Call: The School of Management – Accounting and Finance at Swansea University is hosting the 2025 SWAG Annual Conference and Doctoral Colloquium of the British Accounting and Finance Association (BAFA), themed “Advancing Sustainability in Accounting and Finance Research”. The event encourages submissions on sustainability-related topics across all areas of Accounting and Finance. The Doctoral Colloquium provides doctoral students with the opportunity to present their research and receive feedback.
Paper submission: We invite submissions of extended abstracts (200–500 words), papers-in-progress, or full papers. Please email your submission to: south-western-ag@bafa.ac.uk
Format: Face-to-face presentations and attendance. Each academic paper presentation will have a discussant, and all presentations will be followed by a Q&A session with the audience.
Keynote speakers:
Professor Arman Eshraghi – Professor of Finance, Cardiff University, School of Accounting and Finance
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 – Professor of Accounting, University of Bristol, School of Accounting and Finance 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
