Accounting and Social Impact

Professor Ian Goodwin-Smith is a Matthew Flinders Professor of Social Impact and Director of the Centre for Social Impact at Flinders University. He is a researcher in the fields of social policy and social service with extensive experience in research and evaluation relating to social service improvement, systems reform and social policy. Ian has a history of working collaboratively with government and non-government organisations, communities and people who have been marginalised, and a long track record of research partnerships, both internationally and in all Australian states and territories, in metropolitan, country and remote settings.

Sandra Robinson is the Course Coordinator of the Graduate Certificate in Social Impact and MBA Social Impact.

Sandra has more than 30 years’ experience in leadership, training and teaching, mentoring, program design and direction, collaboration and communication in education, Local Government, the Not-For-Profit sector, and state government. Her roles have included teaching in school communities, Community Development in local councils, management of a state-wide social impact measurement framework, Chief Executive leadership of a unique social impact social enterprise, and manager of a new state government program connecting people to community and systems and measuring social impact.

Philip has completed a Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting and Finance) with Honours and a PhD in Accounting. He is a member of CPA Australia and Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand.

He is passionate about producing enterprising, work-ready accounting graduates, who have the necessary technical knowledge and personal attributes to make a successful contribution to the accounting profession.

Dr. G M Wali Ullah is a finance academic with more than 8 years of experience in teaching, coordinating and developing courses taught in various mediums (face-to-face, online and hybrid) and programs (undergraduate, postgraduate coursework, postgraduate research and MBA) to domestic and international students, across a number of universities and tertiary education providers in Australia and Bangladesh. He holds a Ph.D. in Corporate Finance from the University of Adelaide, MSc in International Finance from the University of Westminster, UK, and a BBA in Finance from East West University, Bangladesh.