Contact Details
| Organization: | Accounting and Business Information Systems |
| Position: | SENIOR LECTURER |
| Email: | |
| Homepage: | http://www.abis.ecom.unimelb.edu.au/who/staff/alison_parkes.html |
| Work: | 834406772 |
| Fax: | 61393492397 |
| Building: | The Spot, 198 Berkeley St |
| Campus: | Parkville |
Biography
Alison started her career as a CPA, working mainly in tax, management accounting and audit. She gradually moved into more systems focused areas such as systems audit and systems accounting, culminating in senior project management roles involving large scale financial systems development & implementation. Alison joined the Department in January 2001, prior to this she spent three years in an academic position in the Information Systems department at Massey University. Her Masters thesis examined the behavioural implications of implementing workflow systems. Her PhD applied behavioural theories and experimental methods to investigate reliance on decision support systems in the non-normative task context of insolvency .
Alison's work has been published in the Australian Journal of Information Systems and the Australian Insolvency Journal and presented at a range of Australian and international conferences including the Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS) , the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), The Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ) and the Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS). She has been an ad-hoc reviewer for various conferences including ACIS, ICIS, PACIS, SIGASYS, and the AIS SIG IS-CoRe workshop.
Research Expertise and International Linkages
Research Expertise
| Research Interest | Key Words | Country of Expertise |
|---|---|---|
| Systems change concepts | Process improvement | Australia |
| Workflow systems | Australia | |
| Decision support systems | Australia |
Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards
Qualifications
| Title | Institution | Date Awarded | Abbreviation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bachelor of Commerce | University of Wollongong | 31-Dec-1987 | |
| Master Business Studies | Massey University | 07-Mar-2001 | |
| Doctor of Philosophy | University of Melbourne | 23-Aug-2008 |
Other Awards
| Award Type | Awarding Body | Comments | Date Awarded |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scholarship | CPA/ICAA/AFAANZ | PhD Scholarship | 30-Jan-2005 |
Government Research Classifications
Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications
- Information Systems Management (INFORMATION SYSTEMS) (280102)
- Decision Support and Group Support Systems (INFORMATION SYSTEMS) (280109)
- Information Systems Development Methodologies (INFORMATION SYSTEMS) (280112)
- Expert Systems (ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND SIGNAL AND IMAGE PROCESSING) (280201)
- Auditing and Accountability (ACCOUNTING, AUDITING AND ACCOUNTABILITY) (350103)
- Business Information Systems (incl. Data Processing) (BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT) (350202)
- Cognitive Science not elsewhere classified (COGNITIVE SCIENCE) (380399)
Socio-Economic Objective Classifications
- Information processing services (COMPUTER SOFTWARE AND SERVICES) (700103)
- Computer software and services not elsewhere classified (COMPUTER SOFTWARE AND SERVICES) (700199)
- Management and productivity not elsewhere classified (MANAGEMENT AND PRODUCTIVITY ISSUES) (720499)
- Technological and organisational innovation (OTHER ECONOMIC ISSUES) (729901)
Grants and Contracts
Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.
Grants
| Title | Role | Funding Source | Scheme | Award Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Decision support systems for accounting | Chief Investigator | ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND | AFAANZ/CPA Australia/ICAA PhD Scholarships | 01/01/2004 |
Publications
Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.