Prospective Research Students
Enquiries are welcome at any time from students who wish to read for the degrees of Doctor of Philosophy (course code IF49) or Master of Business (Research) (course code BS92) under my supervision. Information about these degrees can be found under Postgraduate Studies.
Prospective international students should read general admissions information, including fee requirements. Scholarship rounds (for fees only) close on 30 September each year and, regrettably, only a very small number is available across all disciplines in the University.
Domestic students (including Australian nationals, Australian permanent residents and New Zealand nationals) generally do not pay tuition fees. Scholarships are available and, from time to time, the School of Economics and Finance offers top-up scholarships to students in receipt of a scholarship.
Current Research Students
Ms Nedda Cecchinato, PhD: High Frequency Finance. Funded by a QUT Research Capacity Building Scholarship.
Mr Jason M Hay, PhD: The Applications of Statistical and Scientific Methodologies to Modelling Weather Derivatives. Funded by an Australian Postgraduate Award Scholarship.
Mr Luis A Martinez, PhD: Project Evaluation for Open-Pit Mining Ventures using Real Options and Allied Econometric Techniques. Funded by an Australian Postgraduate Award (Industry) Scholarship.
Mr Calum Robertson, PhD: Real Time Financial Information Analysis. Funded by an Australian Postgraduate Award Scholarship. (Associate supervisor.)
Ms Melanie Robertson-Dean, PhD: Investigation, Development and Applications of Distributional Families in Financial Modelling. (Associate supervisor.)
Mr Charles (Chung To) Wong, PhD: Applications of Nonparametric Smoothing Methods in Computing Financial Risk. Funded by a Faculty-based award.
Mr Tony (Yahui) Zhou, MBus(Res): On the Use of Copulae to Evaluate Multivariate Technical Trading Rules. Funded by a QUT Research Capacity Building Scholarship.
Past Research Students
Dr Kohei Marumo, PhD, 2007: A Study on Risk Aggregation. Funded by a QUT International Postgraduate Research Scholarship and a Faculty-based award.
CURRENTLY: Financial Systems and Bank Examination Department, Bank of Japan
Dr Lyle R Turner, PhD, 2006: Production Structure Models and Applications Within a Statistical Activity Cost Theory (SACT) Framework. Funded by an Australian Postgraduate Award (Industry) Scholarship.
CURRENTLY: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Accountancy, QUT.
Dr Michael Falta, PhD, 2005: Statistical and Computational Methods to Assess Uncertainty and Risk in Accounting. Faculty of Business Award for Best Paper by a Research Student in 2004. Funded by an International Postgraduate Research Scholarship and Faculty-based award.
CURRENTLY: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Accountancy, QUT.
Dr Steve (Yu Shuo) Su, PhD, 2005: The Effect of Cross Sectional Cost Allocations on the Statistical Variance of Accounting Earnings. Funded by an Australian Postgraduate Award (Industry) Scholarship. (Associate supervisor.)
Dr Adrian G Barnett, PhD, 2003: On the Use of the Bispectrum to Detect and Model Non-linearity. UQ Dean of Engineering, Physical Sciences and Architecture Award for Best PhD in 2003. Funded by an International Postgraduate Research Scholarship.
CURRENTLY: Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, QUT.
Dr Ross McVinish, PhD, 2002: Stochastic Analysis and Approximation of Fractional Diffusion. Funded by an Australian Postgraduate Award. (Associate supervisor.)
CURRENTLY: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Mathematical Sciences, QUT.
Past Honours Students
Mr Martin Banjo, 2006: development of a theory for rainfall derivatives (*).
Dr Ben Cairns, 2002: applications of the correlation integral in genes detection (minor project).
CURRENTLY: Postdoctoral research assistant, School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol.
Mr Ron Webster, 2000: accounting ratios (*).
CURRENTLY: PhD graduand, School of Mathematical Sciences, QUT.
Ms Thu Tran, 1998: study of determinism in infectious diseases (*).
CURRENTLY: PhD student, School of Mathematical Sciences, QUT.
Ms Naomi Freireich, 1995: detecting chaos in measles epidemics (**).
Mr Roy Leckie, 1994: modelling exchange rates (**).
Mr Roy Smith, 1994: modelling exchange rates (**).
In Australia (*), the honours year is normally an add-on year after a three year bachelor degree, and comprises a significant project. In Scotland (**), at the times shown here, almost all students read for an honours degree, and undertook both a minor project in the third year and a major project in the fourth year.