Akanksha Jumde

Dr Akanksha Jumde is a Business and Corporate Law Lecturer at the College of Business, School of Business and Law-Sydney Campus. Akanksha specializes in corporate law, commercial law and business law, as well as intellectual property rights law. Her work focuses on various dimensions related to corporate law including CSR and corporate governance. Akanksha has expertise across the fields of CSR, corporate governance, corporations law, and the use of socio-legal empirical legal and interdisciplinary research methods to different facets of corporate law and intellectual property law.
 
Before joining Central Queensland University, Akanksha taught at the University of Tasmania. She was a sessional lecturer, tutor and PhD scholar at the Deakin Law School, Deakin University, Melbourne. For her PhD research, she received a full scholarship from Deakin University (the Deakin University Post-Graduate Research Scholarship) through the Government of Australia. Akanksha’s PhD thesis also received a faculty-level nomination for the Alfred Deakin Best Doctoral Thesis Award at the Faculty of Business and Law, Deakin Law School, Deakin University. She was selected as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the prestigious EW Barker Centre for Law and Business at the National University of Singapore, Singapore. Akanksha has also worked in number of research and teaching roles in various countries such as India, USA and Singapore. Recently, she was conferred with the ‘Young Intellectual Property (IP) Scholar of Asia’ award for her research paper on ‘Utility Models’ by the Singapore Management University (SMU), Singapore.