE

Principal Fellows

IRONMONGER, DUNCAN: MComPhD Camb

JENNINGS, VICTOR: BEng OBE

JOHNSTON, CAROL: BCom BEd MEdPhD

NIEUWENHUYSEN, JOHN: MA NatalPhD London FASSA

WHEATLEY PRICE, STEPHEN: BA MAPhD Leicester

Senior Fellows

WILLIAMS, LYNNE: BA MA MSc LSEPhD Monash

Fellows

HARPER, MARGORIE: MA

JAFFER, SUE: BSc MA

MORRIS, NICK: MA (Hons) MPhilOxford

PORTER, MICHAEL: BEc (Hons) AdelPhD Stanford

STONEHAM, GARY: BCom MA Qld

TERRILL, DANIEL: BA PhD

Professors Emeritus

LLOYD, PETER: MA Vic NZ PhD DukeFASSA

PERKINS, JAMES: MA PhD CambMCom FASSA

Professional Staff

MILLERICK, CHERIE: BA SydPosition: Department Manager

PHILIP, PREETA: MBA SpicerPosition: Manager, Finance and

Department Manager

BANFORD, ALISONPosition: Manager, Academic SupportServices

BACHER, HEIDIPosition: Manager, Academic SupportServices

CHART, MICHELLE: Cert 3 BusAdminTAFE NSWPosition: Personal Assistant to theHead of Department

COLLINS, SUZANNE: BTeach (Primary)BA DeakinPosition: General Front Office Supportand Actuarial Studies DistanceEducation Administrator

FAUZI, FAUZI: BIT CQUPosition: IT Systems Support

GOULETSAS, PERSEFONIPosition: Coordinator AdministrativeSupport Services

HADDAD, LEONIE: AdvDipBusPosition: Financial and HR OperationalSupport

KARUNARATHNE, WASANA: BAEconomics University of PeradeniyaMA Economics Colombo PhDEconomics NUSPosition: Tutor Co-ordinator

KHAN, NAHID: BSocSci (Hon Ec)MCom, MSocSci (Econ) DhakaPosition: Tutor Coordinator andUndergraduate Support Officer

KOLEVA, VIKTORIYA, BA Sofia MA(SocResearch) Warwick

LEONG, COLEMANN: CBE&ACERMIT PGradDipCompSci SwinPosition: Web and System SupportOfficer

LO, VICTOR: BEng (Geomatics) UNSWGradDip (IT) SwinPosition: Web Development Officer

LOCHRAN, MARGARETPosition: Department Web PageAdministrative Support

LOMBARDO, ROSEMARYPosition: Administrative OfficerUndergraduate Programs

O’CONNELL, KATIEPosition: Front Office Support

PEREZ, KATHRYN: DipInfoTech & Multimedia Bendigo TAFEPosition: Acting Manager, EconomicDesign Network

SCHERER, HEIDI: AssDipBusHomesglen TAFEPosition: Academic Support ServicesOfficer

VANCUYLENBURG, SANJEEVA:DipTech (Computing) Homesglen TAFEPosition: Web and Systems SupportOfficer

MACKINNON, LESLEY: RN, RMNNPC, DipSocSci (Welfare) BHealthSci(Nursing Post Registration)Position: Administrative SupportOfficer, Distance Education

Centre for Actuarial Studies

Director and Professor of Actuarial

Studies

DICKSON, DAVID: BSc (Hons) PhDHeriot-Watt FFA FIAAResearch Interests: Aggregate claimsdistributions, renewal risk processes,recursive methods in risk theory.

Professorial Fellow

DUFRESNE, DANIEL: BSc (Hons)Montreal PhD City FSAResearch Interests: Financialmathematics, actuarial science andprobability.

Associate Professor

JOSHI, MARK: BA (Hons) Oxford PhDMITResearch Interests: Financialmathematics.


SEWELL, GRAHAM: BSc (Hons) PhDWalesResearch Interests: Workplacesurveillance, teamwork, businessethics, recent developments inorganisation and management theory,qualitative research methods,evolutionary psychology, sociology of work and organisations.

WHITWELL, GREGORY: BEc MonashPhDResearch Interests: Environmentaluncertainty, the marketing/financeinterface, the role of real optionsthinking in marketing strategy,marketing’s contribution to businessstrategy and the role of intangiblemarketing assets, internationalmarketing, especially exporting,understanding customer needsthrough techniques such as ZMET,social capital and its relevance tomarketing activities, electronicmarketing.

ZAMMUTO, RAYMOND: PhD IllinoisResearch Interests: Organisationaladaptability to changing industryconditions.

Professorial Fellow

ISAAC, Joseph: AO BCom Lond PhDLond HonDEcon Monash Hon DComLond LLD Honoris Causa MacquarieFASSAResearch Interests: Labour marketinstitutions, industrial relations, wages policy, small business.

Associate Professor and Reader

KRAIMER, MARIA: PhD (Illinois)Research Interests: Managingexpatriate employees, career issues,and the employee-employerrelationships. Teaching interestsinclude human resource management,compensation, and internationalmanagement.


BROWN, MICHELLE: BCom (Hons)MA PhD WisconsinResearch Interests: Human resourcemanagement/industrial relations, paysystems – performance based pay and its implications for employees,unions and organisations, employeeparticipation and its consequences.

CREGAN, CHRISTINA: BA LeedsDipEd Oxford MSc PhD (LSE)Research Interests: Trade unionmembership, young people in thelabour market, internal labour markets,industrial democracy.

HARLEY, WILLIAM: BA (Hons) PhDQldResearch Interests: Industrial relations,HRM, work organisation, highperformance work systems,teamwork, precarious employment,trade unions.

SIEBERT, SCOTT: BS SUNY MS PhDCornellResearch Interests: Personality,interpersonal behaviour and careersuccess, psychological climate andwork motivation, personality andentrepreneurship, social capital,proactive personality.

TERZIOVSKI, MILE: BE (Hons) ME(Hons) W’gon MBA RMIT PhDResearch Interests: Operationmanagement, quality management,value of ISO 9000 and ISO 14000certification, continuous improvementand innovation management, e-commerce – Euro-Australiancollaboration in SMEs, organisationalperformance, international bestpractice, reengineering.

WATERS, LEA: BA (Hons) PhD DeakinResearch Interests: The psychologicalconsequences of unemployment andretrenchment, training anddevelopment programs forunemployed people, occupationalstress, work-family conflict, mentoring.

ZHU, YING: BEc Peking PhDResearch Interests: HRM, internationalHRM, international business manage -ment, economic development in Asia(China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwanand Vietnam), political economy ofglobalisation.

Senior Lecturers

BARSKY, ADAM: BA (Psychology and Sociology) Wisconsin-MadisonMasters in I/O Psychology PhD TulaneResearch Interests: Social issues in management, business ethics,workplace fairness, discrimination, job related effects and work stress,personality and well being, researchmethodology and statistics.

BEVERLAND, MICHAEL: BComDipCom MCom (Hons) Auckland PhD(Bus and Man) Univ SAResearch Interests: Values-basedbranding, brand management over the long run, luxury branding, themarketing of authenticity, relationshiptransformation and trajectories overtime (both business-to-business andbusiness-to-consumer), implementingmarketing programs, how consumersrespond to design aesthetics, valuecreating processes in industrial firms.

BOVE, LILIANA: BAgSci (Hons)LaTrobe BBus (Marketing) RMIT PhDMonashResearch Interests: Servicesmarketing, relationship marketing,customer loyalty, customer citizenshipbehaviour.

JOHNSTON, STEWART: BA WellMSc Lond PhDResearch Interests: All aspects ofmanagement in multinationalcorporations – strategy, structure,control, innovation, HQ-subsidiaryrelations, Japanese management andJapanese business groups.

METZ, ISABEL: BSci (CompSci) UWitSAfrica MBA MBS PhD Monash Research Interests: gender andcareers, organisational culture andleadership, work related stress andtoxin handling, and psychologicalcontracts.

MOOSA, SHARAFALI: BSc MScMadras PhD NUS and MadrasResearch Interests: Supply chainmanagement, reverse logistics,warehousing queues, inventory andreliability.

MORGAN, STEPHEN: BA Monash MA HK PhD ANUResearch Interests: Foreign directinvestment and international business,business economic and social historyof China, 19th and 20th centuries, the history of management andorganisation in China in the 20thcentury, anthropometric history ofChina and Taiwan (stature, health and nutrition).

NAPOLI, JULIE: BBus (Hons) MCom(Marketing) Curtin PhD MonashResearch Interests: Creating andmanaging brand meaning, brandmanagement across contexts andcultures, brand orientation andperformance, music effects inadvertising and marketing.

PALADINO, ANGELA: BCom (Hons)PhDResearch Interests: Consumerbehaviour, environmental marketing,innovation and corporate performance,resource-based view and capabilitiesstrategies, market orientation, strategicmanagement and marketing.

POWER, DAMIEN: BBus MBus PhDMonash CFPIMResearch Interests: Business tobusiness e-commerce, supply chainsystems/virtual integration, businessprocess redesign, operations strategy.

HUI, SANDRA: BCom ANU MFinRMIT PhD MonashResearch Interests: Credit riskmodelling and valuation, interest ratemodelling and financial mathematics.

MURAWSKI, CARSTEN: PhD ZurichResearch Interests: Financialeconomics: banking, derivativesmarkets, financial crises, institutionaleconomics, pricing and hedging ofcontingent claims, computationaleconomics.

O’CONNOR, IAN: BBus ChisholmMBus RMIT PhD Melb CPA SA FinResearch lnterests: Bank efficiency,derivative securities, volatilityforecasting.

SCOTT, CALLUM: BSc (Hons) Edin BA Open UK GradDipEd DundeeGradDipCInfSc MSc VUT PhD MelbAFPA (Academic)Research Interests: The application of artificial neural networks in finance,real estate finance and analysis.

ZENG, QI: BS SJTU MS AcademiaSinica MS UIC PhD PennResearch Interests: Asset pricing,Chinese Stock Market.

Tutors

HAQUE, TARIQ: BSc BCom (Hons)Research Interests: Asset pricing,behavioural finance, fundsmanagement, financial econometrics.

Research Assistant

TANG, WILLIAM: BCom GradDip (Data Processing) MonashResearch Interests: e-Solutions tobusiness enterprise and academicresearch.


BROWN, STEPHENProfessor of Finance, New YorkUniversity, USA

BRENNER, MENACHEM: PhDProfessor of Finance, New YorkUniversity, USA

JAGANNATHAN, RAVI: PhDProfessor of Finance, NorthwesternUniversity, USA

KESTER, GEORGE: BBA Wake ForestMBA (Fin) UNC Charlotte PhD(BusAdm) DardenMamie Fox Tyman Martel Professorand Head of Department ofManagement, Williams School ofCommerce, Economics and Politics,Washington and Lee University,Lexington, Virginia, USA

STAPLETON, RICHARD: BA (Hons)Sheffield BA (Mathematics) Open UKPhD SheffieldProfessor of Finance, University ofManchester, UK

SUBRAHMANYAM, MARTI: BoT IITPGDBA IIM PhD MITCharles E. Merrill Professor of Financeand Economics, New York University,USA

Senior Fellows

COCKS, GRAHAM: MEc Syd MStatFlor MSc Brad

INGWERSEN, MICHAEL: BEc MonashMBA

Fellows

ERREY, ROBERT: BBus SAIT GradDipStats Canberra CAE MBAUWA MComResearch Interests: Financial aspectsof marketing management.

HART, KEITH: BSc (Hons) Sussex MScPhD Vic

ROBERTSON, DAVID: BA (Eco) LLM

ROBINSON, DAVID: BAdmin(Ec)(Hons) Griffith

Visiting Academics

CAMPBELL, RACHEL: PhD ErasmusAssistant Professor of Finance,Department of Finance, The Universityof Maastricht

PALMER, KEN: BSc (Hons) MCom(Hons) Melb PhD ANUProfessor of Mathematics, NationalTaiwan University

SCHNYTZER, ADIAssociate Professor, Bar-Ilan University

ZHANG, ZHE (JOE)Assistant Professor, SingaporeManagement University

Professional Staff

KREITNER, JASON: BA NM StateMPA JD South DakotaPosition: Department Manager

DOYLE, JOANNE: BBus (Accounting)RMIT MAcc Melb CPAPosition: Finance and ResourcesManager, Deputy DepartmentManager

BARBEROGLOU, SILVIAPosition: Academic Services Officer

CAREY, ROBIN: BSc (Econ) MA (Econ)UC RiversidePosition: Executive Assistant

DALVEAN, JO: BAppSc MonashMMult Newcastle MACSPosition: IT Manager

DIXON, HELENPosition: Student Services Officer

MOIR, WENDY: BAppSc (InfoTech)(Hons) CSturtPosition: Systems Support Officer

MURRAY, ANNMAREE: BAppSc (Phys Ed) VicPosition: Academic Services Officer

VELLA, JULIEANNEPosition: Academic Services Officer

Department of Management

and Marketing

Professor and Head of Department

LUKAS, BRYAN: MBA Nebraska, PhDMemphis StateResearch Interests: Strategicmarketing (brand strategy and productinnovation strategy), brand valuation,marketing-finance interface,international marketing.

Professors

DICK, HOWARD: BEc (Hons) MonashMEc PhD ANUResearch Interests: Asian business,corruption and governance, institutionaldevelopment, global logistics, urban -isation in the Asia-pacific, maritimehistory and policy. Country expertise:Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Japan.

HARDY, CYNTHIA: BSc (MgtSc) PhDWarwickResearch Interests: Organisationtheory, strategy power and politics in organisation, strategic change,interorganisational collaboration,organisational discourse theory.

HARZING, ANNE-WIL: BA HogeschoolEnschede MA Maastricht PhDBradfordResearch Interests: HQ-subsidiaryrelations, international HRM, cross-cultural management, the role oflanguage in international business, the impact of culture on studentlearning styles.

MERRETT, DAVID: BEc (Hons) MEcMonashResearch Interests: Internationalisationof Australian firms, evolution of ‘bigbusiness’ in Australia, headquarter-subsidiary relations in multinationals,principal-agent issues within firms.

SAMSON, DANNY: BE (Chem) UNSWPhD AGSM UNSWResearch Interests: Businesscompetitiveness drivers, operationsstrategy, risk management, sustainabledevelopment, e-business, decisionmaking under uncertainty.


MAVROMARAS, KOSTAS: BA HonsPiraeus DPhil YorkResearch interests: Labour economics,econometrics, economic and socialpolicy, inequality, health economics,obesity.

SCOTT, TONY: BA Hons NewcastleMSc York PhD AberdeenResearch interests: Health economicsorganisation and financing of healthcare, labour markets of health careprofessionals.

Principal Research Fellows

HEADEY, BRUCE: BA Oxf, MA Wisc,PhD StrathResearch interests: Welfare anddistributional issues and social welfarepolicies in Western Europe and NorthAmerica.

KALB, GUYONNE: MEc Erasmus PhD MonashResearch interests: Appliedmicroeconom(etr)ics; in particular,labour and household econom(etr)ics,social policy issues, microsimulationmodelling.

WEBSTER, ELIZABETH: BEc HonsMEc Monash PhD CambResearch interests: Industrialeconomics, innovation and intellectualproperty, labour markets.

Senior Research Fellows

JENSEN, PAUL: BEc Syd PhD UNSWResearch interests: Economics ofinnovation, Contracts and incentives,health economics, privatisation andcontracting out, firm survival,economics of climate change.

TSENG, YI-PING: BEc Taiwan PhDANUResearch interests: Labour economics,applied microeconometrics, economicand social policy.

WILKINS, ROGER: BCom HonsMCom Melb MSc Wisc PhD MelbResearch interests: Labour economics,income inequality and poverty,microeconomics, appliedmicroeconometrics.

YONG, JONGSAY: BA BSocSc HonsMSocSc NUS MA PhD Brit ColResearch interests: Health economics,industrial organisation, competitionpolicy and regulatory economics,transport economics, applied gametheory.

Research Fellows

BUDDELMEYER, HIELKE: MA VrijePhD NYUResearch interests: Applied

microeconomics, labour supply, applied econometrics, behaviouralmicrosimulation.

CAI, LIXIN: BEd Henan MA RenminMEc PhD ANUResearch interests: Health and labourmarket outcomes, effects of tax andtransfers on labour supply,microsimulation modelling.

CHUA, MICHAEL: BEc Hons PhD UNEResearch interests: Bayesianinference, forecasting, appliedmacroeconomics.

CLAUS, EDDA: BA (Eco) McGill MScMontréal PhD ANUResearch interests: Macroeconomics,financial economics, appliedeconometrics.

FREIDIN, SIMON: BBSc HonsGradDipCompSc LaTrobePosition: HILDA Survey DatabaseManager and Analyst

GOODE, ALISON: BA Hons NewcastleMSc AberdeenResearch interests: Obesity, lifestylesand behaviours, public health issues.

HERAULT, NICOLAS: BSc (Eco) MSc(Eco) PhD BordeauxResearch interests: Microsimulationmodelling, micro-macro modelling,labour supply and trade liberalisation.

JEON, SUNG-HEE: BA Ewha WomansMA PhD York (Toronto)Research interests: Labour economics,health economics and the laboursupply of women.

LEE, WANG: BA (Eco) Colby MAMichigan PhD MelbResearch interests: Programevaluation, applied microeconometrics,government transfer programs andhappiness economics.

LOW, CHIN NAM: BSc (Hons), MScLondon, PhD MonashResearch interests: Forecasting ofmacroeconomic and financial timeseries using various non-linear models.

MCGUINNESS, SEAMUS: BSc (Econ)MSc Queen’s PhD BelfastResearch interests: Economic returnsto schooling, firm-level impacts of skillshortages, low pay, job insecurity.

OGUZOGLU, UMUT: MA PhD GuelphResearch interests: Dynamic paneldata models, health economics, laboureconomics, empirical likelihood.

PALANGKARAYA, ALFONS: BSc UMo MA Penn St PhD Ore StResearch interests: Industrialorganisation, health economics,econometrics.

SCHURER, STEFANIE: Dipl PolPotsdam MSc (Eco) YorkResearch interests: Micro-econometrics, health economics.

SCUTELLA, ROSANNA: BCom HonsPhD MelbResearch interests: Poverty, inequality,social welfare, labour economics andpublic finance.

SMITH, PENELOPE: BEc (Hons) UWA,MCom PhDResearch interests: Business cycles,open economy macroeconomics,applied econometrics.

SONG, LEI LEI: BA EChina, MScWuhan, MEc W’gong PhDResearch interests: Appliedmacroeconomics, exchange rateeconomics, the Chinese economy.

TSIAPLIAS, SAM: BCom (Hons)/LLBDeakin PhD MelbResearch interests: Macroeconomics,financial economics, econometrics,forecasting.

WATSON, NICOLE: BSc UWAGDipMgtSc Canb MMedStatNewcastlePosition: Deputy Director, HILDAProject (Survey Management)

WITT, JULIA: BA Hons Toronto MAPhD GuelphResearch interests: Health economics,microeconomics.

Research Officers

AGIUS, PAUL: BA GDipSoc LaTrobeMSc (Applied Statistics) SwinPosition: HILDA Database SupportOfficer

BLACK, DAVID: BCom Hons MelbResearch interests: Labour economics,government policy, appliedeconometrics.

FOK, YIN KING: BCom Hons/BIS MelbResearch interests: Labour economics(education and labour supply).

HAYES, CLINTON: BSc (Hons) OtagoPosition: Survey Methodologist(HILDA)

LEAHY, ANNE: BCom GCertClassicsMelbPosition: Survey Data Analyst

SARGENT, LEISA: BA MOrgPsych QldPhD TorontoResearch Interests: The effects of job changes on identity and careerrelated outcomes, stress and stressmanagement strategies, teaminterventions and team effectiveness.

SINGH, PRAKASH: BE (Hons) BBusQUT PhDResearch interests: Operationsmanagement, supply chainmanagement, quality management,innovation management.

Lecturers

BRATTON, VIRGINIA: BA MoorheadMA Florida, PhD FloridaResearch Interests: Impressionmanagement, business ethics,organisational identity and politics.

CHMIELEWSKI, DANIELLE: BA/BCom(Hons) PhDResearch Interests: Strategicmarketing, strategic management,timing of entry, brand introductionstrategy, resource-based view andcapabilities, strategic orientation.

DAVIES, JENNIFER: BBusMgt (Hons)PhD Candidate QldResearch Interests: Inter-organisationalrelationship, strategic networks, rivalry,strategic groups, knowledge andinnovation.

FRAHM, JENNIFER: BBusCommunication (Hons) PhD QUTResearch Interests: Organisationalchange and development,organisational communication,workplace communication, employeesexperience of change, innovation,strategic change, process researchmethods, mixed methodology.

HANNA, VICTORIA: BEng (Hons) PhDLoughboroughResearch interests: Small firmcooperation, innovation andcompetitiveness.

LIM, ELISON: BBA (Hons) PhD NUSBusSchool SingaporeResearch Interests: Informationprocessing, language effects inadvertising, cross-cultural consumerdifferences, behavioural decisiontheory.

MAGUIRE, CATHERINE: BCom (Hons)PhD candidateResearch interests: Effects of unionmembership status and union-management climate, relationshipbetween job and life satisfaction,reshaping organisations based on e-commerce.

MOL, JOERI: MSc Erasmus PhD(Mgmt Sci) GroningenResearch Interests: Selectionmechanisms in markets, power andappropriation in organisations,classification systems and genreformation, diffusion processes,broadcasting and creative industries.

NAGPAL, ANISH: BSc (Hons)MechEng MSc (Hons) Econ BITS Pilani PhD (Mktg) HoustonResearch Interests: Consumerbehaviour, information processing,decision frames and choice, decisionconflict.

NEVILLE, BEN: BCom PGradDip PhDcandidateResearch Interests: Corporate socialresponsibility and business ethics,stakeholder theory and stakeholdermanagement, climate change andenvironmental issues, consumerissues and marketing ethics, cross-cultural issues in marketing andmanagement.

OSEGOWITSCH, TOM: BA (Hons)Wirtschafts Wien MCom (by Research)PhD UWAResearch Interest: Strategies ofmultinational companies, internationalbusiness, strategy, HQ-subsidiaryrelationship.

SAMMARTINO, ANDRE: BCom (Hons)PhDResearch Interests: Internationalbusiness, regionalisation andglobalisation, internationalisation of Australian firms and of retailers,transformation of subsidiary roles,vertical scope and competitiveadvantage, business history.

Professional Staff

SHORT, WENDY: AssDipApSci (Sci Lab) Swin GradDipEdAdmin HIEMEdAdmin UNEPosition: Department Manager

BANFORD, ALISON Position: Academic Services Manager

BERGMAN, KRISTEL: BA/BScPosition: Front Office Administrator/Undergraduate Coordinator

BISHOP, LIZA: BBus Mgt PendingRMITPosition: Undergraduate Coordinator

BROWN, OLGA Position: Front Office Administrator

BRYCE, TIM: BA MelbPosition: Postgraduate Coordinator

COX, MARY: ALAAPosition: Administrative ServicesManager

FIDLER, BELINDA: BA LaTrobePosition: Undergraduate Coordinator

HALL, BRADLEYPosition: Budgets and ResourcesOfficer

HEDDLE, NICOLE: AdvDip(Photography) ChchPosition: Undergraduate Coordinator

JENKINS, RACHEL: GradCertBus SwinPosition: Undergraduate Coordinator

KENTON, SUSAN: BA DipEd BEdLaTrobePosition: Academic Services Manager

MARTINI, SARAHPosition: Front Office Administrator

McCORMICK, CHRISSYPosition: Front Office Administrator

McQUILLAN, RORY: BSc MelbPosition: Front Office Administrator

ROLLER, DANIELLE: BA SwinPosition: Publications and PromotionsCoordinator

SIMON, DENISEPosition: Executive Assistant

Melbourne Institute of Applied

Economic and Social Research

Director and Professorial Research

Fellow (from 1 August 2007)

SEDGWICK, STEPHEN: BEc Hons Syd MSc (Economics) LondResearch interests: Education policy,commonwealth-state relations,economic and social policy.

Director and Professorial Research

Fellow (until April 2007)

FREEBAIRN, JOHN: MAgEc NE PhD Davis FASSAResearch interests: Taxation reform,labour economics, especiallyemployment, infrastructure pricing and investment, and microeconomicreform.

Deputy Director and Professorial

Research Fellow

WOODEN, MARK: BEc Hons Flin MSc LondResearch interests: Labour economics,industrial relations and surveymethodology.

Professorial Research Fellows

LIM, GUAY C.: BEc MEc PhD ANUResearch interests: Macroecono -metrics, modelling the Australianeconomy, financial econometrics.


WATTY, KIM: BBus Victoria MAcc GradCert TT&L PhD RMITPosition: Director, TLU

XUE, JUNE: BSc DipInfoTechHolmesglen TAFEPosition: Web Developer (TLU)

Faculty Secretariat

General Manager, Faculty of

Economics and Commerce

LOI, AILEEN: BCom MIB CharteredAccountant (ICAA ICANZ)

Executive Director, Melbourne

Graduate School of Management

YOUNG, BROOKE: BA LaTrobePGradDip (Art Cur St)MEnterprise(Exec) Melb

Director, Advancement, Faculty

of Economics and Commerce

DIXON, SUZANNE: BCom DipEdHawthorn Institute MBA VUT

Professional Staff

ABUD, FIONAPosition: Development Manager(Advancement)

AIR, ALISTER: BAppSc UTSPosition: Faculty IT Manager

ANTONOPOULOS, ANTHEA:Research Support Officer

AVRAMOPOULOS, KRISPosition: Desktop Support Officer

BANYASZ, AGNES: MA DipEd ELTEBudapest GradDip (Careers) DeakinPosition: Manager, Graduate CareersCentre

BARRY, ANTHEA: BA UCT GradCertLinguistics Melb PGradCert Editing &Comms MelbPosition: Advancement Assistant

BELFORD, DOUG: BAppSc SwinPosition: IT Security and ComplianceManager

BENNETT, SHARYN: BA (Int Stud)RMITPosition: Study Abroad and ExchangeCoordinator

BENETTI-HILLE, MARIKA: BA LLBMonash BSW MelbPosition: Student Experience Officer

BIRD, VENETIAPosition: Applications Developer

BRAYBROOK, PENNY: BSocSci MBITPosition: Research Database Manager

CHAN, STEVEN:Systems Support Officer

CHANG, NOOI: BA (Hons) MalayaMEPA MonashPosition: Manager (International)

CHOONG, EDDIE: BBusStud VU CPAPosition: Executive Officer(International Programs)

CLARENCE, WAYNEPosition: Desktop Support Officer

CLARK, LEONIE:Position: Student Advisor

COLLIS, STEPHENPosition: Manager, MelbourneGraduate School of Management

CORNISH, SARAH: App Sci (Disability Studies)Position: Manager (Student Services),Commerce Student Centre

COX, CHANTELLE: BA RMIT, MT(Web and Internet Computing) RMITPosition: Web Developer

CROSS, RYAN: BA LaTrobePosition: Student Advisor

DO, NGHIA: BElectEng RMITPosition: Computer Systems Officer

DOUGHERTY, ELIZABETH: BBus(ACC) CPAPosition: Management Accountant

EDWARDS, LARISA: BBus SwinPosition: Study Abroad and ExchangeCoordinator (incoming)

ELLIOTT, EUFEMIA: BA/BComPosition: Internship Coordinator

ELLIS, TRACY: BA SwinPosition: Academic ProgramsManager, Research

FARRELL, CHRISTOPHER: BA LaTrobePosition: Student Adviser

FIDLER, BELLE: BA DipLangPosition: Team Leader, StudentServices

FITZGERALD, GERALDINE: BA(Hum&SocSci) LaTrobePosition: Student Liaison Officer(Undergraduate)

FOX, GENEVIEVE Position: Service Desk Manager

GEORGESZ, MARK: BEc LaTrobeMAppCom (Marketing) MelbPosition: Executive Officer (Resources)

GILLEARD, RACHEL: BAPosition: Executive Officer(Undergraduate)

GILMARTIN, CLARE: BA ACUPosition: Executive Assistant to GM & AD(AP)

HANSON, BRAD: BA MonashGradDipMktg MBus (Mktg) RMIT CPMPosition: Manager, Marketing andCommunications

HARPER, CLARE: BA (Hons) Hull MANottinghamPosition: Manager, StudentExperience. Melbourne GraduateSchool of Management

HASHINAKA, MAYSAYOSHI: BASophia MA (Japanese Interpreting and Translation) Monash PGradDipEd Position: Applications Assistant,Melbourne Graduate School ofManagement

HERCZEG, MARGARET: BCom(Writing and Contemp Cultures)SydneyPosition: Application Officer,Melbourne Graduate School ofManagement

HILL, ADRIAN: CertBasicElectCertIVCompSys DipCompSys MCSEPosition: Core Services Specialist

HOARE, JACQUELINE MICHELLEBCom (Management) MelbPosition: Executive Officer(Undergraduate Onshore Marketing)

JENKINS, ALISON: BA BEd Deakin BA(Hons)Position: Academic Programs Manager(MBIT)

JENZEN, RACHEL: BA (Hons) MA Position: Academic Programs Manager

JEYARAJ, LATHA: BA UNE GradDipInfo Mgmt RMITPosition: Student Experience SupportOfficer

JOSE, SABINAPosition: Academic ProgramsManager, Master of AppliedCommerce

JOVANOVSKI, SOKOLAPosition: Administrative Officer(International)

KARTALIS, BILL: BBus VUT AssDip(PHYS/COMP) WMCT AdvCert (IT) FT,CBE VUT MCP MCSE ASA (AIX) CSMSPA PRINCE2 SME ITIL SME andManagers.Position: Core Services Manager

KRIEG, PETERPosition: Student Advisor

KWOK, TRACY: BBus Swin CPA MBA (Deakin)Position: Executive Officer (Finance)

VAN ZIJLL DE JONG, Mark: BComHons LincolnResearch interests:Labour economics and taxation.

VU, HA: BEc Newcastle Hons ANUResearch interests: Macroeconomics,applied econometrics, social policiesand welfare economics.

WARREN, DIANA: BCom MCom HonsW’gongResearch interests: Labour economics,mature age labour force and thetransition to retirement.

Research Assistants

ELLIS, LEANNE: BSocSci RMIT

WARE, KERRY

Professional Staff

DERHAM, RACHEL: BSc MelbPosition: Business Manager

A’BELL, LAURA: Position: Communications andPublicity Manager

GOH, THERESA: BBus (Bus Admin)MPA RMIT, ASAPosition: Finance and ResourcesManager

HOPE, PENNY: BA LaTrobePosition: Functions Manager

LENTINI, NELLIE: BA MonashPosition: Publications Manager

LIEW, WOEI TIAN: BSc MSc LaTrobeGDipEc MelbPosition: Computing Systems Officer

BOWDEN, CHRIS: BA/BSc Monash,MCom DeakinPosition: Finance Officer

GROSS, TESS: BA (Hons) Monash DipEd MelbPosition: Executive Assistant to theDirector

MADSEN, PAULA:Position: Administrative Officer, LabourEconomics and Social Policy

MOORE, PHILIPPA: BA (Hons) UTasPosition: Administrative Assistant –HILDA Survey

AUSTER, NICKY: BBus (Marketing)/BA(Japanese) MonashPosition: Administrative Assistant –HILDA Survey

BEST, MICHELLE: BEnvSc LaTrobePosition: Administrative Assistant

WILSON, MICHELLE: BA Hons MelbPosition: Administrative Assistant

Adjunct Professors

BORLAND, JEFF: MA PhD YaleFASSA, Department of Economics,The University of Melbourne

CREEDY, JOHN: BSc (Eco with Stats)Brist BPhil (Eco) Oxf FASSA, TrubyWilliams Chair of Economics,Department of Economics, TheUniversity of Melbourne

GRIFFITHS, BILL: BAgEc Hons UNEPhD Illinois FASSA, Professor ofEconometrics, Department ofEconomics, The University ofMelbourne


DRAGO, ROBERT: BS Tulsa MA PhDMass/Am, Professor of Labor Studiesand Women’s Studies, PennsylvaniaState University

DUNCAN, ALAN: BA Hons Manc DPhilYork, Professor of Microeconomics,School of Economics, The Universityof Nottingham

SLOANE, PETER: BA (Eco) (Hons)Sheffield PhD Strathclyde FRSA FRSE,Director, Welsh Economy and LabourMarket Evaluation Centre(WELMERC), The University of Wales,Swansea

WILLIAMS, ROSS: BCom MelbMScEc PhD Lond FASSA

Principal Fellows

BOEHM, ERNST: AUA BEc Hons MEcAdel MCom Melb DPhil Oxf

CROSBY, MARK: BEc (Hons) AdelaideMA PhD Queen’s Associate Professor– Economics, Melbourne BusinessSchool

DIXON, ROBERT: BEc (Hons) Monash,PhD Kent, Reader, Department ofEconomics, The University ofMelbourne

MARKS, GARY: BSc Hons MSc MelbPhD Qld

SHIELDS, MICHAEL: BA HonsStafford MSc Health UNY PhDLeicester, Associate Professor andReader, Department of Economics,The University of Melbourne

Senior Fellows

DOIRON, DENISE: BA Monc MA PhDUBC, Department of Economics, TheUniversity of New South Wales

ROGERS, MARK: BSc Lond MScWarw PhD ANU, Harris ManchesterCollege, Oxford University

Teaching and Learning Unit

ANDONOV, PAUL: BInfoSci DipCompVUTPosition: Manager, Multimedia (TLU)

BAIK, CHI: BCom BTeach MEd MelbPosition: Lecturer in Higher Education(TLU)

BEECHAM, ROD: BA Monash MLittOxford MInfSys SwinPosition: Learning Advisor (TLU)

CAZALY, CIANNON: BA MelbPosition: Research Assistant (TLU)

DAVIES, MARTIN: BA Deakin RSACELTA Cambridge BA PhD FlindersGradDipEd PhD AdelaidePosition: Deputy Director, TLU

DEVLIN, MARCIA: BA ANU DipEdLaTrobe GradDipAppPsych Swin MEd MacquariePosition: Director, TLU

DRAPER, SANCHIA: BA SwinPGDipEco MelbPosition: Programs and PublicationsCoordinator (TLU)

JONES, ANNA: BA DipEdGradDip(TESOL) M.Ed. PhD MelbPosition: Lecturer in Higher Education(TLU)

LEVER, REBECCA: BA GriffithGradDipBusAd Glasgow Position: Programs and PublicationsCoordinator (TLU)

LOWE, MELISSA: DipSocSci(Community/Development) KanganBatman TAFE Certificate in WorkplaceTraining and Assessment ACTU DipBusiness (Frontline Management)RMIT Position: Transition Coordinator (TLU)

MORRIS, GAYLE: BA GradDip (Post-secondary Education) Edmonton MEdGlasgow PhD MelbournePosition: Lecturer in Higher Education(TLU)

PESINA, JENNY: BDesign (Multimedia)SwinPosition: Multimedia Developer (TLU)

PUGLIELLI, SONIAPosition: Academic ProgramsCoordinator (TLU)

SHAW, JENNIFER: DipIT ChisholmPosition: Administrative Assistant(TLU)

WAECHTER, TREVOR: BEng BSc MSc Adelaide PhD CambridgePosition: Learning Advisor (TLU)


LASCELLES, SCOTT ANDREW: BBus(Hospitality Management) LaTrobePosition: Academic Programs Officer(Master of Applied Commerce)

LAUGHLIN, KYLIE: BA (Criminology)PGradDip in Arts (Criminology) Position: Acting Manager, AcademicPolicy and Programs

LAZO, ALFREDPosition: Core Services Specialist

LLOYD, AMANDA: BBus (InformationSystems) VUTPosition: Client Services Manager

LOWE, MELISSA: DipSocSci(Community/Development) KanganBatman TAFE Certificate in WorkplaceTraining and Assessment ACTU DipBusiness (Frontline Management)RMIT Position: Transition Coordinator

MAJCZAK, DANIEL: DipHospMgmtWilliam Angliss BBus (InformationSystems) VUT MCPPosition: Computer LaboratoryManager

McCORMICK, CHRISSYPosition: Scholarships & Prizes Officer

McINERNEY, CATHERINE: BA (Political Science) MonashPosition: Student Advisor, Commerce Student Centre

MCPHARLIN, SUSAN: BA BComAdelaidePosition: Manager, Student Experience

MONG, CATHERINE: BBusAdminSingapore GradDipSoftwDev RMITPosition: Academic Policy andPrograms Officer

MORTON, HEIDI: BA (Hons) TasMComPosition: Academic Programs Officer,Professional Programs

MUNDY, AMANDA: BA (Linguistics)DeakinPosition: Academic Programs Officer

NACLI, ROSA: BSc (Sociology) LaTrobePosition: Student Adviser,Undergraduate

NGUYEN, THU Position: Desktop Support Officer

NGUYEN, TRUMAN: BComSc MCSE,CCNAPosition: Systems Administrator

NGUYEN, TRUNGPosition: System Support Officer

ORTEGA, FRANKPosition: Core Services Specialist

O’SHEA, ROSEMARY: BA MonashBEc LaTrobe MAppComm (OrgChange) MelbPosition: Executive Assistant toDirector, Melbourne Graduate Schoolof Management

PECORARO, FRANCESCA: BA (MediaStudies) RMIT GradCertUniMgmt MelbPosition: Interim Manager, CommerceStudent Centre

PEDLEY, SARAH: BA(Hons)Position: Team Leader, StudentServices

PELUSO, DANIEL: BBus (InfoSystems) VUTPosition: Core Services Specialist

PHAM, MAGGIE: BBus VUTPosition: Service Desk Manager

PHAM, QUYNH BSc GradDipEcStMonashPosition: Systems Support Officer

PHAN, VAN: BCompSci VUPosition: Applications Developer

QIN, ROSY: BCom (Accounting and Finance) DipEdPosition: Finance and ResourcesOfficer

RANDALL, JACQUELINE: BAGradDipMedStud DeakinPosition: Manager (Research)

REECE, REBECCA: BBus Swin CPAPosition: Financial Controller

REIGER, MAXINEPosition: Core Services Officer

RITTER, ANNE: BSc GradDipCompSciLaTrobePosition: Database Support Officer

ROBERTSON, KATIE: DipSocSci(Justice) DipAppSc Box Hill TAFEPosition: Senior Student Adviser

RODRIGUEZ, FERNANDO: DipIT Box Hill TAFE MCPPosition: Systems Support Officer

RYCROFT, ANNA: BA VUPosition: Finance and ResourcesOfficer

SERPELL, ELIZABETH Position: Executive Assistant toDirector, Melbourne Graduate Schoolof Management

SHARMA, SANJAY: MSc India,PGradDipCompSysEng RMITPosition: Application Services Manager

SHEARS, MONIQUEPosition: Professional EnhancementOfficer

SHEPHERD, ALISTAIR: BA (Hons) MAMelb MA (Communication) RMIT Position: Executive Officer (GraduateMarketing)

SIVATHASH, BALA: MSc (UK) BEngIndia MCSE CCAPosition: Systems Support Officer

STANGER, AMANDA: BBusMgmtQUTPosition: Alumni Advancement Officer

TA, DANIELPosition: System Support Officer

TAN, MICHAELPosition: Porter

TEMPLETON, HETTY: BBus (ComSys Management) VUTPosition: Desktop Support Officer

THOMPSON, Clare: BA MonashDipCIS RMITPostion: Senior Student Adviser,Undergraduate

TINWORTH, KOBYPosition: Executive Assistant to theGM & AD(AP)

TRAJCEVSKA, VESNA: MA Business& It, MA AccountingPosition: Academic Programs Officer

TRUONG, LINH: BE BScPosition: Core Services Officer

VASSILEV, SPASSIMIRPosition: Systems Support Officer

VELLU, PHYLLIS: MA IndiaPosition: Executive Assistant to theDean

VUCETICH KARIBIAN, ROCIOPosition: Manager (Latin America,Thailand and Europe)

WHITE, SAM: CertSmallBusMgmtGlenormistonPosition: Enquiries Officer (GraduateSchool)

WILKINS, BRONYA: BA Victoria NZGrad Cert Career Development AUTCert IV Training & Assessment AIETPosition: Career Programs Officer

WONG, BILLYPosition: Systems Support Office

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