Dr Nivakan Sritharan is a lecturer at the Faculty of Business, Design, and Arts at SUTS. He specializes in accounting and business digitalization. Before joining Swinburne Sarawak as a lecturer, Dr Nivakan earned his Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from Swinburne Sarawak and his Master of Science degree, as well as his PhD, from University Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS). While studying at Swinburne Sarawak, he worked as a peer-tutor for accounting subjects and also served as a facilitator of learning at the Faculty of Economics and Business, UNIMAS for an Accounting Boot Camp. Dr Nivakan has conducted extensive research in Behavioural Accounting Research (BAR) and has published numerous journal articles indexed in Scopus, ABDC, ERA, and Google Scholar. He also served as a Graduate Research Assistant (GRA) for a project funded by the Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS) under the supervision of his Project Supervisor while pursuing his master’s degree. Dr Nivakan represented UNIMAS in the national level 3-Minute Thesis Competition (3 MTC) and became a semi-finalist in the social science category. During his postgraduate studies, he was awarded the title of Best International Student “Pelajar Antarabangsa Terbaik” by University Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS). Dr Nivakan is a member of the Malaysian Accounting Association (MAS) and also acts as a reviewer for a journal indexed by Scopus.
Undergraduate level: Recording Financial Transactions, Financial Accounting, Introduction to Accounting Information Systems, Business Digitalisation, Introduction to Business Information Systems.
Postgraduate level: Governing Technology for Business Environment.
