Hanwen is a Professor of Accounting and Finance at School of Management, University of Bath. Her research interests mainly lie in the areas of corporate finance and capital market with a special focus on the topics of informed trading, product market competition, corporate innovation, and ESG issues. Her work has been published(accepted) in a range of peer-reviewed FT50 and ABS 4^*/4/3 journals, such as Journal of International Business Studies, Contemporary Accounting Research, Research Policy, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Empirical Finance and Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, among others. Her research has been featured by has been featured in the ProMarket and Columbia Law School’s Blog. Her research project has been funded by the British Academy, as the principal investigator. She sits on the Editorial Board of Corporate Governance: An International Review. 

Hanwen is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She has a wide range of teaching interests including Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, and Empirical Finance. She has taught various modules across undergraduate, postgraduate, and executive levels both in the U.K. and China. She is also actively supervising Ph.D. students with research interests in the corporate finance area. She is an External Examiner for the  MSc programme in accounting and finance at the University of Bristol.