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Call for Papers – Third Sirca Young Researcher Workshop, November 2013

20/08/2013 at 4:04 pm

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)

Call For Papers – Sirca Young Researcher Workshop

17/04/2013 at 1:15 pm
Sirca’s Chief Research Officer, Terry Walter, invites young researchers on behalf of the Membership and Research Committee (MRC) to submit a current research paper for possible inclusion in the 2nd Sirca Young Researcher Workshop. Submitted papers should be sufficiently advanced to benefit from feedback and suggestions from a seminar presentation. Please send all papers to callforpapers@sirca.org.au. The deadline for submissions is 12 May 2013.

Notification of the five papers to be included will be made by 15 June 2013, at which time we will also advise the nominated MRC referee who will discuss the individual papers at the workshop. Sirca will also invite a further group of young researchers to the workshop as attendees and to participate in research presentations in the afternoon of 25 July 2013. 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 within the last five years. It is not a requirement for submitted papers to be using Sirca data however the researcher must be from a Sirca Member university. Sirca would also like to track the progress of papers submitted at this workshop and be kept informed of any publication outcomes.

Call For Papers – Inaugural Sirca Young Researcher Workshop

22/08/2012 at 9:16 am
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, held in Sydney on the 30th of November 2012. Young researchers working or studying in member universities will be invited to 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. This workshop will be held twice per year and five papers will be presented at each workshop. We invite young researchers to submit a current research paper here for possible inclusion in the inaugural workshop. Submitted papers should be sufficiently advanced to benefit from feedback and suggestions from a seminar presentation. The deadline for submission is 14 September 2012. Notification of the five papers to be included will be made by 31 October 2012, at which time we will also advise the nominated MRC referee who will discuss the paper at the workshop. 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.

Sirca’s new Chief Research Officer and Membership Research Committee

01/06/2012 at 10:53 am

Sirca is committed to providing relevant data, workflow tools and expert support to enhance researcher productivity, with the ultimate aim of improving the international research standing of all our university members. In particular, we are keen to reach out to early career researchers and regional universities with limited research support capacity. In line with these goals Sirca has appointed a Chief Research Officer and a new Membership Research Committee to greatly strengthen our relevance to the ANZ financial research community.

Sirca’s new Chief Research Officer
Sirca is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Terry Walter to the newly created role of Chief Research Officer (CRO). The CRO role has been created to provide students and junior staff at Sirca Member institutions access to additional research guidance and support. In the coming weeks Terry will be contacting discipline heads and supervisors to offer his services and arrange campus visits. The initial focus of the role will be at member institutions with limited research support capabilities relative to our larger members.

About Terry:
Terry Walter is well-known to a large number of academic staff in accounting and finance within our membership base. He has a wealth of experience spanning almost 40 years of academic teaching and research, primarily at the University of Western Australia, The University of Sydney, the University of New South Wales and most recently the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). He will maintain a fractional appointment as a Professor of Finance at UTS in conjunction with his role as Sirca’s CRO. Throughout his academic career Terry has been generous in providing research- related suggestions to a huge number of academic staff, higher research degree students and visitors.

The Membership Research Committee
Sirca is also expanding member services through a series of other initiatives. Implementation of these additional member benefits, which are all directed at enhancing research training and research support, will be overseen by a newly created Membership Research Committee (MRC).

Sirca thanks the outstanding researchers who have accepted the invitation to serve on this committee:
Henk Berkman (University of Auckland)
Carole Comerton-Forde (ANU)
Mardi Dungey (University of Tasmania)
Robert Faff (University of Queensland)
Bruce Grundy (University of Melbourne)
Richard Heaney (University of Western Australia)
Petko Kalev (University of South Australia)
Dave Michayluk (UTS)

The MRC will be chaired by Charles Littrell, Executive General Manager of APRA, and also includes Kevin Davis, Research Director of the Australian Centre for Financial Studies. The MRC will join the CRO in providing advice to the Sirca CEO, Mike Briers, on funding support for research through research grants, best paper awards, travel support, conference sponsorships, and the FIRN Master Class. In addition Sirca will bring young researchers to Sydney twice per year so that they can present their papers at a young researcher workshop. Sirca is excited about the wealth of experience the MRC group brings to our membership services and looks forward to their assistance in providing expert advice in expanding our collaborative research support.