Don Trow Visiting Fellowship

The Don Trow Visiting Fellowship funds short-term visiting researchers who contribute to the Centre’s high-quality research in the field of accounting.

Our purpose

The purpose of the Don Trow Visiting Fellowships is to foster and develop accounting research of the highest quality at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington.

The Wellington School of Business and Government strives to become New Zealand's premier centre for accounting research, conducting research of benefit to the local, national and international business, and professional communities.

The Visiting Fellowship scheme is designed to ensure that funds are available to secure a continuing (annual) flow of short-term visiting researchers of excellent standing who will stimulate new research initiatives, work with staff members on their existing research projects, and engage/interact with the wider business and professional communities.

Giving to the Don Trow Endowment Fund

The Fund was established to honour Professor Don Trow’s contribution to Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington.  It recognises his wide-ranging achievements and the esteem in which he was held by his colleagues, students and more broadly by the School of Accounting and Commercial Law.

The Visiting Fellowships programme aims to develop accounting research within the school by ensuring a regular flow of visiting accounting researchers who will inspire new initiatives, work alongside staff on their existing projects and stimulate networking with the broader business and professional communities. The Visiting Fellow also links to the business and public sector communities by presenting public seminars on recent developments in research on and practice of accounting.

With your support, we can increase the amount of research and activity in the School of Accounting and Commercial Law resulting in improved undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and courses, and ultimately leading to higher calibre accounting graduates.

Your gift to the Don Trow Endowment Fund can help to ensure that funds are available to allow the Visiting Fellowship programme to continue in perpetuity.

If you would like to make a donation to the Don Trow Endowment Fund or if you would like to know more, please contact Ange Scott in the Development Office on development-office@vuw.ac.nz or call +64 463 5713

Main sponsors of the Don Trow Visiting Fellowship

The Wellington City Council and the School of Accounting and Commercial Law are the main sponsors of the Fellowship.

Don Trow Visiting Fellows over the years

We thank the academics below for spending time at the Wellington School of Business and Government as a Don Trow Visiting Fellow.

2020

Wayne Landsman

KPMG Distinguished Professor of Accounting at Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

2019

John Wanna

Sir John Bunting Chair of Public Administration at the Australian National University

2018

Paul Griffin

Distinguished Professor of Management, Graduate School of Management, University of California, Davis, USA

2017

Katherine Schipper

Thomas F. Keller Professor of Accounting, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, USA

2016

Stephen Zeff

Professor of Accounting, Keith Anderson Professorship in Business, Rice University, Texas, USA

2015

Peter Easton

Professor of Accounting, Center for Accounting Research and Education, University of Notre Dame, USA

2014

Margaret Woods

Professor of Accounting, Aston University, United Kingdom

2013

David Emanuel

Professor of Accounting, University of Auckland, New Zealand

2011–2012

Peter Clarkson

Professor of Accounting, University of Queensland, Australia and Adjunct Professor, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada

Graham Sansom

Professor and Director of the Australian Centre of Excellence for Local Government and the Centre for Local Government at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

2010

Andreas Bergmann

Professor of Management and Public Management, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland

2009

Sue Llewellyn

Professor of Accounting, Manchester Business School, UK

2008

Stephen Taylor

Professor of Accounting, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

2007

Geoffrey Whittington

Professor of Accounting, University of Cambridge, UK

2006

Lin Fitzgerald

Professor of Management Accounting, Loughborough University, UK

Thomas E. McKee

Professor of Accounting, East Tennessee State University, USA

2005

Tom Groot

Professor of Management Accounting, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands

Chris Humphrey

Professor of Accounting, University of Manchester, UK