Anna is an Associate Professor in Finance and the Research Lead and PhD Coordinator of the Accounting and Finance Subject Group. She line manages and provides leadership to a team of AnF academics.Anna's research interests focus on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, Fintech, corporate finance, and sustainable finance. Her research initiatives have been awarded external funding totalling £164,890, including five grants from The National Social Science Fund of China (NSSFC) under the auspices of the State Council of China. Anna’s work has appeared in international peer-reviewed journals, including British Journal of Management (CABS 4), Energy Economics (CABS 3), International Business Review (CABS 3), International Review of Financial Analysis (CABS 3), Review of Quantitative Finance & Accounting (CABS 3), International Marketing Review (CABS 3), Technological Forecasting and Social Change (ABS 3), Journal of Environmental Management (CABS 3), among others. Anna has shown a significant dedication to guiding academic development, and actively engaging in supervising doctoral students. She has successfully supervised four PhD students to completion and continues supervising research students. She frequently serves in the capacity of both internal and external examiner for doctoral dissertations, across the UK, Australia, and China. She has served as a scientific/committee board member at twelve international conferences and also presented a number of papers at international conferences in Sydney, Australia; Paris, France; Atlanta, USA; Steyr, Austria; Queenstown, New Zealand; Prague, Czech Republic; Istanbul and Izmir, Turkey; Wuhan, Hangzhou, Ningbo and Beijing, China; Da Nang and Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam; Belfast, UK.As a teacher, Anna has over ten years of experience teaching accounting and finance courses on BA, MSc, MBA, Executive MBA and PhD programmes and served as a programme leader of BA online Accounting (ACCA) at Napier, MSc Finance and BA Business Management with Finance at Leeds Business School. She is a Fellow of the HEA. She is also a distinguished visiting professor at Zhejiang University of Technology, China.Anna's teaching abilities have been repeatedly honoured, securing her the esteemed award of Best Lecturer in Accounting, Finance, and Law at the ENSA Excellence Awards for two consecutive years, in 2022 and 2023.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLN-qz7GPJ8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvi9KN0qJOA