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IPSIG’s Annual Doctoral Colloquium 2025,

Friday 4 - Friday 4 July 2025 Birmingham City Business School + Online

BAFA IPSIG is glad to announce that its 3 rd Annual Doctoral Colloquium will be taking place on Friday, 4 July 2025, at Birmingham City Business School – Birmingham City University. The doctoral colloquium aims to bring together postgraduate researchers and early career researchers (ECRs) interested in interdisciplinary and critical perspectives on accounting and finance. This one-day doctoral colloquium will be organised in a hybrid format, accommodating both in-person and remote presentations. We do encourage participants to join us in-person for further engagement and networking opportunities in a friendly and open environment on the day. Nonetheless, whether your presentation is remote or in-person, our panel of experts will give you constructive feedback to help you progress your research.

We are seeking submissions in the form of abstracts relating to complete or working papers, or research ideas, focusing on interdisciplinary research in accounting and finance (further guidance about the structure of the abstracts are found below). We welcome a wide range of topic areas which may include, but are not limited to:

  • Accounting, Accountability and the role of value (re)construction
  • Accounting for the public interest, plurality of publics, diversity
  • The accounting profession, contested expertise, accounting scandals
  • Audit, ethics, corporate governance and organisational culture
  • Accounting as political practice, political economy, and/or biopolitics. The role and implications of accounting in racial and/or social conflict, industrial relations, counter- accounting
  • Management accounting and innovation
  • Interdisciplinary issues in the application of management accounting practices
  • The formalities and informalities of management controls and performance measurement systems
  • Green finance
  • Financial criminology
  • Sustainability accounting
  • Social and environmental accounting, health and wellbeing accounting, biodiversity and ecological accounting
  • Accounting and imperialism, post-colonial accounting
  • Accounting aesthetics and organisational symbolism
  • Accounting cosmologies, non-human accounts, multi-species accounting
  • Accounting for the digital: new accounts and new ways of accounting for digitalisation
  • Impact of AI, blockchain and other technologies on accounting and finance activities/practices
  • Vernacular forms of accounting, iconographic and audio-visual accounts
  • Divergent, polyphonic and pluripolar accounting histories
  • Social studies of finance and valuation
  • Behavioural finance and understanding psychological biases influencing financial decision-making
  • The use of financial technology (fintech) and other financial data methods/ models such as artificial neural networks and machine learning algorithms 
  • Financial sociology: social and cultural factors shaping financial markets and institutions
  • Interdisciplinary studies between finance and political science and their impact on understanding financial markets, political and governmental regulations, international relations and public opinion
  • Financial legislations and legal frameworks influencing financial institutions, investors’ behaviours, and other market participants.

Keynotes

We will have two keynote speakers at the event, each of whom will provide unique insight, guidance and advice relevant to doctoral students and ECRs. These includestopics surrounding the creation of new or development of existing theories, writing and publishing papers in academic journals etc. Further details about our keynotes will be provided in due course.

Abstracts and Timeline

Submission Deadline (extended): 26 May 2025

Please submit an extended abstract, between 500 to 1,000 words (1,000 maximum), by the 16 May 2025 to BAFA.IPSIG_doccolloquium@bcu.ac.uk. Authors should hear back from us by the 30 May 2025 as to whether their abstract has been accepted.

The abstract should provide details about the purpose, motivation and aims of the paper/research, and include a summary of the theoretical framework and methodology adopted. If relevant, and depending on the stage of your study, abstract should also include details of any findings and any practical/academic implications of the findings.

Location

This is a hybrid event. In-person candidates will join us at our Birmingham City University City Centre campus. Online access will be provided to successful applicants nearer the time.

Registration fees

Opens: 1 May 2025
Closes: 27 June 2025

  • PhD students: £80
  • Early career researchers/ Faculty Members: £100

Register Here

Organising Committee

Dr Sarah Mohamed – Chair of the Organising Committee

Academic Programme Leads:

  • Dr Charles Ambilichu
  • Dr Kaveh Asiaei
  • Dr Yasar Bayraktar

Mrs Doaa Abdelnaeim – Logistics, Publicity, and Operations Lead

Please feel free to get in touch with our doctoral colloquium organising team for any queries regarding potential submissions by email: BAFA.IPSIG_doccolloquium@bcu.ac.uk.

Alternatively, you can get in contact with Dr Sarah Mohamed (Postgraduate Research Director - Accountancy, Finance and Economics and chair of colloquium’s organising team) by email: sarah.mohamed@bcu.ac.uk.