Dr Hui Situ

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Research

My main interest in research is in contributing to the improvement of the transparency of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) reporting. CSR reporting is a useful tool to encourage organisations to take their CSR more seriously. However, unlike the much more highly regulated context of financial reporting, CS reporting is largely voluntary, and its transparency is influenced by numerous factors that tend to obscure researchers’ views of underlying causalities. My research interest focuses on exploring how contextual factors influence CSR reporting and investigating how companies manage the competing influences from different stakeholders, in terms of this type of reporting. The majority of my research to date examines whether the competing influences have the potential to together improve the transparency of CSR reporting in a state capitalist country like China.

Grants and Funding:

• CPA Australia: Global Research Perspectives Program - Priority research grants on “hot topics” (2020-2021)
• UN Global Compact Australia Contract (2019)
• Early Career Researcher Grant of School of Accounting, RMIT University (2017)

Teaching

• Advanced Management Accounting - Module co-ordinator, Accounting and Finance MSc

Biography

• Doctor of Philosophy (Accounting), Flinders University, Australia
• Bachelor of Commerce (Honours), Flinders University, Australia
• Bachelor of Law, Jinan University, China
• Bachelor of Management in Accounting, Jinan University, China

Honours and awards

• 2020 HIghly Commended Reviewer, Accounting Forum (2021)
• The 2018 Reg Mathews Memorial Prize (best paper), Social and Environmental Accountablity Journal (2019)
• Australian Postgraduate Award (2012)

Professional memberships

• Member of the Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research
• Member of British Academy Early Career Research Network
• Member of Institution of Public Accountants (MIPA), Australia (2007-2021)
• Member of the College of Business and Law Human Ethics Advisory Network (BL CHEAN), RMIT University, Australia (2020-2021)

Academic positions

2016 - 2021: RMIT University, Australia

Committees and reviewing

• Editorial Board, Accounting Forum
• Ad hoc reviewers for high ranking journals, books and confereces.

Supervisions

Research Interest and expertise

• Sustainability, Carbon Accounting, Social and Environmental Accounting
• Corporate social responsibility and risk management
• Accounting Theory (especially stakeholder theory and critical theory)
• Environmental Regulations and Policies
• Accounting and management in Chinese context
• Critical perspective on accounting
• Critical discourse analysis

Current supervision

Miao Miao

Research student

Yuhua Huang

Research student