Law, Economics, Accounting and Finance

Welcome to the Department of Law, Economics, Accounting and Finance

The Department of Law, Economics, Accounting and Finance is a forward-looking department offering a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. As a department we strive to provide the best educational experience for all our students by combining excellence in learning and teaching with a strong and active research culture. All of our programmes are designed to provide a combination of academic rigour and practical relevance, as informed by employer expectations and research-based findings.

Our growing portfolio of programmes is accredited by a number of professional bodies such as the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) and the Association of Charted Certified Accountants (ACCA).

The LLB (Hons) Law degree is recognised by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) and the Bar Standards Board. For more information about Law programmes at Winchester please see our dedicated Law page.

The Department of Law, Economics, Accounting and Finance offers a range of programmes in:

Accounting
Finance
Banking
Economics
Law

Explore our courses.

Meet the team

Head of Department

Julia Osgerby

Academic staff

Dr Plamen Ivanov, Lecturer in Economics & Banking
Paul Jennings, Senior Lecturer in Accounting
Martyn Jones, Senior Lecturer in Accounting & Taxation
Wioleta Kijewska, Lecturer in Mathematics
Dr Paul Sheeran, Senior Lecturer in International Business and Economics
Amy Tan, Senior Lecturer in Accounting & Finance
Lim Teoh, Senior Lecturer in Accounting & Taxation
Caroline Wilson, Senior Lecturer in Business Law & Corporate Governance

To meet the Law team, visit the dedicated Law page.

Research in Law, Economics, Accounting and Finance

Research Interests

Our academics have particular research interests in:

Accounting

Financial Reporting and International Financial Reporting Standards
Financial management
General accounting
Accounting Education
Ethics
Management Accounting & Control Issues
Contemporary Auditing and Corporate Governance Developments

Economics

Financial Economics
Monetary Economics
Public Economics
Institutional Economics
Economic History
Development Economics
Fiscal policy
Economic growth
Econometrics
Human capital
Corruption and emerging markets
Macroeconomics
Political economy
International trade
Ecological economics

Finance

Stock market investment
Capital structure and cost of capital
Investment risk and return
Investment strategies
Technical analysis
Derivatives and financial risk management
Financial Management
financial system
financial regulation
compliance and investment

Law

Business Law and Corporate Governance
Criminal law;
International Criminal Law;
Criminal Justice;
Commercial litigation;
Constitutional law
Dispute resolution
Employment law
Family law
Feminist legal theory
Healthcare law
Human rights
International law
Law and religion
Legal Philosophy
Medical law and Ethics
Privacy law
Public law
Tort law

Law Research Centres

Centre for Information Rights

The Centre for Information Rights (CIR) examines the overlap between information and privacy law, and new technologies and methods of data analysis.

CIR organises the annual Conference on Trust, Risk, Information and the Law (TRILCon), open to academics, postgraduate students, policy-makers and practitioners.

Centre for Parliament and Public Law

The Centre for Parliament and Public Law is an interdisciplinary centre focussed on all aspects of Public Law, with an emphasis on issues that cross the threshold of politics and law such as Brexit, the Monarchy, Human Rights and Devolution.

Postgraduate research supervision

We offer research supervision in a wide range of subjects. To find out more, explore our academic staff profile pages above for individual areas of supervision.

Find out everything you need to know to study for a postgraduate research degree at Winchester.