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 PROFESSOR GREG TOWER (Professor of Accounting)Professor Tower is the research professor at the School of Accounting at Curtin Business School. He is a CPA and has a research doctorate. He has successfully supervised 23 Doctoral, Masters and Honours students and has successfully obtained external grant funds of over $500,000. He has published over 130 research articles. His previous publications have appeared in journals such as the International Journal of Accounting, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Abacus, Higher Education, British Accounting Review, Advances in International Accounting, Financial Accountability and Management, and Accounting and Finance. Selected Publications 1. Mitchel Van Der Zahn and Gregory Tower. Intellectual Capital and the Efficiency of Value Added: Trends in the Singapore Capital Market 2000-2002. Australia: Poseidon Books, 2004. 2. Taylor, Grantley, Gregory Tower, Mitchel Van Der Zahn and John Neilson. ‘Corporate governance determinants on Australian resource companies' financial instrument disclosure practices.’ Asian Review of Accounting 16 (2008): 56-74. 3. Lee, Alina, John Neilson, Gregory Tower and Mitchel Van Der Zahn. ‘Is communicating intellectual capital information via the Internet viable? Case of Australian private and public hospitals.’ Journal of Human Resource Costing and Accounting 11 (2007): 53-78. .jpg) ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ALISTAIR BROWN (A/Professor of Accounting)A/Professor Brown is Director of Accounting Research at the School of Accounting and Deputy Chair of the CBS R&D Committee. A registered supervisor, he has published 35 refereed journal articles in the last four years. His research interests include the digital accounting divide, best accounting practices for anti-money laundering, emerging country accounting information systems and constructions of accounting for the modern era. Last year, Alistair conducted field work studies in the Fiji Islands to consider the milieu of reporting in village settings on a remote island in the Pacific. He also visited Indonesia last year to investigate the anti-money laundering initiatives of PPATK. This year, his research studies extend to Kenya to probe the financial accounting reporting of Kenyan banks, and in November 2008 he organised the Sino-Australia International Conference on Accounting and Finance 2008 with Zhongnan University, Wuhan, China. Recent publications include: Selected Publications 1. Barako, D. and Brown, A. M. (2008). Corporate Social Reporting and Board Representation: Evidence from the Kenyan Banking Sector’ Journal of Management and Governance, In Press. 2. Barako, D. and Brown, A. M. (2008). HIV/AIDS Disclosures by Oil and Gas Companies, Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. In Press. 3. Rusmin, and Brown, A. M. (2008). Indonesian stakeholder viewpoints of Indonesia’s anti-money laundering legislation, Journal of Money Laundering Control, In Press. 4. Cahaya, R., Porter, S. and Brown, A. M. (2008). Social disclosure practices of Indonesian listed entities, Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Accountability, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 2-11.  PROFESSOR ROBERT GUTHRIE (Professor of Business and Law)Professor Guthrie is the Professor of Workers Compensation and Workplace Law at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia. He was admitted to practice as Barrister and Solicitor in 1982 and practised in the area of workers’ compensation for approximately 10 years before turning to academic research in this area. He was the author of reports to the WA Government on workers compensation in 1991, 1999 and 2001. He has been an advocate for injured workers for 25 years and a consultant to WorkCover WA and various Ministers responsible for workers compensation legislation. He holds B Juris, LLB LLM MCom and PhD. He is the author of LexisNexis Workers Compensation Western Australia. Selected Publications 1. R Guthrie ‘Negotiation Power in Conciliation and Review of Compensation Claims’ (2002) 24(3) Law and Policy 229-268 (USA). 2. R Guthrie Age ‘Discrimination and Workers Compensation in Australia’ International Journal of Discrimination and Law (2006) vol. 8, no. 3145-168 (UK). 3. R Guthrie and R Tasseff ‘The Rights of Illegal Workers Injured at Work – a Study of the Judicial Dilemma in the United States’ (2007) The International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations Volume 23 Issue 1 Spring 61-82 .  MR ROBERT (BOB) WILLIAMS (Lecturer in Information Systems)Mr. Williams in 2001 led a team of researchers in the School of Information Systems at Curtin University of Technology which conducted what is believed to be the first trial in Australia of an Automated Essay Grading system. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree with double majors in Mathematics and Economics from the University of Western Australia, a Graduate Diploma in Computing from the Western Australian Institute of Technology, and a Master of Information Systems degree from Curtin University of Technology. He has finished his draft PhD thesis. Robert is a member of the Association for Computational Linguistics as well as the Australian Computer Society. Selected Publications 1. Williams, R., and Dreher, H. (2005) Formative Assessment Visual Feedback in Computer Graded Essays. Journal of Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology, Vol. 2, pp 23-32. 2. Williams, R. (2007) A Computational Effective Document Semantic Representation. Proceedings of IEEE-Digital Ecosystems and Technologies 2007 Conference, Cairns, Australia, 21-23 February, p410-415. 3. Williams, R. and Klass, D. (2007) Developing a Business Simulation Game: Integrating Multiple Development Tools. Journal of Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology, Volume 4, p757-765.  ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR HEINZ DREHER (A/Professor of Information Systems)A/Professor Dreher is Associate Professor in Information Systems at the Curtin Business School. He has published in the educational technology and information systems domain through conferences, journals, invited talks and seminars. He is currently the holder of Australian National Competitive Grant funding for a 4-year E-Learning project and a 4-year project on Automated Essay Grading technology development, trial usage and evaluation. He has received numerous industry grants for investigating hypertext-based systems in training and business scenarios and is an experienced and accomplished teacher, receiving awards for his work in crosscultural awareness and course design. In 2004, he was appointed Adjunct Professor for Computer Science at TU Graz, and continues to collaborate in teaching and learning and research projects with European partners. Since 1988, his research and development in the hypertext domain has centred on the empowering aspects of text and document technology. The systems he has developed provide support for educators and teachers, and document creators and users in business and government. ‘DriveSafe’, ‘Active Writing’, ‘The Effectiveness of Hypertext to Support Quality Improvement’, ‘Water Bill 1990 Hypertext Project’, ‘A Prototype Hypertext Operating Manual for LNG Plant Dehydration Unit’, ‘Hypertextual Tender Submission - Telecom Training Programme’, were all hypertext construction and evaluation projects in industry or education. In December 1989, he founded the Hypertext Research Laboratory, whose aim was to facilitate the application of hypertext-based technology in academia, business and the wider community. Selected Publications 1. Shastri L. Nimmagadda and Heinz Dreher, Ontology-Based Data Warehousing and Mining Approaches in Petroleum Industries, Published as a book chapter in Data Warehousing and Mining: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (6 Volumes), Edited By: John Wang. IGI Global 2008 (http://www.igi-global.com/reference/details.asp?ID=6946&v=tableOfContents) ISBN: 978-1-59904-951-9. 2. Reiners, T, and Dreher, H. (2008) Culturally-based Adaptive Learning and Concept Analytics to guide educational website content integration, in Proceedings of the 2008 Informing Science and IT Education (InSITE) conference, Varna, Bulgaria, June 22-25. Also in Journal of Information Technology Education (http://JITE.org). 3. Shastri L. Nimmagadda, Heinz Dreher (2007). Ontology based warehouse modelling and mining of earthquake data – prediction analysis of earthquakes in the Eurasian-Australian continental plates. Manuscript number: WF-002585. Volume 1, Page 597 of INDIN 2007, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Industrial Informatics, July 23-27 2007, Vienna, Austria www.indin2007.org PROFESSOR PETER LOVE (Professor in Construction Management) 
Professor Love is the Inaugural Chair of Innovation in the Department of Construction Management at Curtin University of Technology. Professor Love acts as the Asia Pacific Editor for the Journal of Enterprise Information Management and is a Senior Editor for e-Government Quarterly and an Educational Advisor to the Hong Kong Institute of Real Estate. He is a Visiting Professor to the Department of Information Systems and Computing and Brunel Business School, Brunel University in the UK and Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He retains close links with industry, and serves on several government working committees. He has an MSc in Construction Project Management from the University of Bath in the UK and a PhD in Operations Management from Monash University in Australia. He has a wide range of industry experience, which he gained in the UK and Australia working as consultant project manager and a commercial manager for a multi-national construction and engineering organisation. He has been a recipient of research grants from the Australian Research Council (ARC), Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and Research Grants Council (RGC) in Hong Kong. In addition, he regularly reviews research proposals submitted to the ARC, EPSRC, RGC, South African National Research Foundation (NRF) and National Science Foundation (NSF) in the USA. He has a multi-disciplinary background and has varied research interests, which include project management, engineering forensics, operations and production management, information systems evaluation, and IT applications to construction and engineering. He serves as an editorial advisory board member for several leading international journals, and has been co-and-mini-track chair at numerous international conferences. He has co-authored/edited five books and has authored/co-authored over 400 internationally refereed research papers, which have appeared in leading international journals such as ASCE Journal of Construction, Engineering and Management, ASCE Management in Engineering, Journal of Management Information Systems, Construction Management and Economics, European Journal of Operational Research, Information and Management, Information and Organisation, European Journal of Information Systems, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, IEEE Transaction on Engineering Management, International Journal of Production Economics, International Journal of Production Research, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, and International Journal of Project Management.
Selected Publications 1. Standing, C., Stockdale, R. and Love, P.E.D. (2006). Examining the Relationship between Electronic Marketplace Strategy and Structure IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management 53(2), pp. 297-311. 2. Sharif, A., Irani, Z., and Love, P.E.D. (2005). Integrating ERP using EAI: A Model for Post-hoc Evaluation. European Journal of Information Systems 14(2), pp. 162-174. 3. Love, P.E.D., and Irani, Z. (2003). Project Management Quality Cost Information System for the Construction Industry. Information and Management 40, pp. 649-661. Associate Professor Matthew Allen (A/Professor of Internet Studies, Humanities)  Matthew is Associate Professor of Internet Studies. He joined Curtin University of Technology in 1994, working in the then-School of Social Sciences and Asian Languages. In 1999 Matthew established the Internet Studies program which he coordinated until 2006 and to which he continues to belong. He has also served as Associate Dean Teaching and Learning for the Division of Humanities (2003-2005). Currently Matthew is primarily engaged in doctoral supervision and research in the broad field of Internet Studies. Matthew obtained a PhD from the Australian National University in 1991 and, in that year, first came to Perth to work at the University of Western Australia. In 1994 he had the great fortune to be appointed as a lecturer in social sciences, principally teaching critical thinking and history. Since then, he has variously taught and research in media and cultural studies, before, in 1998, becoming engaged with internet studies, establishing one of the first units at Curtin to explore the social and cultural dimensions of the Internet. While Matthew has many diverse research and teaching interests, they all are underpinned by a desire to understand better the ways in which organisations, societies and people change through their connection with innovations in technology. Within this desire, Matthew focuses particularly on the way people understand and make sense of these technologies, as parts of their experience and engagement with the world, not simply as ‘tools’. Professor Kah-Seng Chung (Professor of Computer Engineering)  Dr Helen Merrick ( Head of Department, Department of Internet Studies, Humanities) Dr Helen Merrick joined Internet Studies in 2001, after working in a number of other Western Australian Universities teaching cyberculture, women's studies and history. Previously she worked for the Women in Leadership program at Edith Cowan University, and was the Acting Director of the Centre for WA History at UWA. In addition to teaching in the Department of Internet Studies, Helen supervises a number of PhD students, and pursues research interests in feminist theory, science fiction, feminist science studies, sustainability and online cultures. Professor Dale Pinto (Professor of School of Business Law)  Dr Barbara Postle (Lecturer of Health Information Management, Public Health)  Barbara coordinated the implementation of flexible learning in Health Information Management at Curtin, which has resulted in the BSc (Health Information Management) program being the only degree in Australia offered completely through distance studies. Recent activities include the coordination and development of two double degrees offering a choice of information systems and computer science combined with Health Information Management. Barbara is course coordinator for all Health Information Management programs and teaches in the areas of organisation and management and health information systems. Other duties include student placements for professional practice, career counselling, student pastoral care and student recruitment in Perth and overseas. Associate Professor Jamie Simpson (A/Professor ofMaths and Stats)  Associate Professor Jamie Simpson holds an adjunct position in the Department of Mathematics ant Curtin University. He obtained his PhD at the University of Adelaide in 1985 and has taught at Curtin University, the University of South Australia and the University of Technology, Sydney. Associate Professor John Venable (A/Professor of School of Information Systems) .jpg) Dr. John Venable is an Associate Professor in the School of Information Systems Dr Brian von Konsky (Computer Science and Software Engineering) Associate Professor Martin West (A/Professor of School of Information Systems)  A/Prof Martin West is currently managing the Logistics and Supply Chain programs for the Curtin Business School. Dr Greg White (Senior Lecturer of School of Accounting)  Greg has been an academic at Curtin Business School since July 2005. He has a multidisciplinary background having worked in public practice accounting, private biotechnology companies, university affiliated scientific research institutes and as a business and science academic at Australian Universities. Academic positions included: 1) 1993-94 Biochemistry tutor (James Cook University of North Queensland); 2) 1995-96 Biochemistry tutor (The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic); and, 3) 2005 to present, Senior Lecturer (Curtin Business School, Perth WA). Research positions included: 1) 1995-98 PhD research project (Centre for Animal Biotechnology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic); 2) 1998-99 Research scientist (The Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology, Bergen, Norway); and, 3) 2000-2002 NH&MRC Senior Research Officer (Telethon Insitute for Child Health Research, Perth, WA). Business experience includes: 1) 2004-05 R&D Tax Consultant, PKF Chartered Accountants and Business Advisors (Perth, WA); 2) 2002-2004 Business Services, Cornerstone Partners (Subiaco, WA); and, 3) 2002 Staff Scientist with Ozgene. Greg is an active member serving on the School of Accounting and Curtin Business School R&D Committees since 2006. Teaching accounting theory and business analysis to third year students and governance and ethics at the postgraduate Greg is an active Form A and C Ethics reviewer for the University Human Research Ethics Committee. Maintaining professional links and service to the profession he teaches EBA, MAA and TAX modules to candidates undertaking the Chartered Accountants Program. He has published the results of his scientific research in a number of prestigious international scientific journals (Immunogenetics, Eur. J. Immunol, J. Immunol, Immunogenetics, J. Biol. Chem., Ped. Allergy Immunol. and The Lancet); and, since commencing his business academic career in several business journals (Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Intellectual Capital, CA Charter and the Journal of Contemporary Issues in Business and Government). Dr Michele Willson (Senior lecturer of Internet Studies, Humanities) 
Michele is a senior lecturer in Internet Studies, School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts. Michele's PhD (Politics, Monash University, 2002) examined the implications of using communications technologies for experiences and understandings of community. Her book, Technically Together: Rethinking Community within Techno-Society (2006) expands upon this research. Michele made the move west to Perth from Melbourne in 2001, enticed by the possibilities of a position within the relatively new Internet Studies area. Before coming to Curtin, she taught in the Politics Departments at Monash University and the University of Melbourne. She was also one of the editors of Arena Magazine for a number of years. Michele has authored a number of publications, including a book on rethinking community (Technically Together) and a chapter on virtual communities (in Holmes, Virtual Politics) reprinted in The Cybercultures Reader (2000, 2nd edition, 2007). She has also co-authored a number of articles exploring e-research in the humanities (see Publications for further details). Professor Chem Nayar (Professor of Computer Engineering) Dr Cesar Ortega-Sanchez (Computer Engineering) |
