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Leadership Team

Name	Role
Business School Management Team
Professor Bryan MacGregor	Executive Dean
Mr Mark Whittington (until Summer 2018)	Deputy Dean
Professor Keith Bender	Director of Personnel
Professor Euan Phimister	Director of Resources
Professor W David McCausland	Director of Undergraduate Studies
	Director of Postgraduate Studies
Dr Allan J Sim	Deputy Director of Postgraduate Studies
Dr John Skåtun	Director of On-Line and Digital Learning
Mr Russell Williams	Director of Off-Campus Learning
	Director of Research
Professor Catia Montagna	Director of Postgraduate Research
Dr Ian Robson	Director of Accreditation
Professor Norman Hutchinson	Head of Accountancy, Finance and Real Estate
Professor J Ignacio Canales	Head of Business Management
Dr Alex Zangelidis	Head of Economics
Professor Frank Hong Liu	Director of Internationalisation
Mrs Nichola Duncan	School Administration Officer
Research
Professor Chandana Alawattage	Accountancy
Professor Chandana Alawattage	Finance
Dr Rainer Schulz	Real Estate
Professor Catia Montagna	Economics
	Business and Management
Business School Office
Sophie Anderson	Business Engagement Advisor
Mr Peter Bartlam	Secretary for Economics (Teaching Administrator for UG and PGT)
Naisa Boehk	Secretary for Accountancy and Finance (Teaching Administrator for UG and PGT, including CFA)
Mrs Pamela Cumming	PA to Executive Dean
Julie Davidson	Senior Secretary (TNE and ODL) / PA to the Deputy Dean
Ms Nichola Duncan	School Administrative Officer
Mrs Jaye Carr	Senior Secretary (Teaching Administration for PGT, PGT Examinations and Timetabling, PGT Academic Integrity and Appeals) (Teaching Administrator for UG and PGT Real Estate)
Ms Sasha Fraser	Secretary for Business Management (Teaching Administrator for UG and PGT, including all Block Taught PGT Courses)
Ms Jeanette Higginson	Admissions Secretary
Ms Nathalie Kemp	Secretary (Teaching Administration for PGT, PGT Examinations and Timetabling, PGT Academic Integrity and Appeals) (Teaching Administrator for UG and PGT Real Estate)
Ms Clare McIntyre	PGT Admissions and Recruitment Coordinator (Marketing, Conversion and Social Media)
Mrs Fumiko Nakamaru	Editorial Assistant for the Scottish Journal of Political Economy and PA to Professor Kemp
Ms Gemma Neal	School Marketing Officer
Fiona Ritchie	Senior Secretary (Oversees Teaching Administration for UG and PGT, UG Examinations and Timetabling, UG Academic Integrity and Appeals)
Mrs Julia Ritchie	School Secretary for PGR Support and Recruitment, Travel, and PA to Head of School
Mrs Kirsteen Watt	Accreditation and Projects Manager
Admissions Support
study@abdn.ac.uk	UG Admissions - Student Recruitment and Admissions
gbs@abdn.ac.uk	PGT Admissions - Business School
pgrbus@abdn.ac.uk	PhD Admissions - Business School

Accounting, Finance and Real Estate

Name	Role	Interests
Accountancy
Professor Chandana Alawattage	Chair in Accountancy	Critical Perspectives on management accounting, governance, control and social and environmental accounting practises, especially comparative studies between Western and non-Western counterparts Theme: Work, Health and Wellbeing, Energy and Environment, Finance and Governance, Theory and Method

Mr Alex Arthur	Senior Lecturer (Temporary, Part-Time)	Accountancy
Dr Robert Duncan	Lecturer (Scholarship)
Dr Shamima Haque	Senior Lecturer	Accountancy
Professor Azizul Islam		Accountancy
Dr Mohamed Osman	Lecturer	Accountancy Theme: Finance and Governance
Professor Alan Sangster (from September 2018)	Personal Chair	Accounting theory Theme: Finance and Governance
Mr Mark Whittington	Senior Lecturer	Strategic management accounting, accounting education, international accounting, reporting and financial statement analysis Theme: Finance and Governance
Dr Naser Makarem	Lecturer	Financial reporting, earnings management, audit quality, real activities manipulation
Mr Andrew Mulhern	Lecturer (Scholarship)
Dr Thereza Sales de Aguair	Senior Lecturer	Accountancy
Ms Lindsay Tibbetts	Senior Lecturer (Scholarship)
Finance
Dr Filipa Da Silva Fernandes (from September 2018)	Lecturer	Corporate finance, financial economics, banking Theme: Finance and Governance
Dr Yizhe Dong	Senior Lecturer	Finance Theme: Finance and Governance
Professor Frank Hong Liu	Chair in Finance	Finance Theme: Finance and Governance
Dr Paul-Olivier Klein	Lecturer	Finance Theme: Finance and Governance

Dr Laura McCann	Lecturer	Corporate finance, debt source, relationship banking Theme: Finance and Governance
Dr Fotios Papadimitriou	Senior Lecturer	Finance Theme: Finance and Governance
Professor Martin Hoesli Chair in Accountancy		House prices, disposable income, and permanent and temporary shocks and more
Professor Hans K Hvide	Chair in Economics and Finance	Economics, innovation and entrepreneurs, income and risk and more
Dr Huong Vu (from September 2018)	Lecturer	Corporate finance, quantitative finance Theme: Finance and Governance
Dr Yuan Zhao	Lecturer (Scholarship)	Asset pricing theories, fund performance evaluation, volatility forecasting, relativity Theme: Property Market Analysis
Real Estate
Professor Norman Hutchison	Chair in Business School	Finance, commercial property valuation and investment, risk measurement and communication, and more Theme: Property Market Analysis
Dr Nan Liu	Lecturer	Property investment and property market analysis Theme: Property Market Analysis
Professor Bryan MacGregor	Vice Principal and Executive Dean	Theme: Property Market Analysis
Professor Deb Roberts	Chair in Real Estate	Regional science, rural development, agricultural policy,renewable energy, housing market analysis Theme: Work, Health and Wellbeing, Energy and Environment, Property Market Analysis
Dr Rainer Schulz	Senior Lecturer	Theme: Property Market Analysis
Dr Fiona Stoddard (from August 2018)	Lecturer (Scholarship)	Property valuation Theme: Property Market Analysis
Dr Martin Wersing	Lecturer	Housing market analysis and statistical modelling Theme: Property Market Analysis

Economics

Name	Role	Interests
Economics
Dr Harminder Battu	Reader	Economics of education, employment contracts, regional inequality Theme: Work, Health and Wellbeing
Dr Juergen Bracht	Lecturer	Trust and reputation
Professor Keith Bender	SIRE Chair in Economics	Labor Economics, Economics of Ageing, Subjective Well-being, Health Economics Theme: Work, Health and Wellbeing
Professor W David McCausland	Personal Chair	macroeconomics, labour economics Theme: Work, Health and Wellbeing
Professor Catia Montagna	Chair in Economics	International trade theory; firms in the global economy; labour markets, trade, FDI; globalisation and labour markets; welfare state policies Theme: Work, Health and Wellbeing, Energy and Environment, Finance and Governance, Theory and Method
Professor Euan Phimister	Chair in Economics	Economics of spatial labour markets Theme: Work, Health and Wellbeing, Energy and Environment
Dr John Skåtun	Senior Lecturer	Labour economics, labour market contracting, trades unions Theme: Work, Health and Wellbeing
Professor Ioannis Theodossiou	Chair in Economics	wage determination, unemployment, macroeconomics Theme: Work, Health and Wellbeing
Dr Alex Zangelidis	Senior Lecturer	Labour economics Theme: Work, Health and Wellbeing
Dr Yu Aoki	Lecturer	Health economics
Dr Ramses Hani Abul Naga	Reader	Public economics, health economics, microeconometrics and the measurement of inequality and wellbeing
Dr Marc Gronwald	Senior Lecturer	Energy economics, environmental economics, resource economics Theme: Energy and Environment
Dr Xin Jin	Lecturer	Energy economics and applied econometrics Theme: Energy and Environment
Professor Hans K Hvide	Chair in Economics and Finance	Innovation and enterprise, investments, income risk
Dr Sola Kasim	Research Fellow	Energy and climate change adaptation and mitigation economics Theme: Finance and Governance
Professor Alex Kemp	Professor of Petroleum Economics	North Sea economics, international petroleum economics Theme: Energy and Environment, Finance and Governance Director: Aberdeen Centre for Research in Energy Economics and Finance
Dr Takahiko Kiso	Lecturer	Energy and environmental economics Theme: Energy and Environment, Finance and Governance
Dr Agathe Rouaix	Lecturer	Agricultural and environmental economics Theme: Energy and Environment, Finance and Governance, Theory and Method
Dr Nikolaos Vlassis	Lecturer	Energy and environmental economics Theme: Energy and Environment, Finance and Governance
Dr Mauro Papi	Lecturer	Economic theory, experiments, and bounded rationality Theme: Theory and Method
Professor Joe Swierzbinski	Chair in Env & Energy Economics	Experimental economics Theme: Energy and Environment, Theory and Method
Mr George Onwordi	Research Assistant
Supervision Contacts
Professor Ioannis Theodossiou	Supervisor	Economics

Business Management

Name	Role	Interests
Business Management
Dr Scott Allan	Lecturer	Management Theme:Theory and Method
Dr Ali Bayat (from September 2018)	Lecturer	Organisation studies Theme: Theory and Method
Dr Karen Bilsland (from October 2018)	Lecturer	HR Theme: Theory and Method
Dr Jing Cai	Senior Lecturer	Management Theme: Work, Health and Wellbeing
Professor J Ignacio Canales		Management Theme:Theory and Method
Dr Joyce Chen (from August 2018)	Lecturer	HR/OB Theme: Theory and Method
Dr William Cooper	Senior Lecturer (Scholarship)
Dr Cheryl Dowie (from August 2018)	Lecturer	HR Theme: Theory and Method
Professor Donald Hislop (from January 2019)	Personal Chair	HR/OB Theme: Theory and Method
Dr Alice Hu (from August 2018)	Lecturer	Marketing, international business Theme: Theory and Method
Dr Karolina Kazimierczak	Lecturer	Organisation and delivery of healthcare (e.g. healthcare users' experiences, user-provider relationship, service improvement and re-design); technologies and social worlds (e.g. technology at home, in organisation, in policy, in popular culture); lay and expert knowledge-making practices; work-home boundaries, interactions and identities; qualitative and participatory research methods Theme:Theory and Method Work, Health and Wellbeing
Dr John Lamb	Lecturer	Operational research, combinatorial and stochastic optimisation and simulation Theme:Theory and Method
Professor Natasha Mauthner	Personal Chair	Gender, work and family; academic work and practices; health and well being; digital data sharing; projects using qualitative research approaches Theme: Theory and Method
Dr Elham Moonesirust (from August 2018)	Lecturer	HR Theme: Theory and Method
Dr Trevor Morrow (from August 2018)	Senior Lecturer (Scholarship)	HR Theme: Theory and Method
Dr Nichola Naughton	Lecturer (Scholarship)	Management Theme: Theory and Method
Dr Rosalind Rae	Lecturer	Management Theme: Theory and Method
Dr Julian Randall	Senior Lecturer	Management of change; impact of change on managers' perceptions of job, work, career, and organisation Theme: Theory and Method
Dr Ian Robson	Senior Lecturer (Scholarship)	Management Theme: Theory and Method
Dr Elizabeth Thomson	Lecturer	Management Theme: Theory and Method
Dr Marcus Thompson	Lecturer (Scholarship)
Dr Allan J Sim	Senior Lecturer (Scholarship)	Business Ethics & CSR, effective teaching, cultural identity, organizational culture, globalization
Dr Tim Stone	Lecturer	Qualitative consumer research on ageing, religion, or quality of life Theme: Theory and Method
Mr Russell Williams	Senior Lecturer (Scholarship)	Management
Dr Ian Heywood	Senior Lecturer (Scholarship)	management Theme: Theory and Method
Professor Simon Parker	Chair in Entrepreneurship
Supervision Contacts
Dr John Lamb	Supervisor	Business Management

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