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Mr Kevin Vander Plank

Mr Kevin Vander Plank

Mr Kevin Vander Plank

Lecturer

Telephone: (61 8)  6304 5595  
Email: k.vanderplank@ecu.edu.au   
Campus: Joondalup  
Room: JO2.352  

 

Availability

By appointment

Current teaching

  • Finance I

Background

Kevin has been a lecturer in the School of Accounting Finance and Economics since 1992. Since joining the Faculty, he has taught a majority of Finance units, focusing on Capital Markets, Financial Modeling, and more recently Finance I.

Kevin takes a practical approach to teaching units, demonstrating how students can apply their knowledge to meaningful situations. This approach stems from Kevin’s previous career prior to becoming an academic, where he was Vice President and Treasurer for the Bank of America in Canada. 

Responsibilities

Team leader Numeracy Working Group Curriculum 2012 and Beyond.

Staff qualifications

  • MBus (Finance), ECU
  • BBusSc (Hons) Actuarial, University of Cape Town
  • GradDipBus, Curtin University

Professional memberships

  • Fellow Financial Services Institute of Australasia (FINSIA)

Awards and recognition

  • 2012 - Faculty of Business and Law, Dean's Award for Engagement.
  • 2012 - Teaching and Learning grant, Support for first year business students: Integration of contextualised language and academic skills within core units. (Joint application, Chief Investigator - A.Harris).
  • 2011 - Award for Engagement, School of Accounting Finance and Economics.

Research

Research interest

  • Financial Markets

Current research area

  • Numeracy at University