PhD, CA
Chair in Accountancy
- About
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- Email Address
- azizul.islam@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 272710
- Office Address
- School/Department
- Business School
Biography
Muhammad Azizul Islam (Aziz) is a Professor in Sustainability Accounting & Transparency, Chair in Accountancy, and the Director of Research for the Accounting Discipline at the University of Aberdeen Business School. Aziz is a Chartered Accountant (CAANZ).
Aziz has 24+ years of experience in academia, including various leadership roles. He won the School's Award for Excellence in Administration and Support, and the Dean's Award for Team Teaching Excellence in 2011.
Aziz is widely recognised internationally as a leading sustainability accounting researcher. He investigates some of the specific sustainability accounting and transparency issues, including (but not limited to) corporate human rights measures, climate change accounting, social audit and corporate anti-bribery measures. His research has been funded by various organizations, including ACCA (UK), CPA (Australia), CAANZ, CSIRO/Data61, UK AHRC, and GCRF-Scottish Funding Council. Notably, he has received two prestigious grants (UK AHRC and GCRF-Scottish Funding Council) for two projects on corporate accountability in relation to modern slavery.
Aziz has received several awards for his research, including two Vice-Chancellor Excellence awards for his research project (2022) and research impact (2023), respectively. He was also a finalist for the Green Gown Award in association with UKRI for two consecutive years (2022, 2023), and he was a finalist for the Project of The Year category at the Times Higher Education Awards in 2023.
Aziz’s research appears in internationally recognised journals (ABDC A*/A, ABS 4*/3*, FT's top 50). His research findings attract widespread media attention and influence policy changes. His research-based opinions appear in BBC, The Guardian, Aljazeera, The Times, Sunday Post, Conversation, The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, Prothom Alo, IFAC-Gateway, Accountingweb and ICAEW feature articles.
Aziz is currently supervising four PhD and two post-doctoral candidates.
- Teaching
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Teaching Responsibilities
BU5850:Accounting Profession
BU5574/75: Financial Analysis
BU5847/48: Studies in Accounting/Finance
AC4033: Accounting Theory
- Publications
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Social impact disclosure and symbolic power: Evidence from UK Fair Trade Organizations
Critical Perspectives On Accounting, vol. 79, 102182Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAccountants’ Due Diligence for SDG Transparency in the Post-Covid-19 Era
IFACContributions to Journals: Comments and DebatesCorporate human rights performance and moral power: a study of retail MNCs’ supply chains in Bangladesh
Critical Perspectives On Accounting, vol. 74, 102163Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCoronavirus measures give Bangladeshi workers for global clothing chains a stark choice: disease or starvation
The ConversationContributions to Specialist Publications: ArticlesRegulating Transparency and Disclosures on Modern Slavery in Global Supply Chains: A 'Conversation Starter' or a 'Tick-box excercises?
Commissioned by CPA AUSTRALIA. CPA Australia. 22 pagesBooks and Reports: Other ReportsMandated Social Disclosure: An Analysis of the Response to the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act of 2010
Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 152, pp. 827-841Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-016-3364-7
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/9717/1/CTSCA_paper_JBE_Rev2.pdf
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
What is corporate social responsibility – and does it work?
The ConversationContributions to Specialist Publications: ArticlesCorporate Social Responsibility Disclosures, Traditionalism and Politics: A Story from a Traditional Setting
Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 151, no. 2, pp. 409-428Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] http://www.mendeley.com/research/corporate-social-responsibility-disclosures-traditionalism-politics-story-traditional-setting
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-016-3214-7
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/9716/3/Uddin2018_Article_CorporateSocialResponsibilityD.pdf
Environmental Accounting
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Entries for Encyclopedias and Dictionaries- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23514-1_215-1
Tackling Modern Slavery: What Role Can Accountants Play?
Contributions to Specialist Publications: Featured Articles