Dr Navjot Sandhu is Finance subject group lead, managing undergraduate and postgraduate Finance programmes in the department. She has a wide range of experience of developing, delivering higher education courses programmes, modules at the undergraduate and postgraduate level. She works closely with Finance professional bodies to get professional accreditations for Finance programmes. Dr Sandhu is a peer referee for various international journals and served as an assistant Editor for JSBED (Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development) for eight years. She won: the Birmingham City University Business School Best Research Paper Award 2012, Outstanding Reviewer Award by Emerald Literati Network 2013 and 2020. Currently, she is teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate level courses, research active and also supervising PhDs nationally and internationally. Dr Sandhu has extensive research publication within the domain of financing marginal farmers. In addition, she has extensive lived experiences of farmers in India and has networks with minority farmers in Canada, the USA and in the UK.