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      Mrs Ellie Franklin

      FCA
      ROLE: Senior Lecturer in Finance
      SCHOOL: Business School
      DEPARTMENT: Accounting Finance & Economics
      TELEPHONE: +44 (0)20 8411 5808
      EMAIL: E.Franklin@mdx.ac.uk
      1. Biography &
        Qualifications
      2. Learning &
        Teaching Interests
      3. Research Outputs &
        Interests
      4. Funded Research &
        Knowledge Exchange Projects
      5. Engagement &
        Impact

      • Biography &
        Qualifications

        Biography

        Ellie, who was born in Bulgaria, is a Middlesex University Banking and Finance alumni who completed her placement year with Barclays Plc in 1998/9. She qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Deloitte where she worked for 8 years in the Deloitte Financial Services Group (Banking and Securities Audit) as well as holding posts in the Deloitte UK and Global Learning and Development Teams. Audit clients she was involved with included among others: Tullett Prebon Plc (Broking), Lazard (Investment Banking), Mizrahi Tefahot Bank (Banking), Mitsui Bussan Commodities (London Metal Exchange Commodities Broker), Lexicon (Corporate Finance House), ECGD (The UK Government’s Export Credits Guarantee Department), Cazenove (Capital Management), as well as internal audit projects for Visa (Credit Cards). This professional experience informs her teaching of audit and financial accounting at Middlesex University where she returned, this time in a lecturing capacity, in 2008. She is truly "Made in Middlesex" as featured in the university promotional campaign of that name.

        She is keen on, and often champions, the use of technology in teaching and promotes the benefits of work experience to support academic study, which she believes leads to both personal growth as well as growth in graduate employment prospects.

        Ellie has contributed to a number of textbooks for Pearson and has co-authored “Accounting for Non-Accounting Students”, J Dyson and E Franklin, 9th edition, Pearson available here

        In her spare time she likes to write and run (next event: Virgin London Marathon 2017).

        Qualifications and Professional Membership

        • ACA (Chartered Accountant) with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales ("ICAEW") - membership number 9078794
        • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
        • Member of the British Accounting and Finance Association - Accounting Education Special Interest Group executive committee
        • Currently reading for an MA Higher Education
        • Post Graduate Certificate in Higher Education
        • PG Diploma in Investments and Finance
        • BA (Hons) Money, Banking and Finance

        Engagement with the Accounting Professional Bodies

        • Invited speaker and panelist at the ICAEW 2013 Higher Education Conference (presentation on “Employability - Whose Responsibility Is It To Help Them Get There?; panel discussion “Challenges and opportunities in a changing landscape), January 2013, Chartered Accountants Hall, London
        • Invited speaker at the ICAEW London Presentation Evening 2012, October 2012, Chartered Accountants Hall, London
        • Member of the ICAEW "ICAN" community as a volunteer promoting careers in accountancy http://careers.icaew.com/school-students-leavers/student-support/careers-advisers/ican (with presentation on behalf of the ICAEW/Middlesex Unievrsity at Career Days at Queen Elizabeth Boys School in Barnet, and Brampton College and St Mary's High School in Hendon)
        • Co-presenter with an ICAEW representative on "Employability, Networking and CVs" (as part of the university Employability Week), February 2013 http://careers.icaew.com/events?type=University events

        Voluntary Positions

        School Governor and Treasurer for the Governing Bodies at St. Mary's and St' John's CoE Primary (ongoing) and St. Mary's CoE High Schools (until March 2013) in Hendon.

        Social Media Presence

        Languages spoken

        • Fluent in English and Bulgarian
        • Some experience with Russian, Macedonian, Serbian and Spanish
        • Currently studying Italian and Latin

        Languages Spoken

      • Learning &
        Teaching Interests

        Academic Roles

        • Module Leader and Tutor for Financial Accounting, Auditing and Entrepreneurial Finance
        • Coordinator of Employability initiatives for the accounting, finance and banking students
        • Responsibe for certain aspects of Programme Leadership such as Induction and Open Days

        Education, Learning and Teaching Conferences Organisation

        • Contributor to the 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017  British Accounting and Finance Association: Accounting Education Special Interest Group annual conferences (as a member of the Executive Committee)
        • 2013 British Accounting and Finance Association: Accounting Education Special Interest Group annual conference hosted by Middlesex University (host and conference organiser) http://www.intra.mdx.ac.uk/news-events/events/bafa-conference.aspx
        • 2012 Middlesex University Teaching and Learning Conference (member of the organising committee) http://mdxaltc12.blogspot.co.uk/

        Dissemination of Best Practice through Contribution to Staff Development Workshops

        • "Discussion Bored or Discussion (Black)Board?”, Middlesex University E-ase series, 3 May 2012
        • “Special Delivery: Employability”, Accounting and Finance Departmental Seminar, June 2011
        • “Pictionary: Let the Pictures Speak”, MUBS “Refreshing face-to-face delivery: beyond PowerPoint” event, May 2011
        • "From iPods to PebblePads - experimenting with some new tools", MUBS Law Department staff development event, April 2011
        • “What’s the Name of the Game? Using a business simulation game in undergraduate induction”, MUBS Learning Development Forum session, April 2011
        • “mPloyability – report on current position for Accounting graduates”, Accounting and Finance Departmental Seminar, March 2011
        • “eInstruction>eAssessment>eSubmission>eFeedback>eReflection: Can it be done?”, Middlesex University “Inspire Me!” Series, March 2011
        • “How can we use technology to increase our effectiveness in terms of resources and student satisfaction: i-Experiences with the i-Pod/iPhone/i-Pad generation”, Accounting and Finance Departmental Seminar, September 2010
        • “What does it take to teach 21st century kids from a 15th century textbook”, MUBS Accounting and Finance Research Seminars series, March 2010
        • “What does it take to teach 21st century kids from a 15th century textbook”, MUBS Learning Development Forum session, January 2010
        • “Communicating better: what feedback is and what to do with it?”, MUBS Learning Development Forum session [co-presented with Cathy Minett-Smith], December 2009

        Learning Resources Contribution

        • Jan 2012, Wood and Sangster, Business Accounting (Volume 2), 12th edition – development of MyAccountingLab test questions

      • Research Outputs &
        Interests

        Areas of Scholarly and Research Interest

        • Accounting Education
        • Education Technology
        • Employability
        • Social Mobility/Access to the Accounting Profession
        • Feedback
        • Induction to Higher Education

        Contributions to Academic Conferences

        • "An Investigation of Recent Technological Developments in Accounting Curricula in UK Universities", M. Abdel-Kader. (co-contributors: A. Kotb, A. Alam, E. Franklin), British Accounting and Finance Association Accounting Education Special Interest Group Conference, London, May 2013
        • “Learning how to play the [employment] game – is it that easy?”, E. Franklin, British Accounting and Finance Association Accounting Education Special Interest Group Conference, Sheffield, May 2012
        • “My iPad and I”, E. Franklin, Middlesex University Teaching and Learning Conference, June 2011
        • “ePortfolios for eReflection and eMployability”, E. Franklin, Middlesex University Teaching and Learning Conference, June 2011 http://mdxaltc.blogspot.com/search/label/ellie%20franklin
        • “Special Delivery: Employability Skills”, E. Franklin, MUBS Interdisciplinary Research Conference, June 2011
        • “Special Delivery: Employability Skills”, E. Franklin, British Accounting and Finance Association Accounting Education Special Interest Group Conference, Winchester, May 2011
        • “Using a 15th Century Text in Today’s Introductory Accounting Course”, E. Franklin, British Accounting Association South East Area Group Annual Conference, Brighton, Sep 2010
        • “What does it take to teach 21st century kids from a 15th century textbook”, E. Franklin, Middlesex University Teaching and Learning Conference, June 2010 http://altcmu.blogspot.com/2010/06/report-on-ellie-franklin-what-does-it.html
        • “History, Cognitive Apprenticeships, and Pacioli: Using a Medieval Text in Today’s Introductory Accounting Course”, E. Franklin, British Accounting Association Accounting Education Special Interest Group Conference, Dublin, May 2010
        • i-Teach, u-Learn, i-Assess: i-Strategies and i-Experiences with the i-Pod/iPhone/i-Pad generation”, E. Franklin, Committee of Heads of Departments of Accounting and Finance Annual Conference, Belfast, May 2010

        Publications and Research Contributions

        • Currently contributing to a Higher Education Academy funded Teaching Development project (£57,702 grant; reference GEN358, lead institution: Anglia Ruskin University): "An Investigation of Recent Technological Developments in Accounting Curricula in the UK"
        • “My iPad and I”, Middlesex Journal of Educational Technology, Volume 2, Number 1, December 2012 – available at http://elearningresearch.middlesex.wikispaces.net/Volume+2%2C+Number+1+December+2012
        • Sangster, A., Franklin, E., Alwis, D. and Abdul-Rahim, A., “Using Pacioli’s medieval test in today’s introductory accounting course”, submitted for peer review

        Peer Reviews

        • A. Eilifsen, W. F. Messier, Jr., S. M. Glover, D. F. Prawitt, "Auditing and Assurance Services", McGraw-Hill, 2013
        • B. Soltani, “Auditing: An International Approach”, 2012
        • Thomas & Ward, 'Introduction to Financial Accounting' - European text – 7th edition, 2011
        • Contributor with peer reviews for Accounting Education: an International Journal
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      • Funded Research &
        Knowledge Exchange Projects

      • Engagement &
        Impact

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