About us – Team

With over 20 years of teaching, research, and consulting experience within academia and the financial sector.

As Director of FISRI, Dr Afriyie has strategic and operational oversight in ensuring that the knowledge produced by our staff, students and partners creates the needed transformative impacts in policies, practices, and generally in society.

His priorities are liaising with the Advisory Board and Steering Group members, providing research training, disseminating academic outputs, and ensuring readily accessible support and resources for our researchers.

His knowledge production activities take an interdisciplinary approach in seeking to engage with experts from different domains to achieve workable impacts. This defined the scope of his doctoral research which yielded the emergent expertise framework for understanding expertise. This framework provides the blueprints for developing individual and group excellence in many professional contexts.

Integrating human intelligence and machine capabilities is an essential aspect of this framework. This permeates all of Dr Afriyie’s research, consulting and teaching activities. In 2016, he embedded data science competencies and artificial intelligence in all subjects he teach. Similarly, he prefers applications of emerging technologies when conducting and supervising quantitative research in predictive analytics, asset management and decision making in finance.

FISRI is committed to advancing the creation and dissemination of knowledge so that finance works for all.

Eddie is an impactful leader and passionate advocate for the financial planning profession, with a career spanning over three decades. Throughout his extensive career, Eddie has been dedicated to supporting, mentoring, and spearheading initiatives that build consumer confidence and trust in the value of financial advice.

As a champion for apprenticeships and lifelong learning, Eddie has played a pivotal role in the evolution of our MBA, MSc, and PhD programs in finance, and in the formation of FISRI. He firmly believes in the power of robust and insightful research to drive the profession forward.

Eddie is a Chartered Financial Planner, Chartered Wealth Manager, and Fellow of the Personal Finance Society. He has earned a reputation as a compelling speaker, engaging audiences of advisers, professional connections, and clients across the UK.

Eddie’s leadership credentials include serving as the past president and longest-serving non-executive board member of the Personal Finance Society (PFS), the largest financial services professional body. He is also a CII Pension Trustee and a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Insurers.

Bob trained as an accountant but began to specialize in the developing areas of behavioural finance publishing books and research articles in the area and in its application to business and management. In recent years he has concentrated his research into the area of short time period judgement in multiple fields.

Stuart’s career has been primarily working with high tech startup businesses which includes joining Oracle when it was first set up in the UK. After being directly involved and advisor to a number of high growth software firms over the years, he founded FinTech West in 2018 which is now the representative body for FinTech in the South West of the UK which operates an open community for several thousand people. 

Stuart is also part of the Senior Leadership Team for the UKRI funded “Future Finance” project led by the University of Bristol and is involved in several initiatives for the benefit of UK FinTech such as the Centre for Finance, Innovation and Technology (CFIT) working on the future of Open Finance. He has been a key member of a number of projects researching into various challenges within finance and technology. 

With over 25 years of retail and academic experience, Philippa’s research centres on the effects of situational factors on consumers, the psychological and sociological determinants of consumption and the exploration of value.

She is a passionate advocate for the application of a wider range of methods in marketing research and for transdisciplinarity.
Over the course of her career, Philippa has published widely in a range of international journals and many books. She has contributed to numerous conferences, including as an invited keynote speaker and as an organizing committee member. Philippa has over 40 doctoral completions and a similar number of examinations.

Her research centres on the effects of situational factors on consumers, taking in issues of environmental psychology in relation to retail spaces and sociological considerations of consumption. These areas are also the focus of her doctoral supervision and the funded projects that she undertakes. This interest in retailing was generated through her management roles within Debenhams and Asda. She also continues to work with a number of retailers, manufacturers and marketing and research agencies as a consultant. Philippa additionally coordinates work for the Research Excellence Framework in Business and Management Studies and supports researcher development in the Gloucestershire Business School.

Philippa teaches marketing at undergraduate and masters levels. She also delivers research methods training for doctoral candidates and is a doctoral supervisor. She enjoys creating a participatory environment and working on issues brought into the classroom by the contributors and by external organizations.

Philippa’s research is undertaken collaboratively with colleagues internally, and externally – both in the UK and internationally. Her most recent work focuses on exploring two research streams. Firstly, she is leading a cross-institutional transdisciplinary team examining consumer responses and vulnerabilities to buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) services. This activity is aligned with Finance in Society Research Institute and has garnered support from commercial interests.

I am a Professor in Human Resource Management (HRM), and the Head of HRM Research Centre in the Business School, University of Gloucestershire. I am also an Academic Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).

My research interests lie in the areas of strategic HRM, international and comparative HRM, and measurement of organisational performance, with a particular focus on emerging markets. My research has appeared in leading management and HRM journals such as Human Resource Management, British Journal of Management, Management International Review, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, European Management Review, and the International Journal of Human Resource Management.

I am also an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Manpower and serve on the Editorial Boards of a number of academic journals, including the International Journal of Human Resource Management and Management Decision.

HRM, Institutions, and Performance in Emerging Markets: This research centres on the relationship between Human Resource Management, institutional setting, and organisational performance in emerging markets, where institutional arrangements remain fragile and fluid. It aims to examine whether specific combinations of HR practices coalesce together in emerging economies in order to enhance organisational effectiveness, and draw out the broader theoretical and applied implications of this in terms of understanding the nature of institutional coverage and complementarity in developing-world settings. Examples of countries in this study are the UAE, KSA, Jordan, India, Pakistan, China, Brunei, among others.

Jeremy is an accomplished practitioner, business owner, and wealth manager. His expertise lies in responsible business practices, ethical and impact investment planning, and enhancing the well-being of individuals. As the founder of a not-for-profit organisation, he is deeply committed to making a positive impact on society.

Dr. Chapman holds a Doctor of Professional Studies by Public Works degree. His research centres on fear and pressure within organisations driven by the pursuit of economic growth as the ultimate goal. He advocates for reframing this perspective through a better understanding and commitment to his framework, which emphasises integrity—both corporate and personal—as a fundamental way of being. By doing so, organisations can enhance their culture, well-being, and positive impact on society.

Jeremy is a Research Fellow at the UNESCO Futures Literacy Finance Chair at École des Ponts Business School in Paris. Additionally, he holds the position of Futures Fellow at Hawkwood College in Stroud, is Co-Founder of The Integrity Centre and serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Applied Accounting Research (JAAR).

His dedication to ethical business practices and commitment to self-improvement earned him the St. James’s Place Responsible Business of the Year Award in 2023.

Jeremy’s research focuses on the role of integrity in fostering responsible business practices and societal well-being, drawing on 35 years of experience in financial services. This aligns closely with FISRI’s mission to enhance the financial sector’s impact on society through pluralistic and inclusive research, bridging mainstream and heterodox perspectives.

As a senior lecturer in Accounting, I work across the department’s undergraduate, postgraduate and professional courses. I am a fellow of the Higher Education Academy. My research interest is in accounting reporting and disclosure. In particular, I am interested in investor relations, corporate governance and auditing.

I have previously worked in different international educational institutions such as Hull University, the Centre for Adult and Continuing Education, The American University in Cairo and Faculty of Becker Professional Review.

I have about 10 years of experience in the field of research and teaching. I am currently pursuing my PhD at the University of Gloucestershire. I have a strong foundation in quantitative analysis with the application of machine learning techniques, financial theory and empirical methods. I am passionate about leveraging research and teaching to bridge the gap between academia and industry.

I have about 10 years of experience in the field of research and teaching. I am currently pursuing my PhD at the University of Gloucestershire. I have a strong foundation in quantitative analysis with the application of machine learning techniques, financial theory and empirical methods. I am passionate about leveraging research and teaching to bridge the gap between academia and industry.