Dr Janine Muir

Biography

Dr Janine Muir is a Lecturer in Accounting at Swinburne University of Technology, specialising in Auditing, Forensic Accounting and Accounting Theory. She is a CPA qualified accountant with 15 years industry experience encompassing transport and logistics and publishing. Throughout her academic career Janine has been involved in curriculum development and delivery of undergraduate and post-graduate units both domestically and internationally. She designed and developed two new Swinburne units; one incorporating blended delivery and the other an online unit. Janine's research interests include accounting education, financial reporting, accounting regulation and compliance. Janine's PhD examined volunteer accounting in an unregulated environment, and considered the accounting and assurance functions pertaining to small incorporated associations in Victoria. In 2009/2010 Janine participated in an ALTC Project that examined the embedding of non-technical skills into the accounting curriculum, and was on a research team that examined the practice of "learning by doing" in 2012. Janine is currently working on multiple collaborative research projects: one looking at the development of judgment skills in undergraduate accounting students; and another looking at the concept and application of professional skepticism. Janine has also received a number of teaching awards - two Faculty level awards in 2012 and 2014 as well as being a finalist in the 2008 Unijobs "Lecturer of the Year" awards.