15th Colloquium on Qualitative Research Methods in Business and Accounting

Lee Parker is Research Professor of Accounting at Glasgow University Scotland (also based in Adelaide, South Australia). His over 250 accounting and management publications exceed 22,000 citations. Lee is joint founding editor of Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal and is past President of the Academy of Accounting Historians (USA), the American Accounting Association Public Interest section and past Vice-President International of the American Accounting Association. He is member of the Australian Accounting Hall of Fame and the Australian Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research Hall of Fame. His qualitative, interdisciplinary research areas include strategic management, corporate governance, accounting and management history, social and environmental accountability, public and non-profit sector, university commercialisation, the office, and qualitative research methodology.

Topic Presented: Participant Observation

Audrey Paterson is the School Director of Postgraduate Research. She holds a Visiting Professor position at the Universita Degli Studi Dell’Insurbia, Italy. She is also the school representative for the Scottish Graduate School of Social Science. Audrey is the founder the Accounting, Society, and the Environment (ASE) research network. The ASE network is interdisciplinary and is interested in the interaction between accounting, business activity and their socio-economic and political environments, and encourages critical analysis of policy and practice in these areas. She has served as guest editor for Critical Perspective on Accounting, the British Accounting Review, Financial Accountability & Management and Accounting, Auditing and Accountability journals. Audrey has published works in high-ranking international journals covering a variety of issues in accounting, management, and education. Her recent work investigates how to build, maintain, and deepen relationships between Scotland and Europe, with the purpose of building a circular economy, in the pursuit of sustainability and net zero targets.

Topic Presented: Research Paradigms: A Philosophical Reflection

Ivo De Loo is Professor of Management Accounting & Control at Nyenrode Business University, Breukelen (the Netherlands). His research focuses on how management accounting and control practices are shaped and changed in organizations, and what this means in terms of accountability. Over the years, he has developed an interest in research methodology and the application of visual research methods. Ivo has published in various, well-known accounting and management journals and has received several best paper awards from some of these journals He currently is a member of the editorial advisory board of Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, and a member the editorial boards of Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management and the Dutch Maandblad voor Accountancy en Bedrijfseconomie. He also is a member of LITEM (Laboratoire en Innovation, Technologies, Economie et Management) of Université Paris-Sarclay.

Topic 1 Presented: The ethnographic force field and its consequences for researcher-researched relatedness
Topic 2 Presented: Using the body to sense what goes on on-site: the case of rhythmanalysis

Muhammad Azizul Islam (Aziz) is a Professor in Sustainability Accounting & Transparency. Aziz investigates some of the specific sustainability accounting and transparency issues, including (but not limited to) corporate human rights measures, climate change accounting, social audit and corporate anti-bribery measures. His research has been funded by various organizations and has received including two Vice-Chancellor Excellence awards for his research project (2022) and research impact (2023), respectively. He was also a finalist for the Green Gown Award in association with UKRI for two consecutive years (2022, 2023), and he was a finalist for the Project of The Year category at the Times Higher Education Awards in 2023. Aziz’s research appears in internationally recognised journals (ABDC A*/A, ABS 4*/3*, FT's top 50). His research findings attract widespread media attention and influence policy changes. His research-based opinions appear in BBC, The Guardian, Aljazeera, The Times, Sunday Post, Conversation, The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, Prothom Alo, IFAC-Gateway, Accounting web and ICAEW feature articles.

Topic Presented: Critical discourse analysis in accounting research

Gloria Agyemang is a Professor of Accounting at the School of Business and Management at Royal Holloway, University of London. Gloria’s research interests include NGO Accountability, Management Control; Accounting for Race Social and Environmental issues in Less Developed Economies; Accounting for Migration. She is interested in how accounting and accountability issues impact upon social policies and social justice. Gloria has published in Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, The British Accounting Review and Accounting Forum. She is on the editorial board of several accounting journals and is committed to fostering curiosity and knowledge with emerging scholars in the field. Gloria was awarded the British Accounting and Finance Association (BAFA) 2020 Distinguished Accounting Academic Award and was inducted into the AAAJ APIRA Hall of Fame in 2022.

Topic 1 Presented: Using Laughlin (1995) Middle Range Thinking in Qualitative Research.
Topic 2 Presented: The essence of Focus Group Research

Catriona Paisey is a Professor of Accounting at the University of Strathclyde and Professor Emerita at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. Catriona’s research is mainly qualitative and focuses on the accountancy profession and the making of the accounting professional, with current projects in professional ethics, social mobility, continuing professional development, accounting history, and educational development. She has published in a wide range of journals including Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, Accounting and Business Research, Accounting Education, Accounting Forum, British Accounting Review, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Studies in Higher Education and The Accounting Review. Catriona is a chartered accountant and has served on the Council of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland. She was awarded the British Accounting and Finance Association Outstanding Contribution to Accounting and Finance Education Award in 2021.

Topic Presented: Hatches, matches and dispatches – Using new sources of documentary evidence to provide insights into the accountancy profession

Flights

Loganair can offer delegates 30% discount on all routes to Aberdeen for the conference.

In the UK they fly to Aberdeen from:

• Belfast
• Birmingham
• Bristol
• Isle of Man (via Manchester or Birmingham)
• Kirkwall
• Manchester
• Newquay
• Norwich
• Sumburgh

Internationally they fly to Aberdeen from Esbjerg & Dublin.

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Delegates can book the discount from Today until 23 Feb - This is very last day we can offer discount. Delegates can travel from 16 Mar until 23 Mar, giving them some extra time to explore beautiful Aberdeenshire.

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The conference dinner will be held in one of the City’s most unique venues, the Soul restaurant and bar, located within the former Langstane Kirk in the heart of Aberdeen's City Centre.

Address: 333 Union Street, Aberdeen, AB11 6BS

Tel: 01224 211150

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Website: https://www.soulaberdeen.co.uk/