Rate My Professor Christina Boedker

Professor Christina Boedker serves as Professor of Accounting in the Newcastle Business School's Accounting and Finance discipline at the University of Newcastle. She holds a PhD in Accounting from the University of New South Wales, an MBA in Financial Management from Macquarie University, a Master of Commerce in Accounting, and First Class Honours in Economics. An accredited member of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CAANZ) and CPA Australia, Boedker brings extensive international experience, having lived and worked in Spain, Switzerland, the UK, the USA, and Australia, where she was Operations Manager in the American cruise industry. Prior to her current role, she spent 18 years at UNSW and has served as Deputy Head of School and Head of Discipline in Accounting and Finance at Newcastle Business School. She is currently a Board Director at the Hunter Defence Support Network and previously acted as CEO and Board Director of the Society for Knowledge Economics from 2007 to 2010. Her career also includes advisory roles, such as Advisor on payroll tax to the Chief Commissioner of Revenue NSW in 2024.

Boedker's research focuses on accounting controls, calculative technologies, creativity and innovation, emotions and affect, high performing workplaces, leadership, and workplace productivity, with specializations in management accounting and accounting, auditing, and accountability. Notable projects include founding the University of Newcastle Tax Clinic in 2022 with a $299,343 government grant, leading the Greater Bank Financial Wellbeing project in 2022, and co-establishing the Australian Workplace Index in 2021 with the Australian National University. She supervises PhD, masters, and honours students in accounting and strategy, and has taught PhD, executive, financial accounting, and management accounting courses. Among her accolades are the Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence (2009, 2006), the Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Award (2009) for her PhD thesis 'Local Players and Global Strategies: The Transformative Effects of Accounting in Strategising', and Honourable Mention at the 2008 Business and Higher Education Roundtable Awards. Key publications include 'Accounting as an affective technology: A study of circulation, agency and entrancement' (Accounting, Organizations and Society, 2013), 'The counter-performativity of calculative practices: Mobilising rankings of intellectual capital' (Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 2020), 'Projecting, infrastructuring and calculating: From an In vitro to an In vivo carbon market' (Accounting, Organizations and Society, 2024), and 'The mediating role of accounting controls between supervisors' empowering leadership style and subordinates' creativity and goal productivity' (Accounting and Finance, 2022).