Rate My Professor Meredith Tharapos

Associate Professor Meredith Tharapos is the Head of the Accounting Department in the School of Accounting, Information Systems and Supply Chain at RMIT University’s College of Business and Law. She holds a PhD in Accounting from RMIT University completed between 2010 and 2015, professional qualifications as a Chartered Accountant with Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand, and is a Fellow of CPA Australia. Her extensive career at RMIT began as a sessional lecturer from 1992 to 2002 and 2006 to 2008, followed by associate lecturer from 2008 to 2015, lecturer from 2016 to 2018, senior lecturer from 2019 to 2023, and associate professor since 2024.

Tharapos’s research addresses behavioural issues within the field of accounting, incorporating educational, cultural, and accountability perspectives, with specific focuses on cultural diversity management, student satisfaction, graduate employability, transnational education, and accountability. Her publications have accumulated over 1,013 citations on Google Scholar. Prominent works include “The ChatGPT Artificial Intelligence Chatbot: How Well Does It Answer Accounting Assessment Questions?” (2023), “Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder: Research Quality in Accounting Education” (2020), “Effective Teaching, Student Engagement and Student Satisfaction in Accounting Education” (2023), “What Processes do Academics Undertake in an International Teaching Experience that Reveal their Cultural Intelligence?” (2023), and “Generative AI in Accounting Education: Evaluating ChatGPT’s Role in Assessment and Skill Development” (2025). She supervises Masters and PhD students on projects such as the design of serious games for accounting education and cultural intelligence in transnational accounting teaching.

Recognized for her award-winning student-centred teaching approach underpinned by cultural intelligence research, Tharapos promotes supportive and inclusive learning environments featuring active, applied, and authentic educational experiences. She received the RMIT University Vice-Chancellor’s Teaching Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning and an Australian Awards for University Teaching Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning. As Australian Chair of the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand Accounting Education Special Interest Group, she convened the RMIT Accounting Educators’ Conference for six years and holds editorial roles on several international accounting education journals.