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Researcher

Dr Leonard Leye Li

My Expertise

Financial statement comparability; Shareholder litigation; Stock price crash risk; Voluntary disclosure

Keywords

Fields of Research (FoR)

Financial Accounting

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Biography

Academic CV

I am a Senior Lecturer in the School of Accounting, Audit & Tax at UNSW Sydney. I have a range of interests in research at the intersection of accounting and finance, including voluntary disclosure, shareholder litigation and stock price crash risk. My works have been published in leading international journals, including Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, and Accounting, Organizations and Society....view more

Academic CV

I am a Senior Lecturer in the School of Accounting, Audit & Tax at UNSW Sydney. I have a range of interests in research at the intersection of accounting and finance, including voluntary disclosure, shareholder litigation and stock price crash risk. My works have been published in leading international journals, including Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, and Accounting, Organizations and Society. I am also a co-founder of the Early Career Researchers Support Network (ECRSN), a network that aims to help early-career researchers to improve their social wellbeing and academic performance. Prior to joining academia, I worked as a financial analyst in China.


My Grants

  • UNSW Business School Dean’s Research Fellowship (A$10,000), 2023-2024.
  • AFAANZ Research Grant (A$6231), 2021. "Critical audit matters and debt contract design" with Lina Li and Zihang Peng.
  • AFAANZ Research Grant (A$7500), 2019. "CSR contracting andmanagement earn-ings guidance" with Bo Qin and Lu Yang.

My Qualifications

  • Ph.D. in Accounting, UNSW Sydney (2016-2019)
  • Master of Finance (with Distinction), Australian National University (2013-2014)
  • Bachelor of Economics in Statistics, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (2008-2012)

My Awards

  • UNSW Business School Research Excellence Award - Senior Lecturer (2023)
  • UNSW Business School Dean’s Research Fellowships (2023-2024)
  • AFAANZ Best Paper Award in Financial Accounting (2020)
  • UNSW Tuition Fee Scholarship (2016)

 


My Research Supervision


Supervision keywords


Areas of supervision

Archival financial accounting research


Currently supervising

  • Layla Yixuan Li, Honors Co-Supervisor
  • Kathy Dongyue Wang, PhD student at Australian National University, External Committee Member
  • Summer Rui Huang, PhD student at Australian National University, External Member
  • Ziqi Gao, PhD student at Australian National University, External Member

My Engagement


My Teaching

  • COMM5601 Interdisciplinary Applications of Analytics Techniques
  • COMM8101 Statistical Methods for Business Research
  • COMM1140 Financial Management
  • ZZBU6509 Financial Modelling
  • ACCT1501 Accounting and Financial Management 1A
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Publications

by Dr Leonard Leye Li