Nikki Schönfeldt is the Associate Director Teaching and Teaching Innovation and a Senior Lecturer of Accounting at the University of Western Australia’s Business School. She is a Chartered Accountant with twenty years’ experience in university teaching. Nikki is a recipient of a 2023 AAUT Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning. Nikki has published in top disciplinary journals and was awarded the ECR Accounting Education best paper award at the 2023 AFAANZ conference. Nikki is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and is passionate about the accounting profession. In addition to her AAUT Citation, Nikki has recently received other national teaching awards, including the MYOB 2022 Educator of the Year and the Accountants Daily 2023 Accounting Academic of the Year. Her teaching philosophy is to ‘never leave a room empty-handed’. This means designing learning activities that teach disciplinary content as well as purposefully develop appropriate behavioural competencies. 

2024-2025: AASB Research project. Multi-institutional.

2023-2024: AFAANZ Consolidating student understanding using a gamified mobile application (GMA)

2023-2024: UWA Learning and Teaching Grant

2018-2019: Accounting & Finance Association of Australia & New Zealand (AFAANZ) The effectiveness of teamwork assessment tasks

2015-2016: UWA Centre for Education Futures' Scholarship

2002-2004: US$1,000,000. Grant from the Carnegie Corporation to fund the project and to develop multimedia teaching material for a strategic partnership between the University of Johannesburg and the University of Fort Hare (South Africa). Role: Project manager for the strategic initiative

2012-2014: Casual Lecturer and Tutor, University of Western Australia
2007-2013: Translator and Reviewer, Accounting Professional Training and the University of Johannesburg
2008-2012: Research Assistant, University of Johannesburg
2007-2008: Consultant – Management Information, University of Johannesburg
2001-2005: Senior Lecturer, University of Johannesburg
Project Manager: Thuthuka project (2002-2004)
1998-2000: PricewaterhouseCoopers Inc., South Africa

2024~: AFAANZ Education Committee

2024~: UWA Student Experience Committee

2023~: UWA Digital Learning and Teaching Advisory Committee

2023~: Co-Lead CoP Active Learning and Flipped Classroom

2021: AccFin Research Seminar coordinator (Accounting)

2020~: Co-Lead CoP UWABS BLT

Threshold Concepts in the Preparation of Consolidated Financial Statements with Prof Phil Hancock, UWA Business School, and Prof Jac Birt, Charles Sturt University.

The use of educational technology to support student understanding of threshold concepts with Prof Phil Hancock, UWA Business School, Prof Jac Birt (Charles Sturt University, and Prof. Grainne Oates, Swinburne University.

Developed an integrated assignment that develops ICT skills in accounting graduates.

Developed fully online Accounting units offered on the UWA MBA and MPA programs, which is often used to inform the design of other online or blended units.

Involved in the successful launching of various groundbreaking projects including UWA MyGuru online tutor platform and the UJ-UFH strategic partnership

Established an undergraduate auditing textbook (Editor and Author)

Teaching in Accounting, Auditing & Financial Management (Undergraduate) and Accounting, Financial Management & Accounting Information Systems (Postgraduate)

Developed multimodal study material for Accounting, Auditing, and Financial Management courses

Financial Accounting

Accounting Education

Educational Technology

Adaptive learning

Threshold Concepts

Operational Risk Management in Financial Institutions

Developing ICT-skills in accounting graduates, with MYOB, Australia

MYOB Blogpost

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