Northern Area Group Annual Conference 2024

We are delighted to invite submissions to the Annual Conference of BAFA's Northern Area Group. The conference will be hosted by the Accounting and Finance Group of Edge Hill Business School (EHUBS), Ormskirk, on 2 September 2024.

Keynote Speaker

We are delighted to welcome Dr Geraldine Ryan, from University College Cork, as our distinguished speaker. Dr Ryan is currently principal investigator on a H2020 research project sponsored by Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks on Multi-sectoral approaches to Innovative Skills Training for Renewable energy and sociAL acceptance (MISTRAL) and she is co-investigator on a Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) project called Community Engagement in Wind Energy: Innovative approaches to achieving a social license.

Awards

The Best Paper and Best Poster awards will recognise the quality, effort and likely impact of the research being presented at the conference.

CALL FOR PAPERS

The conference's overarching theme is: “The Transformative Role of Accounting and Finance in Society”. It aims to bring together scholars of accounting and finance to share their research and ideas on how our discipline can help to address the current global threats and issues facing society. We welcome the submission of original papers and posters that explore these topics from an accounting and/or finance perspective, which include but are not limited to:

• Climate change and climate change adaptation
• AI
• Poverty and inequality
• Demographic change and mass migration
• Natural resource crises, biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse
• Cost of living crisis
• Corporate and/or governmental malfeasance

How may work from our discipline shed light on the problems facing our society? For example, how can we measure social impact from firms’ accounts? What solutions might we offer to current social problems? This year’s BAFA Northern conference aims to explore these themes via paper and poster presentations, a keynote speaker, and a roundtable discussion. We hope to see you in Ormskirk this September. Submission guidelines and further arrangements are below.

Paper Submission

Deadline: 15 July 2024

We will consider papers for workshop or poster presentations. Please specify if you wish your article to be considered for (a) a paper presentation, (b) a poster presentation or (c) both, in the email that accompanies your submission. Please also let us know if you are a PhD student.

Submit your paper, as a single document, via email to: BafaNorthern2024@edgehill.ac.uk

Registration

Opens: 29 July 2024
Closes 19 August 2024

Academic members and practitioners: £120
PhD students: £80*

Fees cover conference registration, lunch and refreshments throughout the day. Registration is via your BAFA membership account.

*PhD grants: BAFA is offering a conference fee waiver for five PhD students who wish to present posters. These will be allocated to the first five PhD students whose posters are accepted for the conference.

Please note: You must be a member of BAFA to attend this event. You are able to register as a member via the link: https://www.bafa.ac.uk/membership/

Key Dates

• Deadline for submission: Monday, 15 July, 2024
• Notification of acceptance: Monday, 29 July, 2024
• Registration opens: Monday, 29 July 2024
• Registration deadline: Monday, 19 August, 2024

Accommodation & Travel

Venue: Creative Edge, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk L39 4AA

Travel and accommodation are to be organised by participants at their own cost. University car park passes will be available. Ormskirk train station is less than a mile from campus.

Conference Organising Committee

Elisabeth Dedman (Dedmane@edgehill.ac.uk)
Chris Kelsall (Kelsac@edgehill.ac.uk)
Jia Liu (northern-ag@bafa.ac.uk)