John Dumay is Professor of Accounting and Finance at Macquarie University, Sydney. His research relates to modern slavery, intellectual capital, non-financial accounting and reporting, research methods, and academic writing, which he links to management, accounting, and scholarly practice.
Elsevier and Stanford University have recognised John as one of the world’s top 2% of scientists based both on lifetime citations, and for each year since 2019. In addition, The Australian newspaper recognised him as Australia’s Top Researcher in Accounting & Taxation for 2020, 2022, and 2023.
John has an outstanding record as the author or co-author of over 120 peer-reviewed academic journal articles, publishing in prestigious journals such as Accounting Auditing and Accountability Journal, The British Accounting Review, Journal of Intellectual Capital, Public Management Review, Financial Accountability and Management, and The Journal of Business Ethics.
John is an Associate Editor of Accounting Auditing and Accountability Journal, and Meditari Accountancy Research, as well as Deputy Editor for Accounting & Finance.
Sumit Lodhia is a Professor of Accounting at the University of South Australia (UniSA) Business where he leads research focused on sustainability accounting and reporting as the co-director for Centre for Markets, Values and Inclusion. He was presented with the annual Australasian – Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Hall of Fame Award for 2017.
For the last five years, Professor Lodhia has been ranked in the top 2% of cited researchers globally for a single year and for overall career in 2023 (Stanford University Top 2% World Scientist Ranking).
Sumit is also the author of the “Qualitative Pitch”, a research template for pitching qualitative research ideas. He has strong links to industry, enabling him to research the sustainability accounting practices of major Australian organisations, both public and private, and he applies his academic research through his teaching, lecturing on sustainability accounting, mentoring staff and supervising PhD and Masters students.