Professor Jim Haslam

Biography

Jim Haslam is Professor of Accounting, Governance and Society in the Management School's Division of Accounting and Financial Management and Divisional Director of Research and Impact. He has over 30 year's experience in academia. He joined Sheffield from Newcastle University in August, 2015. Before that he has been a Professor at Waikato (New Zealand), Heriot-Watt, Dundee and Durham. Prior to this he was a lecturer at Aston, UCNW and LSE and a senior lecturer at Essex. He has a first class honours degree from Sheffield and is a chartered accountant, working in practice with Ernst and Whinney (now Ernst and Young) 1981-4. He has a wide range of teaching interests and substantial administrative experience. His research concerns the social analysis of accounting and related control practices and he is currently active in several projects in this area. His PhD on nineteenth-century legislation led to an interest in the writings on accounting of Jeremy Bentham and he has several publications thereon, as well as publications in a number of areas including accounting and finance education, accounting and culture, international accounting and politics, accountability practices and their social worth, emancipatory accounting, accounting and civil society and corporate social responsibility. He is on the editorial board of a number of international accounting journals and in 2003, with Sonja Gallhofer, published the book 'Accounting and Emancipation: Some Critical Interventions'.

Research Interest

My aim in educational engagement is the development of intellectual, practical and communicative ability, facilitative of career and practical development, research work and more generally enhancing capabilities for life. I try to integrate research in teaching and to elaborate on the practical relevance of material, including practical illustrations where possible.