Professor Robin Roslender, Chair in Accounting & Finance, School of Business

Robin Roslender has joined the University to take up the Chair in Accounting and Finance in the School of Business. With qualifications in both sociology and accounting, Professor Roslender is a specialist in interdisciplinary accounting research. He was appointed Professor in Accountancy at the University of Heriot-Watt in 2005 and prior to that worked as a Senior Lecturer in Accounting at the University of Stirling. His current interests are principally in the intellectual capital field, although he is also writing a paper on the fate of interpretive sociology in accounting research. Professor Roslender is planning to research the development of human capital reporting, including reporting on health and wellbeing, and has recently acted as a senior academic adviser for a feasibility study commissioned by the UK Commission for Employment and Skills. Robin is editor of the Journal of Human Resource Costing and Accounting which is published by Emerald.

In July Professor Roslender presented two papers at the Critical Perspectives on Accounting conference held in Clearwater FL. The conference is triennial event dating back to 1993 and was staged outside of NYC for the first time this year. Critical Perspectives on Accounting is the premier publication outlet for critical accounting research and is published in eight issues each year by Elsevier. Professor Roslender is currently a member of its editorial board and was co-editor of a special issue on intellectual capital in 2009. He is in the process of commissioning a collection of papers on the development of critical accounting to date, in collaboration with Professor Jesse Dillard of Queens University, Belfast and Portland State University.