Dr Riham Rizk, BA (Hons), MBA, PhD
Contact Dr Riham Rizk (email at riham.rizk@durham.ac.uk)
Biography
Riham gained a joint honours degree in Accounting and Marketing from Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts in the USA. She then went on to complete her MBA at the Arab Academy for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Egypt where she was a Lecturer in Accounting.
Riham joined Durham University Business School in 2000 as a PhD candidate and started teaching for the Department of Economics and Finance in 2003. Riham is BA Accounting and Finance Course Leader, teaching Management Accounting, Financial Planning and Control, and Business Accounting and Finance on undergraduate programmes and Managing Finance and Microperspectives in Business on postgraduate programmes.
Riham is a member of the Center for Social and Environmental Accounting Research (CSEAR) and the Social Responsibility Research Network (SRRNet).
Research Groups
Durham Centre for Islamic Economics and Finance
- Islamic Economics and Finance
Business School
- Accounting and Finance
- International Accounting and Auditing Studies Group
- Islamic Economics and Finance
Research Interests
- Corporate Social Responsibility and Disclosure
- Corporate Governance
- The Influence of Culture and Religion on Accounting
- Emerging Equity Markets
- Threshold Concepts in Accounting Education
Selected Publications
Books: authored
- Rizk, R. (2012). Social and Environmental Reporting: Ethical Disclosure and Socio-Economic Factors. Ashgate.
Books: reviews
- Rizk, R. (2006). Ethics, Psyche and Social Responsibility.
Books: sections
- Rizk, R. & Gregory, S. (2010). Esh Added Value: A Case Study in Indigenous Corporate Social Responsibility. In A Handbook on Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility. Aras, G. & Crowther, D. Farnham, England: Gower Applied Research. 653-664.
- Rizk, R. (2008). Islam and Corporate Governance. In Culture and Corporate Governance. Aras, G. & Crowther, D. Leicester: Social Responsibility Research Network.
- Rizk, R. (2005). Perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility. In International Dimensions of Corporate Social Responsibility. Crowther, D. & Jatana, R. India: ICFAI International Press. 2: 1-16.
Journal papers: academic
- Rizk, R. (2008). Back to Basics: An Islamic Perspective on Business and Work Ethics. Social Responsibility Journal 4(1/2): 246-254.
- Rizk, R., Dixon, R. & Woodhead, A. (2008). Corporate Social and Environmental Reporting: A Survey of Disclosure Practices in Egypt. Social Responsibility Journal 4(3): 306-323.