South West Area Group (SWAG) Annual Conference 2025

This year the South West Area Group (SWAG) will hold a one-day combined Doctoral Colloquium and Annual Conference on Monday, 8 September 2025. It will be hosted by the School of Management of Swansea University at its Bay Campus. The theme for the Conference is: Advancing Sustainability and Innovation in Accounting & Finance Research

Keynote speakers

Professor Arman Eshraghi

Arman Eshraghi holds the Chair of Finance and Investment at Cardiff University, UK. His academic research spans finance, accounting, and management, with interests including behavioural/corporate/sustainable finance and financial technology. His work has been published in some leading journals of the field and cited widely, including in the Financial Times, Washington Post, Forbes, Bloomberg, BBC, Euronews, and Harvard Business Review. Prof. Eshraghi is Editor-in- Chief of the International Review of Economics and Finance, Senior Editor of Finance Research Letters and Global Finance Journal, and currently guest-editing for the European Journal of Finance. He has served as Shimomura Fellow at the Development Bank of Japan, Erskine Fellow at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, and Advisory Board Member at Fintech Wales. He chairs the professorial committee of the British Accounting and Finance Association.

Professor Stuart Cooper

Stuart Cooper is Professor of Accounting at the University of Bristol. His research interests include issues related to the effects of organisations on environmental sustainability and social justice. He is particularly interested in accountability mechanisms and how organisations measure, manage and communicate their environmental and social impacts to their stakeholders. His research has been published in international journals such as: Accounting and Business Research; Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal; Accounting, Organizations & Society; and Critical Perspectives on Accounting. Stuart is part of the editorial board of several journals including: Accounting and Business Research, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, Accounting Forum, Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, Social Responsibility Journal. In the past he was associate editor at British Accounting Review and Editor of Advances in Environmental Accounting & Management.

Further details of the Conference, including timings and costs will be available on this page in due course.

Call for Papers (Open)

Deadline: 6 July 2025

Abstracts (200 to 500 words) or full papers are invited from both PhD students and academic staff. Please submit your Abstract or Paper by 6 July 2025 by email to: south-western-ag@bafa.ac.uk

All entrants will be informed of the outcome in due course after the submission deadline.

Registration

Opens: 28 April 2025
Closes: Midnight (BST) on 20 August 2025

Fees: 

Academic Staff: £50
PhD Students: £30

Registration will by via your BAFA membership account.

If you are not already a member of BAFA, you will need to join and pay the annual subscription of:

Academic staff £30
PhD students £15