Aeisha Ali

Aeisha is a PhD candidate and Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Department of Accounting, Economics and Finance at Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University. She teaches across a range of Management Accounting and Financial Reporting courses. Aeisha joined Heriot-Watt in 2022 after completing her MA (Hons) in Accountancy and Finance and is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA). Her doctoral research, supervised by Dr Qi Li and Dr Lina Fadel, examines the professional and personal experiences of Pakistani Muslim women accountants in the UK.

Aeisha’s research interests include critical and social accounting, gender and race, decolonisation, human rights, and social justice, with a particular focus on the South Asian diaspora and Muslims living in the West. Her work is informed by intersectional feminist, critical race, and postcolonial thought, engaging with concepts of liminality and hybridity.

Her doctoral research examines diversity and inclusivity within the accounting profession, focusing on the identity formation and renegotiation of Pakistani Muslim women accountants in the UK, and aims to amplify underrepresented voices through postcolonial and decolonial perspectives.

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Professional Identity; Postcolonial Theory; Intersectionality; Liminality; Hybrid Identity; Critical Accounting; Accounting Profession; Women Accountants; Lived Experience; Racism; Islamophobia; Immigration; Social Justice; Diversity and Inclusion; Power; Feminist Theory; Pakistan; UK; Life History Interviews; Semi-Structured Interviews.

Tutorial Tutor: 

C30MX - Managerial Accounting: Decision Making

C39MT - Management Accounting Decision-Making Techniques 

C37IA - Introduction to Accounting 

C38PA - Principals of Accounting 

C37FA - Finance and Financial Reporting (MACS) 

Marking:

C38MO - Management Accounting 

C31FN - Financial Reporting