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.

2016/2017 Program

Applications for the 2016/2017 Program have now closed. We received a large number of applications for this program and are very pleased to announce the 2016/2017 cohort:

Scholars and Projects

• Shirley Lin: Building fraud-resilient organisations: Offender and victim perspectives (ACCT1)
• Kelwin Tang, Sammantha Neang, and Chris Lo: The informational value of auditing in charitable organisations (ACCT2)
• Lillian Mach: Eliminating the decoy effect: How can managers rationally trade-off strategic performance dimensions when making capital investment decisions? (ACCT3)
• Alison McCann and Jessica Bao: Cognitive processes when using the balanced scorecard framework: A verbal protocol study of managers’ dynamic resource allocation decisions under task complexity (ACMG1)
• Gary Liang: Competition in Bayesian Persuasion (ECON1)
• Joseph Madden: Australian Schools’ Responses to School Accountability Reform (ECON2)
• Aaron Long and Emily Xie: A new level of customer engagement: Generating customer equity through crowdsourcing participation (ISTM1)
• Isaac Carr: Implementing e-government: The case of the 2016 Australian Census (ISTM2)
• Yuhang Wen and Teng Pan: Investigating the Business and Social Impacts of Financial technology (Fintech) in Developing Communities (ISTM3)
• Cindy Zheng: A duty to secure? Cybersecurity breaches, directors’ duties and shareholder actions (TABL1)
• Samantha Wong: Network neutrality in the age of the Internet of Things (TABL2)
• Guanting Liu: Risk theory analysis for models with non-traditional definition of bankruptcy (ACTL1)
• Neil Jain: Developing coherent and usable decision support systems to improve financial wellbeing over an individual's lifecycle (ACTL2)
• Igor Balnozan: Drawdown Heterogeneity in Australian Superannuation: developing annuities for the fearful and feckless (ACTL3)
• Edward Djizmedjian: Stochastic Modelling of Insurance Claims Inflation (ACTL4)
• Kibeom Kweon: Board independence in superannuation funds (ACTL5)
• Robert Tiong: The role of cognition and family support on the private health insurance decisions of older Australians (CEPAR1)
• Ke Shen: Measuring Population Ageing and Ageing-Readiness of Chinese Provinces (CEPAR2)
• Kevin Krahe: Inequalities in Healthy Life Expectancy Across Chinese Provinces (CEPAR3)

Congratulations to all 2016/2017 Summer Research Scholars! For applicants unsuccessful in this round, we apologise that we couldn’t support you on this occasion and encourage you to apply again next year or take part in the Business School Summer Research Fair later this year.

Contact

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