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Staff Profile

Dr Yousry Ahmed

Senior Lecturer

  • Email: yousry.ahmed@ncl.ac.uk
  • Telephone: +44 (0)191 208 2317
  • Address: Newcastle University Business School
    Room 3.50
    Frederick Douglass Centre
    Newcastle University, Newcastle Helix, 2 Science Square, Newcastle upon Tyne,
    NE4 5TG
Background

Dr Yousry Ahmed is a Senior lecturer in Accounting and Finance at Newcastle University Business School. He holds a PhD in Finance from the University of Bristol. His research interests involve topics of Behavioural Finance, Corporate finance, Capital Structure, and Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A). In particular, his research examines the predictive power of different business narratives on subsequent corporate decisions. He has published work in leading academic journals, including the British Journal of Management, the Journal of International Review of Financial Analysis and the Journal of International Business Review.

Dr Ahmed teaching experience was gained since 2004 through working at The University of Bristol, Northumbria University and Newcastle University. The majority of his teaching focuses on topics related to Corporate Finance, Financial Management, Financial Markets, Financial Statement Analysis and International Finance.

This experience improves his skills in RIT (Research to inform teaching) by designing a research -active curriculum, using teaching and learning based processes which simulate research processes, bringing data/findings from research into the curriculum, and using assignments which involve elements of research processes. He designed Accounting and Finance module`s curriculum for MBA program at Northumbria University. This course is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) and AMBA.



Major Roles

Ø A member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Finance & Accounting.

Ø A chair of the board of studies for the 3 MSc Finance programmes.

Ø PG admission AFSI & AFFA master programmes

Ø A researcher representative on the School Education Committee. 

Ø A research cluster lead for a behavioural finance group.

Ø Module leader for Corporate Finance (

Ø Supervisor of PhD students (Two students have completed their PhD under my supervision)

Ø Internal and external examiner of PhD viva.

Ø An external examiner for both undergraduate and postgraduate programs

ØAwarded the Outstanding ECR Researcher of the Year A&F, Newcastle University, 2023


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Qualifications

Ø PhD in Finance and Accounting, University of Bristol.       

Ø MSc International Business and Finance at Leicester Business School, De Montfort University.

Ø Pre- MSc in Business Studies, Business Administration Department.

Ø BA in Business Administration, Business Administration Department.

 

Professional Affiliations

Ø European Financial Management Association (EFMA).

Ø British Accounting & Finance Association (BAFA).

Ø The European Finance Association (EFA).


Administrative Experiences

Ø Reviewing ethical forms of undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations at Northumbria University

Ø An organiser for PhD seminars at the University of Bristol.

Ø An organiser for a reading group at the University of Bristol



  

IT Skills:                                                                                                                                      

Ø STATA, SAS Eventus, Eviews and SPSS.

Ø Professional user of various databases including Datastream, Thomson one Banker, WRDS, CRSP, Compustat, Capital IQ, SEC and EDGAR.

Ø Diction software

 Google Scholar: Click here.

Teaching

The majority of his teaching focuses on topics related to Corporate Finance, Financial Management, Financial Markets, Financial Statement Analysis and International Finance.


I have been a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) since 2019.


Undergraduate Teaching

  • ACC2007: Responsible Corporate Finance
  • ACC2008: Introduction to Corporate Finance


Postgraduate Teaching

  • NBS8003: Financial information analysis
  • NBS8001: International Finance and Capital Markets


PhDTeaching


  • NBS8567: Topics in Finance


My sessions are Re-cap recorded and students' evaluation scores are typically within the range of 4.6-4.8 out of 5.

Research

Dr Yousry Ahmed's research interests lie in the field of Behavioural Finance, Corporate finance, Capital Structure, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), Green finance and ESG. In particular, his research investigates the predictive power of different business narratives on subsequent corporate decisions. It also provides new insights on the mechanism through which business sentiments can influence shareholders’ wealth. Dr Ahmed uses highly innovative research methodologies i.e., textual analysis computer software to measure the level and quality of narrative reporting and identify its information content. He has published work in leading academic journals, including the Journal of International Review of Financial Analysis and the Journal of International Business Review. He is a reviewer at International Review of Financial Analysis, International Business Review and Applied Accounting Research Journals.


 I am always interested in discussing research proposals in these areas with prospective PhD students as well as other areas in finance.

Google Scholar Citations :

https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=list_works&hl=en&user=_zPRk9IAAAAJ 





Publications