Dr Victoria Patsika PhD, MSc, BSc

Lecturer of Accounting

Dr Victoria Patsika is a Lecturer in Accounting in the University of Southampton. Before joining the Accounting Group at Southampton Business School, she held post at the School of Management in the University of Bath.

Victoria's research interests are in the area of accounting and include firm disclosure policies, earnings management, regulations development, corporate governance, executive compensation, real estate market and empirical corporate finance.

Her research work has been presented at leading international academic conferences such as the European Accounting Association (EAA), Financial Engineering and Banking Society Annual Conference (FEBS), the BAFA Annual Conference, the World Finance Conference, the International Journal of Accounting Symposium and the Sussex Young Scholar Conference, amongst others, as well as at professional organizations and practitioners' conferences and workshops.

Victoria has published in the European Journal of Finance, while she has a number of working papers which target to be published in good journals. Her research has received a generous funding from the Federal Government of Germany. In addition, she was awarded from the Greek State with the National Scholarship Foundation (IKY) for the full period of her studies.

Victoria has experience teaching accounting (financial and managerial accounting) and finance courses at MBA, MSc, and undergraduate level in the UK and Greece. She has invariably received excellent feedback on his engaging and practice-oriented teaching.

Importantly, Victoria has industry experience as she has worked for a multinational export company in the accounting department. She was employed on various roles which equipped her with knowledge in the profession. Her involvement equipped her with the ability to communicate effectively and use her knowledge to resolve problems.

Willing to supervise PhD
I am interested in supervising PhD students - please contact me by email if you have a project proposal or ideas that fit my research interests described above.