Profile

Lecturer in Finance

Dr Danial Hemmings is a Lecturer in Finance at The Albert Gubay Business School. He gained his PhD in Accounting and Finance at Bangor University in 2017 while a member of academic staff. Danial has broad teaching experience in the areas of Corporate Finance, Behavioural Finance, Financial Markets, Financial Management, Accounting and Accounting Communication, as well as experience in PhD-level training, supervision and examination. He is active in researching topics across Accounting and Finance and has published his research in world-leading and internationally excellent academic journals, and presented at prestigious international conferences and as an invited speaker at other prominent business schools.

Danial has particular interest in the intersection of finance and governance with the institutional environment in which companies operate, and is currently pursuing a portfolio of research projects along these lines, spanning topics relating to climate finance, disclosure and financial reporting, corporate and shareholder governance, initial and follow-on equity offerings and alternative investment vehicles, as well as analyst and social media-disseminated research. He has previous involvment in projects funded by the Welsh Government, ESRC, British Academy and Leverhulme Trust. Danial is passionate about teaching and strives to incorporate his research activities and exposures into his teaching. He also contributes significantly to teaching management and adminstration within The Albert Gubay Business School. 

Qualifications

• PhD Accounting and Finance, Bangor University
• MSc Accounting and Finance
• BSc Accounting and Finance
• Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA)

Roles within Albert Gubay Business School

• Lecturer in Finance
• Executive Education Academic Director - 2023 to present
• Exam Board Chair for Executive Education - 2023 to present
• Director of Special Projects (Teaching & Learning) - 2022 to 2024
• Editor of the AGBS Academic Staff Handbook - 2023 to present
• Lead for AGBS Estates Group - 2023 to 2024
• Leadership of IEF Accounting and Governance Research Planning Group - 2023 to 2024
• AGBS assessments co-ordinator - 2022 to 2025 
• Director of Year 1 Undergraduate Studies - 2019 to 2022
• Chair of the Year 1 Examination Board - 2019 to 2022
• Personal tutor

Teaching

Current and Previous Teaching at AGBS

Financial Techniques and Analysis (Undergraduate)

Technegau a Dadansoddiad Cyllidol (Undergraduate, Welsh medium)

Corporate Finance (Undergraduate)

Behavioural Finance (Undergraduate and Postgraduate)

Multinational Corporate Finance (Postgraduate)

Accounting Dissertation (Postgraduate)

Ethics, Regulation and Compliance (Postgraduate Executive MBA)

Banking Technology and FinTech (Postgraduate Executive MBA)

PhD Supervision

Vy Ngoc Khanh Tran (completed 2021) - Essays on the determinants and effectiveness of SEC reviews of IPO registration statements

Mahmoud Abdelkader Ali Abdelrahman (completed 2023) - Ownership structure, financial reporting quality, and corporations' use of tax havens

Esther Fiattor (2021 to present) - Board gender diversity and ESG

Khatera Naseri (2022 to present) - Culture, dividend policy, and accounting conservatism

Bismark Osei Tutu (2024 to present) - Environmental R&D, economic policy, and climate-change mitigation

Other Activites

• Specialist Editor (Europe) for Journal of Accounting Literature.
• Associate Editor for Journal of Risk Finance.
• Ad hoc reviewer for Corporate Governance: An International Review, Journal of Accounting Literature, European Journal of Finance, International Review of Financial Analysis, Accounting and Business Research, British Accounting Review, Journal of Business Ethics, International Journal of Finance & Economics, Economics Letters, Finance Research Letters, Accounting in Europe, Journal of Accounting in Emerging Economies, International Journal of Emerging Markets, Current Research in Environmental Sustainability, Journal of International Financial Management & Accounting, Cogent Economics and Finance, Applied Economics Letters.

Room: Hen Goleg 2.09

Email: [email protected]

Work Telephone: 01248 38 8162

• Financial Reporting Quality of SPAC Targets vis-à-vis IPO Issuers (01/10/2018 - 01/08/2022) Co-I. Funder: British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant (£7,100)
• KTP with Stockomendation Ltd (01/11/2017 - 07/04/2020) Lead Academic. Funder: ESRC and Welsh Government (£150,675)