Research led teaching produces exciting postgraduate research.
Read below about our talented PhD/MCom students in the Department of Accountancy and Finance, and their research.
Why not join us? Find out more about enrolling for a:
Accounting PhD students
Khurshid Ali
Home country: Pakistan
Research topic: Climate change risk and investors’ perception: Evidence from the S&P 500
Primary supervisor: Dr Muhammad Nadeem
Siamak Ansari
Home country: Iran
Research topic: Towards the Business-Partnering Role of Management Accounting in the Public Sector: How to Facilitate Institutional Enablers and Constraints Using the Big Data Lens – A New Zealand Case Study
Primary supervisor: Professor Ralph Adler
Email siamak.ansari@postgrad.otago.ac.nz
Thilini Arachchige
Home country: Sri Lanka
Research topic: Social networks, intellectual capital and value creation in the Public Sector
Primary supervisor: Associate Professor Ros Whiting
Email thilini.kaushalya@postgrad.otago.ac.nz
Chang Liu
Home country: China
Research topic: Auditing and Financial Disclosure
Primary supervisor: Professor David Lont
Email liuch485@student.otago.ac.nz
Junxiu Lyu
Home country: China
Research topic: Corporate governance and corporate political activities
Primary supervisor: Dr Muhammad Nadeem
Email junxiu.lyu@postgrad.otago.ac.nz
Hiruni Rathwatta
Home country: Sri Lanka
Research topic: Taxation as an element of Social and Environmental Responsibility: A historical perspective in Ancient Ceylon
Primary supervisor: Dr Sriyalatha Kumarasinghe
Email hiruni.rathwatta@postgrad.otago.ac.nz
Disney Sohali
Home country: Sri Lanka
Research topic: Cost effectiveness and social accountability of the waste management systems of supermarkets in New Zealand
Primary supervisor: Dr Sriyalatha Kumarasinghe
Email disney.kariyawasam@postgrad.otago.ac.nz
Shabana Talpur
Home country: Pakistan
Research topic: CSR decoupling: The Investigation of Causes and Consequences
Primary supervisor: Helen Roberts
Email talsh566@student.otago.ac.nz
Iki Mafi Uele
Home country: Tonga
Research topic: Roles of Accounting in construction, measuring, and maintaining Public Value
Primary supervisor: Dr Dinithi Ranasinghe
Xiaoxu Zhang
Home country: China
Research topic: Audit committee congruence and audit quality
Primary supervisor: Helen Roberts
Email xiaoxu.zhang@postgrad.otago.ac.nz
Finance PhD students
Iftekhar Ahmed
Home country: Bangladesh
Research topic: Essays on Climate Finance
Primary supervisor: Associate Professor Ivan Diaz-Rainey
Email iftekhar.ahmed@otago.ac.nz
Beam Aschakulporn
Home country: New Zealand
Research topic: Higher-Order Risk-Neutral Moment Estimators.
Primary supervisor: Professor Jin Zhang
Email beam.aschakulporn@otago.ac.nz
Wei Guo
Home country: China
Research topic: SPX and SPY options
Primary supervisor: Professor Jin Zhang
Xiaolan Jia
Home country: China
Research topic: Options in commodity markets
Primary supervisor: Professor Jin Zhang
Email xiaolan.jia@postgrad.otago.ac.nz
Sampath Kongawatte
Home country: Sri Lanka
Research topic: Investors’ trading behavior in stock market anomalies
Primary supervisor: Dr Olena Onishchenko
Wei Lin
Home country: China
Research topic: SPX, VIX and VXX Options.
Primary supervisor: Professor Jin Zhang
Quyen Nguyen
Home country: Vietnam
Research topic: Climate Risk in Financial Institutions
Primary supervisor: Associate Professor Ivan Diaz-Rainey
Kasun Perera
Home country: Sri Lanka
Research topic: Idiosyncratic Volatility Puzzle: A Climate Risk Explanation
Primary supervisor: Dr Duminda Kuruppuarachchi
Email perka336@student.otago.ac.nz
Mahnoor Sattar
Home country: Bangladesh
Research topic: Board diversity and private firms: Evidence from the UK
Primary supervisor: Dr Helen Roberts
Email: mahnoor.sattar@otago.ac.nz
Umaid A Sheikh
Home country: Pakistan
Research topic: Essays on Empirical Finance and Financial econometrics
Primary supervisor: Dr Muhammad Tahir Suleman
Email sheum557@student.otago.ac.nz
Isabella Yoon
Home country: Republic of Korea
Research topic: VIX options
Primary supervisor: Professor Jin Zhang
Email isabella.yoon@postgrad.otago.ac.nz
Xiaojie (Steven) Yu
Home country: China
Research topic: Outward FDI and environmental issues
Primary supervisor: Dr Duminda Kuruppuarachchi
Email yust6853@student.otago.ac.nz
Junyu Zhang
Home country: China
Research topic: Environmental Risks and Options Markets
Primary supervisor: Dr Edwin (Xinfeng) Ruan
Email zhaju585@student.otago.ac.nz
MCom students
Ling Liao
Home country: China
Research topic: New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme
Primary supervisor: Associate Professor Ivan Diaz-Rainey
Email: ling.liao@postgrad.otago.ac.nz
