Kirsty Dunbar

Dr. Kirsty Dunbar is a Lecturer in the School of Business within the Faculty of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Queensland, where she is affiliated with the Accounting Discipline. She teaches in the areas of financial and management accounting, coordinating and lecturing courses such as Accounting for Decision Making (ACCT1101), Intermediate Financial Accounting (ACCT2110), and Accounting for Business (ACCT7101). Prior to her current role, she was at the University of the Sunshine Coast, School of Business and Creative Industries, where she completed her Doctor of Philosophy with a thesis titled Antecedents and consequences of firm carbon emissions. Her academic career includes contributions to teaching and research in accounting education and environmental accounting topics.

Dr. Dunbar's research interests encompass the antecedents and consequences of environmental performance, corporate environmental strategies, carbon accounting, ESG strategy and reporting, and the relationship between voluntary disclosure of non-financial information and financial performance. Her publications include Dunbar, Kirsty M., Wynder, Monte and Baxter, Peter (2023), The effect of the carbon tax and the emission reduction fund on government salience, Australasian Accounting, Business and Finance Journal, 17(3), 81-105; Wynder, Monte and Dunbar, Kirsty (2016), Ethical values in the evaluation of corporate social performance, Managerial Auditing Journal, 31(2), 180-196; and Dunbar, Kirsty, Laing, Gregory and Wynder, Monte (2016), A content analysis of accounting job advertisements: Skill requirements for graduates, e-Journal of Business Education and Scholarship of Teaching, 10(1), 58-72. Her scholarly work has garnered over 160 citations on Google Scholar. She is available for student supervision and serves as a media expert in accounting and related fields.

Professional Email: kirsty.dunbar@business.uq.edu.au