Email: [email protected]

Office: ABS 421

Phone: 0121 204 3641 

Dr Rasha Kassem is a senior academic and internationally recognised scholar in fraud, auditing, governance, and forensic accounting, with over 20 years’ experience in UK higher education. She leads the Fraud Research Group at Aston University, providing strategic research leadership and fostering interdisciplinary collaboration across academia, practice, and policy.

Her research adopts an interdisciplinary approach across the private, public, and voluntary sectors, addressing fraud, corruption, and economic integrity, with related contributions in ethics, sustainability, corporate social responsibility, technology, and higher education pedagogy. She has authored over 45 research and knowledge-exchange outputs, including peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, professional publications, policy-oriented outputs, and public-facing scholarship, with a strong emphasis on real-world impact.

Dr Kassem is a member of the ESRC Peer Review and Assessor Colleges and serves on the editorial boards of leading international journals, including the Journal of Accounting Literature and Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, as well as the UK Government’s Public Sector Fraud Journal. She is also an expert author for Company Lawyer (Sweet & Maxwell, part of Thomson Reuters).

A Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Certified Fraud Examiner, Dr Kassem is widely engaged with policy and practice, advising professional bodies and government and contributing to national and international initiatives to combat fraud and financial crime.

• Fraud & Corruption
• Cybercrime/Cybersecurity, particularly Cyber Fraud
• Forensic Accounting 
• Audit & Assurance 
• Governance 
• Sustainability & Business Ethics 
• Technology
• Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
• Pedagogy (i.e., Research in Teaching & Learning)

• Insider Fraud Consultant, Cifas, London 

• PhD, Audit & Fraud, Loughborough University, UK, 2016
• Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), ACFE, US, 2018
• Certified Management & Business Educator (CMBE), CABS, 2021
• Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA), Advance HE, 2024

• Winner, Educator of the Year Global Award, ACFE (US) 2025
• Finalist, Tackling Economic Crime Award (UK), 2025
• Winner, Excellence in enterprise award, Coventry University, 2019
• Winner, Excellence in teaching award, University of Brighton, 2017
• Winner, Excellence in teaching award, The British University of Egypt, 2011

• Certified Member of the ACFE
• Member of the British Accounting and Finance Association (BAFA)