Student topics and projects

These are topics we'd like students to research, as well as some topics our students are currently researching.

• Honours topics
• Masters topics
• PhD topics
• Vacation Research Experience Scholarship (VRES) topics

Honours topics

• Corporate integrated reporting
• Carbon emission accounting and reporting
• Corporate social and environmental audit
• Individual responses to workplace sexual harassment
• Tactics used in cases of workplace sexual harassment
• Corporate social and environmental performance disclosure practices: Chinese evidence
• Justice denied: Organisational grievance procedures in cases of workplace sexual harassment
• Doors open tomorrow: exploring consumer ritualism in the context of post Christmas sales
• Corporate social and environmental performance disclosure practices within the South-East Asian region
• Gaining social credits: Increasing blood donation using games and apps
• Toward a Measurement of Self Gifting Behaviour: Scale Development Validation and Replication
• Impulsive and indulgent self-gifting: effects of negative mood reduction and post-purchase regret
• The demise of the ethical shopper: shifting non-ethical consumption to ethical behaviour
• Only from my backyard: Measuring region-of-origin effects on consumers' product evaluations and purchase intentions of non-branded seafood
• Clinical trials or pharmacist advice: The influence on health consumers' perceptions of trust and decision making

Masters topics

• Corporate integrated reporting
• Charitable testamentary bequests in Queensland
• Carbon emission accounting and reporting
• Taking the "e" out of e-learning
• Blended learning: How, what and why?
• The governance failures inherent in private equity targets
• Corporate social and environmental audit
• Floods and insurance in Queensland
• Is there a case for mandating board diversity quotas in Australia?
• Do interlocking directorates affect firms' performances - study on Bangladesh?
• The emergence of giving circles and the influence of building a philanthropic culture
• An investigation into charitable organisation structures that allow effective platforms for successful fundraising results.
• Perceptions of workplace learning in the accountancy schools of Australian universities: a partnership model
• Moral disengagement in the board appointment process
• Bystander responses in workplace sexual harassment
• Individual responses to workplace sexual harassment
• One size fits one: customising work arrangements
• Flexible work policies and the gender contract
• Tactics used in cases of workplace sexual harassment
• Social media, knowledge and learning in organisations
• SMEs, Innovation and the role of Business Advice
• Fraud, financial misconduct and the quality of corporate governance
• Corporate social and environmental performance disclosure practices: Chinese evidence
• Performance disclosure in relation to elimination of fraud, bribery or corruption: Evidence from corporations
• Justice denied: Organisational grievance procedures in cases of workplace sexual harassment
• Financial experts on the board of directors: A good or a bad thing?
• Doors open tomorrow: exploring consumer ritualism in the context of post Christmas sales
• Corporate social and environmental performance disclosure practices within the South-East Asian region
• Balancing study and paid employment: the experiences of high school students
• Toward a Measurement of Self Gifting Behaviour: Scale Development Validation and Replication
• Combating tax avoidance via country by country reporting
• Using global formulary apportionment as a firm-specific approach to international profit allocation
• Entrepreneurship in the Australian Mining Industry
• Young people and work: Pathways to employment, family and leisure
• Impulsive and indulgent self-gifting: effects of negative mood reduction and post-purchase regret
• The demise of the ethical shopper: shifting non-ethical consumption to ethical behaviour
• SMEs and innovation: The role of external business advice and government support

PhD topics

• Corporate integrated reporting
• Carbon emission accounting and reporting
• Taking the "e" out of e-learning
• Blended learning: How, what and why?
• Corporate social and environmental audit
• Strategic importance of Performance Measurement Systems in the Non-Profit Sector
• Related party transaction: a cross firm analysis in the Asia Pacific region
• Design and criteria of strategic performance management systems in non-profit organisations
• Exploring organisational culture and employee change attitudes in nonprofit human service organisations.
• Financial literacy and superannuation investment decision-making in a choice environment: an exploratory study.
• An investigation of the interplay between directors on board sub-committees and board decision making
• The Role of Social Enterprise in Regional Development: Harnessing Opportunities and Overcoming Constraints in Regional Australia
• Internal Marketing and Service Innovation
• Developing a framework for assessing, developing and communicating the financial sustainability of Australian international aid organisations
• Flexible work policies and the gender contract
• Social media, knowledge and learning in organisations
• SMEs, Innovation and the role of Business Advice
• Measuring the Quality of University Performance: A Domestic and International Comparisons
• Corporate social and environmental performance disclosure practices: Chinese evidence
• Doors open tomorrow: exploring consumer ritualism in the context of post Christmas sales
• Corporate social and environmental performance disclosure practices within the South-East Asian region
• Gaining social credits: Increasing blood donation using games and apps
• Entrepreneurship in the Australian Mining Industry
• Impulsive and indulgent self-gifting: effects of negative mood reduction and post-purchase regret
• Young people and work: Pathways to employment, family and leisure
• Customers as a productive resource in the value co-creation process
• The demise of the ethical shopper: shifting non-ethical consumption to ethical behaviour
• SMEs and innovation: The role of external business advice and government support

Vacation Research Experience Scholarships

2012 applications are now closed, however you can still view the topics below.

Vacation Research Experience Scholarship topics

• Should I hire a star?
• Innovations in sports
• Corporate integrated reporting
• Creativity and performance
• Overreaction in option implied volatilities
• Carbon emission accounting and reporting
• Management Forecasts in IPOs
• Fraud - legal sanctions and regulatory priorities
• Dividend drop-off and investor protection
• Clear or hazy: Consumer recall of brands in crisis
• Corporate social and environmental performance disclosure practices: Chinese evidence
• Corporate social and environmental performance disclosure practices within the South-East Asian region
• A longitudinal study of ASX 100 companies with subsidiaries in financial secrecy jurisdictions
• Only from my backyard: Measuring region-of-origin effects on consumers' product evaluations and purchase intentions of non-branded seafood
• Clinical trials or pharmacist advice: The influence on health consumers' perceptions of trust and decision making
• Documenting research design requirements for donor research at the Australian Red Cross Blood Service