DrFarzana Tanima

Dr. Farzana Aman Tanima Joined as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney Business School - Accounting, Governance and Regulation in February 2025. Previously, she was a Lecturer and then Senior Lecturer at the University of Wollongong (2017-2023).

She grew up in Bangladesh and moved to Wellington, New Zealand, as an international student, where she completed her undergraduate honours degree and later her PhD in December 2015 at Victoria University of Wellington (VUW). With a strong personal interest in the socio-political issues in Bangladesh, her PhD research focused on the potential of alternative, multidimensional dialogic accounting and accountability practices in empowering poorer-class women. As part of this ongoing research, Dr. Tanima maintains active collaborations with NGO practitioners.

Her research, teaching, and governance work are inspired by a commitment to social justice and human rights, particularly in the context of accounting's role in society. As a critical and qualitative researcher, she examines the intersections of accounting with various societal issues such as race, feminism, social justice, education, and development.

Dr. Tanima's research has been supported by prestigious grants, including the Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Grant and the University of Wollongong's Global Challenges Program. In recognition of her contributions to critical accounting research, she serves on the Critical Perspectives on Accounting Editorial Board and is part of the editorial team for a special issue on critical dialogics and publicness in Financial Accountability & Management. Dr. Tanima has published in leading academic journals, including Accounting, Organizations and Society, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, and Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal. She actively contributes to the scholarly community as a co-network leader for the Alternative Accounting Research Network and serves as an Editorial Board Member and Social Media Leader - Academic for the Critical Perspectives on Accounting journal.