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Muhammad Islam

Also known as: Azizul Islam

University of Aberdeen, Queensland University of Technology

Research areas: Business, Management and Accounting · Strategy and Management · Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Corporate Law and Human Rights

ORCID iD 0000-0001-9359-8096
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M. Azizul (Aziz) Islam is Chair in Accountancy and the Director of Post Graduate Research (Accounting & Finance) at the University of Aberdeen Business School. He joined the University of Aberdeen in October, 2017 as Professor in Accountancy. Prior to this, he was Associate Professor in Accounting at QUT,  Senior Lecturer in Accounting at Deakin University and Lecturer in Accounting at RMIT University. He was also a faculty member at the University of Dhaka and Khulna University. Aziz is a Haskayne Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Calgary (2016) and was a distinguished visiting professor at the University of Gadjah Mada (2014). Aziz is a Certified Practising Accountant (CPA Australia) and a Chartered Accountant (CAANZ).
Aziz has been involved in academia for over 19 years, in which time he has held various leadership roles. These include (but not limited to): Director of Higher Degrees by Research (HDR) Program, Research Seminar Series Convenor, Faculty Research Ethics Advisor, Lead Research and Innovation Team, Honours & PhD Unit Coordinators (Research methods and Contemporary Issues in Accounting Research), Masters of Accounting Unit Coordinators (Management Accounting,  Financial Accounting Theory and Forensic Accounting & Investigation), Bachelor of Business (Accounting) Unit Coordinators (Accounting and Society, Management Accounting),  Co-Editor of Accounting Research Journal (2014-2015), Team Leader of QUT Accounting for Social and Environmental Sustainability Research Group, and Conference Session Chairs (AFAANZ, APIRA, CSEAR). Aziz has been involved in significant curriculum change and program development at Bachelor, Masters and HDR levels. In recognition of his dedication and leadership, Aziz has also received the School’s Award for Excellence in Administration and Support and the Dean’s Award for Team Teaching Excellence (2011).
Aziz completed his PhD on corporate social and environmental disclosures at RMIT University under the supervision of Professor Craig Deegan. In line with his PhD work, his current research interests are focused on corporate accountability, sustainability and disclosures. Aziz investigates some of the specific accountability and disclosure issues including (but not limited to): corporate human rights performance, climate change accounting, social audit and corporate anti-bribery performance. He is co-editor of a research book Sustainability after Rio (Emerald, 2015), and author of a research book Social Compliance Accounting: Managing Legitimacy in Global Supply Chains (Springer, 2015). He is an Outstanding Author Contribution Awards winner at the Emerald’s Literati Network Awards for Excellence (2013), for a book chapter entitled Online Reporting of Sustainability: A Study of Global Clothing Suppliers. Aziz’s research paper NGO collaboration and Conflict Mineral Disclosure Transparency: Evidence from Global Companies (with Professor van Staden) was accepted for presentation at the Best Concurrent Paper Session of AFAANZ Conference (2016). He also received the School’s Best Research Paper Award from Deakin in 2009. He has externally funded research monographs on Corporate Social Disclosures within a Global Garment Industry (Funding body: ACCA UK with Professor Deegan, 2010) and Accounting for Human Rights (Funding body: CAANZ with Professor McPhail, 2014). He has also led a funded project on anti-bribery disclosure practices by Australian companies (Funding body: CAANZ, 2012-2013). In 2017, as a Lead and Chief Investigator, he won a big industry grant on Social Compliance Audit Process in collaboration with CSIRO/Data61.
Aziz’s scholarly work appears in Accounting, Organisation and Society, Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Accounting and Business Research, Critical Perspective on Accounting, The British Accounting Review, Public Money & Management, Accounting Forum, Qualitative Research in Accounting, & Management, Australian Accounting Review, Business & Politics, Journal of Business Ethics, Australasian Journal of Environmental Management, Social Responsibility Journal and Society & Business Review.
 Since 2010, Aziz has attained 2 honours and 6 HDR completions (2 PhD and 4 Mphil), and he is currently supervising 6 HDR students (3 PhD and 1 Mphil).

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