Dr Tamanna Dalwai

Role

Dr Tamanna Dalwai (PhD, MBA (Accounting and Finance), BCom, SFHEA) is a Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Department of Accounting and Finance at the Nottingham Business School (NBS), Nottingham Trent University. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA), UK.

Dr Tamanna’s research interests focus on corporate governance, sustainability, intellectual capital, corporate finance, artificial intelligence, corporate narrative reporting, and accounting education. Her work contributes to debates on responsible governance, digital transformation, and the evolving role of accounting and finance in sustainable and data‑driven organisations.

She teaches across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in accounting, finance, corporate governance, and sustainability, serving as Module Leader for Sustainable Finance and Corporate Governance and Risk Management. Her teaching includes Financial Statement Analysis at postgraduate level, and Governance, Ethics and Law, Accounting and Finance for Managers, and Applied Professional Development at undergraduate level. She supervises doctoral research as well as postgraduate consultancy and research projects, and undergraduate dissertations.

Career overview

Prior to joining Nottingham Trent University, Dr Tamanna worked at Muscat College, Oman for 15 years as an Assistant Professor and Deputy Director of Quality Assurance. During this period, she taught accounting and finance across diploma, undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in affiliation with the University of Stirling, Universiti Malaysia Pahang and Scottish Qualification Authority. Alongside teaching, she contributed to academic governance, quality assurance processes, and programme development.

Dr Tamanna completed her PhD in 2015 from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia where she was awarded as the “Best Student Award” for International Business School UTM. Her doctoral research examined the relationship between internal corporate governance mechanisms and firm performance in Gulf Cooperation Council Banks, under the joint supervision of Dr Siti Zaleha Abdul Rasid and Dr Rohaida Basiruddin.

She holds an MBA in Accounting and Finance from California State University, East Bay, and a Bachelor in Commerce degree from Indira Gandhi National Open University, India, in which she was awarded the Gold Medal. Dr Tamanna is a Senior Fellow of The Higher Education Academy (SFHEA), UK.

External activity

Editorial and reviewer roles

Dr Tamanna serves as an Editorial Board Member for Humanities and Social Sciences Communications Journal and International Journal of Innovation and Business Strategy and Associate Editor of International Journal of Accounting, Business and Finance.

She is an ad hoc reviewer for a wide range of academic journals such as

• Business Strategy and the Environment
• The British Accounting Review
• The Quarterly review of economics and finance
• Applied Economic Letters
• International Journal of Emerging Economies
• International review of economics & finance
• International review of financial analysis
• Accounting Research Journal
• Competitiveness Review
• Asian Review of Accounting
• Corporate Governance: The International Journal of Business in Society, Technology in Society.

Editorial contributions

Dr Tamanna has edited two academic books, “Trends and Challenges of Electronic Finance: Perspectives from Emerging Markets” (Springer Nature) and Handbook of Banking and Finance in the MENA Region (World Scientific Publishing Europe Ltd).

Externally funded research projects

Dr Tamanna has contributed to several externally funded research projects outlined as follows:

• Empowering Oman’s Early Career Researchers: A Sustainable AI-Enhanced Cloud-Based Platform for Tomorrow (Awarded by: Ministry of Higher Education Research and Innovation, Duration: 2024-2026, Role: Co-Investigator, Grant: £11,500)
• Examining the Use of Artificial Intelligence Tools for the Financial Sectors' Sustainability (Awarded by: Ministry of Higher Education Research and Innovation, Duration: 2023-2025, Role: Co-Investigator, Grant: £11,500)
• The prediction of intellectual capital and sustainable development in Oman’s health care sector using machine learning algorithms (Awarded by: Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, Duration: 2021-2023, Role: Principal Investigator, Grant: £10,000)
• An Empirical Investigation of Omani Investor Intent in the Time of COVID-19 (Awarded by: Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, Duration: 2021-2023, Role: Co-Investigator, Grant: £9,000)
• “Are we there yet?”- Evaluating the success of citizen e-participation in government initiatives (Awarded by: The Research Council Oman, Duration: 2018-2021, Role: Principal Investigator, Grant: £9,000)

External engagement

In addition, Dr Tamanna has delivered several guest lectures and seminars for staff and students.

Sponsors and collaborators

External academic collaborators and co-authors include:

• Khaled Hussainey (University of Portsmouth)
• Vincenzo Scafarto (Università degli studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale)
• Murat Ocak (Trakya University, Türkiye)
• Elma Satrovic (Hasan Kalyoncu University, Türkiye)
• Dharmendra Singh (Modern College of Business and Science, Oman)
• Ananda S. (College of Banking and Financial Studies, Oman)
• Araby Madbouly Ahmed Hussein (Muscat College, Oman)
• Syeeda Shafiya Mohammadi (Muscat College, Oman)
• Saikat Gochhait (Symbiosis International, Deemed University, India)