Emeritus Professor Jim Psaros was a Professor of Accounting at the University of Newcastle until 2015. He held senior positions at the University of Newcastle including Deputy Head – Faculty of Business and Law, Assistant Dean Teaching and Learning, Director of Executive and Corporate Programs, Head of the Department of Accounting and Finance, and Academic Director of the Sydney Campus.
Prior to entering academia, Emeritus Professor Psaros was employed for several years in Chartered Accounting. He has experience in Australia and overseas working for Big 4 Accounting Firms. For more than 20 years he has taught and researched at Australian and British Universities. He has sat on the Board of Directors of companies and the audit committee of government authorities. He has both extensive professional accounting and research experience.
Emeritus Professor Psaros has a PhD in Accounting from the University of New South Wales. Throughout his research career, Emeritus Professor Psaros has focused on issues of practical importance. He has conducted research in a range of areas including auditing and fraud, the inadequacies of Australian accounting standards, and more recently, corporate governance mechanisms. Emeritus Professor Psaros has published extensively and has made many presentations at professional and academic forums. Since Emeritus Professor Psaros retired from full-time academia in 2015, he has engaged in various consulting activities in the Higher Education Sector.

Before joining Newcastle, Assoc Prof Boyle lectured in University College Dublin, Centro de Estudios Superiores Universitarios de Galicia, Spain and the University of Sydney, Australia. Assoc Prof Boyle has also delivered units and guest lectures at universities in Malaysia, Hong Kong, and China. Assoc Prof Boyle was a graduate member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development (CIPD) the world’s largest Chartered management development professional body. Assoc Prof Boyle completed a master’s degree in business studies in University College Dublin and was awarded his PhD from the Discipline of International Business at University of Sydney 2009.
Brendan’s primary research interests include international HRM, knowledge management/sharing in organizations and top management teams. He has published research papers on knowledge creation and knowledge sharing in MNEs. He is currently involved in three major projects examining, collaboration in health care organizations, the management teams in the subsidiaries of multinational enterprises in China (MNEs) and the HRM practices of MNEs. Combined, these collaborative projects involve partnerships between Newcastle Business School and universities in Europe, North America, Latin America and Asia.
Brendan is also co-director of the Health Services Research and Innovation Centre at UoN (HSRIC). This centre aims to improve the design and management health services with particular emphasis interdisciplinary approaches to addressing critical challenges. Brendan is particularly interested in global health services research as an important emerging research area that integrates issues of public policy and health services development. Brendan has a particular focus on the mobility of health professionals – issues of immigration, expatriation and professional institutions.

Michael was an Associate Professor in Accounting with the Faculty of Business and Law at the University of Newcastle, Australia. On his departure, after 25 years at Newcastle, he was serving as the Deputy Head (Teaching and Learning) of the Newcastle Business School and the Director of Undergraduate Programs. Michael completed his PHD in 2009 investigating links between corporate governance and management perpetrated fraud and failures in corporate disclosure. Michael’s current research interests continue to focus on the relationship between effective corporate governance and enhanced firm performance and stakeholder outcomes, with a particular focus on developing economies. His research has been published in several A ranked international journals. An award-winning teacher and PHD supervisor, Michael teaches within the accounting discipline, specialising in taxation studies. Michael has also extensively consulted to private higher education providers in Australia and has served on various private higher education provider Course Advisory Committees and Academic Boards.

Ravi teaches and researches in the areas of enterprise systems, IT innovation adoption and accounting systems. He has a PhD in business, Masters in Industrial Engineering and a post graduate Diploma in Adult Education. Has 20 years of teaching and research experience in four major Australian Universities (Uni Sydney, MGSM, University of Western Sydney and Queensland University of Technology) and 10 years of corporate consulting experience. His research explores the evolving relationships between IT innovations and performance in organizations and supply chains, and the role of IT innovations in student learning experiences and ‘workreadiness’. Funded by national and university grants (worth $350,000), Ravi has so far published over 100 articles in leading international conferences and journals. His external engagements include membership of Governing Council and Academic boards at Higher Education Institutions, Chair Supply Chain Council ANZ, Member Education Committee of the Association for IS, Member APICS Supply Chain Council Research Committee. He is currently working on several research projects – adaptation of information systems for sustainability performance, blockchain technology for the accounting profession, digitalization of retail sector, adoption of analytics in healthcare and information overload.
He currently chairs the Business School Ethics committee and is a nominee of the University Academic board. He won three best international research paper awards and several awards including Kit Dempney prize for IS Education, Business School Teaching excellence award and Australian Post graduate Research award.

Associate Professor Ashish Malik , PhD works at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Ashish holds a PhD from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand and MA (PM&IR) from TISS, Mumbai, India. Ashish has served as the Program Convenor of the Master of Human Resource Management Program at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Ashish’s PhD thesis examined drivers of human capital formation in the Indian IT industry. Ashish has published and presented more than 120 research papers and is the author, co-author, editor, co-editor of six books in the field of Human Capital, Indian Culture, Strategic HRM, Managing People in a post-crisis event and Business Models and HRM in the Indian IT industry. Ashish is or has served as a Chief Investigator or Co-investigator in several research grants projects such as evaluating the New South Wales
State Government’s multi-million-dollar initiative on “Pilot Project on Smart Work Hubs”, innovation, ambidexterity and HRM, Well-being, resilience and innovation and business model innovation in social enterprises. Ashish’s research has been accepted/published in a number of A*/A journals such as Industrial Marketing Management, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Health Care Management Review, International Journal of Manpower, Knowledge Management Research & Practice, Organizational Dynamics, Personnel Review and Journal of International Management. Ashish is an Associate Editor – of the Asian Business & Management Journal (ABS-2) and serves on the Editorial Boards of Journal of Business Research (ABDC Rank– A) and Journal of Knowledge Management (ABDC Rank–A).