Dr William Jackson

Dr William Jackson

Bcom PhD Edin, PGCAP, FHEA

Senior Lecturer

Email Address: william.jackson@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number: +44 (0)1224 273147
Office Address: Room 709 MacRobert Building
School/Department: Business School

Biography

Dr. Bill Jackson is currently Deputy Dean of the University of Aberdeen Business School and Head of the Department of Accountancy, Finance and Real Estate.

Previously Bill had a position at Heriot-Watt University where he held positions as Head of Department of Accountancy, Economics and Finance, Director of Learning and Teaching, Director of Internationalisation and Deputy Head of the School of Social Science. Before that he held a teaching and research fellowship at the University of Edinburgh, from which institution he also was awarded a PhD.

Bill specialises in the teaching of management accounting and accounting history which he has delivered both in the UK and internationally.

Bill's research is mainly in the history and practice of accounting in public services, particularly health care. His research has been published in a range of international and world leading journals and has attracted prizes from leading journals. Major projects include Histories of Accounting and Health Care and Accounting for Social Impact, with the World Health Organisation as a current focus of interest.

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Deputy Dean of Business School

Head of Department of Accountancy, Finance and Real Estate

Member of the Business School Executive Committee

Member of the School Internationalisation Committee

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Fertile ground: The history of accounting in hospitals

A Power and Subjectification Perspective on Managing Control of Capital Expenditures: A Case Study of Indonesian Local Governments

Cash Limits, Hospital Prescribing and Shrinking Medical Jurisdiction

Accounting for war risk costs: management accounting change at Guinness during the First World War

The social consequences of using formularies as a prescribing control

An Institutional Theory Perspective On The Impacts Of Central Government’s Policies on Local Government: A Case Study Of Indonesian Local Governments

Strategizing The Hellenic Railway Organization

War Risk Costs: Management Accounting Change At Guinness During World War 1

The Ledgers of Death: William Farr, Florence Nightingale & the system of uniform hospital accounts

Social and environmental reporting as an educational tool for knowledge creation and creative assessment practice

Doctors under the microscope: The birth of medical audit

A dialogical practice using social and environmental reporting as an educational tool for knowledge creation

A history of management thought

Failing NPM Reforms: Is it about resistance or lack of creative tensions? The case of the state-owned Hellenic Railway Organization

The Role of Consultants in the OSE Greek National Railway

Philanthropy and the control of London's hospitals: A re-examination of the Uniform Hospital Accounting System 1870-1915

"How easy can the barley brie": Drinking culture and accounting failure at the end of the nineteenth century in Britain

'The collector will call': Controlling philanthropy through the annual reports of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, 1837-1856

The Influence of Female Audit Partners in Audit Work: A Study of the Big 4 in the UK

Accounting as a mechanism of governmentality in the creation of a British hospital system

Accountability and the Annual Reports of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, 1818-1852

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