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Department
- FBL - Accounting, Economics and Finance [34]
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- Finance - Planning and Business Intelligence [5]
- Research and External Engagement Services [5]
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- Finance - Finance Business Systems [4]
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- Finance - Business Intelligence [3]
- Finance - Procurement [3]
- College of Health, Science and Society [2]
- FBL - Business and Management [2]
- FET - Computer Science and Creative Technologies [2]
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- Finance - Faculty Finance [2]
- Finance - Financial Services [2]
- Finance - Management Accounts [2]
- School of Applied Sciences [2]
- School of Architecture and Environment [2]
- Vice-Chancellor's Office (VCO) [2]
- ACE - Art and Design [1]
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- Academic Services - Student Administration [1]
- Bristol Law School [1]
- FET - Geography and Environmental Management [1]
- Facilities [1]
- Facilities - Projects [1]
- Facilities - Technologies [1]
- Finance - Income and Cash Office [1]
- Finance - Purchasing [1]
- HAS - Applied Sciences [1]
- HAS - Nursing and Midwifery [1]
- IT Services [1]
- Library Services [1]
- SPS - Administration and Operations [1]
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Job title
- Senior Lecturer [11]
- Finance Assistant [10]
- Assistant Finance Business Partner [9]
- Finance Business Partner [5]
- Senior Lecturer - Accounting and Finance [5]
- Senior Lecturer in Psychology [5]
- Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Finance [4]
- Senior Lecturer in Economics [4]
- Associate Professor [3]
- Lecturer in Accounting and Finance [3]
- Post Award Finance Officer [3]
- Senior Lecturer - Economics [3]
- Senior Research Fellow [3]
- Finance Assistant - Income Operations [2]
- Finance Executive [2]
- Finance Systems Administrator [2]
- Research and Partnerships Finance Officer [2]
- Senior Business Intelligence Analyst [2]
- Senior Lecturer - Accounting and Finance - Bristol Business School [2]
- Senior Procurement Category Manager [2]
- Student Data and Systems Officer (Fees and Student Finance) [2]
- Arthritis Research UK : Professor of Rheumatology Nursing [1]
- Assistant Accountant [1]
- Assistant Director Performance and Analytics [1]
- Assistant Director of Financial Operations [1]
- Assistant Finance Business Partner (CATE) [1]
- Assistant Finance Business Partner (SEAC & SHSW) [1]
- Assistant Finance Business Partner - Planning and Reporting [1]
- Associate Director - Accounting and Finance [1]
- Associate Director - Economics [1]
- Associate Director Academic Enhancement - AEF [1]
- Associate Director – Associate Director – Student Academic Journey, Department of Accounting, Economics and Finance [1]
- Associate Lecturer [1]
- Associate Lecturer [1]
- Associate Lecturer in Finance [1]
- Associate Lecturer in Psychology [1]
- Associate Lecturer | Research Associate | PhD Candidate [1]
- Associate Professor (Economics) [1]
- Associate Professor - Project Analytics and Digital Enterprise [1]
- Associate Professor in Building Sustainability [1]
- Associate Professor in Counselling & Community Psychology / Leader of Critical Autoethnography Network [1]
- Associate Professor in Economics [1]
- Associate Professor in Environmental Psychology [1]
- Associate Professor in Financial Technology [1]
- Associate Professor in Public Health Economics [1]
- Associate Professor of Counselling Psychology [1]
- Associate Professor of Data Governance [1]
- Associate Professor of Organised Crime [1]
- Associate Professor of Psychology [1]
- Associate Professor: Health Psychology [1]
- Associate Professor: Transport Planning for Sustainable Places [1]
- BBS Associate Director in Learning and teaching [1]
- Building Manager [1]
- Building Services Engineer (Electrical) [1]
- Business Intelligence Analyst [1]
- Business Intelligence Developer [1]
- Business Systems Analyst [1]
- CAFM Coordinator [1]
- Country Manager - Sri Lanka & Maldives [1]
- Credit Control Administrator : Credit Control [1]
- Deputy Finance Manager [1]
- Director of Finance, Estates and Commercial Services [1]
- Director of Library & Learning Services [1]
- Emeritus Professor in Finance [1]
- Emeritus Professor of Accounting [1]
- Enterprise Architect [1]
- Estates & Facilities Business Analyst [1]
- Executive Head of Projects [1]
- Executive Support Officer [1]
- Finance & Estates System Developer [1]
- Finance Assistant : Income Operations [1]
- Finance Manager [1]
- Finance Operations Team Leader - Credit Control [1]
- Finance Placement [1]
- Financial Operations Team Leader - Accounts Payable & Transaction Team [1]
- Financial Operations Team Leader - Income Operations [1]
- Head of Financial Operations [1]
- Head of School : Applied Sciences [1]
- Head of Systems [1]
- Head of Vice-Chancellor's Office [1]
- Income Operations Team Leader [1]
- Information and Asset Management Officer [1]
- Jonathan Snary [1]
- Lecture [1]
- Lecturer - Accounting and Finance [1]
- Lecturer in Accounting & Finance [1]
- Lecturer in Counselling and Psychotherapy [1]
- Lecturer in Data Science [1]
- Lecturer in Marketing [1]
- Lecturer in Statistics and Data Analytics [1]
- PGR Finance Administrator [1]
- Partnerships Finance Officer [1]
- PhD candidate [1]
- Post Award Finance Manager [1]
- Pre-Award Coordinator - Finance [1]
- Pre-Award and Finance Coordinator [1]
- Pre-award Coordinator Finance [1]
- Pre-award and Finance Co-ordinator [1]
- Pro Vice-Chancellor and Head of the College of Business and law [1]
- Pro-Vice Chancellor and Head of College: Health, Science and Society [1]
- Procurement Assistant [1]
- Procurement Category ＆ Data Officer [1]
- Procurement Director [1]
- Professor [1]
- Professor - Economic and Social Policy [1]
- Professor - Economics [1]
- Professor of Accounting [1]
- Professor of Economics [1]
- Professor of Education Policy in Critical Education [1]
- Professor of Empirical Finance [1]
- Professor of Social Marketing [1]
- Professor of Sustainable Mobility [1]
- Programme Leader MSc HRM and MSc HRM (International) programmes ＆ Senior HRM Lecturer [1]
- Programme Leader MSc Real Estate Finance ＆ Investment [1]
- Programme Leader QSCM ＆ Senior Lecturer : Quantity Surveying [1]
- Programme Leader ＆ Senior Lecturer - Accounting and Finance [1]
- Project Co-Ordinator (PGR Finance) [1]
- Project Support Officer [1]
- Research Associate [1]
- Research Fellow in Sustainable Food Economics and Associate Lecturer in Economics [1]
- Research Finance Officer [1]
- School Manager - School of Engineering [1]
- School Manager - School of Health and Social Wellbeing [1]
- Senior Business Intelligence Developer [1]
- Senior Lecturer (Supply Chain Management / Sustainable and Engineering Management) [1]
- Senior Lecturer - Accounting and Finance (Financial Technology), PhD, SFHEA, Programme Leader for BA (Hons) Business Management and Economics [1]
- Senior Lecturer - FBL [1]
- Senior Lecturer - Finance and Economics - Bristol Business School [1]
- Senior Lecturer - Strategy and Operational Management [1]
- Senior Lecturer - [Urban Economics and Real Estate] [1]
- Senior Lecturer Accounting and Finance [1]
- Senior Lecturer Accounting and Finance - Programme Leader BA (Hons) Accounting and Finance & BA (Hons) Accounting and Business Management [1]
- Senior Lecturer Accounting ＆ Finance [1]
- Senior Lecturer Economics [1]
- Senior Lecturer Project Management [1]
- Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader in Accounting and Finance [1]
- Senior Lecturer in Accounting ＆ Finance [1]
- Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Construction Technology [1]
- Senior Lecturer in Construction Project Management [1]
- Senior Lecturer in Data Science [1]
- Senior Lecturer in Economics and Finance [1]
- Senior Lecturer in Finance [1]
- Senior Lecturer in Fintech [1]
- Senior Lecturer in Innovation and Enterprise [1]
- Senior Lecturer in International Business and Strategy [1]
- Senior Lecturer in Marketing [1]
- Senior Lecturer in Organisation Studies [1]
- Senior Lecturer in Project Management [1]
- Senior Lecturer in Public Health [1]
- Senior Lecturer in Sport ＆ Exercise Psychology [1]
- Senior Lecturer: Economics [1]
- Senior Operations Manager [1]
- Senior Research Fellow [1]
- Senior Research Fellow - Emergency Care [1]
- Senior Research Fellow in Public Involvement [1]
- Senior lectuer in Accounting and Finance [1]
- Student & Programme Support Administrator [1]
- Student Data and Systems Officer (Fees & Student Finance) [1]
- Student Data and Systems Team Leader (Fees and Student Finance) [1]
- Student Money Service Team Manager (Money Advice ＆ Student Engagement) [1]
- Vice-Chancellor's Office Administrator [1]
Area of Expertise
- Business [5]
- Economy [4]
- Social science [4]
- Artificial intelligence [3]
- Sustainability [3]
- Climate change [2]
- Health and social care [2]
- International relations [2]
- Politics [2]
- Research techniques [2]
- Technology [2]
- Appearance and body image [1]
- Computing [1]
- Crime [1]
- Environment [1]
- Food [1]
- Geography [1]
- Law [1]
- Planning [1]
- Young people [1]
Teaching topics
- Management accounting [10]
- Financial Accounting [5]
- Financial Management [5]
- Machine Learning [5]
- Macroeconomics [5]
- Econometrics [4]
- Project Management [4]
- Accounting and Finance [3]
- Applied Microeconomics [3]
- Big Data and Analytics [3]
- Corporate Governance [3]
- Fintech [3]
- Investment Management [3]
- Microeconomics [3]
- Strategy [3]
- Sustainability [3]
- employability [3]
- finance [3]
- Accounting Information Business [2]
- Advanced Corporate Reporting [2]
- Applied Research Methodology [2]
- Audit [2]
- Banking [2]
- Big Data Application for Fintech [2]
- Blockchain [2]
- Business Intelligence [2]
- Business Strategy [2]
- Dissertation supervision (UG/PG) [2]
- Entrepreneurship [2]
- Finance and Economics Principles [2]
- Financial Accounting and Reporting [2]
- Financial Investments in Practice [2]
- Governance and accountability [2]
- Health Psychology [2]
- International Business [2]
- Leadership [2]
- MSc Transport Engineering and Planning [2]
- Statistics and Data Management [2]
- Strategic Project Management [2]
- Strategic management [2]
- corporate finance [2]
- human resource management [2]
- research methods [2]
- Appearance psychology [1]
- Applied Economics [1]
- Applied Statistics [1]
- Artificial Intelligence and Data-Driven Decision-Making in Business [1]
- Asset and Portfolio Management in Global Markets [1]
- Autoethnography [1]
- BA Geography [1]
- BSc Psychology [1]
- BSc Public Health [1]
- Banking and finance [1]
- Branding [1]
- Business Ethics [1]
- Business Law and Practice [1]
- Business Management [1]
- Business Psychology [1]
- Business and sustainability [1]
- CBT theory ＆ skills [1]
- CSR [1]
- Certificate in Counselling Skills [1]
- Children in Society [1]
- Children’s participation [1]
- China [1]
- Civil and commercial litigation [1]
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy [1]
- Commercial Law [1]
- Commercial ＆ Contract Law [1]
- Compassion focussed therapy [1]
- Conservation Biology [1]
- Consumer Behaviour [1]
- Contemporary Issues in Banking and Finance [1]
- Coral Reefs [1]
- Corporate Governance, Banking Law, Insolvency Law, Company Law [1]
- Corporate Reporting [1]
- Corporate Reporting Theory and Practice [1]
- Counselling psychology [1]
- Creative-Relational Inquiry (CRI) [1]
- Credit Risk Analysis and Management [1]
- Credit management: Theory &amp [1]
- Data [1]
- Data Pipelines [1]
- Data Science [1]
- Database Management systems [1]
- Development Appraisal [1]
- Development Economics [1]
- Digital Innovation: PropTech, Blockchain and Smart Markets [1]
- Diploma in Professional Studies - Counselling [1]
- Dissertation Supervision [1]
- Dissertations [1]
- Ecology [1]
- Economic Principles [1]
- Economics of International Financial Markets [1]
- Economics of Labour and Migration [1]
- Employability and Enterprise [1]
- Employment Law and Practice. Professional legal skills and training. [1]
- Enterprise ＆ Entrepreneurship [1]
- Entrepreneur [1]
- Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Theory [1]
- Entrepreneurial Decision Making [1]
- Entrepreneurship and Small Business [1]
- Environment and Cities. [1]
- Environment and Sustainability [1]
- Environmental Psychology [1]
- Erasmus Mundus - Economic Policies in the Age of Globalisation (I was the EPOG programme coordinator for the University of the Witwatersrand between 2013-2016) [1]
- Finance and Banking [1]
- Financial Accounting &amp [1]
- Financial Accounting and Reporting. [1]
- Financial Context and Contemporary Issues [1]
- Financial Decision Making [1]
- Financial Econometrics [1]
- Financial Information [1]
- Financial Statement Analysis [1]
- Financial Technology [1]
- Food Systems [1]
- Forensic Accounting [1]
- Foundations of Financial accounting [1]
- Fundamentals of Accounting and Finance [1]
- Fundamentals of Accounting and Finance (Finance) [1]
- Global Banking and Financial Crime (Masters level) [1]
- Global Public Health [1]
- Happiness Economics [1]
- Health Economics [1]
- Health Promotion/Behaviour Change [1]
- Health Protection [1]
- Healthy Universities [1]
- History of Economic Thought. [1]
- Human Resource Development [1]
- I am currently teaching on the following modules: Management Accounting and Decision Making and Strategic Management Accounting. [1]
- Identifying and working with autistic girls & women [1]
- Industrial and trade policy [1]
- Industry Practice [1]
- Innovation Management [1]
- Innovation and Enterprise [1]
- Insurance Business Environment [1]
- International Business Strategy and Economic Relations [1]
- International Financial Management [1]
- International Financial Reporting Standards [1]
- International Project Management [1]
- International Trade and Multinational Business [1]
- Investment Banking [1]
- Labour Economics [1]
- Leadership of Change [1]
- Library and information management [1]
- Logistics and Supply Chain Management. [1]
- MSc Public Health [1]
- Managing Finance (MSC Programme) [1]
- Marine Ecology [1]
- Marine Pollution [1]
- Market Analysis [1]
- Marketing Communications [1]
- Marketing Strategy [1]
- Mathematics for Economists [1]
- Mental Health [1]
- Microeconomics of industrialisation and trade [1]
- Model Building in Economics [1]
- Money and Banking [1]
- My teaching centres around real estate finance [1]
- NautralCapital [1]
- Organisational Leadership and Management Studies [1]
- PGDip / MSc Cognitive Behavioural Therapy [1]
- Performance Measurement and Management [1]
- Policy and politics in health [1]
- Political Economy [1]
- Post-qualitative inquiry [1]
- Practice [1]
- Privatisation [1]
- Problem Solving in Law and Criminology (Joint Honours) [1]
- Process Management [1]
- Professional Development [1]
- Professional Doctorate in Counselling Psychology [1]
- Project Analytics [1]
- Project Management and Operations Management [1]
- Project and Research Methods [1]
- Psychological interventions [1]
- Psychotherapy [1]
- Public Relations [1]
- Python [1]
- Qualitative Health Research [1]
- Qualitative methods [1]
- Quantitative Health Research Methods [1]
- Quantitative Research Methods [1]
- Real Estate Economics, Investment and Valuation [1]
- Realist Evaluation [1]
- Reporting [1]
- Research [1]
- Research Design and Analysis [1]
- Research Methods and Corporate governance [1]
- Research methods [1]
- Risk Management [1]
- Service management [1]
- Social Cognition [1]
- Social determinants of health [1]
- Software Engineering [1]
- Statistical Physics [1]
- Strategic Decision-making [1]
- Strategic ＆ Operational Management [1]
- Sustainability, ESG and Green Real Estate [1]
- Sustainable Development [1]
Research interests
- Banking [5]
- Behavioural Finance [4]
- Corporate Governance [4]
- Sustainability [4]
- Transport and Society [4]
- Banking and Finance [3]
- Corporate Finance [3]
- Cryptocurrencies [3]
- Ethics [3]
- Finance [3]
- Fintech [3]
- International Trade and Finance [3]
- International financial reporting [3]
- Macroeconomics [3]
- Accounting [2]
- Asset Pricing [2]
- Autoethnography [2]
- Banking Regulation [2]
- Behavioural Science [2]
- Behavorial Economics [2]
- Big Data Analytics [2]
- China [2]
- Corruption [2]
- Derivatives [2]
- Development Economics [2]
- Ecological Economics [2]
- Employability [2]
- Entrepreneurship [2]
- Financial Markets [2]
- Governance and accountability [2]
- Health and Wellbeing [2]
- Islamic finance [2]
- Labour economics [2]
- Machine Learning [2]
- Money [2]
- Psychology [2]
- Renewable and Sustainable Energy [2]
- Research Methodology [2]
- Social Capital [2]
- Stock market [2]
- Sustainable Transport [2]
- Teaching and Learning [2]
- Travel Behaviour Change [2]
- behaviour change [2]
- blockchain [2]
- charity funding [2]
- climate change [2]
- corporate finance and financial markets [2]
- financial reporting and corporate disclosures [2]
- financial statement analysis [2]
- health [2]
- health psychology [2]
- leadership [2]
- realist evaluation [2]
- risk management [2]
- - Practice-led research methodologies [1]
- AI Ethical Decision Making [1]
- AI-enhanced education [1]
- Access to Finance in Conflict Zones [1]
- Accountancy [1]
- Accounting education [1]
- Active Learning [1]
- Actor behaviour in commercial real estate markets [1]
- Agent-based Modelling [1]
- Agglomeration Economies [1]
- Agile [1]
- Air Travel Industry [1]
- Alternative Banking and Finance Architectures [1]
- Animal Behaviour [1]
- Animal Communication [1]
- Applied Machine Learning [1]
- Artificial Intelligence [1]
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) [1]
- Artificial Intelligence in Investment and Valuation [1]
- Asset Management and Portfolio Optimisation [1]
- Awarding gap. Flipped learning [1]
- BIM ＆ the future role of the QS [1]
- Bank failure [1]
- Banking and the new history of capitalism [1]
- Banking theory [1]
- Bankruptcy Modelling [1]
- Behavioural Ecology [1]
- Brand Management [1]
- Brexit [1]
- Building Energy Modelling [1]
- Building Information Modelling [1]
- Built and Natural Environment [1]
- Business Ethics [1]
- Business Process Improvement [1]
- COSO Framwork [1]
- Career development [1]
- Change Management [1]
- Circular Economy [1]
- Climate Change [1]
- Climate Data Analysis [1]
- Climate Finance [1]
- Climate Risk [1]
- Climate change adaptation strategies [1]
- Clinical Legal Education [1]
- Clusters [1]
- Community Psychology [1]
- Company Law [1]
- Complex Networks [1]
- Complex Systems [1]
- Complexity Economics [1]
- Computational Modelling in Finance and Engineering [1]
- Conceptualisation of Organized Crime and its Control [1]
- Construction project managers' competency [1]
- Consumer Behaviour [1]
- Contagion [1]
- Contagion in Stock Market [1]
- Corporate Social Responsibility [1]
- Counselling Psychology [1]
- Counselling and Psychotherapy [1]
- Covid-19 [1]
- Critical Psychology [1]
- Cryptoassets [1]
- Cryptocurrencies, Blockchain Technology and Forensic Accounting [1]
- Culture [1]
- Data Science [1]
- Dearlove, A., Haines, A. and Williams, C. (2024). An Equal Partnership? Considering the Welfare of Equines in Equine Assisted Services (AES). Proceedings: Horses in Education and Therapy International Congress. Budapest, Hungary. [1]
- Deep Learning [1]
- Developing a strategic business analysis for Filming and Media Rates for CSBT. [1]
- Digital Marketing [1]
- Digital governance [1]
- Disclosure Studies [1]
- EDRU [1]
- ESG Integration in Real Estate Portfolios [1]
- ESG Investing [1]
- Eating disorders [1]
- Economic and Social Research Council (Research Methods Programme). Principal applicant. (Co-applicants: B Dicks [1]
- Economics of education [1]
- Economics of ethnicity and citizenship [1]
- Economics of transition and development [1]
- Emerging Countries [1]
- Emerging Markets [1]
- Emotion [1]
- Employment Law [1]
- Energy efficiency in construction [1]
- Energy in Buildings [1]
- Entrepreneurship Finance [1]
- Environmental Psychology [1]
- European spatial and territorial development [1]
- Experimental Psychology [1]
- Fairness [1]
- Fatigue [1]
- Finance in Sport [1]
- Finance. [1]
- Financial Crime [1]
- Financial Crisis [1]
- Financial Frictions [1]
- Financial Inclusion [1]
- Financial Reporting [1]
- Financial Secrecy Jurisdictions [1]
- Financial instability [1]
- Financial markets/Financial technology/Corporate Social Responsibility [1]
- Financialisation [1]
- First language acquisition [1]
- Five Safes [1]
- Flipped Classroom [1]
- Foreign direct investment in China [1]
- Fund Management and Performance [1]
- Future and emergent technologies with application to Construction [1]
- Gender and cultural differences in diagnosis and treatment of mental health issues [1]
- Genetic survey techniques [1]
- Global Public Health [1]
- Graduate recruitment and development [1]
- Graph Theory [1]
- Green Supply Chain [1]
- Habitat restoration [1]
- Happiness [1]
- Happiness Economics and Well-Being [1]
- Health decisions in urban real estate development and investment [1]
- Health economics [1]
- Health inequalities [1]
- Health protection [1]
- Healthy Universities [1]
- Hedge funds [1]
- History of Economic Thought [1]
- History of Economics [1]
- History of central banking [1]
- History of modern finance [1]
- History of money and banking [1]
- Human Rights and Taxation [1]
- INSERT study [1]
- IPA [1]
- Identifying and working with autistic girls &amp [1]
- Indoctrination and operant behavioural conditioning [1]
- Industrialisation [1]
- Industry 4.0 [1]
- Inequality [1]
- Inflation accounting [1]
- Information Management [1]
- Innovation Management [1]
- Insolvency Law [1]
- Institutional Economics [1]
- Interconnectedness in StockMarket [1]
- International Business [1]
- International Business and Global Investment Strategies [1]
- International economics [1]

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