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Dr Charles Afriyie

Senior Lecturer in Accounting

Director of the Finance in Society Research Institute (FISRI), Senior Lecturer in Accounting, innovative pedagogue, trailblazer of data science and artificial intelligence in finance.

Biography

I have over 20 years of teaching, research, and consulting experience. As director of FISRI, I have strategic and operational oversight in ensuring that the knowledge produced by our staff, students and partners create the needed transformative impacts in policies, practices, and generally in society. My priorities are liaising with our Advisory Board and Steering Group members, providing research training, disseminating academic outputs, and ensuring readily accessible support and resources for our researchers.

My knowledge production activities take an interdisciplinary approach in seeking to engage with experts from different domains to achieve workable impacts. This defined the scope of my doctoral research which yielded a new framework for understanding expertise in finance. The emergent expertise framework was originally employed in explaining long-term financial forecasts and provides the blueprints for developing individual and group excellence in many professional contexts. Integrating human intelligence and machine capabilities is an essential aspect of this framework. It made easier by the fact that in 2016, I took the initiative to embed data science competences and artificial intelligence in my academic and professional activities.

Qualifications

  • PhD in Finance, University of Gloucestershire, 2022
  • MSc Accounting with Finance, London Southbank University, 2006
  • AMCT, 2006
  • ACCA, 2003
  • BSc Administration (Accounting Option), University of Ghana, 1999

Awards

Winner: Education for Sustainability award – Staff Excellence Awards, 2023

Two Wow Awards, 2023

Finalist: Decolonising the curriculum – Staff Excellence Awards, 2022

Finalist: Most Inspiring Lecturer in Student-Led Teaching Awards, 2014

Finalist: Most Engaging Module (AC6030) in Student-Led Teaching Awards, 2014

Membership of professional bodies

Association Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)

Association of Corporate Treasurers (ACT)

Teaching & Research

Teaching

Artificial Intelligence in Finance

Forensic Accounting

Portfolio Management

Financial Engineering

Data Analytics

Strategic Financial Management

Financial Tools for Business

Research

Leader of Erasmus+ Project with partners from UK, Italy, Hungary, and Croatia that developed teaching and learning materials including an innovative App for teaching financial literacy to 7 to 11-year-olds.

Estimating economic impact of the Cheltenham Festival – 2016 and 2023.

Addressing the Awarding Gap at University of Gloucestershire.

Three doctoral completions for projects in company valuation, corporate indemnity, and price controls.

Ongoing research on nature of financial expertise, stylised facts of financial returns, AI in portfolio optimisation, expert judgments in uncertain decision contexts.

External responsibilities

Speaker at Advance HE Annual Conference in Hull, 2023.

Assessor in management accounting for a UK-based global professional accountancy body.

External examiner for undergraduate and postgraduate programmes at Cardiff Met University.