Postgraduate Prospectus

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Staff and their research interests
Khaled Abdala, BA BSc MA MSc Essex,
MPhil Sheffield, PhD Birmingham
(Lecturer)
Applications of IT in accounting, finance
and management; business information
systems; e-commerce and e-business;
human resources management in e-work
and e-business; e-work and social
exclusion; e-business and mobility
Yazid Abdullahi, BA Abuja, MSc
Bedfordshire, PhD Essex (Lecturer)
Innovation and small firms;
entrepreneurship and regional
development; new firm creation;
innovations and regions; small firm growth;
technology and entrepreneurship
Magda Abou-Seada, BCom MA Cairo,
PhD UWE (Lecturer)
Auditor independence; auditor
responsibility for fraud detection; evidence
search and evaluation in auditing; financial
reporting and corporate governance;
voluntary disclosures in annual reports;
effect of implementing IFRS on stock
markets
Pawan Adhikari, BA MBA Tribhuvan,
PhD Nordland (Lecturer)
Accounting standards, comparative public
sector accounting, management control in
the public sector, public expenditure
reforms in developing nations
Anne Argent, LLB Anglia Ruskin, LLM
Essex (Lecturer)
EU law; company law; employment law
Steffen Böhm, BA Lancaster, MA
Warwick (Reader)
Philosophy of organisation (particularly
critical and post-structural theory);
political theory and the organisation
of resistance; political economy of
globalisation; theories and practices of
social movements; alternative forms of
organisation; automobility; art of/as
subversion and resistance; knowledge,
learning and subjectivity
Cecilia Cassinger, MSc PhD Lund
(Lecturer)
Marketing communication; branding and
image construction; consumption and
everyday life; cultural geographies of
retailing; narrative theory
Jerry Coakley, BA NUI, MSc London,
PhD Open (Professor)
TARs and nonlinearities/asymmetries in
financial markets; behavioural finance;
international finance and exchange rate
modelling; corporate finance; panel
estimators with (I) variables and CSD
David Collins, MA Glasgow, MSc
Strathclyde (Reader)
Organisational change; the guru industry
Lynne Conrad, BA Napier, MA PhD
Essex, FCCA (Senior Lecturer)
Accounting and accountability in regulated
industries; management accounting
developments in the NHS; new public
management; application of structuration
theory in accounting research
Nick Constantinou, BSc Reading,
MSc London, PhD Essex (Lecturer)
Asset and liability management in
insurance; market and credit risk
management of structured products;
risk-based capital in financial investments
Christian De Cock, lic TEW Antwerp,
MSc PhD Manchester (Professor)
Cultural political economy; justification;
creativity
George Dotsis, MSc London, PhD
Athens (Lecturer)
Volatility derivatives; effects of parameter
uncertainty on asset allocation and
derivatives valuation; estimations of
continuous time processes; resampling
methods
Teck Yong Eng, BSc Surrey, MSc PhD
UMIST (Professor)
Network relationship management; supply
chain management; commercialisation of
non-profit business
Mohamed Fadzly, BAcc MPhil Malaysia,
CIMA (Lecturer)
Accounting education; ethics in
accounting practice; accounting and
theology
Ann-Christine Frandsen, MSc PhD
Gothenburg (Senior Lecturer)
Accounting and its relations to banking,
finance, management and strategy;
unconventional visual representational
forms of accounting
Claudia Girardone, BA Genoa, MA PhD
Bangor (Reader)
Modelling efficiency of financial
institutions; bank financial management;
bank mergers and acquisitions; structure
and performance in European banking
Paul Hamalainen, BSc PhD
Loughborough, ACA FHEA (Senior
Lecturer)
Bank regulation theory and policy design;
banking in emerging economies; Islamic
banking; bank disclosure/transparency;
accounting for financial instruments; bank
risk management; bank corporate
governance
Philip Hancock, BA CNAA, MA Warwick,
PhD Keele (Professor)
Organization culture; architecture and
space; the management of aesthetics
Martin Harris, BA Cambridge, MSc LSE,
PhD Imperial (Senior Lecturer)
Technology, organisation and innovating
firm; ICT, institutional change and the
information society; the historiography of
technological change
Patrick Hitchen, BSc Essex, MBA
London (Lecturer)
Marketing ethics; international
management; business strategy;
managing across cultures
Heather Hopfl, BA Open, PhD Lancaster,
AFBPsS FCIM FBAM (Professor)
Imagery, literature and popular culture;
problem of theorisation; poststructuralism;
aesthetics and practice; dramaturgical
aspects of organisation
Norvald Instefjord, Sivilokonom HAE
Norwegian School of Economics, PhD
London Business School (Reader)
Corporate finance; banking; market
microstructure; corporate governance;
credit and operational risk management;
security design
Kelum Jayasinghe, BComm MBA
Colombo, PhD Bradford (Senior Lecturer)
Accounting, governance and
accountability issues in developing
countries; management accounting and
organisational change in voluntary sector
organisations; accounting systems and
systems of accountability in indigenous
communities and homes; accounting in
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