Biography
Bill Jackson is currently Deputy Dean of the University of Aberdeen Business School. Previously Bill has been the Head of Department of Accountancy, Finance and Real Estate and has been at the University of Aberdeen since 2019.
In earlier times Bill worked 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.
