Summer Research Scholarships

UNSW Business School offers highly competitive summer research scholarships to currently enrolled undergraduate students who are considering Honours and/or postgraduate research in the future. Students will participate in research projects supervised by academic researchers and gain valuable research experience.

2017/18 Program

Scholars and Projects

• Elizabeth Carson: Should Whistle Blowers in Australia be paid for Blowing the Whistle? (ACCT1)
• Conor Clune and Paul Andon: Governing the governors: a comparative study of the corporate governance practices of Australian and leading international professional accounting bodies (ACCT2)
• Roger Simnett and Jenny Yang: The informational value of auditing in charitable organisations (ACCT3)
• Yee Shih Phua: : Contract Design and Renegotiation in Highly Uncertain Environments (ACCT4)
• Ken Trotman; Shayne Gary and Kerry Humphreys: Dynamic decision making using the balanced scorecard framework: Experimentally examining business model information provision effects on managers’ resource allocation decisions (ACMG1)
• Andrés Villegas; Johnathan Ziveyi and Michael Sherris: Data analytics methods for mortality modelling and longevity risk management (ACTL1)
• Elvira Sojli: Scientific team diversity and innovation impact (BFIN1)
• Wing Wah Tham: Labor market competition and innovation (BFIN2)
• Jo-Ann Suchard: Share issues and buybacks of US listed foreign incorporated firms: the role of SEC disclosure requirements (BFIN3)
• Rafal Chomik; Bei Lu and John Piggott: Building a tax-benefit microsimulation model for China (CEPAR1)
• Han Li and Katja Hanewald: Conditional life expectancy comparisons using a semi-parametric trending panel model approach (CEPAR2)
• Elena Capatina and Tim Neal: The role of cognition and family support on the private health insurance decisions of older Australians (CEPAR3)
• Xiangling Liu: Taxation arbitrage and housing debt and equity (CEPAR4)
• Abigail Powell: Australia’s Charities: Trends over time 2014-2016 (CSIR1)
• Pauline Grosjean and Gabriele Gratton: Minorities and the enforcement of law (ECON1)
• Pauline Grosjean; Rob Brooks and Khandis Blake (Biological, Earth and Environmental Science): Sex ratios and crime (ECON2)
• Gigi Foster: Optimal Histories: Increasing well-being and pro-social behaviour through targeted casting of the past (project collaborators: Paul Frijters, Debayan Pakrashi) (ECON3)
• Hongyi Li: The Sequential, Symmetric 'Colonel Blotto' game (ECON4)
• Juan Carlos Carbajal: Culture, frictions and institutions: experiences of economic reform and policy persistence across time (ECON5)
• Andreas Ortmann and Mathew Chylinski: Replicability across the business sciences (ECMK1)
• Carmen Leong and Felix Tan: Exploring the Effects of Digital Celebrity in Global Market Expansion for Australian and Chinese Companies (ISTM1)
• Hugh Bainbridge: Employees with non-work care responsibilities: Enhancing employee and supervisor responses to the challenge of simultaneous work and care roles (MGMT1)
• Suzanne Chan-Serafin: When do individuals rely on their "heads" as opposed to their "hearts" when making ethical decisions at work: A meta-analytic review (MGMT2)
• Jun Bum Kwon: Does Comparative Advertising Reposition Rival Brands Closer Together or Further Apart in a Market-Structure Map? (MARK1)
• Ann Kayis-Kumar: Making the invisible visible: Modelling corporate structure decisions of a tax-minimising multinational (TABL1)
• Ann Kayis-Kumar and Chris Evans: Reforming the cost of managing tax affairs deduction: A framework for balancing equity, efficiency and integrity (TABL2)
• Chris Evans and Michael Walpole: The development and testing of a diagnostic tool for assessing VAT compliance costs: A pilot study (TABL3)

Contact

Please contact Jenny Hislop at business.researchdegree@unsw.edu.au for any questions you have regarding the scheme or application process.