The Accounting Group hosts an extensive programme of research seminars, featuring external scholars and academic experts covering a rich range of exciting topics in the accounting field, including financial reporting, management accounting, climate change, and sustainability. (more…)
Category: Research and impact
Reputational Risk in an Uncertain World
What are the reputational risks in this fast-paced world and how can organisations prepare for the worst when crisis hits? (more…)
2023-2024 Finance Seminar Series
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fter the successful series last year, we are back with a new, exciting schedule for the 2023-2024 academic year. All seminars are planned to be face-to-face, with speakers coming to Bristol, spending a day visiting the Business School, and meeting our faculty. Our Seminar Series is the result of excellent speaker suggestions from our faculty members and a shortlisting based on both academic and diversity criteria. (more…)
Hollywood, storytelling and games – inspirations for case based teaching
We spoke to Dr Neil Lambert, Senior Lecturer in Global Management at the University of Bristol Business School about inspirations for his teaching and advice for new students. Below, he discuses with us game, simulation and case-based teaching, as well as inspiration he draws from Hollywood filmmakers.
Our MSc Business Analytics programme is now accredited by the Institute of Analytics
The University of Bristol Business School is delighted to announce that our MSc Business Analytics programme is now accredited by the Institute of Analytics (IoA) and we are now corporate partners. This is a great achievement for the School and is thanks to the hard work and dedication of our team! (more…)
Unwrapping food supply chains and their climate impacts
What factors effect food supply chains and how can we build a more sustainable system for the future? In this fantastic video series, Dr Lucy McCarthy from the University of Bristol Business School and Dr Anne Touboulic from the University of Nottingham, unwrap their knowledge on this topic. (more…)
Sustainable consumption and the circular economy in the context of the charity retail sector
University of Bristol Business School PhD student, Violet Broadhead, spoke to us about her research on sustainable consumption in the charity retail sector, that looks at the impact of other priorities, societal expectations and responsibilities on charities’ approach to sustainability.
Research and Engagement Workshop in Accounting and Accountability – 10 May 2023 in Bristol
The Accounting Departments of the University of Essex, the LSE and the University of Bristol are pleased to announce the organisation of a workshop on research and engagement in accounting and accountability. The aim of this workshop is to provide researchers a forum to discuss how engagement can shape research and vice versa.
Corporate Finance seminar series
Welcome to the Corporate Finance Research Group at the University of Bristol! Our group is dedicated to exploring cutting-edge research topics in corporate finance and disseminating our findings through seminars and other events.
New Research in Finance Shows Peer Review is Paramount in Reducing Non-Standard Errors
Professors Nick Taylor and Ian Tonks, of the University of Bristol Business School, formed part of a major international collaborative project assessing the variations in results across research teams in providing answers to typical finance research questions. The paper, Non-standard errors, features 250 joint authors, and explores the difference in results found by researchers when independently testing the same hypothesis on the same data sample. This is important for research in financial economics because variability in data cleaning and choice of an estimation method adopted by a research team is not usually allowed for in establishing the significance of empirical research. (more…)