Professor M. Azizul Islam

PhD, CA

Chair in Accountancy

51cg

Email Address: azizul.islam@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number: +44 (0)1224 272710
Office Address: 825 MacRobert Building
Old Aberdeen Campus
581 King Street
AB24 5UA
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School/Department: Business School

Biography

Muhammad Azizul (Aziz) Islam, PhD, is a Professor in Sustainability Accounting & Transparency, Chair in Accountancy, and the Director of Research for the Accounting Discipline at the 51cg Business School. He is a Chartered Accountant (CAANZ). In 2025, he was conferred the Fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) and featured as a leading social scientist by the Academy in recognition of his outstanding research impact.

Aziz has widespread experience in various leadership roles in academia. He won the School's Award for Excellence in Administration and Support and the Dean's Award for Team Teaching Excellence in 2011.

Aziz is widely recognised internationally as a leading sustainability accounting researcher. He investigates sustainability accounting and transparency issues including human rights disclosures, modern slavery disclosures, social audits, climate change accounting and anti-bribery measures. His research has been funded by ACCA, CPA (Australia), CAANZ, UKRI-AHRC, and GCRF-SFC among others. He has received two prestigious grants for studies on corporate accountability in relation to modern slavery in global fashion chains, which support social movements advocating for Fashion Watchdog in the UK.

Aziz has received two Vice-Chancellor Excellence Awards: Research Project of the Year 2022 and Research Impact 2023 among others. He was a finalist for the Green Gown Award in association with UKRI twice (2022, 2023), and he was a finalist for the Project of The Year category at the Times Higher Education Awards in 2023. He was honoured to receive the .

Aziz’s research appears in high-impact journals (ABDC A*/A, ABS 4*/3*, FT's top 50), attracting widespread media attention and influencing policy changes. His research and opinions appear in the , , , , , , , , , among many others.

Professor M Azizul Islam's blog

Professor Islam writes blogs for the 51cg based on his research

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Member of the Senate at the 51cg, representing the Business School

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BU5850:Accounting Profession

BU5574/75: Financial Analysis

BU5847/48: Studies in Accounting/Finance

AC4033: Accounting Theory

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Corporate Disclosure in Relation to Combating Corporate Bribery: A Case Study of Two Chinese Telecommunications Companies

Do stakeholders or social obligations drive corporate social and environmental responsibility reporting? Managerial views from a developing country

Stakeholder pressures on corporate climate change-related accountability and disclosures: Australian evidence

A Preliminary Analysis of Australian Government's Indigenous Reform Agenda 'Closing the Gap' and Corporate Accountability

Carbon Emission Accounting Fraud

Corporate accountability in relation to human rights: Have RIOs done enough?

An exploration of NGO and media efforts to influence workplace practices and associated accountability within global supply chains

Bribery and corruption in Australian local councils

The United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Putting Accounting for Human Rights into Practice

Corporate accountability for human rights: Summary report

Workplace Human Rights Reporting: A Study of Australian Garment and Retail Companies

Corporate Commitment to Sustainability - Is it All Hot Air? An Australian Review of the Linkage between Executive Pay and Sustainable Performance

Regulating for corporate human rights abuses: The emergence of corporate reporting on the ILO's human rights standards within the global garment manufacturing and retail industry

Environmental incidents in a developing country and corporate environmental disclosures

Corporate sustainability reporting of major commercial banks in line with GRI: Bangladesh evidence

Media pressures and corporate disclosure of social responsibility performance information: A study of two global clothing and sports retail companies

Social Responsibility Disclosure Practices: Evidence from Bangladesh

Grameen Bank's social performance disclosure: Responding to a negative assessment by Wall Street Journal in late 2001

Motivations for an organisation within a developing country to report social responsibility information

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