Leanda Garvie

Biography

Leanda Garvie joined the School of Business at the University of the Sunshine Coast in 2017.

Following an early career in diverse science fields including natural resource management, horticulture research and molecular biology, Leanda gained qualifications and pursued a career in accounting. As an accountant, Leanda worked for several small, medium and large businesses including a multinational company in horticulture research and production. Leanda has also supported the development of countless digital resources as an educational consultant for national and international digital resource providers. In accounting, she has contributed resources and authorship of textbooks from leading publishers Wiley and Pearson.

Leanda's interdisciplinary PhD, a collaboration between UniSC's Forest Research Institute and the School of Business and Creative Industries, explored the potential for forest residues to contribute to Australia's bioeconomy. Some potential benefits the research identified included waste management, additional revenue streams, carbon mitigation and other circular economy linkages. She now supports HDR students in their research journeys.

Leanda looks forward to applying her background in accounting and business to solving real-world problems associated with forest wood products, carbon accounting, climate change strategies, and the transition from a fossil-fuel based economy to a more sustainable bioeconomy. She is engaged in an IEA Bioenergy Task 43 funded project investigating social and economic drivers and benefits of bioenergy and has published alongside leading national and international researchers in forest carbon, biofuels, and the bioeconomy. She is also working with forestry researchers from around the country on projects funded through the Australian Forest Wood Innovations institute.

As well, she continues to work alongside here SBCI accounting and business colleagues, teaching and course coordinating accounting and business courses. She is engaged in many research projects with colleagues including as a co-investigator of a research project with $120,000 HERDC funding to investigate small business financial resilience. Other projects include public sector sustainability reporting, regional airline reporting and accountability, corporate reporting, waste and environmental management strategies, and Australian taxation hesitancy and compliance.

From a teaching perspective, Leanda especially enjoys witnessing the growth and development of undergraduate students as they progress through their studies. She is proud of the small contribution she makes to their futures.

Teaching areas

• Accounting principles
• Contemporary accounting issues
• Management accounting
• Economics
• Sustainability

Expert media commentary

Leanda Garvie’s specialist areas of knowledge include accounting especially accounting theory, sustainability accounting and reporting, taxation compliance, and financial literacy and education; as well as carbon accounting, waste-to-energy, forest-based bioeconomy, and forest wood products.