Higher Degree by Research

Sasimali Attanagoda:
This PhD will set me up really well for the academic field where I can pursue my research interest in future of work. I'm researching about blended work and its influence on the employee job performance.

Blended work is what the employees are doing mostly at this moment. They are working in the multiple environments, such as in the home office, and the other remote environments as in the combination. My research is important for the managers, employees, and the blended working organizations, as well as the policy makers. When people use information communication technologies, they will feel stress. Working in the different environments will cost the loneliness as well.

In 2022, I won the Three Minute Thesis competition in College of Business, and I was able to participate in the RMIT Three Minute Thesis finals, too. It was a great experience to me in translating my research within three minutes to the general audience. Having my own workspace in the building 13 gives me the calm and peaceful environment for my studies, as well as interacting with the other students and the staff as well. Apart from the academic achievements, RMIT has supported me to improve my leadership skills. I'm the HDR student representative in the Graduate School of Business and Law. I'm surrounded by experts in the field. My supervision team is very supportive and I can access them any time when I have a question related to my research. Doing a PhD in RMIT has enabled me to become an independent researcher. My name is Sasimali Attanagoda. I'm a PhD candidate in the Graduate School of Business and
Law at RMIT University.

Yvonne Fang:
With my PhD research, I hope to encourage more corporate openness, and eventually I hope to contribute to a future where every company can perform clean and succinctly.

Angel Zhong:
Yvonne's research highlights the importance of having transparent disclosure about corporate social responsibility. This has then helped the optimal design of disclosure policy, which in turn fosters investor confidence, and facilitated flow of capital market. My name is Angel Zhong. I'm an Associate Professor of Finance at RMIT University.

Yvonne Fang:
Working with Angel was greatly enjoyable. She's very supportive, and provides me very detailed guidance towards my PhD studies.

Angel Zhong:
During the first 18 month of her PhD candidate job, Yvonne undertook an internship program with Frontier Advisor.

Yvonne Fang:
My primary role there was monitoring and assessing the risk linked to the international and Australian Appian Bond market.

Angel Zhong:
The program equipped Yvonne along with a lot of hands-on skills to tackle real business challenges.

Yvonne Fang:
This hands-on experience has been a game changer for me. This enriches my theoretical understanding from my PhD with real world implications.

Angel Zhong:
As Yvonne came back to the university to continue on her PhD research, I can see that there is a dramatic improvement in terms of how she approaches her research. I'm really proud of Yvonne for her exceptional ability to seamlessly integrate industry experience into her research. This unit approach enriches the depth of her research, and also allows her to make a profound impact on the financial market, the finance industry, as well as financial research.

Yvonne Fang:
The internship experience at Frontier to me was like deep dive into the ocean of finance. The knowledge I have gained there makes me more confident, and ready for the challenges I have. My name is Yvonne Fang. I'm a third year PhD student at RMIT University, majoring in finance.

Eugene Sewera:

We live in a society that's connected. It's one whole. Even in the business and finance world, we are still one. My research is looking at the accounting and audit professions, and the impact of machine learning and AI. My PhD research is really important. Not only does it help professionals that are handling AI, but it also helps the society to understand. Personally, I would like to impact the world by having every single person that is considering financial data to be able to understand the difference between data created by humans, and data that is coming in from complex algorithms. What the machine learning algorithm provides is quite similar to how a human intelligence would operate.

RMIT has had a significant impact. Being a technology university, it's positioned me in a way that I can understand both business and technology at the same university. The crucial technology I use for my research is available at my desk. It's available in the library, and I can take that technology home to analyze machine learning algorithms. To be honest with you, I would like to be a humble researcher. Being able to scaffold knowledge, being able to share knowledge, and being able to contribute to research that does have a social impact, not only for my community, but for my country, and for the rest of the world. In my research study, I personally don't think human beings are afraid of AI. They embrace AI and machine learning. They create the algorithms. AI and machine learning are here, and they'll probably be here for us to be able to navigate through into the future as well, so why not embrace technology in a way that we all understand it? My name is Eugene Sawera. I'm at RMIT University doing a PhD in accounting and hoping to make a world a great place.

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Every purchase decision piece of clothing and status symbol gives us a fuller picture our society I come from an industry background to marketing so I love that rmit is really practical and human centered.
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My research is focused on consumer behavior and why we buy what we buy before coming to RMIT I'd never done qualitative research but now I look at the world as a researcher analyzing status symbols of the past and the present and using them to advise on the better future
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Research that luxury is an indicator of social values. I have conducted extensive interviews to understand what drives modern consumers towards sustainability and how luxury electric cars can tell us more about how our economy and Society evolved. My name is Stephanie Vulcan and I'm doing a PhD at RMIT my research is looking at electric cars and how sustainability is becoming the new status symbol
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