Professor Paul Cadman
Professor Paul Cadman is a visiting professor of entrepreneurship at Birmingham City University and an Honorary Fellow of University College Birmingham. He brings real business experience into the classroom, while his research looks at how legal risk and uncertainty affect firms and markets.
Honorary doctorate
Birmingham City University, 2022
Academic roles of Professor Paul Cadman
Paul holds roles at two Birmingham universities. Both focus on practical, job-ready learning, so his business background fits naturally.
Birmingham City University
Paul has been a visiting professor of entrepreneurship at Birmingham City University since 2019, in the Faculty of Business, Law and Social Sciences. He also sits on the advisory board of the university’s business school, which helps the school meet the needs of employers. In 2022, the university awarded him an honorary Doctorate of the University.
University College Birmingham
Paul became an Honorary Fellow of University College Birmingham in 2022. The link is personal, because he earned his first qualification at the College of Food, which later became UCB. He also sits on the university’s Strategic Employment Board, so employers help shape what students learn.
Teaching from lived experience
Paul left school unable to read or write because of undiagnosed dyslexia. As a result, Professor Paul Cadman speaks from lived experience about setbacks as well as success.
Students learn how businesses really start, grow and sometimes fail, and why resilience matters as much as a plan. Read more about his story, or find help with dyslexia from the British Dyslexia Association.
Research by Professor Paul Cadman
The research of Professor Paul Cadman sits where law, markets and decision-making meet. In particular, it looks at how legal risk, public attention and the flow of information shape the way firms and investors behave.
Working papers
So far, two working papers are available on SSRN, and each one links to the full text.
The Economic Impacts of Class Action Lawsuits: Evidence from Litigation Attention and Industry Information Spillovers. It builds an index of public attention to class actions and tests whether it helps forecast market and industry returns. Read the class actions paper on SSRN.
Measuring Uncertainty in the Small Firm Economy: Evidence from the UK Small-Cap Market. It creates an uncertainty index for smaller UK listed firms, using FTSE SmallCap returns. Read the small-firm uncertainty paper on SSRN.
Work in progress
In addition, two further studies are under way, and both build on the working papers above.
Litigation Attention and Asset Prices: Evidence Across Assets
When Legal Risk Becomes Market Risk: Class Actions, Public Attention, and Cross-Industry Transmission
Honours for Professor Paul Cadman
Alongside his honorary doctorate, Paul is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and of The Lunar Society, both since 2018.
You can see the full list of awards and honours, too.
Contact Professor Paul Cadman
Students, researchers and universities are welcome to get in touch about teaching, research or guest lectures.