Biography
Dr. Audousset-Coulier joined JMSB in 2007. Prior to her doctoral studies, Dr. Audousset-Coulier has worked as an auditor at KPMG.
Her research primarily focuses on the auditing stream of the accounting research field in various institutional contexts with a focus on audit regulation, audit quality, audit fees and auditors industry specialization.
She is also conducting research about gender diversity in corporate governance and in the accounting profession, about firm accounting practices, and about investing practices of pension funds.
Education
Areas of expertise
Auditing, Corporate Governance, Gender, Diversity, Accounting Profession, Financial Reporting, Practices, Responsible investing, Pension funds.
Prey use publicly available information about local habitat conditions to balance the conflicting demands of predator avoidance and other activities such as foraging and reproduction. However,environments undergo both short and long term changes resulting from a combination of natural and anthropogenic pressures, leading to increased uncertainty (the incomplete or imperfect information regarding local conditions) among prey animals. A major challenge for ecologists is to determine how prey can balance these conflicts when faced with ecological uncertainty. Given that the combined effects of global climate change, invasive species and anthropogenic habitat degradation are expected to dramatically alter environments, the need to explore the effects of ecological uncertainty is key. As a cognitive and behavioural ecologist, I examine ‘how aquatic prey use public information to adjust behavioural trade-offs to current environmental conditions’. Recently, I have focussed on neophobic predator recognition as an inducible response to elevated predation risk. However, mean predation risk is only one of many determinants of the ecological uncertainty experienced by prey.
My long term objective for the next five years is to address the key question of how ecological uncertainty shapes the expression of neophobic predator avoidance and foraging patterns of prey and what are the cognitive cost associated with neophobia. Undergraduate and graduate students interested in joining my research should contact me via email to discuss possible projects.
