Gillian Vesty is a Professor and Deputy Dean L&T in the School of Accounting, Information Systems and Supply Chain at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. She is a member of CPA Australia, a Board Member of the Institute of Management Accountants, Australia and New Zealand and teaches in the field of management accounting. With a healthcare sector background and 20 years’ experience as a Registered Nurse, Gillian’s research interests seek to align accounting with social impact research that address health and wellbeing challenges, taking a value-based healthcare perspective. Gillian is on the editorial board of Accounting Auditing and Accountability Journal and is an active Board Member of Games for Change, Asia Pacific. Gillian’s work demonstrates that serious games are a powerful vehicle for addressing wicked problems and provide an important nexus between teaching and research. Gillian has been involved in the design and development of a number of serious games, used across RMIT recently recognised by 2024 PieOneer Awards.
Use of serious games and digital interventions in teaching; management accounting topics - in particular performance measurement; sustainability management accounting; internal business governance.
Accounting, Auditing and Accountability, Education Systems with a focus on serious games, Business and Management, Value-Based Healthcare, Activity-based funding, Nursing, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Cultural Studies
Acknowledgement of Country
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.