Don Trow Visiting Fellowship

The Don Trow Visiting Fellowship funds short-term visiting researchers who contribute to the Centre’s high-quality research in the field of accounting.

Our purpose

The purpose of the Don Trow Visiting Fellowships is to foster and develop accounting research of the highest quality at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington.

The Wellington School of Business and Government strives to become New Zealand's premier centre for accounting research, conducting research of benefit to the local, national and international business, and professional communities.

The Visiting Fellowship scheme is designed to ensure that funds are available to secure a continuing (annual) flow of short-term visiting researchers of excellent standing who will stimulate new research initiatives, work with staff members on their existing research projects, and engage/interact with the wider business and professional communities.

Giving to the Don Trow Endowment Fund

The Fund was established to honour Professor Don Trow’s contribution to Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington. It recognises his wide-ranging achievements and the esteem in which he was held by his colleagues, students and more broadly by the School of Accounting and Commercial Law.

The Visiting Fellowships programme aims to develop accounting research within the school by ensuring a regular flow of visiting accounting researchers who will inspire new initiatives, work alongside staff on their existing projects and stimulate networking with the broader business and professional communities. The Visiting Fellow also links to the business and public sector communities by presenting public seminars on recent developments in research on and practice of accounting.

With your support, we can increase the amount of research and activity in the School of Accounting and Commercial Law resulting in improved undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and courses, and ultimately leading to higher calibre accounting graduates.

Your gift to the Don Trow Endowment Fund can help to ensure that funds are available to allow the Visiting Fellowship programme to continue in perpetuity.

If you would like to make a donation to the Don Trow Endowment Fund or if you would like to know more, please contact Victoria Beckett, Senior Development Manager at Wellington School of Business and Government.

Sponsorship of the Don Trow Visiting Fellowship

Wellington City Council is the main sponsor of the Fellowship.

Don Trow Visiting Fellows over the years

We thank the academics below for spending time at the Wellington School of Business and Government as a Don Trow Visiting Fellow.

2024

Kara Swanson - Professor of Law and Affiliate Professor of History, North Eastern University

Frank Moers - Professor of Management Accounting and Control, Maastrict University, USA

2023

Stephen Penman - George O. May Professor Emeritus of Financial Accounting in the Faculty of Business at Columbia University, USA

Wayne Landsman - KPMG Distinguished Professor of Accounting at Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

2020

Wayne Landsman - KPMG Distinguished Professor of Accounting at Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

2019

John Wanna - Sir John Bunting Chair of Public Administration at the Australian National University

2018

Paul Griffin - Distinguished Professor of Management, Graduate School of Management, University of California, Davis, USA

2017

Katherine Schipper - Thomas F. Keller Professor of Accounting, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, USA

2016

Stephen Zeff - Professor of Accounting, Keith Anderson Professorship in Business, Rice University, Texas, USA

2015

Peter Easton - Professor of Accounting, Center for Accounting Research and Education, University of Notre Dame, USA

2014

Margaret Woods - Professor of Accounting, Aston University, United Kingdom

2013

David Emanuel - Professor of Accounting, University of Auckland, New Zealand

2011–2012

Peter Clarkson - Professor of Accounting, University of Queensland, Australia and Adjunct Professor, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada

Graham Sansom - Professor and Director of the Australian Centre of Excellence for Local Government and the Centre for Local Government at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

2010

Andreas Bergmann - Professor of Management and Public Management, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland

2009

Sue Llewellyn - Professor of Accounting, Manchester Business School, UK

2008

Stephen Taylor - Professor of Accounting, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

2007

Geoffrey Whittington - Professor of Accounting, University of Cambridge, UK

2006

Lin Fitzgerald - Professor of Management Accounting, Loughborough University, UK

Thomas E. McKee - Professor of Accounting, East Tennessee State University, USA

2005

Tom Groot - Professor of Management Accounting, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands

Chris Humphrey - Professor of Accounting, University of Manchester, UK