Dr John Malagila

Biography

Dr John Kalimilo Malagila is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Accounting and an Associate Director of Education for the Accounting Group at Essex Business School (EBS), University of Essex. John joined EBS in 2022, after briefly working at the University Bradford School of Management as an Associate Professor in Accounting and Finance. Previously, he worked at the University of Southampton Business School as a Lecturer in accounting for 11 years and held administrative roles such as Academic Integrity Officer and Director of Accounting and Finance Programmes. John is an active contributor to research and education in accounting. On research, he contributes through research publications, as lead/co-investigator in funded research projects and impact activities, research papers peer review for prestigious international journals of accounting, governance and business, and PhD research student supervisions. He has considerable international experience of more than 25 years (since 1997) in teaching at higher learning institutions. He has led and taught academic and professional courses in accounting, finance, auditing, and taxation, including quantitative and qualitative research methodology modules for accounting and finance research students. John’s research interests/activities are broadly/primarily in the areas of corporate sustainability (e.g., governance, social and environmental reporting, disclosure, and performance); auditing and accountability; market-based accounting research and financial reporting/disclosure; public sector and critical perspectives on accounting. His research work has been published in several internationally recognised journals such as the British Journal of Management, Accounting Forum, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, International Journal of Finance and Economics, International Review of Financial Analysis, Journal of Accounting in Emerging Economies, Corporate Governance: The International Journal of Business in Society, and the International Journal of Accounting & Information Management (See https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/malag22909/john-malagila). On research grants/funding, he has some funded research project successes in recent years, and a potentially promising future. To date, John’s total value of research funding applied is about £282,000, and a total award value of about £252,000. John was a co-investigator of a successfully completed project to develop a national code of corporate governance for Ghana (https://www.ecgi.global/node/10199), funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the University of Southampton Business School, and launched in December 2022 (https://iodghana.org/national-corporate-governance-code-set-to-be-launched/). Currently, John is a lead-investigator of a project on developing a unified national corporate governance code for Tanzania. The project is at its inception stages and working/in contact with key impact audiences in Tanzania such as the Office of the Treasury Registrar, Capital Market and Securities Authority, Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange, and Tanzania National Audit Office. In terms of academic education qualifications, John holds a PhD in Business Studies and Management from the University of Southampton, UK and MBA and B. Com degrees from the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Professionally, John is recognised as a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) in the UK, currently known as the Advance HE (https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/). He also holds a CPA (T) certificate of the National Board of Accountants and Auditors of Tanzania.

Appointments

University of Essex

• Associate Director of Education, Accounting Group, Essex Business School, University of Essex (1/4/2023 - present)