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Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting Research Group (IPARG) activities tie in closely with Cardiff Business School's Public Value agenda.

The group is keen to host visiting researchers and supervise potential PhD students who are interested in interdisciplinary perspectives.

Meet the team

Director

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Dr Elina Varoutsa

Senior Lecturer in Accounting

Telephone
+44 29208 70638
Email
VaroutsaE@cardiff.ac.uk

Co-directors

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Dr Penny Chaidali

Lecturer in Accounting

Telephone
+44 29208 70978
Email
ChaidaliP@cardiff.ac.uk
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Dr Nina Sharma

Senior Lecturer in Accounting

Telephone
+44 29208 75192
Email
SharmaN@cardiff.ac.uk

Academic staff

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Dr Dennis De Widt

Reader in Accounting and Finance

Telephone
+44 29208 76569
Email
DeWidtD@cardiff.ac.uk
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Professor Alpa Dhanani

Professor in Accounting and Finance

Telephone
+44 29208 76952
Email
DhananiAV@cardiff.ac.uk
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Dr Simon Norton

Senior Lecturer in Accounting

Telephone
+44 29208 76675
Email
NortonSD@cardiff.ac.uk
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Dr Hui Situ

Senior Lecturer in Accounting

Telephone
+44 29208 74271
Email
SituH1@cardiff.ac.uk

Events

Past events

DateEvent Type/LocationAbout
4 November 2025Online seminarProfessor Matt Hall, Dr Annemarie Conrath-Hargreave and Dr Tirukumar Thiagarajah (Monash University, Melbourne, Australia) ‘The Use of Vignettes in Qualitative Accounting Research’
14 May 2025SeminarProfessor Nick McGuigan, Monash Business School, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia 'Upholding ‘normality’ in accounting: Positioning queerness as deviant'
13 May 2025WorkshopProfessor Nick McGuigan, Monash Business School, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia 'Designing for Impactful Research and Education: Using arts-based practices and creative methodologies for impactful interdisciplinary work'
13 March 2025WorkshopDr Evangelia Varoutsa and Sophie Jones, Cardiff University, ESRC Impact Funding Manager 'Impact and Engagement team: Supporting Cardiff researchers to make meaningful change'
4 December 2024WorkshopProfessor Alpa Dhanani and Dr Hui Situ ‘Bourdieu's ideas of power and domination’
16 October 2024WorkshopProfessor Alpa Dhanani ‘Using public inquiry data for research into organisational accountability’
14 June 2024WorkshopDr Robert Bowen, Cardiff University ‘The ESRC funded programme Welsh Graduate School for Social Sciences’; and Professor Alpa Dhanani ‘Academic mentoring’
22 May 2024SeminarDr Ozlem Arikan, University of Sheffield ‘NGO Myopia, NGO Disclosures, and (Informed) Donor Support’
23 February 2024SeminarProfessor Lee Parker, University of Glasgow ‘People, Projects and Writing: Managing the Maze’

28 March 2023

Workshop

Professor Jill Atkins ‘Getting published: Writing and Submitting a Book Proposal to a Publisher’.

6 December 2022Workshop

Professor Jill Atkins ‘Getting published: Organising and Running a Special Issue of a Leading Journal’

7 November 2022Workshop

Professor Jill Atkins ‘Getting published: How to Deal with R&Rs and the Journal Publication Process’

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