Dr Marcelle Holdaway | UniSC | University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia

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Dr Marcelle Holdaway

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Adjunct Fellow in Sustainability

Marcelle’s values revolve around equity, empowerment and healing the planet. These values have consistently inspired her professional and personal life and her drive to lift the bar on matters social and environmental.

With an early grounding in the social sciences, she previously managed projects in relation to health and wellbeing utilising an action research and community development approach to change. Upon completing a Master of Environmental Studies, she carried forward this approach to enable accountability and sustainability for socially responsible organisations. Her dissertation explored a practice-base for democratising stakeholder engagement by corporations; a practice-base also applicable to a wide range of organisations and situations.

As an active practitioner who facilitates, trains, and designs and delivers programs concerned with accountability and sustainability she would call herself a ‘pracademic’.

Dissertation: https://research.usc.edu.au/permalink/61USC_INST/1vg4fiv/alma99450996202621

Social Audit Network UK: www.socialauditnetwork.org.uk

Qualifications

Doctor of Philosophy, University of the Sunshine Coast (USC)

Disciplines: Critical accounting, Critical futures studies

Dissertation: Corporate Accountability, Community, and Gas Fields in Australia: Exploring the Landscapes, Transforming the Landscapes

Pass without corrections

Accredited Social Auditor, Social Audit Network (UK)

Master of Environmental Studies Mawson Centre for Environmental Studies, UofA                 

BA UofA, Psychology Major

professional affiliations
  • Member - The Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research, University of St Andrews, UK
  • Social Auditor with Social Audit Network (UK)
Teaching areas

BUSINESS

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) with a focus on (for-profit) business accountability and sustainability including democratising corporate-community engagement.

ORGANISATIONAL SUSTAINABLITY

(including not-for-profits)

accountability and sustainability for co-operatives, social enterprises, credit unions and community organisations/groups in general.

ACCOUNTING

Social and Environmental Accounting and Audit

Research areas of Interest
  • Creative and innovative approaches to research, and organisational and social change
  • Futures methodologies
  • Indigenous thinking and practices
  • Collaborative interdisciplinary research
  • Accountability
  • Sustainability
Awards
  • Academic Merit Scholarship awarded by the University of the Sunshine Coast in 2014 for a four-year period.
ACADEMIC Publications

Holdaway, M. (2020) “Diving in the Deep End: Visually Exploring Community Views on corporate accountability”, Journal of Futures Studies, Vol. 24 Issue: 3, pp. 79-96.

Holdaway, M. (2019), “Crossing disciplines: Exploring the contribution of a critical futures approach to democratizing community engagement with a focus on the gas industry”, Pacific Accounting Review, Special Issue: Social and Environmental Accounting Research. Vol. 31 Issue: 1, pp.159-180.

Holdaway, M. (2018), "Field work in potential gas fields, middle ground or war zone: enhancing accountability by shining a light on difference", foresight, Vol. 20 Issue: 1, pp.84-104.

Holdaway, M. (2016), “Using CLA to Deconstruct Current Scholarly Views on Corporate Accountability to Community”, Journal of Futures Studies, Vol. 21, Issue: 1, pp. 19-34.

practitioner publications

Holdaway, M. & Davey, C. (2012), “Hume Environmental Champions Evaluation Report”. Hume City Council, Melbourne, Victoria. Internal Report.

Holdaway, M. (2010), “Measuring Social Impact, Social Accounting – A Profile”. Philanthropy Australia Summer 2010, Issue 77.

Holdaway, M. (2008), “Journeying Towards Sustainability: An Australian Non-Government Organisation’s Experience”. Community Business Review, Issue 5, (www.socialcompass.com)

Holdaway, M. (2006), “Social and Environmental Accounting: Critical Issues for ‘Third Sector’ Organisations in Australia”. The Corporate Citizen, Volume 6 Issues 2 & 3, Corporate Citizen Research Unit, Deakin University, Melbourne, Victoria.

Contact Marcelle Holdaway via email marcelle4487@gmail.com.