Accounting

Sally's main area of expertise is financial accounting. She also has a teaching interest in management accounting and accounting research supervision. Sally's research interests are Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) practices, earnings quality, CSR, institutional factors, and ethics.

Bibek's research areas include the capital structure of firms, cost of borrowing, firm-adaptation during Covid-19, and textual analyses.

Supun's research interests include investigating behavioural issues in corporate governance and finance. She also studies accounting history and accountability issues in not-for-profit organisations. Supun teaches management accounting and issues in not-for-profit and public sector accounting at undergraduate level, and ethics and governance at postgraduate level.

Brenda is a qualified accountant with extensive experience working with the Big Four professional services firms. She has a keen interest in modern technologies and how they can be applied to businesses.

Ciaran's research focuses on financial and performance measurement aspects of the not-for-profit and public sectors, including charity accountability, public-private partnerships and public sector accounting and reporting. His teaching interests are in the areas of financial accounting and reporting, and he has published a range of related textbooks and pedagogical articles.

Mohamed conducts market-based accounting research into areas such as corporate governance, corporate disclosures, external auditing, internal controls, textual analysis, and corporate failure. He teaches accounting information systems at undergraduate level, and research methods and techniques at postgraduate level.

Xinwu's research interests are sustainability reporting, assurance and accountability, corporate social responsibility, and sustainable development goals (SDGs) disclosures. She teaches sustainability accounting, reporting and accountability at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Enayet works on core accounting issues related to international accounting standards, corporate governance and textual analysis. He is interested in the impact of the accounting standards on value creation and how their implementations in practice is influenced by stakeholders. Enayet's teaching focuses on international fnancial acounting and corporate reporting. Currently, Enayet teaches introductory financial accounting at undergraduate level, and international financial accounting and reporting at postgraduate level.

Yun’s research interests are primarily in the field of accounting and governance, especially on topics concerning corporate governance and financial reporting. She is also interested in accountability, ethics and sustainability research, where she works on CSR, ESG, sustainable accounting, and accountability in Artificial Intelligence. Finally, Yun has a research agenda in the field of corporate finance. Yun’s teaching interests cut across accounting, finance and governance.

Lane's research interests cover a range of topics, including organisational ambidexterity, exploration and exploitation disclosures, digital transformation disclosure, ESG disclosures, carbon emissions and GHG disclosure, gender diversity, information asymmetry, cost of capital, and firm valuation. She teaches accounting in an international environment at postgraduate level.

Laura is a researcher in the social and environmental accounting field. Her research interests are poverty and inequality, sustainable development and SDGs, accounting for SDGs, and sustainability reporting. She teaches management accounting.

Danielle McConville is a Professor of Accounting Education, Chartered Accountant (CAI) and Head of Department for Accounting at QBS. Danielle's research interests are in accounting education, the impact of contemporary technologies on the accounting profession and education, and not-for-profit reporting and regulation, and accounting technologies and education. Danielle teaches Accounting Information Systems, Contemporary Technologies in Accounting and Management Accounting, plus Executive Education for QUB’s Clinton Leadership Institute and for CAI’s professional accounting qualifications.

Martin’s research focuses on organisational and accounting change, including accounting information systems change. He is also interested in accounting history and accounting in family business. From a theoretical perspective, he draws mainly on institutional theory, organisational routines and change frameworks.

Claire is a Chartered Accountant and a Chartered Tax Adviser. Her areas of expertise include UK, Irish and cross border taxation. She is involved in education delivery at the advanced levels of Chartered Accountants Ireland's (CAI) professional accounting qualification. Claire is a member of CAI's Northern Ireland Tax Committee and the Tax Committee South. 

Elaine's research explores central government financial reporting reform to better understand its uses and limitations. Her research also addresses issues in climate and sustainability reporting for the public sector. Elaine teaches management accounting at undergraduate level, and public sector accounting at postgraduate level.