Biography
Dr. Zauwiyah Ahmad started off her academic career as a tutor at Multimedia University in 1998, after completing Bachelor of Accounting programme at Universiti Utara Malaysia. Since then, she has completed her Master of Philosophy degree in 2001 and Doctor of Philosophy in 2010. Her interest mainly lies in behavioural research, especially in areas related to accounting, ethics, personal finance, and information security.
Thus far, she has obtained a number of internal and external research grants. Outcomes of her research have been published in several tiered journal, including Accounting Education: an International Journal; Managerial Auditing Journal; International Journal of Business Studies; and Asia Pacific Journal of Education. She also has presented a number of papers in international conferences.
Dr. Zauwiyah teaches accounting courses for the bachelor degree level, specifically accounting information systems, integrated case study, financial accounting and managerial accounting. Apart from holding a permanent position as a senior lecturer in accounting, Dr. Zauwiyah was also involved in the Faculty of Business administration as the Dean, Faculty of Business (2014-2018). She also has previously served as the Deputy Dean, Academic and Quality Assurance. Currently she is the Head of Accounting Department at the Faculty of Business.