Addressing 21st-century environmental, ecological and extinction challenges arising from the climate crisis, global warming, ecological and ecosystem degradation, biodiversity collapse, mass species extinctions, and water scarcity.

About

The EEEAGER Group is an inclusive community which integrates environmental, ecological and extinction researchers from other business and governance-related disciplines including financial management, management, marketing, strategy, international business, logistics, human resource management, and operations, as well as from other academic disciplines. All our research activities contribute to Cardiff Business School’s Public Value strategy.

The EEEAGER Group acts as a forum for international and interdisciplinary researchers from academia and practice in the fields of accounting, governance and economics to meet, share ideas and work collaboratively to address the environmental and ecological challenges faced by organisations across all sectors and their stakeholders today.

Such collaborative research will lead to the development of theoretical and practical frameworks, tools, mechanisms and solutions that can be applied in practice to solve, or at least progress, towards solutions to these challenges.

The EEEAGER Group will contribute to the School’s objective of producing internationally excellent research by providing a forum for like-minded researchers from around the world to meet, exchange ideas, collaborate on research projects, write and publish papers and books together, apply for research funding and produce research outputs of the highest quality in world-leading international journals.

The EEEAGER Group’s work will also lead to substantial impacts on organisations, society and the environment.

The history of the group

The EEEAGER Group provides a physical home at Cardiff Business School for the existing online EAGR (Extinction Accounting and Governance Research) Network which was established in January 2021 during the pandemic as an online network of international and interdisciplinary researchers who run regular online seminars under the title ‘IFEAR4FUTURE’. We are continuing this online seminar series with regular seminars and discussants throughout the year.

Meet the team

Management team

Director and Founder

Co-directors

• Professor Warren Maroun
• Dr Longxiang Zhao
• Dr Mira Lieberman

Academic staff members

Postgraduate students

• Martina Macpherson

Events

EEEAGER 3rd International Workshop and Doctoral Colloquium

The Postgraduate Teaching Centre, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University.

Monday 29 June  - Wednesday 1 July 2026

Interdisciplinary research into biodiversity protection, nature restoration, rewilding is growing exponentially given the global crisis we face due to biodiversity and ecosystem collapse and species extinctions. Similarly, research into climate and carbon accounting and finance is expanding as we witness the increasing impacts of global warming on the world around us through changing weather patterns, warming, rising water levels.

The EEEAGER group acts as a forum for researchers to meet and discuss their research into these areas with an international and interdisciplinary focus but grounded in the disciplines of accounting and finance, economics, governance and related business areas.

Call for Papers

Our third EEEAGER Doctoral Colloquium and International Workshop invites scholars from around the world to submit abstracts for consideration in the following areas, but also on any related interdisciplinary research topics:

• Carbon accounting and governance
• Climate action through the financial markets
• Environmental accounting and assurance
• Accounting, accountability and assurance for nature restoration and biodiversity
• Financing for nature restoration, rewilding and de-extinction
• Research into the introduction of the TNFD, the Biological Diversity (BD) Protocol and other nature-related accounting and reporting frameworks
• International illustrations of nature-related and biodiversity accounting and finance
• The role of, and evolution of, ecological and extinction governance frameworks
• Accounting for species protection and extinction accounting
• Philosophical and ethical debates around biodiversity protection, nature restoration, rewilding and de-extinction and how these relate to accounting, accountability, finance and assurance.

We will also be hosting a workshop focusing on the recent Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Meditari on “Accounting for Biodiversity, Ecosystems, and Species: Impacts, Dependencies, and the State of Nature”, to be guest edited by Giacomo Pigatto, Jill Atkins, Lino Cinquini, John Dumay and Andrea Tenucci.

We also welcome research applying a wide range of methodological approaches, including qualitative, quantitative, interpretive, and theoretical.

Please submit your abstracts to Jill Atkins (atkinsj10@cardiff.ac.uk) and Hui Situ (situh1@cardiff.ac.uk) by 30 April 2026.

We look forward to welcoming you to Cardiff Business School in June.

Conference Fees

• Academics and Practitioners - Full Workshop and Gala Dinner - £300
• Students / Retired Academics - Full Workshop and Gala Dinner - £150
• Students - Colloquium and Workshop, no Gala Dinner - £100

Registration

To register for this conference, please visit our registration website.

Guest Speakers

• Professor John Dumay, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
• Professor Federica Doni, Milano-Bicocca University, Milan, Italy
• Professor Warren Maroun, Leeds University, UK and Wits University, South Africa

Past events