Positions

Professor of Accounting

Research programme

Accounting

Research interests

sustainability and non-financial reporting and assurance; professionalization processes; audit regulation and practice; offshoring in audit; corporate governance processes; regulation of professions; NGO accounting and accountability; professionalization processes; corporate governance processes; NGO accounting and accountability.

Prizes and honours

The AAAJ Interdisciplinary Accounting Research Hall of Fame award, 2019;  Emerald Publishers 2011 Impact of Research Award for seminal work; Commendation in Mary Parker Follett Outstanding Paper award, Accounting Auditing and Accountability Journal in 2003, 2006, 2009 and 2015; Irish Academy of Management Conference Best Paper Award 2016; 2009 Best European Research Paper in Sustainable Finance award from the French Social Investment Forum; Emerald Publisher's 2007 Outstanding Special Issue Award for 2006 special issue of Accounting Auditing and Accountability Journal on NGO accountability; High Commendation in 2010 Best Paper awards in Public Management Review; Winner Best Manuscript award, The British Accounting Review, 2005; Outstanding Educator award Smurfit School of Business, University College Dublin, 2003.

Teaching activities

Financial reporting; Financial Statement Analysis; Advanced Audit Theory and Practice; Research methodology and methods; Social and organisational perspectives on accounting, auditing and accountability; Accounting theory, Sustainability Accounting and Accountability

Thesis supervision 

Current PhD students:  Ioan Ivanescu and Ejona GJata (University of Amsterdam Business School); Leonid Sokolovsky and Michael Scotney (Alliance Manchester Business School)

Selected contributions (lectures) to conferences, workshops, seminars, summer schools

• Invited speaker, CPA Australia. Sustainability and the accounting profession, March 2015.
• Invited speaker –Pacioli Society dinner, University of Sydney, July 2014.
• Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) Sustainability Committee, 2014 – to date.
• Co-convenor of the academic track at the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) conference, May 2008, 2010 and 2013, Amsterdam.
• External examiner for the Bachelor of Commerce, MBS and MBA degree programmes at University College Galway (2006-2009).
• External examiner on Business and Accounting degree programmes at Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (2003-2009).
• Plenary Speaker – Alternative Accounting conference, Schulich Business School, Toronto, April 2010.
• Plenary speaker - International Congress on Social and Environmental Accounting Research, St, Andrews, September 2010.
• Plenary speaker on Sustainability Assurance – EAA annual conference, Rotterdam, April 2008.
• Member of the Scientific Committee of the European Accounting Association annual conference (2005-2007).
• Member of the International Editorial Board of the Asia-Pacific Interdisciplinary Perspectives (APIRA) on Accounting conference, Auckland, New Zealand, 2007.
• Invited member of the advising senior faculty at the Emerging Scholars' Colloquium of the Asia Pacific Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting (APIRA) conference, Auckland, New Zealand, July 2007 and Sydney, Australia, July 2010.
• Convenor (with Professor Jeffrey Unerman) of a symposium on “NGO Accountability” at The International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (ICCSR), University of Nottingham Business School, October 2004.
• Plenary speaker on ‘qualitative research methods’ and ‘theory’ at the International Congress on Social and Environmental Accounting, 2003 and 2005.
• Plenary speaker at annual symposium on Stakeholder Democracy at The International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (ICCSR), University of Nottingham Business School, November 2003.

International Associate - The Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research (CSEAR), University of St. Andrews

Member of the following professional and academic bodies:

o  Chartered Accountants Ireland (CAI) - Fellow
o The Irish Accounting and Finance Association
o The British Accounting Association
o The European Accounting Association
o The Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research

Membership editorial staff or referee activities

Editor:  Accounting, Organizations and Society

Associate Editor, Accounting, Accountability and Auditing Journal

Member of the Editorial boards of: Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory;
The British Accounting Review; European Accounting Review;
International Journal of Qualitative Research in Management
Australian Accounting Review
International Journal of Auditing
Social and Environmental Accountability Journal

Ad hoc referee for the following academic journals:
Academy of Management Journal; Accounting and Business Re-search; Management Accounting Research; Organization Studies, The Journal of Management Studies; Accounting Forum; Critical Perspectives on Accounting; The Irish Accounting Review; Business Ethics: A European Review; Australian Accounting Review; Business Strategy and the Environment; Journal of Accounting and Organisational Change

Membership of academic committees (including Ph. D committees)

PhD examiner at the following universities: Alliance Manchester Business School, Copenhagen Business School, London School of Economics; University of Amsterdam, University of St. Andrews, University of Adelaide, University of Glasgow, Macquarie University, University of Strathclyde, Dublin City University, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology; Royal Holloway, University of London

Various activities

• Visiting Professor, University of Sydney Business School, 2016-2022.
• Visiting professor, Macquarie University, Sydney, March 2015.
• Visiting professor, Monash University, Melbourne, November-December 2015
• Visiting Professor, University of Sydney Business School, July 2014
• Visiting Professor, University of Sydney Business School, February 2010
• Visiting professor, Macquarie University, Sydney, January 2009

External examiner on the Bachelor of Commerce and MBA degree pro-grammes at University College Galway (2006-2009).

External examiner on Business and Accounting degree programmes at Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (2003-2009).