Financial Ethics and Governance Research Group - FEGReG

The University has many years of experience and expertise in the area of Financial Ethics and Governance; the research group brings together this expertise and activity, acting as a significant focal point for research and scholarship in the Business School under the following areas:

• Accounting ethics and social and environmental accounting
• Banking ethics and socially responsible / ethical investment
• Corporate governance, including non-business organisations
• Related aspects of business ethics

In addition to academic research and publications, FEGReG undertakes applied research and consultancy projects. Externally funded work has included the production of a guide on risk management for governors of higher education institutions (published by the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education), board development work for housing associations, research into non-executive directors of UK building societies (supported by Financial Leeds and the Building Societies Association) and work on accountants and professional ethics (with funding from the P.D. Leake Trust of the ICAEW).

Current business area and sectors of expertise covered by FEGReg include:

• Charities, Third Sector and Social Enterprises: governance and management development
• Social housing governance, especially board training and appraisal
• Further Education governance
• Higher Education governance
• Primary Health Care governance
• Charity finance and reporting
• Corporate governance, especially initial public offerings and executive remuneration
• Financial ethics and ethical investment
• Ethical and social accounting and reporting

The Wiley-Blackwell journal Business Ethics: A European Review, edited by Professor Chris Cowton, is also associated with FEGReG.