Summer Research Scholarships 2009-2010

Duration: 8 to 11 weeks from mid November 2009 to early February 2010

Eligibility: The Summer Research Scholarship in the College of Business and Economics is open to all Australian and New Zealand undergradaute students currently enrolled in either the final year of their degree, or who are an in their Honours year.

Please be advised that the closing date for applications has passed and we are not accepting late submissions.

School of Accounting and Business Information Systems (ABIS)

The School of Accounting and Information Systems (ABIS) has a world-class reputation for research and teaching in the areas of accounting and business information systems.

The school has particular strengths in the areas of Auditing, Information Systems Theory, Public Sector Accounting and Governance. The school offers a range of research opportunities in these areas as detailed below

Accounting

Accounting is concerned with measurement, reporting and evaluation of information, including computerised information, which assists in the management of resources in business entities and government organisations.Research enquiries are welcomed in the areas of staff research interests.These are Auditing, Public Sector Accounting, Social and Environmental Accounting, Corporate Governance, and Analytics / Forensic Accounting.The accounting group also has a strong commercial law area.

Business Information Systems

Business Information Systems is concerned with the study of business information and its production, flows and usage within organisations. It encompasses both manual activities and those involving computing and telecommunications.The information systems group has a world leading focus on issues of Business Information Systems Theory; however there is ongoing research in many aspects of business information systems.

School of Management, Marketing and International Business

The School of Management, Marketing and International Business offers a range of courses in the area of marketing, management and international business and is a primary provider of teaching and supervision of candidates in graduate diplomas, master and doctor of philosophy degrees.

School of Finance and Applied Statistics

The School of Finance and Applied Statistics has responsibility for undergraduate teaching both for introductory finance and quantitative courses and for later year students specialising in applied statistics, business statistics, corporate finance, financial management, investments and actuarial studies.

Actuarial studies combines studies in economics, finance, mathematics and statistics to develop techniques and skills to assess, evaluate and manage future financial risk and thereby address a wide range of practical problems in long-term financial planning and management.

Statistics is concerned with a wide variety of data measurement and inferential problems across the range of natural and social sciences including theory and application.

Finance is concerned with the study of financial instruments, institutions, markets and systems. It involves the study of financial decision making under uncertainty, which has many applications such as in the fields of accounting, banking, financial consulting and planning, funds management, merchant banking and stock broking.