Celebrating 20 years
1-3 December, 2021 | Hobart, Tasmania
Email: ACSEAR2021@utas.edu.au
We encourage all scholars, both emerging and established, to submit their full papers for consideration.The deadline for paper submissions has been extended to 30 September 2021. Visit the Paper Submissions Section for more details
The Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research (CSEAR) is an international membership-based network that aims to mobilise accounting scholarship to enable a more sustainable society.
A-CSEAR (the Australasian division) aims to foster a supportive and inclusive community of emerging and established scholars investigating research on the social and environmental aspects of accounting theory and practice. The annual A-CSEAR conference provides an international forum in which to showcase this work and to foster much needed interdisciplinary research in accounting.
The A-CSEAR community is a vibrant and diverse group committed to the free exchange of ideas, rigorous debate and support for the growing of research collaborations and opportunities within social and environmental accounting and governance.
Professor Craig Deegan
The University of Tasmania
Professor of Accounting
Craig is Professor of Accounting at the University of Tasmania. His research interests are in the area of social and environmental accountability and accounting, financial accounting, and financial accounting theory, and he is one of the most highly cited accounting researchers internationally with citations of over 25,000 (as per Google Scholar). He is also the author of three leading textbooks, namely Financial Accounting (9th edition 2020), An Introduction to Accounting: Accountability in Organisations and Society (Cengage Learning, 1st edition, 2019), and Financial Accounting Theory. He has also been the senior supervisor of over 20 PhD completions as well as being the recipient of several prestigious research and educational awards.
Professor Gary O'Donovan
The University of Tasmania
Academic Lead - Accreditation - College of Business and Economics
Emeritus Professor O'Donovan has been an academic for over 40 years. In 1980 he began his academic career at the Riverina College of Advanced Education in New South Wales. From 1982 to 2003 he was at Victoria University (VU) in Melbourne (formerly the Footscray Institute of Technology) and in 2001 became the Head of the School of Accounting and Finance at VU. Gary’s main research interests were in social and environmental accounting and corporate social responsibility and he completed his PhD on legitimacy theory as an explanation for social and environmental disclosures in 2000. In 2002 he was the organiser and co-convenor of the 1st Australasian CSEAR conference, held in Melbourne, Australia, which was co-hosted by VU and RMIT University. He left VU to join the University of Tasmania (UTAS) in 2003 where he was appointed Head of the School of Accounting and Corporate Governance. At UTAS, he was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Business from 2005-2009, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Students & Education) from 2009-2010, Dean of the Tasmanian School of Business & Economics (TSBE) from 2011-2015 and Pro Vice-Chancellor (Global Engagement) in 2016. Gary was appointed as an Emeritus Professor and has worked on a part-time basis as Academic Lead – Accreditation for TSBE since the beginning of 2017.
Professor Jan Bebbington
University of Lancaster
Director of the Pentland Centre for Sustainability in Business
Professor Jan Bebbington is the Director of the Pentland Centre for Sustainability in Business at the University of Lancaster. Her work focuses on issues that emerge at the intersections between sustainable development concerns and accounting scholarship and has published on topics such the Sustainable Development Goals; sustainability science; motivations and rationales for standalone reporting; carbon accounting; sustainability assessment and accounting education.
Professor Charl De Villiers
The University of Auckland
Professor of Accounting
Charl De Villiers is Professor of Accounting at The University of Auckland, New Zealand, where his research and teaching interests include Sustainability Accounting, Integrated Reporting, and Management Accounting. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of Cape Town, University of Pretoria, and University of the Western Cape, in South Africa; and Universiti Teknologi Mara, in Malaysia. Charl was President (New Zealand) of AFAANZ (Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand) from 2018 to 2020.
Karen McWilliams
Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand
Business Reform Leader
Karen McWilliams is the Business Reform Leader in the Advocacy and Professional Standing team at Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand. She is responsible for shaping and influencing business reform issues of relevance to Chartered Accountants, including insolvency, corporate governance, anti-money laundering, corporations law and sustainability matters.Karen represents CA ANZ on the Global Compact Network Australia Board, the ASX Corporate Governance Council, the Advisory Board of the Deakin Centre for Integrated Reporting and as chair of the financial committee of the Climate Measurement Standards Initiative. With over 20 years' experience in a variety of business and advisory roles, she started her career in the specialist field of audit and has held positions with Worley Parsons, Ernst and Young, and Deloitte in London. She is a Fellow Chartered Accountant with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, a member of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand and holds a Master of Arts in Mathematical Sciences from the University of Oxford.
Joss Fenton
4 Business & Community
CEO/Director
Joss Fenton has a Bachelor of Commerce, CPA-qualified adviser/accountant, 25 years of experience, and has been working and volunteering with not-for-profits for over 20 years. In the last few years Joss has completed the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) Course which has further underpinned his understanding of best practice financial governance. Having been brought up in Tasmania, but lived and worked elsewhere for a number of years, Joss greatly appreciates Tasmania's rugged natural environment and accessibility. In recent years Joss has enjoyed the therapy of spending time in Tasmania's natural environment, particularly walking and riding on kunyani/Mt Wellington given it's close proximity. Joss wishes to ensure Tasmania's natural environment remains intact for his children, future generations, and the wider community in general.
The A-CSEAR Conference 2021 Hobart will facilitate a supportive and inclusive environment for social and environmental accountability and accounting research. We encourage all scholars, both emerging and established, to submit their full papers for consideration.
The conference theme for 2021 is ‘Learning from the Past; Accounting for the Future’. This theme will incorporate but not be limited to - accounting to eliminate modern slavery, Indigenous systems, sustainability accounting, designing curriculum for change, and accounting as a tool for empowerment.
The deadline for paper submissions has been extended to 30 September 2021.
Submitted papers are subject to blind peer review by two referees.
If you are a PhD student and would like to apply to present in the Doctoral Colloquium, please contact the Convenors directly at ACSEAR2021@utas.edu.au
To support the conference we have arranged for rooms to be held at the following hotels, but please book early as Hobart's summer acommodation books quickly
The Old Woolstore HotelFor Woolstore bookings, contact their reservations team by email or phone (03) 6235 5355 and quote the ACESAR Conference or reference #470839
Hotel Grand ChancellorVisit the Hotel Grant Chancellor custom conference landing page for information and bookings.
Wrest PointFor accommodation rates at Wrest Point see attached information.
While you are here in Hobart, why don’t you take the opportunity to get out and about to see the sites? Some places of interest include:
Just to name a few!
Dr Claire Horner is a Lecturer in Accounting in the Tasmanian School of Business and Economics. She has a background in both accounting and management, and her research interests include corporate social and environmental accounting, reporting and accountability; the use of impression management strategies in corporate communication; corporate social responsibility and sustainability; and accounting education practices. She is a past recipient of the CPA Australia Award for Honours Study in Accounting and a University of Tasmania Elite Research Scholarship, and is a member of the Golden Key International Honour Society.
Dr Terese Fiedler is a Lecturer in Accounting in the Tasmanian School of Business and Economics. She has a strong research interest in issues of accountability, including accounting for social capital through cultural events and Indigenous education, corporate social responsibility and reporting. She teaches mainly in financial accounting and has taught and developed units in corporate sustainability.
