- Leadership Team
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Name Role School Executive Professor Haina Zhang Dean and Head of School Professor W David McCausland Director of Education Professor Keith Bender Director of Research Professor Stephanie Morgan Director of Enhancements & Reputation Professor Norman Hutchison Director of External Engagement & Head of Real Estate Dr King Omeihe Head of Business Management Professor John Skåtun Head of Economics Adam Smith Director of Resources Dr Bill Jackson Head of Accountancy Professor Gerhard Kling Head of Finance Dr Peter Morgan Director of Internationalisation Fiona Ritchie School Administrative Manager Mrs Kirsteen Watt Accreditation and Projects Manager Professor Angela Black Director of Staffing Arlene Livingstone PA to Dean and Head of School School Wide Roles Director of Postgraduate Research Dr Karen Bilsland Knowledge Transfer Lead Dr Thereza Deaguiar Ethics Officer Billy Cooper Senior Personal Tutor Lindsay Tibbetts Chair of Student Experience Dr Naser Makarem Partnership Programme Lead Dr John Lamb Academic Integrity Chair Dr Cheryl Dowie & Mark Whittington Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Committee Co-Lead Dr Scott Allan Director of Online Dr Laura McCann Chief Exams Officer Dr Martin Wersing Chief Exams Officer Research Centre Directors Professor Zaheer Kahn Africa Asia Centre for Sustainability Research Professor Jie Wu Africa Asia Centre for Sustainability Research Dr Huda Khan Africa Asia Centre for Sustainability Research Professor Bryan MacGregor Centre for Real Estate Research Professor Alex Kemp Aberdeen Centre for Research in Energy Economica and Finance Professor Ioannis Theodossiou Centre for European Labour Market Research Dr Mauro Papi Co-Director of Scottish Economics Laboratory - Administration Team
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Business School Office Fiona Ritchie School Administrative Manager General School Support Julia Braik School Administrator and Deputy SAM (workload planning, bought-in tutors, travel and budget support) Louise McKeznie Senior School Administrator (from Jan 2022) Laura Kruitbos School Support Coordinator (purchasing, operational support, bought in tutors) (0.8 FTE) Ashley Lim School Support Assistant (Travel, purchasing and operational support) Alene Livingstone PA to Dean and Head of School Fumiko Nakamaru Editorial Assistant for the Scottish Journal of Political Economy and PA to Professor Kemp Academic Support Team Gordon Rosie School Support Assistant for Business Management programmes Claire Mcarthur School Support Assistant for International Business Undergraduate programmes Vacancy School Support Assistant for Economics UG and PEEF Postgraduate Taught Courses Emma Richards (maternity cover) Student Progression Coordinator (Student Achievement, Student Monitoring, Pastoral Support and Personal Tutor support). jaye-businessschool@abdn.ac.uk Paulina Kajda School Support Coordinator (Teaching Administration for UG - including Qatar, UG Examinations and Timetabling, UG Academic Integrity and Appeals). Cherie Connon School Support Coordinator (On-line, off-campus, Qatar PGT) Julie Davidson School Support Assistant for Accountancy, Finance and Real Estate Undergraduate programmes Graeme McDonald School Support Coordinator (Teaching Administration for block-taught PGT, block-taught PGT Examinations and Timetabling, block-taught PGT Academic Integrity and Appeals) Morag Mitchell School Administration Assistant Sasha Fraser School Support Assistant for Block-Taught Postgraduate Taught Courses Anna Gaw School Support Assistant for Block-Taught Postgraduate Taught Courses Carolyn Johnston School Support Assistant for PGT Finance and Investment Management (FIM), Petroleum, Energy Economics and Finance (PEEF) and Financial Technology (Fintech) Morag Mitchell School Support Assistant for Accountancy and Finance Postgraduate Taught Courses Ruth Tweedie School Support Assistant for Real Estate PGT programmes
Split Role – based in Partnerships and Research Support TeamDiane Hewitt School Support Coordinator (Teaching Administration for standard-delivery PGT, standard-delivery PGT Examinations and Timetabling, standard delivery PGT Academic Integrity and Appeals) Ashley Whyte General Support (Intern) accfin@abdn.ac.uk Accounting and Finance queries econ@abdn.ac.uk Economics queries bus-management@abdn.ac.uk Business Management and IB queries realestate@abdn.ac.uk Real estate queries study@abdn.ac.uk UG Admissions - Student Recruitment and Admissions External Engagement and Accreditation Kirsteen Watt Accreditation and Projects Manager Julie Adamson School Administrator (Quality Assurance) Mrs Pamela Cumming Schools Engagement Officer Samantha Begg Business Engagement Adviser Stephanie Marajh Senior School Administrator (Accreditation) businessschool@abdn.ac.uk External Engagement enquiries bs-accreditation@abdn.ac.uk Accreditation enquiries Partnerships, PGT Admissions and Research Support Team Clare Fletcher School Partnerships and Curriculum Development Officer (including conversion management) Jeanette Higginson School Admissions Administrator (PGT applications processing and enquiries) Abigail Murray (maternity leave)
School Administration Assistant (PGT applications processing) Ruth Tweedie School Administration Assistant (PGT applications processing and enquiries)
Split Role – based in Partnerships and Research Support TeamNick Hindley School Support Coordinator (Research and REF support) Nathalie Kemp School Administration Coordinator (PGR applications and enquiries) gbs@abdn.ac.uk PGT Admissions - Business School pgrbus@abdn.ac.uk PhD Admissions - Business School Marketing Ray Addison Marketing Manager Lucy Holmes School Marketing Officer Lewis Robinson Digital Marketing Officer - Programme Directors
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Undergraduate Programme Directors Andrew Mulhern MA Accountancy and Study Group Dr Laura McCann MA Finance Dr Nan Liu MA Real Estate MA Economics Dr Mauro Papi MA Financial Economics Professor J Ignacio Canales MA / MBus International Business Dr Tim Stone MA Business Management Postgraduate Programme Directors Dr Yakubu Abdul-Salam MSc/LLM Energy Economics and Law Dr Nikos Vlassis MScEcon Petroleum, Energy Economics and Finance MSc Energy Economics and Finance (Online) Dr Naser Makarem MScEcon Accounting and Finance Dr Fotios Papadimitriou MScEcon Finance and Investment Management Fiona Stoddard MSc Finance and Real Estate Dr Chunxia Jiang MSc International Business and Finance Russell Williams MSc, PgDip or PgCert Digital Marketing Leadership John Storm MBA Executive MBA (London, UK) MSc Marketing Management Professor Pervaiz Akhtar MBA MBA (Global) (Online) Professor Pervaiz Akhtar MBA Business Analytics
Dr Jing Cai MSc International Business Management Professor Pervaiz Akhtar MBA Energy Management Dr Shainaz Firfiray MSc International Human Resource Management John Storm Executive MBA (Shanghai, China) Dr Fiona Stoddard MSc Real Estate Dr Seungho Lee MSc Finance (Online) Dr Daniel Gyimah MSc Corporate Finance and Law Dr Jiafu An MSc Financia Technology Dr Yuan Zhao MSc International Finance and Political Relations Dr Huda Khan MSC Marketing Management Postgraduate Research Directors Accountancy Finance Dr Rainer Schulz Real Estate Professor Ioannis Theodossiou Economics Business and Management - Accounting
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Name Role Interests Accountancy Dr Thereza Sales de Aguair Senior Lecturer Corporate social responsibility, climate change, gender, accounting education and MNCs.
Mr Alex Arthur
Senior Lecturer (Temporary, Part-Time) Accountancy Senior Lecturer Corporate social responsibility, Climate change accounting, employee related disclosures, Gender in accounting.
Professor Azizul Islam Personal Chair and Subject Research Lead Sustainability accounting, Human rights & modern slavery related accountability and transparency, SDGs & social audits, corporate anti-bribery measures. Dr Bill Jackson Head of Discipline Accounting history, Healthcare accounting, Public and third sector accounting, Management control, Gender and the Accounting profession. Dr Naser Makarem Lecturer Financial reporting, earnings management, audit quality, real activities manipulation. Mr Andrew Mulhern Lecturer (Scholarship) Accountancy education; philosophical issues in accounting; financial statement analysis; double-entry bookkeeping; and music and creative sector. Dr Mohamed Osman Lecturer Accountancy history, sustainable development reporting in emerging countries, accounting education. Dr Audrey Paterson Reader
Healthcare accounting, anti-fraud and corruption, public and third sector accounting, Gender in the accounting profession, Accounting history.
Professor Alan Sangster Personal Chair Accounting history, the theory, practice and teaching of double entry bookkeeping, accounting education, accounting systems, accounting theory.
Dr Sarah Smith Lecturer (Scholarship) Financial accounting & reporting; Corporate communication including voluntary disclosure and impression management; Leasing; Academic faculty issues and Accounting education. Ms Lindsay Tibbetts Senior Lecturer (Scholarship) Auditing, Feedback and Assessment, Employability, Professional Education in an academic environment.
Senior Lecturer Strategic management accounting, accounting education, international accounting, reporting and financial statement analysis.
Theme: Finance and Governance
- Economics
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Name Role Interests Economics Dr Nicole Andelic Research Fellow Labour Economics, Health Economics
Lecturer Health economics
Dr Yakubu Abdul-Salam Lecturer Energy and environmental economics
Reader Economics of education, employment contracts, regional inequality
Lecturer Trust and reputation
SIRE Chair in Economics (on sabattical) Labour Economics, Economics of Ageing, Subjective Well-being, Health Economics
Chair in Economics and Finance (part-time) Innovation and enterprise, investments, income risk
Research Fellow Energy and climate change adaptation and mitigation economics
Professor of Petroleum Economics North Sea economics, international petroleum economics
Director: Aberdeen Centre for Research in Energy Economics and FinanceLecturer
Energy and environmental economics, public economics
Professor W David McCausland Personal Chair macroeconomics, labour economics
Lecturer Economics
Jaffrey Chair in Economics and Subject Research Lead
International trade theory; firms in the global economy; labour markets, trade, FDI; globalisation and labour markets; welfare state policies
Teaching Fellow Search and matching frictions, labour markets and policies, macroeconomic dynamics
Senior Lecturer Economic theory, experiments, and bounded rationality
Chair in Economics
Economics of spatial labour markets
Lecturer
Labour Economics, International Labour Migration, Gender Pay Gap, Minimum Wages and Trade Wars
Lecturer
Economics of spatial labour markets
Lecturer Economics
Head of Discipline Labour economics, labour market contracting, trades unions
Chair in Economics
Wage determination, unemployment, macroeconomics
Lecturer Energy and environmental economics
Professor of Environmental & Resource Economics. Environmental and Resource Economics
Personal Chair Labour economics
Supervision Contacts Professor Ioannis Theodossiou Supervisor Economics - Finance
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Name Role Interests Finance Dr Abraham Adu Lecturer in Finance (Scholarship) Finance
Chair in Finance Asset pricing, household finance, corporate finance
Dr Filipa Da Silva Fernandes Lecturer Corporate finance, financial economics, banking
Dr Daniel Gyimah Lecturer in Finance Finance
Dr Chunxia Jiang Senior Lecturer in Finance Finance
Head of Discipline Finance
Dr Yaodong Liu
Lecturer in Finance Finance
Dr Seungho Lee Lecturer in Finance Finance
Lecturer Corporate finance, debt source, relationship banking
Subject Research Lead Finance
Chair in Accountancy House prices, disposable income, and permanent and temporary shocks and more
Chair in Economics and Finance Economics, innovation and entrepreneurs, income and risk and more
Dr Huong Vu Lecturer Corporate finance, quantitative finance Dr Yuan Zhao Lecturer Asset pricing theories, fund performance evaluation, volatility forecasting, relativity
Dr Haofeng Xu Lecturer FinTech; Big Data in Finance; Corporate Finance - Business Management
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Name Role Interests Business Management Dr Scott Allan Lecturer The sociology, management and governance of professionals and professional work. In that context, financialisation of professional services and related metricisation of performance and control mechanisms; identity and subjectivity; power relations; knowledge/expertise and trust; technology and its effect on work
Professor Pervaiz Akhtar Personal Chair Business Analytics
Dr Ali Bayat Lecturer Firm policy, corporate governance, strategic leadership, policy implications of big data
Dr Karen Bilsland Lecturer Work organisation; HRM; employee engagement and participation; corporate governance; spatiality and architecture in organisations; visual research methods
Professor George Boyne Principal and Vice-Chancellor Public services performance and management; strategic management; local government; public sector
Senior Lecturer Technology management, innovation, dynamic capability, strategic management, gorporate governance
Professor J Ignacio Canales Personal Chair and Subject Research Lead Strategic Management
Dr Xiaoqing (Joyce) Chen Lecturer Tourism Management, Customer Experience, Interpretive Paradigm, Asian Management Culture, Philosophies in Management
Dr William Cooper Senior Lecturer (Scholarship) Dr Cheryl Dowie Lecturer Business negotiation and conflict management, cross-cultural interactions, decision-making strategies, deal-making, ethics in negotiations.
Dr Shainaz Firfiray Senior Lecturer HRM, work-life balance, employee well-being, diversity, and family firms. Professor Donald Hislop Personal Chair technology and work, mobile working, teleworking, knowledge management, artificial intelligence
Dr Yanghong (Alice) Hu Lecturer Sub-national institutions in emerging economies, institutional theory, corporate diversification, strategic management, entrepreneurship in emerging economies
Professor Sofia Johan Professor in Entrepreneurial Finance (fractional appointment)
Lecturer Science and technology studies; feminist theory
Dr Huda Khan Senior Lecturer Management (Marketing)
Professor Zaheer Khan Professor in Strategy & International Business Global technology management, Knowledge transfer, international alliances, post-acquisition behaviour of emerging markets' firms, automotive industry, internationalisation of SMEs, and CSR practices of firms operating in emerging markets
Head of Discipline
Entrepreneurship, Economic Sociology, Trust and Institutions, SME Internationalisation, Migrant and Ethnic Minority Businesses, West Africa, Research Methods
Professor in Global Entrepreneurship and International Business (fractional appointment)
Lecturer Operational research, combinatorial and stochastic optimisation and simulation
Professor Dirk Libaers Professor of Technology Entrepreneurship (fractional appointment)
Professor Haina Zhang Dean and Head of School International management, organisational behaviour, human resource management and leadership.
Dr Elham Moonesirust Lecturer Identity and subjectivity; power; science and technology studies; critical management studies; gender studies, ethics of care; qualitative methodologies
Dr Peter Morgan Senior Lecturer (Scholarship) Organisational Behaviour and related topics.
Professor Stephanie Morgan Professor and Director of Accreditations Business School accreditations, use of social media in HE, IT outsourcing, staff responses to change.
Dr Trevor Morrow Senior Lecturer (Scholarship) Human Resource Strategy
International and Comparative HRM
International Business
Entrepreneurship
Research MethodsLecturer (Scholarship) Recruitment and selection, organisational behaviour, knowledge management and coaching
Lecturer Leadership, institutional logics and organisational trust
Professor Simon Parker Chair in Entrepreneurship (fractional contract) Dr Xiaohui (Leo) Shi Senior Lecturer Management
Adam Smith Senior Lecturer Management (Entrepreneurship and Management Practice)
Dr Carol Smith Lecturer (Scholarship) Management
Lecturer Qualitative consumer research on ageing, religion, or quality of life
John Storm Senior Lecturer Business Management Dr Hemamali Tennakoon Senior Lecturer in Management Online privacy, cyber security, information security, online victimisation, cyber-psychology, human-computer interactions, social commerce, social networking sites, business models
Lecturer (part-time) Qualitative research on child and family consumer behaviour
Lecturer (Scholarship) Senior Lecturer (Scholarship)Chair in Strategy & Entrepreneurship Marketing and entrepreneurship: online trust (peer reviews and peer endorsements), crowdfunding (project pitches), entrepreneurship (entrepreneurship education).
Professor Jie Wu Chair Professor in Strategy & Entrepreneurship Internationalization of emerging multinational enterprises, top management team, the behavioral theory of a firm, institutional complexity, culture and strategy, innovation, entrepreneurship,
Supervision Contacts Business Management - Real Estate
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Name Role Interests Real Estate Professor Norman Hutchison Head of Discipline Finance, commercial property valuation and investment, risk measurement and communication, and more
Dr Nan Liu Lecturer Property investment and property market analysis
Professor Bryan MacGregor Chair in Real Estate Professor Deb Roberts Chair in Real Estate Regional science, rural development, agricultural policy,renewable energy, housing market analysis
Dr Rainer Schulz Subject Research Lead Housing market analysis and statistical modelling Dr Fiona Stoddard Lecturer (Scholarship) Property valuation
Dr Martin Wersing Lecturer Housing market analysis and statistical modelling