Senior Lecturer / Lecturer in Accounting
University of Bath - School of Management
Salary: £36,862 to £52,556
Closing Date: Monday 28 March 2011
Interview Date: To be confirmed
Reference: SC406
The School of Management invites applications from excellent candidates with research interests in any area of accounting. Strategic investment by the University in the past five years has resulted significant growth in the Accounting and Finance Group and in the research facilities, such as databases, available to the Group.
The Group has a strong focus on research excellence and the successful candidate will be expected to actively participate in and contribute to the strategic research objectives of the School of Management.
The successful candidate will also be expected to contribute to the continuing development and delivery of excellent teaching on undergraduate and postgraduate accounting courses.The School’s teaching portfolio includes two highly successful specialist degrees, an MSc in Accounting and Finance (typical intake of around 100 students) and an undergraduate BSc in Accounting and Finance. In addition there are currently 15 full time PhD students in the Accounting and Finance Group.
The Accounting and Finance Group at the University of Bath is part of the School of Management. It is a growing team of individuals seeking to make a distinctive mark in the academic and business world by being members of a group who deliver high quality research in accounting and finance.
The Group hosts the CIMA Centre for Excellence, under the leadership of Dr Philip Cooper, and the Centre for Governance and Regulation, led by Professor Ania Zalewska. The accounting research interests of the group integrate with finance and management methodologies and include accounting education (PC); environmental accounting and CSR and assurance (PC & RW) equity valuation models (JF & YS); performance measurement and management in the NHS (JF & MG), governance and earning quality (JF, MG & YS). The research on the finance side of the group include links with accounting and financial management and extend across the topics of asset pricing (XC, JS, IT & AZ), behavioural finance and game theory (RF), corporate governance (AZ), market microstructure and computational finance (AK, AZ and SG) and pension fund behavior and performance measurement (IT and AZ).
In the recent years, members of the Group have worked on numerous projects sponsored by prestigious public and private bodies and organisations such as the Bank of England, Financial Services Authority, London Stock Exchange and the Competition Commission.
The Management School was ranked fifth (out of 90) in the UK for research excellence in the recent UK Research Assessment Exercise, with 70% of its research output ranked as either world leading or internationally excellent. The Management School is also highly ranked in league tables of places to study accounting and finance in the UK.
Informal enquiries may be made to the Dean’s office of the School of Management, +(44) (0)1225 383769 or email R.Elliott@bath.ac.uk, or to Professor John Forker, Head of Accounting and Finance, +(44) (0)1225 384618 or email J.J.Forker@bath.ac.uk.
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