Research Committee
 | Professor Hind Benbya Hind has over 20 years of senior leadership experience in Australia and internationally across diverse research, engagement and education roles at the Faculty, School and Department level including Head of Faculty, Research Chair and Department Chair. She has delivered executive education and consulting services to numerous leading organisations in over ten countries across four continents. |
 | Associate Professor Maria Estala Varua Maria Estela is an agricultural economist, an econometrician and socio-economist with over 20 years’ experience in Australia and Asia. Her primary area of expertise centres on agricultural and resource economics, with a focus on rural development, water management, gender equity, sustainable consumption, sustainable tourism, cost benefit analysis and capacity building. She conducts research on corporate social responsibility, finance, and business education. Maria Estela has participated in several projects, including a $1.2 million project with ACIAR on water management, a CRC project on water use, and a Westpac Foundation project on NGO-corporate relationships. She has been the recipient of the AIDAB Scholarship, ICLARM-Ford Foundation Fellowship, SEARCA Fellowship and the WINROCK Scholarship |
 | Professor Dilupa Nankandala Dilupa's research interests are in innovation, technology transfer management and supply chain management. Her research has been recognised by the funding from the ARC, DFAT and WSU. She has published in top-tier journals; several book chapters and in practitioner journals. Dilupa's skills in both qualitative and quantitative research methods enable her to do studies using a variety of methods and modelling. She teaches innovation, entrepreneurship, and project management. She is also a certified Project Management Professional in PMI, USA and a Design Thinking practitioner, with the PRINCE2 Practitioner qualification. |
| Professor Meg Smith Meg has an extensive research record in the area of gender equity, a key prerequisite to sustainable employment outcomes. Her expertise in pay equity investigations and institutional explanations for the undervaluation of feminised work has been the basis of international and domestic journal articles, research consultancy, expert opinion and submissions to parliamentary inquiries. Meg's scholarship has focused in contrasting and complementary approaches to gender equity evaluation and regulation. These include equal rights discourses in industrial and discrimination-based legislation, and also gender equity auditing and reporting. Meg’s recent work has included a major research report on equal remuneration claims for the Fair Work Commission, along with Andrew Stewart (University of Adelaide) and Robyn Layton QC (University of South Australia). |
| Associate Professor Ann Dadich An Associate Professor of HR and Management, Ann is internationally recognised as an expert in health service management. Her engaged research has made considerable contributions to health service management. She is committed to making a positive difference in the world through an orientation to others. She holds editorial appointments with leading academic journals, including the Australian Health Review and the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. She is Deputy Director of the Sydney Partnership for Health, Education, Research and Enterprise Knowledge Translation Strategic Platform; she serves on the ACSPRI Executive Committee; and is a Board member of ANZAM. |
| Professor Kevin Daly Kevin’s research passion revolves around applied finance and open economy macroeconomics. His research focus includes an examination of the extent to which exchange rate volatility affects trade; an investigation of the extent to which financial instability affects the poor in developing countries; a study of the extent to which volatility in interest rates affects the availability and affordability of credit; and analysing how oil price volatility impacts on stock prices. Current research interests focuses on banking in China and Vietnam, foreign direct investment in China and Vietnam and financial volatility of stock markets in SE Asia. |
| Dr Aila Khan Aila’s interests are social marketing; human-computer interaction in retail settings; SMEs in Vietnam; and structural equation modelling. She is a member of the Marketing, International Business and Sports discipline group and teaches Marketing Research and Business Analysis Seminars. Aila’s latest publication is ‘WSU Customer Insights’ published in 2022, adding to her extensive publications in various high quality research journals and book chapters. |
| Associate Professor Anil Mishra Anil is a financial economist. His primary research interest is in the area of home bias. His other research interests include empirical asset pricing and behavioral finance. He has published in top-tier Finance journals including the Journal of Empirical Finance; Journal of International Money and Finance; Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money; among others. His research related to home bias has been cited in leading journals including Review of Financial Studies, Review of Finance, Journal of International Money and Finance, and Journal of International Economics; among others. Currently, Anil is the Associate Editor of the Australian Economic Papers. He has supervised several Ph.D., Honours, and DBA students to successful completion. |
| Dr Michelle O'Shea Dr Michelle O’Shea is an interdisciplinary gender equity scholar at Western Sydney Universities School of Business. Through her research, she is committed to understanding and redressing gender and intersectional inequities in work, education and sport institutional contexts. Publishing widely in respected international journals she is also skilled in disseminating her scholarship beyond the academy. With an established media presence authoring empirically informed media articles, TV and regular ABC radio appearances she is purposeful in her efforts to inform and forward policies and practices that challenge inequities. Her most recent scholarship related to parental leave, mothering and work has given rise to her investigating workplace policy and practice supports together with understanding the experiences of employees who make use of these provisions. With a more recent focus on ‘sandwich’ carers her research seeks to productively contribute to visibilising and valuing the lived experiences of informal carers. Michelle’s broader scholarship concerned with the reproductive body in sport, education and work settings including a particular focus on menstruation and menstrual disorders and the workplace has seen her productively contribute to practice and policy developments in school and higher education settings. |
| Dr MD Munir Hossain For the past 23 years, Munir has taught both domestically and internationally, spending 11 of those years overseas and 12 at Western Sydney University. He has a PhD from Australia and a master's degree from the United States. In graduate and undergraduate classrooms, he teaches through narrative, creating a lively and stimulating learning atmosphere. Munir is a dedicated consumer behavior researcher in addition to being a teacher. His research focuses on how customers make purchases and how those purchases interact with various personal and psychological factors. He is currently researching the use of AI in assignment design and plans to publish his findings soon. His writings have appeared in respectable publications. In his free time, Munir enjoys watching people in public places like supermarkets and cooking. He enriches his classroom lessons with the knowledge he gains from these observations. His goal is to become a very skilled researcher and teacher. |
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