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Lecturer in Finance

Dr Danial Hemmings is a Lecturer in Finance at Bangor 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 high-quality international journals, and presented at international conferences and as an invited speaker at other prominent business schools.

Danial is currently involved in a portfolio of research projects spanning topics in the areas of climate finance, disclosure and financial reporting quality, corporate governance and shareholder votes, initial and follow-on equity offerings, alternative floatation devices, as well as analyst and social media-disseminated research. He has also been involved 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 school. 

Qualifications

  • PhD Accounting and Finance, Bangor University
  • MSc Accounting and Finance
  • BSc Accounting and Finance
  • Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education

Roles within Bangor 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
  • Lead for BBS Estates Group - 2023 to 2024
  • Leadership of IEF Accounting and Governance Research Planning Group - 2023 to 2024
  • BBS module moderation system - 2022 to present 
  • Head of Year 1 for BBS - 2019 to 2022
  • Chair of the Year 1 Examination Board - 2019 to 2022
  • Personal tutor

Room: Hen Goleg 2.09

Email: d.hemmings@bangor.ac.uk

Work Telephone: 01248 38 8162

Teaching

Current Teaching

ASB-1117 Financial Techniques and Analysis

ADB-1117 Technegau a Dadansoddiad Cyllidol

ASB-2202 & ASB-3200 Corporate Finance

ASB-3309 Behavioural Finance

ASB-4405 Multinational Corporate Finance

ASB-4907 Accounting Dissertation

ASB-9126 Ethics, Regulation and Compliance (Executive MBA module)

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

I am willing to supervise strong applicants at PhD level, in particular in the following research areas: Climate Finance and ESG; Corporate Finance, including traditional and non-traditional equity issuance; Corporate Governance, including executive remuneration; Financial and non-financial Corporate Disclosure; Information intermediaries in financial markets (e.g., financial press, micro-blogs). I will also consider proposals on related topics on a case-by-case basis.

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2016

  • 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)

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.