Professor Habiba Al-Shaer

Professor in Accounting

Accounting & Finance Stirling

Professor Habiba Al-Shaer

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Habiba Al-Shaer is currently a Professor in Accounting at Stirling Management School (SMS), University of Stirling. Prior to joining SMS, she was a Senior Lecturer of Accounting at Newcastle University Business School. She holds a PhD in Accounting from Durham University Business School, Durham University, UK, and an MSc in Financial Services and Banking from Suffolk University, Boston, United States (Fulbright Scholarship).

Habiba is an established researcher in the field of sustainability accounting and corporate governance. Her research deals with business reporting, auditing, and corporate governance from a sustainable perspective (environment, social, & governance). She has published in world-leading and internationally recognised academic journals, including Research Policy, Journal of Business Ethics, International Review of Financial Analysis, the International Journal of Accounting, Business Strategy and the Environment, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, International Journal of Finance and Economics, and Journal of Environmental Management. Her articles were well received by readers and top cited in top-tier peer-reviewed academic journals such as the International Journal of Accounting (TIJA) and Australian Accounting Review (AAR)

Habiba takes editorial responsibilities. She is an Editorial Advisory Board member of the Journal of Accounting and Organisational Change and an Editorial Board member of Frontiers in Sustainability. She was the Lead Guest Editor for Sustainability. Special issue on Sustainability Accounting in the Global Context. She is an Ad-hoc reviewer for the Journal of Business Ethics; the International Journal of Accounting; Journal of Applied Accounting Research; Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal; International Review of Financial Analysis; Business and Society Review; Journal of Accounting in Emerging Economies; Managerial Auditing Journal; and Sustainability.

Habiba has demonstrated strong leadership and management skills in securing external funding from international higher education institutions such as King Abdulaziz University and Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia. She helps facilitate valuable collaborations with researchers from these institutions and provides research outcomes.

Habiba’s specialist areas of teaching include sustainability accounting, financial accounting, and corporate governance. She has also supervised master’s and PhD students. She is willing to consider PhD applications from potential students in the broad areas of sustainability accounting and corporate governance.

I am an established researcher in the field of sustainability accounting and corporate governance. My work deals with business reporting, auditing, and corporate governance from a sustainable perspective (environment, social, & governance).

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Book Chapter

The accountancy profession and emerging economies: reflections on the case of Syria at the margins of the global order

Kamla R, Al-Shaer H, Gallhofer S & Haslam J (2019) The accountancy profession and emerging economies: reflections on the case of Syria at the margins of the global order. In: Weetman P & Tsalavoutas I (eds.) Routledge Companion to Accounting in Emerging Economies. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Accounting-in-Emerging-Economies/Weetman-Tsalavoutas/p/book/9780815356202

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