Ethics and Risk in Finance
The Research group in Ethics and Risk in Finance provides a forum for colleagues to present research ideas and concepts and provide support and development opportunities for new researchers. The research group also seeks to facilitate the identification and progression of collaborative research and knowledge exchange projects. Improving the support for and recruitment of doctoral students is an important role of the group in fostering an active research culture, investing in supervisory capacity and nurturing skills and knowledge in research supervision. Externally we seek to develop links with other institutions: academic, government and commercial. We will also provide a focus for knowledge exchange activity. This is achieved by promoting the value of research undertaken within the research group and facilitating collaborative responses to knowledge dock proposals. We welcome membership applications from external institutions and individuals.
Research on ethics within thegroup comprises work on Islamic Banking, Ethical Investment and Corporate Social Responsibility and Reporting. Work has resulted in the publication of numerous peer reviewed journal articles including the Journal of Business Ethics and the Journal of Islamic Economics. Research on risk includes examination of futures markets and financial crises with refereed articles in The European Journal of Finance and Economics Letters amongst others. Related work is continuing in behavioural finance and industrial structures in finance, including banking and fund management. Presentations have been made at national and international academic conferences and to commercial and government organisations. The group is home to a number of research students and to an academic team working on a project examining markets for agricultural commodities and their associated derivatives markets.
Members of the research group have considerable experience and skills in Accounting, Finance, Economics and Econometrics. A number of colleagues have professional accounting qualifications. Members have experience of working in commercial or government organisations including The Financial Services Authority and the Treasury. Presentations, consultancy and advice have been provided to financial firms, the IMF, World Bank, central banks and regulatory organisations. Members of our research group are currently:
Kevin Allison
Tariq Bashir
Dr Derick Boyd
Dr Omar Masood
Dr John Mwita
Dr Hosein Piranfar
Dr Mark Rhodes
