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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
Email
Location
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Qualifications

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

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

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.

 

This information has been contributed by Dr Alexandra Williamson.

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.

This information has been contributed by Dr Alexandra Williamson.

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).

This information has been contributed by Dr Alexandra Williamson.

Publications


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