Robert Faff is a Professor and Director of Research at The University of Queensland Business School. He has an international reputation in empirical finance research: securing 14 ARC grants (funding exceeding $4 million); more than 300 refereed journal publications; career citations exceeding 10,900; and a h-index of 53 (Google Scholar). His particular passion is nurturing and developing the career trajectories of early career researchers. Robert has supervised more than 30 PhD students to successful completion and examined 50 PhD dissertations. Robert's research interests include asset pricing, risk modelling, managed fund performance, behavioural finance, corporate governance and market efficiency.

In this workshop Robert will discuss his pitching template framework that provides a succinct and methodical approach to pitching a new research proposal to an academic expert.