Critical Futuring and Imagining Sustainable Accounting: Prefigurative Accounting Education

Ian Thomson, a lecturer at the University of Dundee (Scotland), will lead the webinar ‘Critical Futuring and Imagining Sustainable Accounting: Prefigurative Accounting Education’ on 6 May at 9.30 am, as part of the ISCAP/IPP Accounting Webinar Series.

The event is aimed at the academic community and the general public, and involves various bachelor’s and master’s degree programmes at ISCAP, including the Bachelor’s degrees in Accounting and Management, in Consultancy and Translation, in Business Creativity and Innovation, and in Business Communication, as well as the Master’s degrees in Accounting and Finance, in Corporate Finance, in Auditing, and in Management and the Legal Framework of the Social Economy.

About the guest:

Ian Thomson is Emeritus Professor of Accounting and Sustainability at University of Dundee, having previously held chairs at Birmingham Business School, University of Strathclyde and Heriot-Watt University, Director of the Centre for Responsible Business and convenor of the Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research. Ian has been researching topics relating to responsibility, sustainability and accountability for over 30 years. This research has included studies on implementation of cleaner technology, effective stakeholder engagement, risk governance in water and salmon farming, sustainable development indicators, government policy making, climate change, effective pedagogy, use of accounting by activists, human rights, international development programmes and football clubs. His current projects include carbon accountability, operationalising the SDG for business and responsible business outcome measurement. He is the co-author of Urgent Business and a report Net Zero Accounting for a Net Zero UK and worked with Business in The Community to develop their Responsible Business Tracker. He was an expert reviewer for the latest IPCC report, called as an expert witness to Scottish Parliament, advisor to Scottish Parliament’s Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change, and Cities and Infrastructure Committee, worked with CIMA, Sustainable Development Commission (Scotland), with The Princes Charity, as an accountability expert to UN World Food Programme and Food and Agriculture Organisation, advised large corporations on their sustainability strategy and reporting, advisor to professional accountancy bodies on all aspects of sustainability accounting. He has been a board member of charities including Friends of the Earth (Scotland), C-Change, DeafScotland, Carboncopy and G17Eco. In 2019, he was awarded BAFA Distinguished Academic of the year.

Event Details:

Link: Zoom Link

Contact: Cláudia Teixeira (mclaudia@iscap.ipp.pt)

Organisation:

Cláudia Teixeira (mclaudia@iscap.ipp.pt)