Our researchers

Professor Nonna Martinov-Bennie

Areas of Expertise:

  • Financial Audit (judgement, materiality, methodology, independence, scepticism)
  • Sustainability and Non-financial Assurance
  • Internal Audit
  • Governance
  • Ethics and accountants

Doctor Dale Tweedie

Areas of Expertise:

  • Business and Professional ethics
  • Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Workplace organisation and governance

Professor Chris Patel

Areas of Expertise:

  • International accounting
  • Harmonisation and convergence of financial reporting
  • Theoretical and methodological limitations of international accounting research
  • Professional accountants' judgments across countries such as Germany, Japan, India, Malaysia, China and Australia
  • Globalisation and contextual factors on accounting in Germany, China and Japan
  • Ethics in accounting

Doctor Vicki Baard

Areas of Expertise:

  • Management Accounting
  • Interventionist Research
  • Internal and External Research Grants

Doctor James Hazelton

Areas of Expertise:

  • Sustainability reporting
  • Business ethics

Mr Thomas Kern

Areas of Expertise:

  • International financial reporting
  • Corporate social responsibility reporting and governance (especially of financial institutions)
  • Integrated reporting
  • Innovative teaching practice in accounting (especially Intelligent Tutoring Systems)

Mr Nicholas McGuigan

Areas of Expertise:

  • Conceptual Change in Accounting
  • Developing Reflective Professionals
  • Student Perceptions and Learning Approaches of Accounting
  • Innovation in Accounting Practice
  • Social Permaculture and Alternative Economies
  • Corporate Reporting
  • Environmental Social and Governance Reporting of Financial Institutions

Mr Dominic Soh

Areas of Expertise:

  • Internal and external auditing and assurance
  • Sustainability assurance
  • Audit committees
  • Corporate governance

Our professional Staff

International Visitors

  • International Visitors to the IGAP Centre

IGAP research students

Angela Hecimovic, Lecturer, University of Sydney

Dominic Soh, Associate Lecturer, Macquarie University

IGAP Honours Student

Fenny Chuwardi, 4th year undergraduate student, Macquarie University

  • Topic: Internal Audit Function and Fraud Prevention/Detection
  • Supervisors: Associate Professor Renee Radich and Professor Nonna Martinov-Bennie.