Group

Accounting and Finance Research Group

Unit(s) of assessment: Business and Management Studies

Research theme(s): Safety and Sustainability

School: Nottingham Business School

The Accounting and Finance research group takes an interdisciplinary approach to develop and deliver research across the accounting and finance disciplines that results in new academic insight, supports academic and professional scholarship and influences different decision-makers (such as, policymakers, regulators, investors and businesses), as well as professional and organisational practice.

The group also works closely with the Centre for Finance, Technology and Society and the research group on Public Policy and Management

More specifically, the objectives of this group are to:

Develop and enhance the individual and collective research capacity of the group’s members;
Create an internationally recognised research group that facilitates national and international research that influences policy and professional and organisational practice;
Develop the future generation of researchers in accounting and finance; and
Maintain active links, nationally and internationally, with academic and practice based communities other research centres and academic institutions as well as former doctorate students.

Units within the group have coalesced around nine broad core themes that represent the accounting and finance discipline, namely:

Accountability and Governance
Banking and Risk
Climate change and sustainability
Corporate Finance
Sustainable Finance
Finance, FinTech, Empirical Finance
Financial Accounting and Reporting
Management Finance
Learning, Teaching and Pedagogy

Faculty align to one or other units within the Accounting and Finance Group to promote subject specialisms, but also work with colleagues across units on specific projects. Similarly, faculty will work with colleagues in other groups within the University on cross discipline research.

The activities of the Group assist and inform excellence in teaching of the related subjects across the undergraduate and post graduate courses within the school.

We’re offering fully-funded PhD studentships aligned with our research centres and groups for UK, EU or International students. Find out more about our PhD studentships and opportunities

Ongoing and prospective PhD projects include the following topics:

Finance, Empirical Finance and FinTech:
Professor Alexander Brauneis, Associate Professor Yan Wang, Dr Suliman Alshahmy, Dr. Sercan Demiralay, Dr Nagirikandalage, Padmi
Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability:
Professor Tam Nguyen, Associate Professor Yan Wang, Associate Professor Stephanie Giamporcaro Dr Tarek Metwally, Dr Suliman Alshahmy, Dr. Sercan Demiralay, Dr Tamanna Dalwai, Dr Nagirikandalage, Padmi, Dr Oyedele Ogundana, Dr Qazi Awais Amin, Associate Professor Peter Eckersley
Sustainable finance and sustainability:
Associate Professor Stephanie Giamporcaro, Professor Tam Nguyen, Dr. Sercan Demiralay , Dr Thao Nguyen, Dr Linzhi Tan
Financial accounting and reporting:
Professor Tam Nguyen, Dr Tamanna Dalwai, Dr Qazi Awais Amin
Accountability, decision-making and management in public services:
Professor Peter Murphy, Associate Professor Peter Eckersley , Dr Nagirikandalage, Padmi, Dr Oyedele Ogundana, Dr Martin Jones
Firm/bank performance, efficiency, risk and climate changes:
Dr Thao Nguyen, Dr Nagirikandalage, Padmi, Dr Suliman Alshahmy
Securitization, Bank lending, and consumer finance
Dr Solomon Y Deku, Dr Thao Nguyen
Theoretical and mathematical finance; econophysics in finance; management science, operations research and artificial intelligence (AI) with applications in finance; financial econometrics and statistics in finance; behavioural finance; portfolio theory and security analysis; investment and financial markets; speculative markets and risk management; corporate restructuring and mergers and acquisitions; corporate finance and financial management; decentralised finance, blockchain and cryptocurrency:
Associate Professor Dr Jeremy Cheah, Dr Linzhi Tan, Professor Alexander Brauneis
Management accounting and application of accounting systems, AI and technology, Performance management, Auditing, Accounting Education: Dr Nagirikandalage, Padmi, Dr Qazi Awais Amin, Dr Martin Jones
Entrepreneurial financing, alternative financing mechanisms, informal financing, Gender and corporate governance, Entrepreneurship and Innovation - Dr Oyedele Ogundana

External University Collaborators

Professor Roland Mestel of University of Graz (contact Alexander Brauneis)
Professor Laurence Ferry (contact Peter Eckersley)
Professor Ileana Steccolini of Newcastle University and the University of Bocconi Milan (contact Martin Jones)
Professor Iris Saliterer Freiburg University (contact Martin Jones)

External Practice Based Collaborators