Associate Professor Dr Wendy James is a fully Certified Management Accountant (CMA) as well as a Certified Practicing Accountant (CPA). Dr James is Deputy Head of the Peter Faber Business School. Prior to this Dr James was the National Head of the Accounting Discipline at the Australian Catholic University (ACU) and has been at a number of universities including Charles Darwin University (CDU) and before that Torrens University Australia (TUA), part of the international Laureate group of universities. Dr James has also spent time with the University of Adelaide and the University of South Australia where she was a senior lecturer with Open Universities Australia. Before working with the University of Adelaide, Wendy spent five years as associate professor and Head of Accounting with a large government university in Dubai. Whilst in Dubai, she also spent time working for the Central Bank of Dubai training financial accountants. Prior to working internationally, Dr James was a senior lecturer at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane. Here, Wendy was involved with the Centre of Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies attached to the university. Whilst in this capacity Wendy was also a member of a professional teaching team which developed and delivered Accounting for Projects to finance managers around the world, employed by Royal Dutch Shell. Dr James has a wealth of experience in teaching a number of financial and managerial accounting courses as well as Information Systems and has taught at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels at a number of universities in South East Queensland, including Griffith University, University of Southern Queensland and Bond University. Prior to teaching Dr James was involved in a number of management positions both in industry and the public sector.  In her early academic career, Wendy was awarded the Women's Academic Achievement Award which enabled her to further her interest in research. Dr James' current research interests include: accounting education management accounting and control systems, performance management, organisational change, public sector financial management and strategic management accounting in the private, public and not for profit sectors. Dr James has a number of published articles in prominent accounting journals to which she also referees up and coming research articles by other authors.
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Associate Professor, Head of Accounting Discipline, Australian Catholic University, Brisbane.
Associate Professor, Head of Accounting Discipline, Charles Darwin University, Darwin.
Head of Discipline, Torrens University Australia (Laureate University), Adelaide.
Contractor, University of South Australia, Adelaide.
Contractor, University of Adelaide, Adelaide.
Associate Professor, Zayed University, Dubai. 
Senior Lecturer, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane 
Visiting Assistant Professor, Bond University, Gold Coast 
Senior Lecturer, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba
Lecturer and Visiting Lecturer, Griffith University, Gold Coast