Teaching team

Ferdinand Bratek is working as a Research Assistant for the Accounting & Finance department at Lancaster University (United Kingdom). He holds an MSc in Advanced Financial Analysis awarded by Lancaster University, a BSc in International Management awarded by the ESB Business School (Germany) and a BSc in International Business Administration awarded by the Universidad de las Américas Puebla (Mexico). As part of his work for the Accounting & Finance department at Lancaster University, he utilises text mining technologies to process disclosure information in annual reports, amongst others. In light of this, he has developed various machine learning and deep learning models in Python.

Steve Young is Professor of Accounting at Lancaster University Management School and Principal Investigator on the ESRC-funded project Analysing Narrative Aspects of UK Preliminary Earnings Announcements and Annual Reports: Tools and Insights for Researchers and Regulators (contract ES/R003904/1). His research priorities include applying academic insights to address practical challenges and opportunities involving the analysis of qualitative and unstructured financial market data.

Paulo Alves (coordinator) is an Assistant Professor of Accounting and Finance at Católica Porto Business School, Universidade Católica Portuguesa and a Visiting Research Associate at Lancaster University. Paulo's primary areas of research involve the impact of information on capital markets, with a particular focus on the role of financial narratives. Current projects include analysis of preliminary earnings announcements made by London Stock Exchange companies and structured retrieval of text from annual reports published as PDF files.