Christina Boedker

Professor, Business School, University of Newcastle
Christina was born in Denmark and has lived and worked in Europe and the USA. She came to Australia on a ship in the 1990s when she worked in the American cruise industry.

In 2022, Christina was the Deputy Head of School (Learning and Teaching) at the Newcastle Business School and prior to that, the Head of Discipline, Accounting and Finance at the Newcastle Business School. Before joining The University of Newcastle, Christina was employed at the School of Accounting at the University of New South Wales (2002-2020).

Christina is the Founding Director of the UoN Tax Clinic. The UoN Tax Clinic was established in 2022 via a grant from the ATO totaling $299,343. The Tax Clinic provides free tax advice to clients with reduced capacity to manage their tax affairs. In the role as Director, she oversaw the Clinic's governance, stakeholder relations and research activities.

Christina holds a PhD in Accounting from UNSW, an MBA in Financial Management, a Master of Commerce in Accounting and a 1st class (Honours) in Economics. Christina is an accredited member of the Chartered Accountant Australia and New Zealand (CAANZ) and CPA Australia.

Christina’s research combines academic rigor and theory with industry collaboration and applied policy work. Christina has published in high quality accounting publications in A* and A journals such as Accounting, Organizations and Society, the Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Critical Perspectives on Accounting and Accounting & Finance. A career highlight is her article on emotions and accounting published in the Financial Times Top 45 journal, Accounting, Organizations and Society.

She has authored several government reports and books, culminating in the High Performing Workplaces Index report, launched at the Prime Minister’s Future Job Forum in 2011 and used by firms to measure their workplace productivity and leadership and management skills. Christina’s work has featured in over 50 media articles in the Australian Financial Review, The Australian, Sydney Morning Herald and SKY News. Christina is currently leading the Australian Workplace Index project, a strategic partnership between University of Newcastle and Australian National University.

Christina has won several research grants, totaling $2,143,287 in cash funding. She has worked with organisations such as Microsoft, the Department of Finance and Deregulation, the Commonwealth Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations, Westpac Banking Corporation, the Victorian Government, the Business Council of Australia, the South Australian Government and others to influence policy and practice. She was the acting CEO of the Society for Knowledge Economics for 2 years.

She has received a number of awards for her work, including the Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence; the Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Award in the Interdisciplinary Accounting Research category, the UK Advertising Standards Authority Award; the Mindshift Consulting Group Prize; Saunders Harris’ Prize for Outstanding Academic Achievement; the Carlson Companies’ Award; MGSM’s Award for Competitive Intelligence; and MGSM’s Award for Human Resources Management. She received an Honourable Mention at the 2008 Business and Higher Education Roundtable Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Research and Development.