Abeer Hassan is Reader in Accounting, School of Business and Creative industries at the University of West of Scotland, UK. She is a leading scholar and her innovative, evidence-based research has appeared in highly regarded outlets. Abeer has published more than 80 articles in peer-reviewed journals and conferences.

 Abeer joined the University in December 2004 as a Lecturer in Accounting and promoted to Senior Lecturer in Accounting in 2017. Before that she had taught and researched accounting at Nottingham University and Keele University.

Before joining academia, Abeer worked as an auditor for 10 years at the National Authority of Auditing and Performance Evaluation, Egypt. She got her first degree in Accounting in 1986, awarded MSc in 1994 and PhD in 2003.

Abeer is a leading scholar in the field of Corporate social responsibility and Environmental management, Integrated Reporting, Biodiversity, Extinction Accounting. She is also expert in the area of Private equity and venture capital as sources of finance for SMEs, Female entrepreneurship, Gender in Accounting. 

My current research activities include:

• Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management Reporting practices
• Biodiversity and Extinction Accounting
• Integrated Reporting  Reporting Practices
• Reporting practices in Public sector with more focus on Higher Education sector
• Circular Economy Reporting Practices
• Corportae Governance Practices
• Femal Entrepreneurship in developing countries
• Disability and entrepreneurship in developing countries
• Gender in Accounting
• Developing the Hidden Curriculum for PhD students

−    Will carry on with my current reserach activities with some focus on both developed and developing countries

As an expert Scholar in suistainability, I am open to work collaborativly with some companies in UK and abroad on how to report on Biodiversity, Circular Economy, etc...

As an expert Scholar in suistainability, I am open to work collaborativly with organization in UK and abroad on how to report on Biodiversity, Circular Economy, etc...

In addition to the above, my other areas of expertise include: Budgeting, Varainaces, Standard costings, Segment Reporting, Financial and non-Financial performance measures, including the implementation of Balanced Scorecard, Quality Costs, Environmental Cost reports.

 In terms of Teaching & Learning and Students’ Success. As a reflective practitioner, Abeer has more than 18 years teaching experience in UK HE sector, leading modules and programmes. She believes that having passion for teaching and learning activities to embody the enthusiasm for the subjects and bring research expertise into classroom is one of her qualities. She supports delivering teaching that is based on contemporary approaches to learning and is constantly scanning for improvements, based on students’ feedback as partners in the learning process. This is to ensure students are capable of transferring knowledge into practice. She is keen advocate of embedding employability and graduate skills into courses and provide supportive learning environment that ensures maximum student engagement and promote the interactive approach in staff-student contact time to develop independent learners.

In her teachig, Abeer is always create an interactive environment with students and prefer to adopt innovative ideas for assessment to encourage students to link theory into practice.

Abeer teaches Management Accounting with more focus on suistianability.

Abeer is always provide support to her students to develop their employability skills beside their academic skills to be ready for professsional  jobs after graduation