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Professor Susan Dann AM is Professor of Marketing and Foundation Head of the Peter Faber Business School, Australian Catholic University. Professor Dann's expertise and research interest is in the strategic application of business applications to not for profit organisations with a specific focus on social marketing. In 2018 she was recognised as a member the Order of Australia for "significant service to business education through commercial marketing techniques to deliver positive social outcomes".
Susan's contributions to business education and learning and teaching include being Associate Dean Learning and Teaching at JCU Brisbane and her participation as a member of the Australian Business Dean's Council Taskforce for the creation of Threshold Learning Outcomes for the discipline of marketing. These standards establish social responsibility as a fundamental benchmark for marketing education in Australia. She has held prior academic appointments at QUT, Griffith University and the University of Queensland.
Susan is a former (1990-2005) State President and National Deputy President of the Australian Marketing Institute (AMI). She also was instrumental in establishing the Australian Association for Social Marketing as Foundation President and was a Foundation Director of the International Social Marketing Association (representing Australasia). In her role in the Australian Marketing Institute Susan established and chaired the Government Marketing Conference to draw together practitioners from industry, third sector and government to share best practice for using marketing in government agencies.
Professor Dann has published across the management and marketing literature including publications in journals such as Gender Work and Organisation, Journal of Macromarketing and Journal of Product and Brand Management. She is author or co-author of eight books, two of which have been shortlisted for awards.
Professor Dann has spanned academia and industry with external appointments including being Director of Research and Executive Director of the National Seniors Productive Ageing Centre. She has served on a number of governance boards including Ozcare (current), St Rita's College (current), General Practice Queensland, Quality Improvement Council, Australian Marketing Institute and the AFL Queensland Commission. Other appointments include as member of the Forde Foundation Board of Advice, Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal (legal practice tribunal) and Social Security Appeals Tribunal.
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.
Dr Syed Muhammad Fazal-e-Hazan 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.
Dr 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.
Associate Professor Md Akhtaruzzaman is the Head of the Department of Accounting & Finance at Peter Faber Business School and an elected Academic Board member of Australian Catholic University. 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
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 National Discipline Leader of HRM and 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.
Dr Liao is an Associate Professor in the Discipline of Information Technology (IT) and Systems at Peter Faber Business School, Australian Catholic University (ACU). He is also the Director of the human-centred intelligent learning and software technologies research lab (HilstLab) at ACU. He was a Research Fellow in Data Analytics at Swinburne University of Technology, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Algorithms at The University of Melbourne, and a Research Engineer in Machine Learning at Canon Information Systems Research Australia. He holds PhD and First-class Honours Bachelor's degrees both in Computer Science (CS) from The University of Adelaide. He studied Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Algorithms at the prestigious CS department of The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. His research interests include both theory (e.g., effectiveness, efficiency, and complexity bounds) and applications (i.e., human-centred systems, services, and tools) of Algorithms, Data Science, AI and Machine Learning.
As CS/IT is a conference-focused and ranked discipline (see CORE and Wiki), A/Prof Liao devoted to top-quality publications and produced 50+ works (with 10 A*, 15 A, 10 Q1) including top conference papers in the domains of Artificial Intelligence: AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), and ACM International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Data Science: International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), IEEE Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), ACM Web Search and Data Mining Conference (WSDM), and ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), and Computing Systems and Services: ACM World Wide Web Conference (WWW), International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), ACM on Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA), and International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC). He also won two best paper awards at conferences ICDCS 2023 and iiWAS 2009, respectively. For high-quality journal articles, A/Prof Liao has published in IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Expert Systems with Applications, International Journal of Data Science and Analytics, Computers and Electrical Engineering, Distributed and Parallel Databases, Theoretical Computer Science, The Computer Journal etc.
Dr Walayat Hussain is currently a Senior Lecturer and the National Discipline Leader of Information Technology 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.
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.
Honorary Fellow
Dr Mindy Shoss has emerged as one of the world's leading scholars in the study of employee well-being, using it as a lens through which to examine such topics as leadership, counterproductive workplace behaviour, adaptability, job insecurity, and the consequences of economic crises. She holds a PhD in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from the University of Houston, and pairs this background with baccalaureate training in both psychology and economics from Washington University in St. Louis, where she graduated summa cum laude and received Phi Beta Kappa honours. Her research has been published in some of the world's leading journals, including the Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Journal of Organizational Behavior. In the United States, she also serves in a professorial capacity in the Industrial/Organisational Psychology program at the University of Central Florida.
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