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Professor Collins Ntim

Professor of Accounting

Research interests

  • Accounting/Accountability
  • Finance
  • Governance

More research

Accepting applications from PhD students.

Profile photo 
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Name 
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Job title 
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Research interests (for researchers only) 
Add up to 5 research interests. The first 3 will appear in your staff profile next to your name. The full list will appear on your research page. Keep these brief and focus on the keywords people may use when searching for your work. Use a different line for each one.

In Pure (opens in a new tab), select ‘Edit profile’. Under the heading 'Curriculum and research description', select 'Add profile information'. In the dropdown menu, select 'Research interests: use separate lines'.

Contact details 
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ORCID ID 
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Accepting PhD applicants (for researchers only) 
Choose to show whether you’re currently accepting PhD applicants or not in Pure (opens in a new tab). Select ‘Edit profile’. In the 'Portal details' section, select 'Yes' or 'No' to indicate your choice. 

About

  • Collins is a professionally qualified chartered accountant (CPA) with a PhD in accountancy and an enthusiastic accounting academic with over 20 years of national and international teaching, research, leadership and management experience in higher education.
  • He has served in a number of senior roles, such as Associate Dean, Head (Chair) of Department and Deputy Head (Dean) of Southampton Business School, and is currently the President of the British Accounting and Finance Association.
  • His research focuses on how Accounting/Accountability, Finance and Governance (AFG) can drive Development and Sustainability around the world, especially the developing world (e.g., China, Sub Sahara Africa, and Middle East and North Africa), and in the process, he has published over 130 peer-reviewed outputs, in which more than 80% have appeared in the top FT 50, ABS 4*/3*, and ABDC A*/A Journals around AFG topics that have been cited widely by academics and the popular global media, as well as attracted competitive external and internal research funds of over £0.6m.
  • He also has a strong interests and track record in developing, reviewing, examining, supervising and teaching AFG subjects to undergraduate, postgraduate, research, especially PhD, executive and professional accounting and finance students in a wide variety of institutions and countries around the world.
  • Collins is consistently ranked among the top 10 and 100 leading researchers in accounting in the UK and the World, respectively, by several global research bodies/websites, such as Stanford, Google Scholar, Scopus, Web of Science, ResearchGate, Scholar GPS, IDEAS/RePEc, SSRN, Research.Com and ADS Scientific Index, amongst many others.

You can update this in Pure (opens in a new tab). Select ‘Edit profile’. Under the heading and then ‘Curriculum and research description’, select ‘Add profile information’. In the dropdown menu, select - ‘About’.

Write about yourself in the third person. Aim for 100 to 150 words covering the main points about who you are and what you currently do. Clear, simple language is best. You can include specialist or technical terms.

You’ll be able to add details about your research, publications, career and academic history to other sections of your staff profile.