
Dr Alexandra Williamson
QUT Business School,Accountancy,
Aus. Centre for Philanthropy Nonprofit Studies
Personal details
- Name
- Dr Alexandra Williamson
- Position(s)
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
QUT Business School,
Accountancy,
Aus. Centre for Philanthropy Nonprofit Studies - Discipline *
- Accounting, Auditing and Accountability, Business and Management, Policy and Administration
- Phone
- +61 7 3138 2739
- a3.williamson@qut.edu.au
- Location
- View location details (QUT staff and student access only)
- Identifiers and profiles
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- Qualifications
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PhD (Queensland University of Technology)PhD (Queensland University of Technology)
- Professional memberships
and associations Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA)
Member of the International Society for Third-Sector Research (ISTR)
ORCID ID 0000-0002-2462-709X
- Keywords
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philanthropy, philanthropic foundations, structured giving, philanthropic organisations, accountability, private ancillary funds, public ancillary funds, nonprofit organisations, charitable trusts, giving
Biography
Alexandra is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies (ACPNS). Her research interests focus on the accountability of philanthropic foundations, and place-based approaches to giving.
Alex completed her PhD in mid-2019, exploring the accountability of Public Ancillary Funds. She holds a Master of Business (Philanthropy and Social Investment) from Swinburne University of Technology, and a Master of Business (Research) from QUT looking at the accountability of Private Ancillary Funds.
Alex has more than a decade of experience working in the philanthropic sector in Melbourne, first with one of Australia’s largest private foundations, and then within the charitable trusts team of a national trustee company. Alex was part of the research team working on Giving Australia 2015-2016, the largest ever Australian study into philanthropic giving.
Teaching
Alex was an HDR Peer Adviser within QUT’s Student Success Group during 2018, delivering workshops and two weekly writing circles to PhD and Masters by Research students across all QUT faculties.
Experience
Three-month industry internship with the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC) from February to May, 2019. Foci of the internship were the promotion of visibility and accountability within the philanthropic sector in Australia; and the series of national expert workshops held in the first half of 2019 around measures to capture the objectives of part 1b) of the ACNC Act (2012).
Publications
- Williamson A, Luke B, Furneaux C, (2020) Ties that bind: Public foundations in dyadic partnerships, Voluntas
- Godfrey J, Williamson A, (2020) The impact of recessions on fundraising: A systematic review of the literature, Third Sector Review p6-33
- Williamson A, Luke B, (2020) Agenda-setting and public policy in private foundations, Nonprofit Policy Forum
- McGregor-Lowndes M, Williamson A, (2018) Foundations in Australia: Dimensions for international comparison, American Behavioral Scientist p1759-1776
- Leat D, Leat D, Williamson A, Scaife W, (2018) Grantmaking in a disorderly world: The limits of rationalism, Australian Journal of Public Administration p128-135
- Williamson A, Luke B, Furneaux C, (2018) Why be accountable? Exploring voluntary accountability of Australian private ancillary funds, Australian Journal of Public Administration p375-391
- Williamson A, Luke B, Leat D, Leat D, Furneaux C, (2017) Founders, families, and futures: Perspectives on the accountability of Australian Private Ancillary Funds, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly p747-771
- Williamson A, Leat D, Leat D, Scaife W, (2017) Narratives of performance measurement in philanthropic foundations, Voluntary Sector Review p273-298
For more publications by this staff member, visit QUT ePrints, the University's research repository.
Awards
Awards and recognition
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2020
- Details
- Recipient of the Executive Dean's Commendation for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award for 2019
- Type
- Editor/Contributor of a Prestigious Work of Reference
- Reference year
- 2016
- Details
- The Palgrave Handbook of Global Philanthropy was awarded the 2016 Virginia Hodgkinson Research Book Award, awarded by the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) for the best book on the nonprofit sector that informs policy and practice. The book presents and analyses the geographic, geopolitical, and cultural differences in 26 countries based on contributions by 55 scholars from world-renowned universities from all over the world. I was a co-author on the country chapter for Australia.
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2010
- Details
- Professor John O. Miller, AO Award for Academic Excellence in the Master of Social Science (Philanthropy & Social Investment), Swinburne University of Technology
Supervision
Current supervisions
- Studies of Charitable Foundations in China
MPhil, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Yuyu Zhang - Cultural Diversity and Indigenous Participation on Australian Corporate Boards
MPhil, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Ellie Chapple, Dr Bastian Breitmayer