Four at the seaside
Pictured on the Dean’s balcony, left to right:
Julie Drake (supervisor), Jenny Omobolaji-Epoyun, Dafi Sahdan, Sartini Wardiwiyono, Chris Cowton (supervisor, FEGReG Director and Dean).
Not pictured: Zakiyah Sharif.
Sat, 01 Sep 2012 16:29:00 BST
In April, four FEGReG PhD students made the trip from Huddersfield to the south coast of England for the 2012 annual conference of the British Accounting and Finance Association in Brighton. Three (Dafi Sahdan, Jenny Omobolaji-Epoyun and Zakiyah Sharif) participated in the Doctoral Colloquium, while Sartini Wardiwiyono presented a paper at the main conference.
The researchers all seem to have enjoyed the conference and to have benefited from the experience. Sartini commented that it was really beneficial for her, with encouraging comments received on her paper on the determinants of audit fees in Indonesia.
Jenny (researching non-executive directors in Nigeria) and Zakiyah found the atmosphere at the doctoral colloquium really supportive. Zakiyah was particularly pleased to have the opportunity to introduce her proposed research on the whistleblowing intentions of internal auditors and to meet other doctoral students, some of them in their second or third year of study.
Dafi similarly found it a positive experience to be able to present his early ideas on his research on public sector organisations’ intentions to use forensic accounting services to detect and prevent fraud. The input of both established experts and fellow doctoral students was really helpful.
Director of FEGReG, Professor Chris Cowton, was unable to attend the conference, but the “dress rehearsals” at the University before the conference left him “confident that all four would do FEGReG – and the University of Huddersfield – proud”. All four research students seem to have caught the conference bug and look likely to be presenting further papers, supported by the University, as their research progresses.
