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Associate Professor Dr Pandula Gamage is Deputy Head and Senior Lecturer in Accounting in the Peter Faber Business School. Pandula completed his PhD at La Trobe University, Master of Commerce degree (Accounting) at the University of Melbourne and the Graduate Certificate in Tertiary Education at Victoria University.
Pandula has extensive national and international experience teaching undergraduate and postgraduate subjects. Pandula's considerable personal success in teaching was formally acknowledged in 2014 with the award of "Pearson/AFAANZ Accounting Educator of the year: Australia and New Zealand."
Apart from his excellence in classroom teaching, Pandula also engages in high-impact research. He has recently published scholarly articles in prestigious journals such as: Public Money and Management and Australian Journal of Public Administration. He has also received research grants linked with national professional accounting and finance associations.
Pandula's research interests include performance management, corporate accountability and auditing, public sector accounting and accounting education. Prior to commencing his academic career, Pandula held various accounting and finance roles in the industry. He is also a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand.
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Dr Syed Muhammad Fazal-e-Hasan brings a wealth of experience to his role at Australian Catholic University. Before joining the role as the head of the Marketing discipline at Peter Faber Business School, he held leadership positions in Marketing at the University of New England, the University of Tasmania, and Queensland University of Technology (QUT), respectively.
Syed's quantitative analysis and project management expertise has contributed to 14 medium to large-scale projects, including Devonport City Digitalisation, Brisbane Airport Corporation (BAC), and Global Entrepreneurship Monitor projects. His extensive research on consumer behaviour has been published in reputable journals such as the Journal of Business Research, Journal of Marketing Management, Journal of Services Marketing, and Journal of Retail and Consumer Services. With over a decade of experience, Syed has dedicated his career to working with underprivileged communities both in Australia and abroad. He has guided and supported asylum seekers, migrants, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. Syed's exceptional work has been recognised with the Vice Chancellor Excellence Award for Community Engagement and multiple community accolades for his contributions to improving their well-being. Alongside his teaching duties, Syed has held key administrative roles in South Asia and Australian public universities. He has designed and executed educational programs and projects and secured grants of up to $850,000, displaying his proficiency in managing complex projects.
Syed's research work can be accessed here.
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Associate Professor Samantha Murdy is an academic in Marketing with over 15 years of teaching, research, and consulting experience. Before joining ACU, she worked in the Queensland University of Technology and the University of Strathclyde. She holds a PhD and a Bachelor (Honours) degree in Marketing. She also holds a PG Cert in Higher Education Teaching and is a member of the Higher Education Academy.
Samantha has a keen research interest in conservation, sustainability, and community in relation to marketing in a tourism context. She has published a case study, 23 conference papers, and 10 journal articles (with most of these being in ERA- A* and A ranked journals), as well as publishing in the Conversation and being interviewed by Sunday Politics Scotland. Samantha has also received research funding, totalling more than $100,000, from bodies including, but not limited to, the Carnegie Trust, the Academy of Marketing, and the British Academy.
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Professor Md Akhtaruzzaman is the Head of the Discipline of Accounting & Finance at Peter Faber Business School. He is a Senior Fellow at Advance HE (formerly the UK Higher Education Academy). He served as an Editorial Board member in Accounting & Finance (ABDC A-ranked journal). He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Risk Finance and the International Journal of Financial Studies.
His research interests include asset pricing, financial contagion, interest rate risk and capital adequacy. He has published in Journal of Economic Behaviour & Organisation, International Review of Financial Analysis, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, Economic Modelling, Finance Research Letters, and Applied Economics, among others. He serves as a Visiting Research Fellow at UCB Stock Brokerage Limited, a leading investment bank in Bangladesh. He received his PhD from the University of Newcastle. He also has extensive experience in senior positions in the banking and finance industry.
He was a Managing Director of SIMARCH Asia in Singapore. He led a Research & Planning Department in a commercial bank. He is a regular contributor to media on contemporary topics. His recent interview on the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank has been broadcast on SBS Prime time news at 6.30 pm. He has been a regular industry speaker on contemporary banking topics
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Dr Obeng is a lecturer with Peter Faber Business School, Australian Catholic University. She has worked in industry as teaching consultant for finance and a board member of a finance company. She has teaching experiences from different parts of the world. She has taught in Latrobe University, University of Ghana, and Ghana Technology University College in the areas of Financial Accounting, Auditing and Management Accounting.
Her research interests include corporate governance, board diversity, earnings management, corporate financial reporting and disclosure and the accounting regulatory environment. She has published several research papers in her early academic career and refereed journal articles in her research areas. She is also a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand and the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Ghana.
Dr Mariappanadar is a Senior Lecturer in Management/HRM in the Peter Faber Business School in Melbourne.
His teaching and research interests cover sustainable human resource management, human resource measurement, Organisational behaviour, and culturally indigenous management practices. An organisational psychologist by training, his research has appeared in leading international journal outlets. He publishes in a variety of internationally-recognised journals, including Human Resource Management Review, Personnel Review, and International Journal of Manpower.
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Dr Walayat Hussain is currently a Senior Lecturer at the Peter Faber Business School, Australian Catholic University. Before taking up this role, he was a Lecturer at Victoria University Melbourne, Lecturer and a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Technology Sydney and an Assistant Professor and PG program coordinator at the Department of Computer Science at BUITEMS University for many years. He holds a PhD, Master, Postgraduate Diploma, and Bachelor's (Hons.) degrees in Computing and Information Systems. Walayat's research areas are Service Computing, Business Intelligence, AI, Information Systems, Computational Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Decision Support Systems. He has contributed to theory and application and developed a new approach for making an optimal informed decision in complex systems.
He has published several high-quality research documents in top-ranked ERA / CORE - A*, JCR/SJR - Q1 journals such as IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Transactions on Service Computing, Future Generation Computer Systems, Information Sciences and several others. He is the Associate Editor for the IET- Communications and Forecasting, international journals, and has been a guest editor for more than 25 international journals. Walayat received multiple research grants from various competitive bodies.
He is the recipient of the prestigious National Research Award by the Government of Oman 2021, the VUBS Award for Excellence in Research 2022, the Best Paper Awards at - IoTaaS Australia, 3PGCIC 2015, 2016 Poland, South Korea, and FEIT HDR Publication Award by the UTS Australia.
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Dr Marzena Baker is the Head of Discipline – HRM / Management and a Senior Lecturer at the Peter Faber Business School, Australian Catholic University. With a keen interest in promoting workplace equity, diversity, inclusion, and wellbeing she focuses her research and publications on effective workplace diversity policies, and practices. Her expertise lies in supporting women to occupy leadership roles in project-based organisations. Dr Baker's recent publications, which have appeared in many high-quality management, project management, construction, and engineering journals, including the International Journal of Project Management, Australian Journal of Management, Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, Journal of Management in Engineering, Personnel Review, and Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion International Journal, reflect her extensive research and dedication to this field.
Dr Baker is an alumna of Queensland University of Technology, where she obtained a PhD and Master of Business degrees. She also holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Auckland University. Before joining Australian Catholic University, she was a Lecturer in Project Management at the University of Sydney.
Dr Baker's professional experience spans over 25 years in senior corporate positions, where she has managed consumer research, marketing, and communication projects in fast-moving consumer goods, construction, and property development industry sectors. Her research has resulted in multiple conference papers and industry presentations.
Dr Biswas is a networking and cybersecurity expert with a strong academic background. He holds an M.Sc. in Computer Science specializing in Security Engineering from Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH), Sweden, and a Ph.D. in Information and Communication Technology from Griffith University, Australia. Currently, he works as a Lecturer in Information Technology at Australian Catholic University while also serving as an adjunct lecturer at Griffith University. Dr. Biswas has extensive experience in academia, having worked as an Associate Lecturer at Griffith University and as a faculty member at Daffodil International University in Bangladesh. His research interests span various areas, including blockchain technology, privacy issues in the metaverse, explainable AI, lightweight security protocols, energy-efficient and secure routing, intrusion detection systems, and security issues in SDNs, MANETs, and WSNs.
Dr Biswas has published over 50 peer-reviewed articles in reputed journals and conferences such as IEEE Internet of Things, Computer Networks, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Future Generation Computer Systems, Nature Scientific Report, ACM Sensys, ICBC, and WoWMoM. He has been actively involved in various leading capacities in international conferences such as TrustCom, GridCom, SDLT, CISIS, ICCS, ACM BlockSys, and PRDC-23 and served as a keynote speaker, general chair, session chair, organizing committee member, and TPC member.
Dr Biswas has received several internal and external research grants including DFAT and ASCILITE research grants. He also actively contributes to the academic community by undertaking editorial roles for special issues in international journals and organizing workshops on cutting-edge technologies like blockchain and IoT.
Dr Betty Frino is a Lecturer in Human Resources, Management and Organisational Behaviour. Betty's professional career spans academe and applied/policy research within the higher education sector, exploring contemporary workplace issues and its implications professional practice and policy. Betty has held previous appointments at the Universities of Sydney, Macquarie and Wollongong, teaching across programs at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Bringing real work scenarios, contemporary issues and current research to the classroom setting is paramount to her teaching philosophy.
Betty has published widely in peer-reviewed and practitioner based journals, and presented her work at both academic and practitioner conferences on the international and domestic scale. She has been invited as guest lecturer at several international universities in Europe, Malaysia and UAE, and also appeared as an expert witness for state wage case decisions and produced commissioned reports for industry and government on wage trends and bargaining outcomes.
Dr Andrea Giovannetti is a Lecturer in Economics (equivalent to an Assistant Professor in the U.S. academic system), Principal Investigator at the Tackling Hate Lab of Deakin University and a member of the Violence Research Centre at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, where he completed a prestigious Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship. His research focuses on developing statistical models and applying high-performance computational techniques to analyse complex real-world problems, with a focus on the diffusion of deviant behaviours across human networks.
Andrea actively collaborates with Europe's largest police force, the London Metropolitan Police, as well as other U.K. organizations, including the Merseyside and Cambridgeshire police forces.
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