QUT | Staff Profiles | Alexandra Williamson

Name

Dr Alexandra Williamson

Position(s)

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Faculty of Business & Law,
School of Accountancy

Discipline *

Accounting, Auditing and Accountability, Sociology, Policy and Administration

Phone

+61 7 3138 2739

Email

a3.williamson@qut.edu.au

Location

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Identifiers and profiles

Qualifications

PhD (Queensland University of Technology)PhD (Queensland University of Technology)

Professional memberships and associations

Member of the International Society for Third-Sector Research (ISTR)

International member of the Canadian Philanthropy Partnership Research Network (PhiLab)

ORCID ID 0000-0002-2462-709X

Google Scholar

Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA)

Keywords

philanthropy, philanthropic foundations, structured giving, philanthropic organisations, accountability, private ancillary funds, public ancillary funds, nonprofit organisations, charitable trusts, giving

* Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008

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.

This information has been contributed by Dr Alexandra Williamson.

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).

This information has been contributed by Dr Alexandra Williamson.

Williamson A, Luke B, Furneaux C, (2021) Perceptions and conceptions of ‘place’ in Australian public foundations, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
Williamson A, Leat D, (2021) Playing piggy(bank) in the middle: Philanthropic foundations’ roles as intermediaries, Australian Journal of Public Administration
Seibert K, Williamson A, Moran M, (2021) Voluntary sector peak bodies during the COVID-19 crisis: a case study of Philanthropy Australia, Voluntary Sector Review p143-154
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, Furneaux C, (2021) Ties that bind: Public foundations in dyadic partnerships, Voluntas
McGregor-Lowndes M, Williamson A, (2018) Foundations in Australia: Dimensions for international comparison, American Behavioral Scientist p1759-1776
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, 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, 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 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

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