Accounting and Finance – doctoral research

If you're interested in joining a dynamic community of talented researchers from around the world to explore research questions that matter, we would like to hear from you.

Our research topics

Within the Accounting and Finance group, we are especially keen to receive PhD research proposals in the following areas:

  • corporate governance and accountability
  • corporate finance
  • financial markets and asset pricing.

In addition to this, group members are willing to consider PhD research proposals in the areas listed below.

Please use the list below to identify a potential supervisor(s), develop your research proposal, share this with the identified supervisor(s) and confirm they are willing to be named in support of your application. You are encouraged to ask for feedback from them to develop your research proposal. Then you should be ready to formally apply.

  • Suzana Grubnic: sustainability accounting and accountability, particularly if related to the public sector
  • Karligash Glass: banking performance analysis, spatial analysis of spillovers
  • Cynthia Gong: corporate finance, behavioural finance, empirical asset pricing, financial big data modelling and machine learning
  • Ahmet Karpuz: corporate finance, debt structure, corporate liquidity management, labour and finance, corporate investments, payout policy, bank lending
  • Jingsi Leng: corporate finance, behavioural finance, payout policy, CSR, Innovation, IPO, SEO market
  • Frank Hong Liu: Corporate Social Responsibility, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Corporate Finance and Governance
  • Noel O’Sullivan: any area of corporate governance or auditing
  • Anna Raffoni: performance management in private organisations, the use of business analytics and big data in performance management, accounting practices in lean environments
  • Kavita Sirichand: any area of applied financial economics
  • Kai-Hong Tee: any aspects of topic areas to evaluate hedge funds and mutual funds investment performance
  • Petros Vourvachis: welcomes PhD students looking to explore CSR reporting regulation (both in the private and public sector). In particular, the effectiveness of regulatory initiatives, extent and determinants of compliance and role of governance in corporate compliance to CSR reporting regulation
  • Nhung Vu: corporate finance, corporate governance, and financial markets
  • Chaowei Wang: climate risk, green finance, ESG investing, macroeconomics modelling, monetary and fiscal policies, housing, and land markets
  • Haofeng Xu: FinTech disruption, textual analysis in accounting and finance, non-traditional disclosures (e.g. social media), corporate culture, and bank and corporate misconduct
  • Stavroula Yfanti: macro-financial linkages, empirical finance, financial volatility modelling, financial contagion, risk management
  • Huainan Zhao: corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, empirical asset pricing, financial markets

PhD/MPhil

Conduct your own research to solve issues affecting society and the planet, and help shape a different way of doing business.