SACL lecturer Dr Farzana Tanima has received accolades for her PhD thesis on "Microfinance in women’s empowerment in Bangladesh: A study of competing logics and their implications for accounting and accountability systems".

School of Accounting and Commercial Law lecturer Dr Farzana Tanima has recently received accolades for her PhD thesis on "Microfinance and women’s empowerment in Bangladesh: A study of competing logics and their implications for accounting and accountability systems".

Her first award was the "Best PhD Thesis completed in 2015", given by the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand at their recent Conference held in the Gold Coast, Queensland from 3-5 July.

Dr Tanima was also announced as the winner of the APIRA Broadbent and Laughlin Emerging Scholar Award at the conference's main dinner, held in Melbourne during July.

These awards recognise the high quality of Dr Tanima's research, and the thesis topic is one she has a personal interest in. Her research focuses on economic growth and socio-political issues in her home country Bangladesh, where there is widespread poverty and few education opportunities, particularly for rural women.

"I wanted to undertake research where I could reflect on how the disadvantaged social position of Bangladeshi women could be transformed by accounting and accountability systems such as financial reports," says Dr Tanima.

Earlier this year Dr Tanima was also the recipient of a Dean's Award for Doctoral Achievement.

She is honoured to have received these awards, and acknowledges the support of her supervisors Professor Judy Brown and Professor Trevor Hopper.

"Judy and Trevor have given me the best possible guidance. They have greatly influenced, encouraged and empowered me to pursue the issues pertinent to this research. I am very grateful for their unrelenting support."

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