I am a Fellow member of the Association of Chartered and Certified Accountants (ACCA) and member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT). I am a Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Taxation for undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. I am an active researcher in areas surrounding accounting, taxation, public social welfare policy and their implications on individuals, organisations, society and social inequality.

I teach accounting and taxation and also supervise research projects (UG level) and dissertations (PG level). Providing and facilitating space to deliver and maintain high quality teaching and learning is very important to me. Making use of information technology and developing innovative methods for teaching and learning is an important part to my approach.

Prior to my academic career, I worked in the accountancy and taxation industry for around fifteen years (since 1997). I managed tax enquiry cases (personal and business) and coordinated and managed a busy tax department at an accountancy firm, where I was also the Training Officer  and the ACCA Mentor for trainees. I also owned and managed my own accountancy firm offering accountancy services, taxation advice and tax planning to businesses, individuals and accounting firms.

I embarked on a career in academia in 2008, partly because I enjoyed teaching and sharing knowledge and skills that I had gained from industry, and also because I wanted to make a change to the way tax and social welfare policy is administered with the aim of improving the experiences of practitioners, citizens (in particular vulnerable groups), leading to improved effective deliery of policy. It is due to this passion that I immersed myself into accounting, tax, social welfare and public administration research, and completed an MRes and PhD in accounting.

My research is multidisciplinary and transcends across several disciplines to include: accounting, public administration, taxation, social welfare and sociology. In the main, my research focuses on the role of accounting in public policy and administration. In particular, I examine tax and social welfare administration and their implications and impact on individuals, organisations, society, and social inequality. My research also explores the role of accounting technologies and techniques, their implications, to include how they enact power and control. I adopt qualitative research methods and use a critical interpretivist approach, through ethnography, critical discourse analysis, and the application of grounded theory.