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Dr Martin Roberts FHEA, FCMA, CGMA

Summary

I teach across a range of related areas in the field of finance and accounting, specialising in management accounting. Due to my previous and on-going involvement experience in industry at director level, I have the status of Fellow Chartered Management Accountant (FCMA), which is the highest award granted by the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA). 

The industry experience that I have comes from working for large FTSE100 companies such as, Cadbury's, Smith and Nephew, Rexam, Alliance and Leicester. For twelve years, as well as lecturing, I was also working with Eldon Electric Ltd as a consultant UK Finance Director. My PhD is based on research into communication apprehension and communication self-efficacy in accounting students. 

I have always been interested in ensuring accounting students are ready to add value to any organisation and as such, I have been involved in publishing papers, presenting papers, and obtaining grants on pedagogic issues such as group work, communication apprehension and financial literacy. 

The experience obtained from both industry and teaching has allowed me to chair and be a member of several examination panels for the chartered and certified professional accounting bodies (CIMA, ACCA). 

I am also very proud to have been recognised by the students for my efforts by being a recipient of Ï㽶ÊÓƵ's Inspirational Teaching Award - 2015, 2013 and 2019, and I have won the Vice Chancellor's Award for Teaching in recognition of receiving an Inspirational Teaching Award in these three previous years. 

Teaching interests - accounting - accounting and financial management - business and accounting - facilities management research interests - financial literacy - undergraduate teaching - management accounting - managing finance - professional accounting skills for business decisions Postgraduate teaching - CIMA P1- facilities management - SIG executive development programme - Youngman's executive development programme.