AEF PhD scholarships 2015
The Department of Accountancy, Economics and Finance (AEF) PhD programme is highly successful and respected both nationally and internationally. Recent graduates, who benefit from the extensive research contacts of staff across the world, have gained employment in a range of academic positions.
The Department incorporates four research centres:
The Department is now offering eight PhD scholarships, across a range of subject areas, to start in the academic year 2015-16.
The term of the scholarships is three years. Successful candidates will be expected to make a contribution to activities in the Department in return for a fee-waiver, a maintenance allowance of £13,863 per annum and a research support allowance of £2,250 over the registered period of study.
Below, by subject area, is a list of potential supervisors with the general areas in which they are willing to supervise PhDs, plus, in some cases, (i) the more specific issues/questions they are willing to supervise within those areas, and/or (ii) one or more particular projects on which they would be willing to supervise PhDs.
Details of how to apply and the deadline can be found at the foot of the page.
Accountancy
| Supervisor | Areas of interest / Projects |
|---|---|
| Dr Santhosh Abraham | My research focuses on corporate risk disclosure practices and investor relations. One strand examines the use and usefulness of risk information disclosed by public listed companies in the UK and in emerging markets. A second strand examines the role of meetings between senior company management of FTSE listed firms and sell-side analysts as a mechanism for information transfer and accountability. Much of my current work involves interview surveys with investment analysts and senior management of FTSE 100 firms. |
| Professor Roszaini Haniffa | My key research interests include corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, corporate disclosure practices, international accounting, business ethics, auditing, and micro-financing. |
| Dr Bill Jackson | I am interested in supervising topics that uses a historical methodology to research the history of accounting. In particular: the history of accounting in the public sector; accounting and health care; accounting and the drinks industry; the history of accounting and popular culture; gender issues as they relate to the accountancy profession. |
| Professor Rania Kamla | I am interested in critical and qualitative research in social accounting; Islamic accounting and international accounting. I also have an interest in issues related to the accounting profession (especially in the Middle East); gender and accounting; culture, multiculturalism and the professional socialisation and training of accountants. |
| Dr David Leung | I'm interested in interdisciplinary research in accounting particularly the interface between accounting and science and technology studies, sociology and philosophy. Specific topics of interest include the problem of rule following, earnings management, governance, accounting education, accounting profession and popular culture. |
| Professor Nick Paisey | Qualitative research into issues relating to accounting education and the accountancy profession. i) qualitative projects examining issues within continuing professional development (CPD) of accountants or professional accountancy accreditation. |
| Dr Audrey Paterson | I am interested in supervising qualitative PhD projects that examine accounting and financial management issues within public sector organisations. I have a specific interest in healthcare management/accounting research and the effectiveness of accounting and management practice on healthcare delivery. This interest can be broadly interpreted and can have an interdisciplinary orientation. ii) History of accounting as it interfaces with medical practice; gender issues in the accountancy profession; social accounting; any of the above from an international perspective. |
| Dr Chris Pong | I am interested in supervising PhD students looking to research the areas of audit pricing, audit firm and partner rotation, audit quality and also carry out quantitative empirical work using large datasets and econometric modelling. Prospective PhD students should look at articles published in these areas in journals such as The Accounting Review, The European Accounting Review, The Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, The Journal of Accounting & Economics and The Auditing Journal: Practice and Theory. |
| Professor Ian Thomson | My research interests include explorations of the effectiveness of sustainability accounting and accountability practices in transforming organisation and institution practices. This interest can be broadly interpreted and past studies have included interdisciplinary studies on implementation of cleaner technology, establishing industrial ecologies, effective stakeholder engagement, risk governance in water and salmon farming, sustainable development indicators, government policy making, accounting by social activists and carbon accountability. |
| Dr Akira Yonekura | I am interested in financial accounting in general; international accounting standards; and corporate governance. |
Economics
| Supervisor | Areas of interest / Projects |
|---|---|
| Professor Arnab Bhattacharjee | Spatial economics and/or econometrics; economics/econometrics of networks; urban and housing economics; regional economics. i) (a) growth and convergence; (b) spatial and sectoral disaggregation and inequality; (c) spatial structure of health and healthcare; (d) urban structure and its endogenous evolution; (e) monetary policy committees, particularly the Federal Open Markets Committee |
| Dr Prabir Bhattacharya | Development economics. i) interface between development and gender; issues of fertility, child mortality and demographic outcomes |
| Professor Joe Byrne | Commodity Prices; Yield Curves; and Exchange Rates |
| Dr Atanas Christev | Macroeconomics, statistical learning, applied econometrics and labour economics. |
| Professor David Cobham | Macro and monetary economics. i) macro/monetary policy frameworks and the economic performance associated with them in high-income, emerging market and developing countries; monetary policy and the Eurozone crisis; monetary policy and asset prices |
| Dr Philippe LeMay-Boucher | Development Economics; applied micro-econometrics; public economics |
| Dr Robert Mochrie | Microeconomic theory and applications, especially in the areas of behaviour, religion and culture Scottish economic history 1750 - 1900 History of economic thought (before 1900). |
| Dr Catherine Porter | Development economics |
| Professor Mark Schaffer | Econometrics and applied econometrics; applied microeconomics and microeconometrics; industrial organisation and firm behaviour, labour economics, energy economics, quantitative criminology, economic history. |
Finance
| Supervisor | Areas of interest / Projects |
|---|---|
| Prof Mustafa Caglayan | (i) (a) financial market frictions and firm behaviour (capital investment, R&D investment, cash holdings, inventories); (b) financial markets, bank loans, financial market volatility and transmission of monetary policy; (c) exchange rates and international trade; (d) corruption |
| Dr Boulis Ibrahim | Portfolio theory; asset pricing theory; asset-liability modeling; microstructure of financial markets; carbon emission trading; information transfer; return predictability; market integration; trading strategies; capital structure; liquidity and co-liquidity; volatility modeling; time series econometric analysis. i) (a) the relationship between microstructure pricing models and volatility; (b) effects of the crisis on finance theory, empirical models and investor perceptions; (c) high frequency trading strategies (in the carbon market or other financial markets). ii) (a) the incremental profitability of high frequency trading strategies in the carbon market; (b) can microstructure models help predict hotspots? (c) can game theory help explain excess volatility? (d) the effects of earnings management and risk on the cost of capital |
| Dr Eddie Jones | All areas of corporate finance and corporate governance including in particular mergers and acquisitions; agency costs; executive compensation; investor protection; investment decision-making; corporate growth opportunities; cost of capital; competition policy; credit ratings; investment trusts; international corporate governance; financial crises; bank performance; and event study methodology |
| Dr Hao Li | Corporate governance; executive compensation; board director’s network; board director’s attribution e.g. (1) the effects of different pay components of directors on firm performance, risk-taking and financial policy in developed and emerging markets;(2) the effect of board director’s network on the firm’s cost of equity and borrowing; (3) the effect of director’s past career path (marketing or financing) on a firm’s risk-taking decision |
| Dr Mo Sherif | I am interested in supervising PhDs in the areas of: IPO valuation and market performance; stock valuation and return predictability; causes and interaction of the momentum and stock returns. The behaviour of financial investors - how psychological factors affect investor behaviour and stock markets, including the rationality of motives to trade, investor herding, and investor sentiment; financial asset allocation decisions, including retirement saving and annuity decisions; Entrepreneurial Finance and Private Equity |
| Dr Bing Xu | (a) modelling the impact of energy price shocks on the economic activities; (b) building forecasting models for oil prices/volatilities; (c) bankruptcy prediction; (d) bank lending behaviour; (e) design multidimensional frameworks for performance evaluation of entities such as competing forecasting models, firms, industries, and energy strategies; (f) development of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Multi-criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) methodology, as well as novel applications of DEA and MCDA |
How to Apply
Please submit your application via the University's online application portalhttp://www.hw.ac.uk/student-life/how-to-apply/postgraduate.htm
Under Application Type please select Research PG from the options. In the section 'Planned Programme of Study' please select either 'Accountancy & Finance PhD' or 'Economics PhD' from the options. Once you have completed your application, ensure that you click "Application is Complete" on the Checklist. If you have any problems with the online application process please email your query to pgadmissions@hw.ac.uk
Please state clearly on your application that you are applying for a PhD scholarship.
In order that your application can be processed, please ensure that all the supporting documents listed below are submitted with your application:
1. RESEARCH PROPOSAL (approximately 5 – 8 pages)
The research proposal should contain as much as possible of the following: an introduction or outline of the proposed topic; a statement of objectives and/or specific research questions; a summary of some of the relevant literature which supports the research objective(s); an indication of the intended research methodology; an indication of the theoretical structure and/or conceptual outline; a provisional timetable of the major phases of the research process; results expected from the research e.g. practical value of the research or possible contributions to knowledge or policy or methodology. At this stage we are not looking for a definitive document but merely an indication that you have thought through most of the above issues.
The research proposal should contain as much as possible of the following: an introduction or outline of the proposed topic; a statement of objectives and/or specific research questions; a summary of some of the relevant literature which supports the research objective(s); an indication of the intended research methodology; an indication of the theoretical structure and/or conceptual outline; a provisional timetable of the major phases of the research process; results expected from the research e.g. practical value of the research or possible contributions to knowledge or policy or methodology. At this stage we are not looking for a definitive document but merely an indication that you have thought through most of the above issues.
Please note that work submitted may be subject to screening via plagiarism software.
2. ACADEMIC TRANSCRIPTS & DEGREE CERTIFICATES
Copies of full academic transcripts from all previous academic degree courses and copies of degree certificates for degrees already awarded. If you are currently pursuing a degree course please provide all available marks to date.
Copies of full academic transcripts from all previous academic degree courses and copies of degree certificates for degrees already awarded. If you are currently pursuing a degree course please provide all available marks to date.
3. ENGLISH LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS
If you have not already studied a degree programme that was taught and examined in the medium of English we require evidence of language proficiency. For IELTS: the minimum overall IELTS score is 6.5 with no score lower than 6.0 in Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening.
If you have not already studied a degree programme that was taught and examined in the medium of English we require evidence of language proficiency. For IELTS: the minimum overall IELTS score is 6.5 with no score lower than 6.0 in Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening.
Further information can be found at https://www.gov.uk/tier-4-general-visa/knowledge-of-english
4. REFERENCES
If you have references available these should be submitted with your application. If they are not currently available please ensure that you provide the names and contact details, including email addresses, of two academic referees on the application form.
If you have references available these should be submitted with your application. If they are not currently available please ensure that you provide the names and contact details, including email addresses, of two academic referees on the application form.
Candidates may also submit a Curriculum Vitae.
Deadline
Monday 4th May 2015
Further Information
Please contact Caroline Murray: c.a.murray@hw.ac.uk if you require further information.
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