In May 2012 Sirca announced a series of initiatives that provide additional member benefits. These
initiatives are all directed at enhancing research training and research support for our members.
They are being overseen by a newly created Membership Research Committee (MRC) and the
appointment of Professor Terry Walter as Sirca’s Chief Research Officer.
One such initiative is a Young Researcher Workshop. Under this proposal young researchers working
or studying in member universities will travel to Sydney (with travel and accommodation costs being
met by Sirca) to present their current finance or accounting research, and to receive expert
commentary on the research from a member of the MRC. The Workshop will be held twice per year
and five papers will be presented at each workshop.
We now invite young researchers to submit a current research paper for possible inclusion in the
third workshop. Submitted papers should be sufficiently advanced to benefit from feedback and
suggestions from a seminar presentation. Send papers to the following email address
callforpapers@sirca.org.au. The deadline for submission is 15 September 2013. Notification of the
six papers to be included will be made by 16 October 2013, at which time we will also advise the
nominated MRC referee who will discuss the paper at the workshop. These six presentations will be
made on Friday 8 November 2013. Sirca will also invite a further group of nine young researchers to
the workshop as attendees and to participate in shorter research presentations in the afternoon of 7
November 2013. Discussions of these shorter presentations will be provided by young researchers
attending the workshop. Sirca will meet all reasonable travel and accommodation costs for the
presenters and the invited attendees.
To qualify for inclusion at least one of the authors of the submitted paper must be a young
researcher. We define a young researcher to be a person currently engaged in PhD research or one
whose PhD thesis was completed less than five years ago. We particularly encourage young
researchers in regional universities to apply for the workshop. We prefer papers that are sole
authored by a young researcher, however jointly authored papers also qualify.
Sirca wants to track the progress of papers submitted at this workshop and therefore be kept
informed of publication outcomes.
The MRC has the following academic members:
- Kevin Davis (Chairman, Member of the Sirca Limited Board)
- Terry Walter (Sirca, CRO)
- Henk Berkman (University of Auckland)
- Carole Comerton-Forde (University of Melbourne)
- Mardi Dungey (University of Tasmania)
- Robert Faff (University of Queensland)
- Bruce Grundy (University of Melbourne)
- Ray da Silva Rosa (University of Western Australia)
- Petko Kalev (University of South Australia)
- Dave Michayluk (UTS)
