About A-CSEAR

Corinne is a Professor of Accounting and the Deputy Dean of Graduate Research at the Faculty of Arts, Society & Business at the University of Wollongong, Australia. Her research focuses on regulatory processes, with applications in public sector governance, corporate governance, accounting standard setting, and social and environmental issues. She has published in leading international journals including Critical Perspectives on Accounting; Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal; Corporate Governance: An International Review; Accounting & Finance; Australian Journal of Management; and Accounting History.

Corinne completed a Bachelor of Commerce with First Class Honours at Macquarie University, where she also commenced her academic career. She subsequently undertook doctoral studies at the University of Wollongong, earning her PhD in 2006 with the support of an Australian Government scholarship. Following completion of her doctorate, she joined academic staff at UOW. Since 2011, she has held a range of graduate research leadership roles and has been a strong advocate for research candidates and early career researchers. She is committed to fostering environments in which research students can thrive, develop confidence as scholars, and build meaningful careers.

Arunima Malik is a Professor of Sustainability and Interdisciplinary Research in the School of Accounting, Governance and Regulation, Business School, and the School of Physics, Faculty of Science. She is the Lead of the Sustainable Business Hub. Her research focuses on sustainability assessment of supply chains at multiple scales, encompassing both local and global perspectives. Arunima’s interdisciplinary work bridges science and business, with an emphasis on assessing the sustainability performance of organisations, industries and nations. Her research contributes to global frameworks such as the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development and has resulted in policy briefs developed in collaboration with the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network. She has also served as a lead author for Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Assessment Reports and the Lancet Commission on Green Recovery.

Damien Cahill is General Secretary of the National Tertiary Education Union. After 8 years as a full-time elected trade union leader, he will return to the University of Sydney in October 2026 where he is an Associate Professor in Political Economy. Damien is an internationally recognised scholar who has published extensively on neoliberalism as well as on the social foundations of capitalist economic processes.

Eagle is a Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Accounting. His specialisation is in financial accounting and critical accounting research. Before joining USYD, he was a lecturer in accounting at the University of Wollongong where he received his PhD. He has been teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels for financial accounting, management accounting, auditing and accounting theory subjects. His research, teaching and consulting interests revolve around the role of accounting in sustaining dominant socio-political power in the context of globalised capitalism.

In particular, Eagle’s work has focused on the development of Chinese accounting standards and their impact on social, political and economic conditions within China. As a result of his formative years growing up in China, Eagle has a deep understanding of the Chinese society and the significant philosophical, historical and cultural texts that underpin modern China. It is a complex and dynamic society and an understanding of Chinese capital markets is of global importance. Eagle is in a unique position to draw on his Chinese cultural and linguistic heritage and his Western education and cultural experience, to contribute to a deeper understanding of China.

Eagle has made strong contributions to this field of study as his work has been published in top ranking international journals, such as Accounting Auditing Accountability Journal and Critical Perspectives on Accounting. The paper “Ideology diffusion and the role of accounting: A Gramscian approach to understanding China’s transition from 1949 to 1957” (co-authored with Dr Lina Xu and Dr Corinne Cortese) was bestowed the Accounting History 2014 Manuscript Award by the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ) as it made “the most significant contribution to the accounting history literature” in that year.

Dr. Lina Xu has been a Lecturer at RMIT University since 2015, following the completion of her PhD at the University of Wollongong. Her research examines how broader institutional, political, and social contexts shape accounting and accountability systems. Drawing on critical and sociological perspectives, she seeks to provide alternative insights into the role of accounting in contemporary society.
An accomplished researcher, Lina has published in leading accounting journals, including Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Business History, Accounting & Finance, and Accounting History. She has twice received the Accounting History Best Manuscript Award (2015 and 2018) and has secured competitive research funding from the International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI) and the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ).

Beyond her research, Lina is a dedicated educator with over a decade of experience teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She is particularly passionate about integrating accounting technologies and artificial intelligence into accounting education to enhance student learning and professional readiness. Her innovative teaching has been recognised through the RMIT School Teaching Excellence Award (2025) and the College of Business and Law Technology Integration Award (2026).

Reaven’s research focuses on how accounting operates as an organisational and social practice. He obtained his PhD in Management Accounting from Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, and has published in leading international journals, including Accounting, Organizations and Society and Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal. His work draws on the sociological theories to examine the evolving relationships between accounting, technology, and organisational decision-making. This includes research on big data-enabled management accounting in high-velocity settings such as Formula One racing and platform organisations. More recently, he has explored the role of artificial intelligence in operational decision-making, as well as the connections between performance management and regulation. A further strand of his research investigates the interactions between the accounting profession, markets, and state initiatives. Reaven is also actively involved in supporting scholarly dialogue and community-building within the interpretive accounting research community.

Dr Simon Tan is a Senior Lecturer in Accounting at the University of Sydney Business School. His current research focuses on auditing and the audit profession, calculative and disclosure practices related to sustainability, the interrelationship between accounting and the state, and accounting in the digital economy. Simon has published in Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Accounting, Organizations and Society, Business Ethics Quarterly, Management Accounting Research, and The British Accounting Review, among other journals. He serves as an Associate Editor of The British Accounting Review and a Deputy Editor of Accounting and Finance.

Dr Dale Tweedie researches in social and environmental accountability and ethics at work, with an interdisciplinary approach to research, teaching, and public discussion. He has published in leading international journals in the fields of social and environmental accountability, management and sociology, including in Human Relations; Journal of Business Ethics; Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal; Critical Perspectives on Accounting; and, Work, Employment and Society.

With experience as an accountant at PricewaterhouseCoopers, a doctorate in Philosophy, and extensive qualitative research into contemporary organizations, Dale offers a unique analytical perspective. He previously served as a Senior Research Fellow at the International Governance and Performance Research Centre (IGAP), specializing in professional ethics and sustainability reporting.

Dale has collaborated on research projects funded by organizations like Chartered Accountants Australia & New Zealand (CAANZ) and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA). He also provides research-informed commentatory on current issues in business ethics and workplace organisation, including on Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) television and radio and in the Sydney Morning Herald. In academic publishing, Dale is an Associate Editor of Critical Perspectives on Accounting and sits on several editorial boards. He is also Deputy Chair of Macquarie University’s Human Research Ethics Committee for the Human and Social Sciences.

Elizabeth is Professor in the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney. She is Deputy Director of the Australian Centre for Gender Equality and Inclusion at Work, co-convenor of the Australian Work and Family Policy Roundtable and co-convenor of the Body@Work Project. As a leading researcher on the future of women, work and care in Australia and the Asian region, she has collaborated on research into gender equality, work and care with leading national and international institutions, including the International Labour Organisation and UN Women. Elizabeth’s research focuses on how economic institutions shape women’s paid work, unpaid care and the care workforce, especially as they evolve in response to the rapidly evolving dynamics of the global political economy. Elizabeth has served as a non-executive director on a number of non-profit Boards and is an experienced media commentator and advisor to government, unions, and business. She is currently a member of the NSW Women’s Advisory Council.

Ben Spies-Butcher is Honorary Professor of Economy and Society at Macquarie University. After teaching and researching at Macquarie since 2008, he left his substantive position in 2026 and is now CEO of the Centre for Future Work. While at Macquarie, Ben was a founding director of the Australian Basic Income Lab, and founding deputy director of the Macquarie University Housing and Urban Research Centre. He continues to contribute to both institutions.

Ben completed his PhD in Economics at the University of Sydney while working in the non-government sector on issues of human rights. His research focuses on the political economy of inequality, including macroeconomic, climate, welfare and housing policy. His current research explores how financial logics common in the private sector are reshaping public sector budgeting giving rise to new policy models.

Ben is an Area Editor for the Economic and Labour Relations Review, on the editorial collective for the Journal of Australian Political Economy, and was the 2017 Glenda Powell National Travelling Fellow for the Australian Association of Gerontology. Ben’s most recent book is Politics, Inequality and the Australian Welfare State After Liberalisation with Anthem Press. His current research collaborations include The Climate Economy: Emerging Strategies for Australia (DP250101443), and Aboriginal led solutions: strategies for reinvestment.

Claire Parfitt is a Senior Lecturer in Political Economy at the University of Sydney, where she completed her doctorate in 2020. A critical engagement with ethical investing and corporate sustainability, her research contributes to debates in the social studies of finance, moral philosophy, economic geography, cultural economy, intellectual property and interdisciplinary accounting literatures.