The UK Women in Finance Workshop aims to bring together women in finance from across the UK and beyond, fostering a dynamic and supportive environment for research, networking and professional development.

This is the fourth in a series of annual workshops, following successful events at Warwick Business School (2024), Imperial College Business School (2025) and Bayes Business School (2026).

While the event is primarily focused on women, everyone is welcome to attend and participate.

The programme will include keynote speeches, research paper presentations with discussants, a poster session for PhD students and early-career researchers, and opportunities for networking.

The keynote speakers are Professor Kai Li (UBC Sauder School of Business) and Professor Cláudia Custódio (Imperial College Business School).

We welcome the widest possible participation. Registration is free and will be on a first-come, first-served basis, with details announced separately.

This event is sponsored by the University of Bath School of Management, the Academic Female Finance Committee of the American Finance Association (AFFECT), and International Review of Finance.

We invite submissions of research papers from all areas of finance. We particularly encourage submissions from women researchers, PhD students and early-career scholars.

Please submit a full manuscript in PDF format by 1 February 2027 to women-in-finance@bath.ac.uk.

• Hanwen Sun, Professor of Accounting and Finance
• Winifred Huang, Professor of Finance and Digital Strategy
• Chen Zheng, Associate Professor of Finance
• Ru Xie, Associate Professor of Finance
• Victoria Willis, Associate Professor of Finance
• Xiaohan Xue, Assistant Professor of Finance
• Peng Li, Assistant Professor of Finance

• Barbara Casu (Bayes Business School)
• Lora Dimitrova (University of Exeter Business School)
• Moqi Groen-Xu (Queen Mary Business School of Economics and Finance)
• Xian Gu (Durham University Business School)
• Clara Martinez-Toledano (Imperial College Business School)
• Neslihan Ozkan (University of Bristol Business School)
• Ni Peng (Queen Mary Business School)
• Sujata Visaria (Bayes Business School)
• Sarah Wang (Warwick Business School)
• Chelsea Yao (Lancaster University Management School)
• Ania Zalewska (University of Leicester School of Business)