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Associate Professor Md Akhtaruzzaman

Email: Md.Akhtaruzzaman@acu.edu.au

Interests: Asset pricing, financial contagion, capital adequacy of financial institutions, cryptocurrency, and corporate governance


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Associate Professor Niusha Shafiabady

Email: Niusha.Shafiabady@acu.edu.au

Interests: Machine Learning, Data Analytics, Intelligent Modelling, Expert System Design, Computational Optimisation.


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Associate Professor Kate Letheren

Email: Kate.Letheren@acu.edu.au

Interests: Humanised technology (AI, Robotics, Smart home) - design, consumer responses, outcomes for individuals, society, service managers; Human-centred and ethical technology design and applications; Quantitative research: experiments, surveys; Service design/Co-design; Services marketing; Consumer psychology


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Associate Professor Pandula Gamage

Email: Pandula.Gamage@acu.edu.au

Interests: Performance management, Corporate Accountability and Auditing, Public Sector Accounting, Accounting Education, Access to finance for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs)


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Associate Professor Walayat Hussain

Email: Walayat.Hussain@acu.edu.au

Interests: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and decision-making algorithms, Internet of Things (IoT) and its applications, Web information systems and intelligent systems, Communication networks and forecasting technologies, Software engineering and computing in complex, distributed environments, Smart systems and automation, Big data and cloud computing in education and technology, ICT for sustainable and informed decision-making


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Associate Professor Trajce Cvetkovski

Email: Trajce.Cvetkovski@acu.edu.au

Interests: OHSEM - Sentencing disparity under harmonised OHS legislation; Reasonable practicability and cost considerations in OHS; Copyright governance; The political economy of the music industry


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Associate Professor Syed Muhammad Fazal-e-Hasan

Email: Syed.Fazal-e-hasan@acu.edu.au

Interests: Positive emotions, consumer behaviour, community engagement, marketing analytics, digital marketing


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Professor Ambika Zutshi

Email: Ambika.Zutshi@acu.edu.au/a>

Interests: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Food Waste and Food Insecurity, Higher Education, Supply Chain Management, Stakeholder Relationships


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Professor Susan Dann

Email: Susan.Dann@acu.edu.au

Interests: Strategic marketing for not-for-profit organisations, Social marketing and its role in driving positive social outcomes, Application of commercial marketing techniques to public and third-sector initiatives, Marketing education standards, particularly integrating social responsibility into curriculum, Government and public sector marketing, Productive ageing and ageing-related policy research, Gender and organisational studies


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Professor Jo Ingold

Email: Jo.Ingold@acu.edu.au

Interests: Human Resource Management, especially Recruitment and Talent Acquisition and Workplace Inclusion; Public Management and Employment Services; Disability; Evidence-based HRM; Evidence-based public policymaking and its impact on organisations


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Dr Kamanashis Biswas

Email: Kamanashis.Bishwas@@acu.edu.au

Interests: Blockchain technology; cybersecurity; lightweight cryptographic schemes; energy-efficient secure routing; software defined networking; wireless sensor networks


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Dr Felix Orole

Email: Felix.Orole@acu.edu.au

Interests: Family Business and Entrepreneurship (Individual and Firm level entrepreneurialism); Internationalization of the firms (Alternative systems of inter-firm exchange); Digital Coaching and Immersive Learning Technologies


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Dr Mehdi Rajaeian

Email: Mehdi.Rajaeian@acu.edu.au

Interests: Business Intelligence (Analytics) & Decision Support Systems; Social and personal impacts of IT; IT Outsourcing; Innovation Adoption; Research-Practice Gap in Information Systems and Business Disciplines


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Dr Adam Arian

Email: Adam.Arian@acu.edu.au

Interests: Corporate disclosure, sustainability, greenhouse gas emissions, and risk management. Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) performance and its interplay with corporate finance and governance


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Dr Dinuja Perera

Email: Dinuja.Perera@acu.edu.au

Interests: International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), Accounting judgments, broader themes in international financial reporting


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Dr Marzena Baker

Email: Marzena.Baker@acu.edu.au

Interests: Gender diversity and inclusion in male-dominated industries, Gender pay gap, Effectiveness of workplace diversity, work-life balance and inclusion policies and practices, Business case for diversity, Neurodiversity in the workplace, Construction, mining, property and retail industries, Diversity and inclusion in project-based organisations, Workplace wellbeing


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Dr Sugumar Mariappanadar

Email: Sugumar.Mariappanadar@acu.edu.au

Interests: Sustainable Human Resource Management, Human Resource Capital, Spirituality and Management, Motivational Gratification, and Competencies and HR systems


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Dr Alexander Campbell

Email: Alexander.Campbell@acu.edu.au

Interests: Corporate Social Marketing (CSM), social advocacy, Social Return on Investment (SROI), Motivations behind consumer behaviour, Informed financial decision-making and constructive learning approaches in marketing education and practice


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Dr Victoria Obeng

Email: Victoria.Obeng@acu.edu.au

Interests: Financial Reporting and Analysis, Financial Literacy and Analysis, Financial Sustainability Plan and Analysis, Corporate Governance and Sustainability reporting, Integrated Reporting


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Dr Samantha Murdy

Email: Samantha.Murdy@acu.edu.au

Interests: Tourism marketing (including destination branding tourist behaviour); Volunteer tourism; Conservation and sustainability of tourism sites; Donation behaviour; Quantitative and qualitative research design, data collection, and analysis; Hiking (walker behaviour and trail management)


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Dr Jak Kakhkharov

Email: Jak.Kakhkharov@acu.edu.au

Interests: Remittances and their socio-economic impact; Energy economics and the green transition; Investment and financial management; FinTech and banking; Corporate governance; Monetary policy responses to economic shocks; Financial sector development in transition economies; Interdisciplinary approaches to finance and development


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Dr Bhaskar Purohit

Email: Bhaskar.Purohit@acu.edu.au

Interests: Health workforce, HRM, Health systems and policy


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Dr Andrea Giovanetti

Email: Andrea.Giovannetti@acu.edu.au

Interests: Quantitative criminology; human networks; simulations; programming; data analytics; computational methods; social sciences


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Dr Mahmoud Bekhit

Email: Mahmoud.Bekhit@acu.edu.au

Interests: Machine Learning and Deep Learning, Data Science, Internet of Things (IoT), Network Function Virtualization (NFV), Wireless Networks, Healthcare Technology


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Dr Murooj Yousef

Email: Murooj.Yousef@acu.edu.au

Interests: Marketing; social marketing; advertising; communication; behaviour change; digital marketing; social media marketing; emotional appeals; message framing; emotions; social issues; health issues; environmental issues; consumer behaviour; advertising effectiveness; intervention evaluation


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Dr Joanna Vogeley

Email: Joanna.Vogeley@acu.edu.au

Interests: Business; psychology and anthropology; impact investing; social entrepreneurship; values; and tensions of purpose and profits


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Dr Usha Pappu

Email: Usha.Pappu@acu.edu.au

Interests: Sensory marketing, Marketing communications and message effectiveness, Consumer behaviour, Quantitative research methods, Behavioural outcome modelling in marketing contexts


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Dr Betty Frino

Email: Betty.Frino@acu.edu.au

Interests: Worker wellbeing in a Covid-era, Hybrid work and its impact on wellbeing, Gig workers - experiences and preferences, Women at work, Psychosocial hazards - leader roles and organisational approaches

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