Professor Collins Ntim BSc (Ghana), MSc (Leicester), MRes (Glasgow), PhD (Glasgow), PGCTHE (Aberystwyth), FHEA
Deputy Head of School (Research & Enterprise), Professor of Accounting
Professor Collins Ntim is the Deputy Head of School, Research & Enterprise and a Professor of Accounting within the Business School at the University of Southampton.
He re-joined Southampton Business School in October 2016 as a Professor of Accounting and Head of Department of Accounting from the University of Huddersfield, where he was a Professor of Accounting and Finance, and Director of Graduate Education in the Business School. Prior to joining Huddersfield, Collins was a Lecturer (Aberystwyth University, and University of Glasgow) and Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor (Universities of Glasgow and Southampton) in accounting and finance. He has a PhD (University of Glasgow), an MRes with Distinction (University of Glasgow), an MSc with Distinction (University of Leicester), and a BSc with First Class (University of Ghana) degrees in accounting and finance, as well as a Postgraduate Certificate of Teaching in Higher Education (Aberystwyth University) and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).
Collins’ teaching interests cut across Accounting, Finance and Governance, having taught modules, such as Business Finance, Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Management Accounting and Research Methods to undergraduate, postgraduate and professional accounting and finance students.
He has continuing research interests in accounting, finance, governance and development, especially governance (corporate governance and financial reporting), accountability and ethics (social and environmental accounting – corporate social responsibility) and finance (corporate finance – market-based research and financial economics – development finance).
Collins has published extensively in a number of internationally recognised journals, such as the Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Accounting Forum, Business & Society, Business Strategy and the Environment, Corporate Governance: An International Review, International Journal of Accounting, International Journal of Human Resource Management, International Review of Financial Analysis, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Financial Stability, and Journal of International Management, amongst others.
He serves as guest editor (e.g., Critical Perspectives on Accounting), editor (e.g., Journal of Financial Reporting and Accounting, etc) over ten editorial board memberships (e.g., Advances in Environmental Accounting & Management, and Journal of Accounting in Emerging Economies) and reviewer (e.g., Academy of Management Learning & Education, Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, British Accounting Review, British Journal of Management, Corporate Governance: An International Review, and Journal of Business Ethics, etc) for several internationally recognised journals, research councils (e.g., British Academy, ESRC and EPSRC – UK, etc), and academic bodies and conferences (e.g., Asian Academic Accounting Association, and African Accounting and Finance Association, etc), as well as external examiner of degree programmes at a number of universities.
Collins has presented his research at a number of national and international conferences, workshops, and seminars in various countries, as well as won competitive internal and external research grant awards of total value of over £190,000 from funding bodies, such as the Economic and Social Research Council and Leadership Foundation for Higher Education, UK.
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