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Finance

The Department of Finance at Queen's Management School brings together expertise in equities, derivatives, banking, corporate finance, and financial history.

Our supportive research environment fosters meaningful engagement with the non-academic world and facilitates the pursuit of high-quality publications. Our research has appeared in leading peer-reviewed scholarly journals including the Review of Financial Studies, Review of Finance, and Journal of Corporate Finance. 

We provide excellent research-led teaching to undergraduates, postgraduates and working professionals, and our staff regularly consult with financial and policy-making institutions such as The Bank of England, the Chartered Financial Analyst Institute, and the Commission on Credit Unions.

15th in the UK

for Accounting & Finance

Times & Sunday Times Good University Guide 2023
9th in the UK

for Accounting & Finance

Complete University Guide 2023
Gareth Campbell
Key Academic Contacts
  • Head of Department of Finance: Professor Gareth Campbell
  • BSc Finance Programme Director: Dr Lisa Sheenan
  • BSc Actuarial Science Programme Director: Neil McConville
  • MSc Finance Programme Director: Dr Tony Klein
  • MSc Quantitative Finance Programme Director: Dr Fearghal Kearney
  • MSc Risk and Investment Management Programme Director: Dr Yerzhan Tokbolat
  • MSc Actuarial Science Programme Director: Dr Mark Farrell
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Postgraduate Research

Queen’s Management School hosts an active community of doctoral students in Finance and related disciplines. Each student is supervised by at least two members of academic staff.

Prospective students who do not yet have the requisite background in Finance to pursue PhD research directly are encouraged to apply for our MSc programme, which embeds core research training skills throughout the degree.

    • MSc Finance 
    • MSc Risk and Investment Management 
    • MSc Quantitative Finance 
    • PhD Finance 

Finance Resources

To develop research, staff and students have access to Bloomberg terminals in the FinTrU Trading Room, a market leader of financial news, data and analytics. This is also supported with access to S&P Global, DataStream Advance, Thomson One Analytics, Wharton Research Data Services, and the Financial Times Online.

The Finance Group also runs the Queen’s Student Managed Fund (QSMF) which manages a real-money investment portfolio of £50,000.


Research Centres

The research focus and strengths of the Department of Finance align with the School’s Finance, Technology and Artificial Intelligence Research Lab (FAB) - an industry-focused, cross-disciplinary research lab providing thought leadership for Northern Ireland’s vibrant financial technology ecosystem.


Latest Publications

  • Practice-relevant model validation: Distributional parameter risk analysis in financial model risk management
    • Mark Cummins
    • Fabian Gogolin
    • Fearghal Kearney
    • Greg Kiely
    • Bernard Murphy
    4 March 2022
  • Commodity Risk in European Dairy Firms
    • Guillaume Bagnarosa
    • Mark Cummins
    • Michael Dowling
    • Fearghal Kearney
    January 2022
  • Before the cult of equity: the British stock market, 1829–1929
    • Gareth Campbell
    • Richard S Grossman
    • John Turner
    2 November 2021
  • Capital Market Development over the Long Run: The Portfolios of UK Life Assurers over Two Centuries
    • David Bogle
    • Christopher Coyle
    • John Turner
    16 September 2021
  • Dynamic functional time-series forecasts of foreign exchange implied volatility surfaces
    • Han Lin Shang
    • Fearghal Kearney
    3 September 2021
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Finance Research Project Spotlight

Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles

Why do stock and housing markets sometimes experience amazing booms followed by massive busts, and why is this happening more and more frequently? In order to answer these questions, Dr Will Quinn and Professor John Turner published 'Boom and Bust', a history of financial bubbles to help us understand why bubbles happen, and why some have catastrophic economic, social and political consequences whilst others have actually benefited society. 

Read the Financial Times review of 'Boom and Bust'.


Helping financial analysts learn from past crises

Research on historical financial crises by Professor John Turner uses the past to help shed light on why banking crises happen and what we can do to prevent them in the future. This research has impacted on policy-making, professional practice, and historical awareness and knowledge of staff at the Bank of England. It has also impacted the non-academic study of business history and has reached tens of thousands of financial analysts.

Read more on making banking crisis-proof.


Transformation in the Irish credit union sector

Research led by Professor Donal McKillop has played a key role in shaping a transformation of the Irish credit union sector, guiding the introduction of a strengthened regulatory framework to promote financial stability and offering diversification opportunities for credit unions.

Read more on the transformation of the Irish credit union sector.


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