Qualitative Research in Accounting Network Special Interest Group

QualRAN 2026 Conference Event

Invitation:

You are warmly invited to our QualRAN event, which will bring together colleagues and research students for a morning of discussion, reflection, and engagement on qualitative research.

The event will begin with coffee and an icebreaker, followed by a panel discussion featuring Professor Zahirul Hoque (Editor of the Journal of Accounting and Organisational Change) and Professor Max Baker (Associate Editor for Special Issues Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal) and Professor David Smith (Editorial board for Accounting, Organisations and Society, Management Accounting Research).

We are also delighted to welcome Professor John Roberts from the University of Sydney, who will deliver the keynote address. His presentation will draw on the recent Critical Perspectives on Accounting paper, Artificial intelligence and qualitative research: The promise and perils of large language model (LLM) ‘assistance’, he co-authored with Max Baker, and Jane Andrew.

Programme

8:30 am – 9:00 am Coffee and icebreaker

9:00 am – 10:00 am Panel discussion

• Zahirul Hoque, RMIT, Journal of Accounting and Organisational Change
• Max Baker, University of Sydney, Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal
• David Smith, Australian Catholic University, Accounting, Organizations and Society; Management Accounting Research

10:00 am – 11:00 am Keynote address: John Roberts, University of Sydney

11:00 am – 11:15 am Break

11:15 am – 12.00 pm PhD and early-career research pitches (15 minutes each, including questions)

•  11:15 am – 11:30 am  Wenwei Zhou – "Intuitive Expertise in Strategic Investment Appraisal for Advanced Technology: A Naturalistic Decision-making Perspective"

•  11:30 am – 11:45 am  Yunyao Liu (Monash University) – "How institutional investment actors construct the materiality of modern slavery information”

• 11:45 am – 12:00 pm  Benjamin Wu (RMIT) – "Overcoming the Collective Action Problem of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) Adoption in the Absence of Formal Mandates: Insights from the Network of Adjacent Action Situations (NAAS)"

12:00 pm – 12:30 pm Annual General Meeting

12:30 pm – 1:30 pm Lunch

We look forward to welcoming you for a morning of conversation, connection, and ideas. Please direct any questions to Jodie Moll (j2.moll@qut.edu.au).

Thank you to our members for making our previous workshops very successful events.  Please find below the presentations available to view:

Qualitative Research with Impact Expert Panel and Research Pitching

Using Vignettes in Qualitative Accounting Research

QualRAN Workshop: Publishing Strategies

You can view Professor John Dumay's slides HERE

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