Research, Risk, Relevance and Purpose: Projects that make a difference
quarta, 16/02
|Webinar Online
Inserido no ciclo "The ISCAP/IPP Accounting Webinar Series".


Data & Localização
16/02/2022, 09:30
Webinar Online
Sobre o Evento
No próximo dia 16 de fereiro, realizar-se-á, pelas 09h30, um webinar subordinado ao tema "Research, Risk, Relevance and Purpose: Projects that make a difference", inserido no ciclo "The ISCAP/IPP Accounting Webinar Series".
16 Fevereiro de 2022 (9:30 a.m. PT/UK time). O orador convidado é o Professor Ian Thomson (University of Birmingham, UK).
Este seminário está integrado nas actividades de unidades curriculares das Licenciaturas em Contabilidade e Administração, Assessoria e Tradução; e do Mestrado em Contabilidade e Finanças, Mestrado em Finanças Empresariais e Mestrado em Economia Social. O evento destina-se a estudantes, docentes e investigadores da área da contabilidade; e insere-se no âmbito da Linha de Investigação "Accountability and Reporting" desenvolvida pelo CEOS.PP.
Caso pretenda participar, p.f., contactar Cláudia Teixeira (mclaudia@iscap.ipp.pt)
Link para reunião: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/84343060811?pwd=Q05OQ0VRZTJkSC82dXVuMnl5elZJQT09
ID: 843 4306 0811
Passcode: 107531
Guest Speaker: Professor Ian Thomson
Ian Thomson is Professor of Accounting and Sustainability at Birmingham Business School and his research is concerned with the impact of accounting and other forms of evidence on organisational decision making and operations that have a social and/or environmental impact. This research has included interdisciplinary studies on implementing cleaner technologies, establishing industrial ecologies, effective stakeholder engagement, risk governance in water and salmon mining, sustainable development indicators, government policy making and external accounting. He has been called as an expert witness to the Scottish Parliament's Finance and Infrastructure and Capital Investment Committees, Special Policy Advisor to the Scottish Parliament's Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change Committee, Budget Advisor to the Scottish Parliament's Cities and Infrastructure Committee and was a member of the Stakeholder Expert Panel of the Sustainable Development Commission (Scotland). In 2012 he was elected as convenor of the Centre for Research in Social and Environmental Accounting. Until recently, Ian Thomson was Professor of Accounting at Heriot-Watt University and prior to this post was Professor of Accounting at Strathclyde Business School. He is a management accountant and before becoming an academic held senior accounting positions at NHS Scotland and BBC Scotland.
For more information. See: https://research.birmingham.ac.uk/en/persons/ian-thomson