Senior lecturer in Accounting and Finance

Mr Lovewell Chiti joined the Department of Law and Finance in December 2017 as a lecturer in Accounting and Finance. Prior to joining the University of Bedfordshire, Lovewell taught at the University of Sunderland in London, and INTO City University.

Lovewell has over 10 years’ experience of teaching, designing, and planning learning activities within the field of accounting, for both professional bodies and institutions of higher education in UK. He has worked as a lecturer, year and personal tutor, dissertation supervisor, module leader and course leader.

Lovewell is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountant (ACCA) and has been working for a charity in an accounting role on a part time basis for some years.

Qualifications

• PhD researcher, Newcastle University Business School
• Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA)
• Fellow (academic) of the Association of International Accountants
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
• PGCLTHE, Kingston University London
• Member of the Chartered Management Institute (MCMI)
• MSc International accounting (merit pass), Anglia Ruskin University
• MSc Computer systems auditing (merit pass), London Metropolitan University
• MBA (Finance), Oxford Brookes University
• BVM (University of Zambia)

Teaching Expertise

• Audit and Assurance
• Accounting for non-accountants
• Financial reporting
• Corporate governance
• Strategic Financial management
• Corporate strategy
• Managing Financial resources
• Management accounting

Research Interests

• Accountability in not-for-profit organisations
• Financial reporting
• Financial management
• Corporate governance

Conference Papers

• Newcastle University London Research & Scholarship Days 2020 - Accounting and Accountability in Black Majority Churches in England: The role of annual reports in the discharge of accountability
• Newcastle University London PhD Conference 2019 - Accounting & Accountability in Pentecostal Black Majority Churches in UK: The role of annual reports in the discharge of accountability

Contact Details

E: Lovewell.Chiti@beds.ac.uk

T: +44 (0)1582 743091