Accounting, Finance and Economics staff
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Michelle Dyke
Senior Lecturer in Audit & Assurance
Michelle has over 25 years’ experience in accounting, beginning her career in 1993 with Tarmac in Wolverhampton, before moving into practice firstly with Clement Keys Chartered Accountants and then BDO Stoy Hayward in the audit department.
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Sian Eaton
Senior Teaching Fellow
Sian Eaton trained as a chartered accountant with EY spending 10 years working with various clients. On leaving the firm she had been an audit manager for 2 years, with her own portfolio.
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Professor John Fenner
Associate Professor in Accounting and Finance
John Fenner has 25 years experience working in practice as a senior manager for top 10 and large independent firms of accountants.
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Dr James Foye
Lecturer in Finance
James Foye holds a Master’s degree in Investment Management from City University, London and a PhD from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Prior to embarking on an academic career, he spent nine years working in financial markets as an equities analyst and fund manager. James predominantly teaches courses in finance and...
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Dr Abdul Ghafoor
Lecturer (Finance)
Abdul Ghafoor is Lecturer of Finance at Birmingham City Business School, UK. Previously, he worked as Lecturer of Finance at Monash University. He is also a Non-resident Research Fellow at IPAG Business School Paris, France. He holds a PhD in Finance from the University of Malaya, Malaysia. His areas of research are corporate...
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Kevin Glasby
Associate Professor in Accounting and Finance
Kevin Glasby has taught in further and higher education for 30 years specialising in the application of statistics and decision making techniques. He has taught on undergraduate, postgraduate and professional accountancy courses throughout this time. In recent years Kevin has become more involved in the management of...
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Jane Godfrey
Senior Teaching Fellow
Jane joined the business school in March 2017 with over 25 years’ teaching experience in the private sector including Kaplan. She taught on a range of under graduate and post graduate courses, including the professional accountancy bodies AAT, ACCA and CIMA.
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Dr Paul Heap
Senior Lecturer in Economics
After completing his DPhil ‘General Equilibrium Models of Monetary Economies’, Paul Heap held temporary lectureships at the Universities of Manchester, Bristol and Bath. He was then a tutor at the University of Nottingham, before coming to work at BCU.
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Mark Holmes
Senior Lecturer in Financial Accounting
Mark has recently joined BCU after working at other local universities. Prior to moving into education Mark had spent a number of years at Ernst & Young LLP, where he became a Chartered Accountant (ICAS) working with a range of blue-chip clients and a focus on corporate tax. He then moved into education where he taught in...
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Rachel Homer
Senior Lecturer
Rachel Homer came to the Business School after a successful career in industry with Cadbury Schweppes, with whom she qualified as a Chartered Management Accountant while working in the areas of Internal Audit, Management Accounting and IT Project Management.