| Professor Alice Belcher
Professor of Law
Direct Dial: +44 (0)1382 384607
Room No: 3.05 |
Degrees
1986, B.Soc.Sc. Class 1, University of Keele.
1987, M.Phil. in Economics, University of Cambridge.
1994, Ph.D., University of Manchester.
Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, advanced to fellowship 1996
Biography
On leaving school Alice Belcher qualified as a chartered accountant with the firm of Peat, Marwick Mitchell & Co (later KPMG). She then took a first degree in Law and Economics at the University of Keele and an MPhil in Economics at the University of Cambridge before being appointed to her first academic post as lecturer in Accountancy in the Department of Economics and Management Science at the University of Keele. She studied part-time for a PhD awarded by the University of Manchester in 1994. In 1993 she transferred to Keele's Department of Law.
She was appointed as a senior lecturer in Law at the University of Dundee in 1996 and received a Personal Chair in Law in 2000. She was Head of The Department of Law from August 2003 to January 2005. In June 2006 she was appointed as a non-executive director of NHS Education for Scotland.
Teaching
Undergraduate: Employment Law
Postgraduate:- Corporate Governance, Corporate and Regulatory Crime
In 2011/12 she is teaching several modules on the Healthcare Law and Ethics masters programme (distance learning).
Postgraduate supervision offered in the fields of corporate insolvency, company law, corporate governance, and some aspects of employment law for instance discrimination.
Research
Professor Belcher's main research interests are in the areas of company law, corporate governance, insolvency law and sex discrimination law. Her work takes advantage of her multidisciplinary background, for instance a recent article on audit quality and the market for audits employs ideas drawn from economics and accountancy as well as law.
She has held ESRC grants in 1989-1992 and 1996 and a Leverhulme research fellowship in 1996-7. She was a member of the Dundee University Research Committee from 2002-2005. She held an AHRC research leave award in 2006 studying "Behavioural aspects of the development of corporate norms, laws and governance codes their content and compliance procedures". In 2007-09 she led an AHRC funded Research Network for Research on Institutional Governance.
She is currently writing a book on Directors' Decisions.
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