Research Seminar: Exploring Accounting in Society

In September 2024, ISCAP-IPP (CEOS.PP) and NOVA SBE will receive a visit from Hendrik Vollmer (Warwick Business School), for two Research Seminars, under the motto ‘Exploring Accounting in Society’:  

Research Seminar: Exploring Accounting in Society

. 10/09/2024, 2:30 pm (NOVA SBE, Carcavelos, Lisbon)

. 12/09/2024, 4:30 pm (ISCAP-IPP, Porto)

The recently published Handbook of Accounting in Society, edited by Hendrik Vollmer, will be discussed during the seminars.  The book includes contributions from various authors, including: Chandana Alawattage, Jan Bebbington, Michele Bigoni, James Brackley, Sara Closs-Davies, Tom Cuckston, Antonio D’Andreamatteo, Dominic de Cogan, Mercy Denedo, Colin Dey, Amanze Ejiogu, Glenn Finau, Ann-Christine Frandsen, Warwick Funnell, Alessandro Ghio, Jason Glynos, Cameron Graham, Theresa Hammond, Darlene Himick, Keith Hoskin, Ingrid Jeacle, Rania Kamla, Caroline Lambert, Marie-Astrid Le Theule, Adam Leaver, Ulrike Marx, Martina Mattioli, Karen McBride, Giovanna Michelon, Anette Mikes, Jérémy Morales, Alistair Mutch, Pier-Luc Nappert, Ken Okamura, Konstantinos Roussos, Shona Russell, Massimo Sargiacomo, Atul K. Shah, Stewart Smyth, Ileana Steccolini, Anne Steinhoff, Penelope Tuck, Penelope van den Bussche, Jan van Helden, Shraddha Verma, Hendrik Vollmer, Budi Waluyo and Rebecca Warren.

Hendrik Vollmer joined Warwick Business School in 2020 from the University of Leicester, where he had worked since 2015 and for three years as Head of the Accounting Division at the School of Business. Prior to coming to the UK, Hendrik worked for sixteen years at Bielefeld University in Germany, where he edited Zeitschrift für Soziologie, one of the leading German-language peer-review journals in sociology, from 2008 to 2015. His research focuses on social studies of accounting, environmental accounting, ecological reconstitution and social change. Hendrik is an Associate Editor of European Accounting Review and the editor of Handbook of Accounting in Society, to be published later this May. Hendrik is also guest editing a Special Issue of the Social and Environmental Accountability Journal (SEAJ) on ‘Bringing planetary boundaries back to Earth: Rethinking accounting for ecological limits’. He serves on the editorial boards of Zeitschrift für Soziologie and of the Journal Accounting, Organizations and Society (AOS). He is a member of the Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research (CSEAR) and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

The events are open to the general public.

Organising Committee

Marta Almeida, Cláudia Teixeira, José Vale e Luís Gomes