Swapna Verma, LLM (Taxation), Grad Dip in Legal Practice, LLB and BSc (Psychology), is a Lecturer and PhD candidate in Taxation Law, and Director of Undergraduate Coursework in the Department of Business Law and Taxation at Monash University. She is a unit leader for undergraduate taxation law units and has lectured across numerous undergraduate and postgraduate taxation law courses. She also manages the accreditation of units in her department with external professional bodies such as the Tax Practitioner's Board, Chartered Accountants Australia & New Zealand and CPA Australia.

 

Swapna has a genuine passion for teaching and students’ learning, and her dedication has been recognised as a recipient of Monash Business School’s Dean’s Commendation in Teaching Excellence Award, the Department’s Commendation in Teaching Excellence Award, and joint winner of Australasian Tax Teachers Association’s ‘Best Teaching Presentation’ Award. Swapna has also received numerous Deans “purple letters” for her leadership in Business Taxation and Taxation law, with both units recognised by students as top performing units in the Monash Business School.

 

As an early career researcher, Swapna's research areas include international tax law, tax policy and educational scholarship (such as hybrid-flexible learning modalities). Her PhD research involves examining the adaptability of Australia's individual tax residence rules to an era of increased global mobility in the workforce, with a view to modernising the legal framework. Swapna has also published in highly ranked Australian tax journals and internationally acclaimed academic textbooks, and presented at numerous Australian and international conferences. This includes her co-authorship on Bevacqua et al., Australian Taxation, 3rd and 4th edition, Wiley. Swapna is a qualified lawyer and, prior to becoming a full-time academic, practiced in commercial law firms and a ‘Big 4’ professional services firm.