Sarah Mohamed

Dr Sarah Mohamed is a British-Egyptian academic and Senior Lecturer in Accountancy at Birmingham City University Business School. Prior to joining BCU, she was a Lecturer in Accounting at the University of Leicester School of Business, where she also served as PhD Lead (Deputy Programme Director) for Accounting and Finance PhD students, and as a REF Output Reviewer. Her previous academic posts include University Teacher at Loughborough University’s School of Business and Economics and Lecturer and Research Assistant at the Faculty of Management Technology, German University in Cairo (GUC), Egypt.

Sarah holds a PhD in Accounting from the University of Leicester and an MSc in Accounting, Finance, and Economics from the German University in Cairo. She is a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and a Certified Management and Business Educator (CMBE). With over 16 years of experience in higher education, she has taught a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate accounting modules including management accounting, cost accounting, financial accounting, planning and budgeting, accountability and control, and strategic management accounting.

She has led both curriculum-driven and research-led modules and has been actively involved in curriculum design and development at Leicester and GUC. Sarah has supervised numerous BSc, MSc, and PhD dissertations in both accounting and finance.

Her research is interdisciplinary, with a focus on management accounting, innovation and accountability. She has presented her work at leading international research conferences and is an active member of the British Accounting and Finance Association (BAFA) and the UK Management Control Association. She sits on the Executive Board of the BAFA Interdisciplinary Perspectives Special Interest Group (IPSIG), where she also serves as Secretary. She has led the organisation of the BAFA IPSIG Doctoral Colloquium for three consecutive years and contributed to the organising committee of the Alternative Accounts Europe International Conference.

Sarah’s PhD research has been awarded funding by both the University of Leicester and Loughborough University.