Our people have diverse expertise that brings fresh, evidence-based approaches to life when applied in collaboration.
People and expertise
These talented professionals are adept at drawing on their core expertise and critically engaging with one another and the problem context. Their expertise and in combination will challenge, provoke, and enhance the achievement of sustainability goals and positive impact.
Associate Professor Natalina Zlatevska
Marketing discipline group
Natalina’s research interests are in the areas of health and wellbeing. These have been in the contexts of health promotion, with research into food access and healthy food consumption (nutrition labeling, communication, product design, and packaging) as well as sustainability (meat and alternative protein sources).
Associate Professor Adrian Camilleri
Marketing discipline group
Adrian uses experimental and survey research methods to understand, explain, and predict the cognitive processes underlying judgment and decision-making, and the application of this knowledge to policy, managerial, and consumption contexts. In one recent project, Adrian has attempted to understand how people nudge people to make more sustainable meal decisions.
Dr Alice Klettner
Joint theme leader: Corporate purpose and stakeholder governance in B Corps
With a past career as a lawyer, Alice is interested in the effect of soft law and regulation on organisational behaviour, particularly in the areas of corporate governance and corporate sustainability. Her focus is on board roles, corporate social responsibility regulation, and gender diversity in leadership.
Dr ALISON ATHERTON
INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE FUTURES
Joint theme leader: CORPORATE TRANSFORMATION: POSITIVE PURSUITS AND REGENERATIVE STRATEGIES
Alison's research centers on organisational and societal sustainability, exploring corporate sustainability, energy policy, and sustainable finance. Her work highlights evaluation and performance indicators and aims to understand how businesses and finance can contribute to the Paris Climate Agreement and UN Sustainable Development Goals through responsible investment and corporate sustainability.
Dr Anna Stephens
Management discipline group
Dr Anthony Fee
Management discipline group
Anthony's research focuses on the experiences of global workers, both expatriates and host-country nationals. Much of it involves individuals who experience sometimes extreme forms of globalisation 'up close', including those working in international humanitarian aid and development cooperation. An example of this is the ongoing Longitudinal Study of Australian Volunteers.
Associate Professor Christina Nikitopoulos
Joint theme leader: Sustainable Finance and Investment: Green bonds
Christina is a leading researcher in energy finance, renewable energy, sustainable finance, and commodity markets. Her research examines renewable energy's impact on electricity markets, climate change transition risk assessment, green bonds, carbon reduction strategies, and macroeconomic drivers of prices and volatilities in energy markets.
Professor David Brown
Finance discipline group
David's research interests span environmental sustainability, mental models and decision-making, inter-organisational research contracting, open strategy and innovation, sustainable agriculture, and management of research performance in universities. He has collaborated with CPA Australia on projects including a joint research initiative with the Strategic Business Management Centre of Excellence. The project explores the adoption of Activity-Based Costing and Management in Australian firms.
Dr Deborah Cotton
Joint theme leader: Sustainable Finance and Investment: Green bonds
Deborah's research interests include environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues in investment decisions and impact investing. Within ESG her main interests include gender issues, human rights more broadly and climate change.
Associate Professor Gerhard Hambusch
Finance discipline group
Gerhard’s research focuses on solutions to problems caused by unethical conduct in the finance industry, and the broader impact of human behaviour in capital market settings. His ethics research raises awareness for finance-related ethical and social justice issues, and his finance research fosters an understanding of the way that human behaviour can influence investment outcomes.
Dr Gillian McAllister
MANAGEMENT discipline group
Gillian’s research spans two main areas. The first of these relates to the development of for-purpose organisations and their role within society and the economy. Allied to this is research on new ways of financing social enterprises and innovative social programs. Her second area of research activity relates to the aged care sector where she is working on a range of projects that aim to improve the social, economic and environmental sustainability of the sector.
Dr Hayley Ma
ACCOUNTING discipline group
Hayley is an expert in business analysis and valuation. Her research interest ranges from corporate innovation strategies, financial reporting and disclosures, business valuation and corporate finance. Hayley's research is transdisciplinary in nature, integrating knowledge of different disciplines to obtain comprehensive understanding of real business issues and provide practical solutions.
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR HELEN SPIROPOULOS
ACCOUNTING discipline group
Helen has researched and published extensively in various domains, encompassing Sustainability Reporting, Gender Diversity, Financial Reporting, Executive Compensation, Corporate Governance, and Mergers and Acquisitions. Her research findings have garnered attention and have been featured in prestigious media outlets such as the Sydney Morning Herald, Australian Financial Times, BOSS Magazine, and ABC Radio.
Dr Helena Li
MANAGEMENT discipline group
Helena is an international business and strategy scholar. She takes a multidisciplinary perspective (e.g., political economy, sociology and economic geography) to explore the intersection between IB and sustainability. She is currently working on projects about the societal implications of multinational firms’ internationalization strategies (e.g., green innovation, pollution, donation, or corporate social responsibility in general), especially in the context of emerging countries.
dr Jake An
MARKETING discipline group
Jake's research focuses on enhancing new technologies that multiply social impact such as goal-enabling technology, social investing technology, and carbon offset program technology. His works have been published in international peer-reviewed academic journals such as Management Science and Journal of Marketing. His works have been cited in media including AdvisorVoice, Business Think, and Finder.
Dr Jarrod Ormiston
TRANSDISCIPLINARY INNOVATION SCHOOL
Joint theme leader: Corporate Transformation: Positive Pursuits and Regenerative Strategies
As a Senior Lecturer in the TD School (transdisciplinary innovation) at UTS, Jarrod's research focuses on working with social enterprises and impact investors to measure and enhance their impact, supporting marginalised entrepreneurs, and understanding the role of emotions, temporality and place in entrepreneurship.
Associate Professor Jochen Schweitzer
THE DEAN'S UNIT
Jochen specialises in design-led and technology-led strategic innovation and entrepreneurship. His research focuses on helping organisations develop the capabilities and mindset to address the complexity of sustainability challenges.
ADJUNCT PROFESSOR JOCK COLLILNS
Jock's research interests are in the area of immigration, ethnic diversity and minority entrepreneurship in Australia - ensuring these groups have every opportunity to achieve similar life outcomes to other Australians. His research focuses on social justice for immigrant minorities (including refugees) and other minority groups, including Indigenous Peoples and People with a Disability.
DR Kirtika Deo
Marketing discipline group
Kirtika is researching on consumer and sustainability and wishes to conduct more research in these areas. Moreover, her research interests are in Digital Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Consumer Engagement Behaviour, Sustainable and Green Marketing & SDGs.
DR Krithika Randhawa
HONORARY APPOINTEE
Krithika's research explores how organisations can foster openness in innovation ecosystems using digital technologies. Her expertise in open innovation, crowdsourcing, and digital platforms provides insights and managerial guidance for transformative practices in diverse sectors like manufacturing, healthcare, and public policy.
Dr Kylie-Anne Richards
Joint theme leader: Sustainable Finance and Investment: Green bonds
Kylie-Anne is an accomplished expert in Sustainable Finance with a PhD from UNSW. She specialises in areas such as green finance, decarbonisation, and carbon markets. Kylie serves as the Deputy Chief Investment Officer at Forltlake Asset Managment and contributes to industry and academic advisory boards.
Dr Leila Khanjaninejad
Transdisciplinary Innovation discipline group
Leila is a gender equity enthusiast and a mixed-method researcher. She is an emerging researcher in the area of equity and inclusion in organisations, with a particular focus on male-dominated environments such as sport and STEM fields.”
Dr Md Maruf Hossan Chowdhury
Theme leader: Modelling sustainable and circular supply chains for critical services.
Maruf is an expert in modeling sustainable and circular supply chain management practices, impacts, and lifecycle strategies.
Associate Professor Marco Berti
Management discipline group
Marco is interested in the study of organisational tensions, trade-offs and paradoxes, to understand how it is possible to navigate the contradictions between social and financial sustainability, profit and equity, innovation, and preservation. Marco's main intent is to contribute to the creation of fairer organisations.
Dr Mihajla Gavin
MANAGEMENT discipline group
Mihajla's interest and expertise are in the areas of teachers' work, education, gender, employee voice, and the future of work. Her latest research projects have focused on teachers' working conditions in neoliberal policy contexts and workplace responses to domestic violence.
Dr Najmeh Hassanli
Theme leader: Empowering community members: A framework for refugee-led community organisations
Najmeh’s work is underpinned by her commitment to social justice and passion for making a positive impact on society. Her latest research involves working with community organisations that provide services to culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) populations, including refugees and ethnic minorities.
Dr Rebecca Dong
Management discipline group
Rebecca is an interdisciplinary researcher whose work draws together the micro-foundation of the organisation and the firm’s strategic decisions leading to sustainable development. Her research outputs shed light on psychological factors, safety, gender, mental health and well-being of employees/leaders/decision-makers; education, knowledge sharing and knowledge economy, ESG, digitalisation and AI.
Dr Rosemary Sainty
Joint theme leader: Corporate purpose and stakeholder governance in B Corps
Rosemary’s research interests lie at the intersection of corporate sustainability, corporate governance, and responsible business practice, having established key sustainability initiatives in Australia. This includes research on corporate boards, and on the responsibility of Business Schools to produce graduates to enact personal and social responsibility.
Dr Simone Faulkner (nee GRABOWSKI)
MANAGEMENT discipline group
Simone is a leading mobilities researcher who specialises in sustainable tourism, community development, cross-cultural and diversity management. Simone’s research projects are aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth; and 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities. She works closely with small and large enterprises in South East Asia and Australia to support the communities and natural environments in which they work.
Dr Sumati Ahuja
MANAGEMENT discipline group
Theme leader: Digital transformation and workforce ecosystems
Sumati is senior lecturer and program director for the Digital Creative Enterprise major. Her research connects and collaborates with academia and industry partners to bring together diverse capabilities and expertise that advance insights into the human side of the future of work.
DR TIM WILLIAMS
MANAGEMENT DISCIPLINE GROUP
JOINT THEME LEADER: CORPORATE PURPOSE AND STAKEHOLDER GOVERNANCE IN B CORPS
Tim's research focuses on the management challenges and opportunities related to society and the environment, particularly in corporate sustainability, strategic management, and innovation. He explores how organisations can transition toward sustainability, examining key practices and processes, and also investigates effective ways to integrate sustainability into management education for future business leaders.
Associate Professor Vitali Alexeev
FINANCE DISCIPLINE GROUP
Vitali's research lies at the intersection of econometrics, machine learning, and Big Data analytics; exploring the latest trends and advancements in these fields. His current focus is on the analysis of ESG sentiment from textual data in news and social media, and its dynamic and impact on financial markets.
Dr Melissa Edwards
HONORARY APPOINTEE
Melissa’s research brings together diverse perspectives to help organisations organise, learn and adapt while delivering essential services in a climate-changed planet. She frames action-led projects to help organisations manage, develop and assess their own practices, products, and activities that will improve positive sustainability impacts.
