Mamunur Rashid

Dr Mamunur joined Christ Church Business School as a Senior Lecturer in Finance.

Dr Mamunur's teaching and research areas encompass a broad scope within quantitative and international finance, covering modules such as Excel in Finance, FinTech, and Portfolio Management.

Dr Mamunur is presently serving the role of Course Director for Economics.

Dr. Mamunur has had a teaching career spanning approximately two decades, during which he has taught in four countries. He was responsible for the designing, leading, and teaching of both undergraduate and postgraduate curricula pertaining to conventional and Islamic finance.

Mamunur possesses a substantial body of work, consisting of more than 100 manuscripts, five edited volumes, eleven grants, and numerous industry reports. His publications include works featured in esteemed academic journals such as JIFMIM, Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Renewable Energy, Tourism Analysis, International Review of Economics and Finance, Renewable Energy, and International Journal of Bank Marketing, among others.

Dr Mamunur has served as a fellow at the GIFTZ Centre of Prince Sultan University in Saudi Arabia. Additionally, he has assumed the role of Chief Judge for the Emerald Reviewer Training Competition in Malaysia. Furthermore, he has played a pivotal role as the founding deputy director of the CIBFR at the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus. Mamunur holds positions on the editorial boards of two widely recognised journals.

Dr. Mamunur can be contacted via email at mamunur.rashid@canterbury.ac.uk and mamun.finance@gmail.com.

Current teaching portfolio:

1) Excel in Finance

2) Business information and Analysis

3) Portfolio Management

4) The Business Environment

Proposed module:

1) Fintech

2) Sustainable corporate finance

Other modules taught:

1) Principles of Finance

2) Managerial Finance

3) Strategic Financial Management

4) International Finance

5) Bank Management

6) Islamic Capital Market

7) Financial Economics

8) Modern Financial Theory

9) Corporate Governance

10) Corporate Finance

Supervision and examination:

I am currently supervising three PhD students and examining Ph.D. thesis as an external and internal examiner.

Research areas:

1) Multinational Corporate Finance actions and policies influenced by social and cultural cohesiveness, values system, and religiosity.

2) Individual preferences, attitude, values, culture, religiosity, and biases influencing financial decisions, risk-taking.

3) Financial motivations behind sustainability, climate risk matrix, climate risk in SME credit risk matrix.

4) Fintech-based inclusion strategy, financial stability, market microstructure, and economic growth.

Research expertise:

1) Economic psychology theories

2) Panel data

3) Drafting and modelling

4) Qualitative financial research

Current research exercise:

1) Participating in a proposal for a collaborative research grant on financial risk-taking.

2) Supervising PhD students on energy, sustainability, and green finance in China.

Research Projects

Determinants of Environmental Sustainability: the role of financial development. Researcher(s): Mrs Jiaying Zhu. Supervisor(s): Dr Mamunur Rashid, Dr Richard McManus, Dr Amee Kim. [Postgraduate Research Project]
Determinants of Green Finance of Chinese Banks: A perspective on China’s Dual Carbon Target. Researcher(s): Ms Cecelia Qian. Supervisor(s): Dr Mamunur Rashid, Dr Richard McManus, Dr Amee Kim. [Postgraduate Research Project]
Fintech as a Catalyst for the Impact of Corporate Governance on ESG Performance: Evidence from Developed and Emerging Financial markets. Researcher(s): Miss Saima Afsheen. Supervisor(s): Dr Mamunur Rashid, Dr Amee Kim, Dr Richard McManus. [Postgraduate Research Project]
IMPACT OF INSTITUTIONAL FORCES ON CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN BANGLADESH LEATHER INDUSTRY. Researcher(s): Mr Mehfuzul Haque. Supervisor(s): Dr Amee Kim, Dr Mamunur Rashid, Dr Richard McManus. [Postgraduate Research Project]