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Associate Professor Prafula Pearce

Prafula Pearce is an Associate Professor in Law, a member of the Research and Research Training Committee, and ECU Tax Clinic Coordinator in the School of Business and Law.

Key Research Areas

  • Tax law

Biography

Associate Professor Prafula Pearce has over 30 years of experience that includes academic and commercial:

  • Academic experience from Curtin Law and Curtin Business School for 25 years where she also obtained leadership experience, having served as Academic Discipline Lead and the Deputy Dean of Curtin Law School.
  • Commercial experience from London and Perth, having worked in large commercial organisations such as Cadbury Schweppes London, Bond Corporation and Deloitte in Perth.

Prafula’s qualifications in both law and accounting brings unique perspective on commercial, legal and taxation issues. She is a fellow of CPA Australia, the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants in England and Wales, Chartered Tax Adviser and has also attained the Bachelor of Laws, Master of Laws and a PhD.

Prafula’s research is mainly in the area of law, policy and taxation. Since the attainment of her PhD in 2012, her research focus has been in the area of tax and regulatory measures to promote sustainable energy use.  She has published widely in highly ranked national and international journals, made submissions to Federal Government inquiries to influence policies and liaised with the community and professional associations.

Prafula also has a wealth of supervision experience of PhD students in research areas that are of international importance and have the potential to make a difference to global policies and an impact on human lives and economic circumstances.She has been a member of various executive and research committees at Curtin University where she actively participated and advised on academic, management and research issues.

Awards and recognition
  • 2001 - Nomination for Excellence in Teaching, Curtin Student Guild.
  • 2002 - Grant to conduct research on The Hidden Costs of the Superannuation Surcharge Tax, Australian Tax Research Foundation.
  • 2016 - Grant to conduct research on Building Better Assessment Practice in Company Law for Business to Resolve Academic Integrity  Issues for Large Environment, Curtin University, Teaching Excellence Development fund.

Professional associations
  • CPA Australia, Fellow member
  • Chartered Association of Certified Accountants – England and Wales, Fellow member
  • Taxation Institute of Australia, Chartered Tax Adviser and Fellow member
  • Australasian Tax Teachers Association, Member
  • Australasian Law Academics Association, Member

Languages spoken
  • Gujarati
  • Swahili
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