Dr Hui Situ
Lecturer
- situh1@cardiff.ac.uk
- Aberconway Building, Colum Road, Cathays, Cardiff, CF10 3EU
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Overview
I am a lecturer in Accounting in the Cardiff Business School. Prior to join to CBS, I have been teaching and tutoring in the area of both financial and management accounting in a number of universities in Australia. I believe educators should encourage student-centred learning by allowing students to share in decisions and believing in their capacity to lead learning activities. The core value of my teaching philosophy is to engage students and look to share cutting-edge knowledge with them in innovative ways.
I am an early career researcher with a record of excellent research experience. I has published a number of papers in top academic journals and refereed books. My earlier paper about Chinese regulation of corporate environmental disclosure was awarded the 2018 Reg Mathews Memorial Prize from the Social and Environmental Accountability Journal. I am currently on the editorial board of Accounting Forum, a high-ranking accounting journal.
I also have nearly 10 years of professional experience in industry which adds value to my teaching and research.
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 Institution of Public Accountants (MIPA), Australia (2007-2021)
Academic positions
2016 - 2021: RMIT University, Australia
Committees and reviewing
- Editorial Board, Accounting Forum
- Member of the College of Business and Law Human Ethics Advisory Network (BL CHEAN), RMIT University, Australia (2020-2021)
Publications
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- Advanced Management Accounting - Module co-ordinator, Accounting and Finance MSc
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.
Current Project:
- SDG Governance in Australian Firms: Developing an Innovative SDG Reporting Framework (funded by CPA Australia: Global Research Perspectives Program - Priority research grants on “hot topics”)
- The Effect of China’s Soft CentralizationReform on companies’ Environment Investment (Presented on Academic of Management (AOM virtual conference) SIM-ONE Junior Faculty Consortium, 2020)
- The change of Chinese Communist party’s leadership and the patten of corporate social and environmental reporting.
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)
Supervision
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