Ken McPhail

Background

About Ken McPhail

I joined Alliance Manchester Business School at The University of Manchester in 2014 as Professor of Accounting and became Head of School in August 2023. Prior to joining The University of Manchester, I was Professor of Accounting and Head of Department at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, a position I held since 2010. Prior to this I was Professor of Social and Ethical Accounting at the University of Glasgow, a position I held since 2004. I am on the editorial board of Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal and Critical Perspectives on Accounting and am co-editor of the Journal of Business Ethics Education and Sustainability, Accountability, Management, and Practice Journal. I have held an Honorary Professorship at Deakin University from February 2006 and I sat on the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Scotland’s Ethics Committee prior to moving to Melbourne. Since 2013 I have been on the United Nations PRME Working Group for Business and Human Rights. My research interests lie principally in the area of corporate accountability and ethics, a topic on which I have lectured and published widely. My publications include four prize winning articles; a four volume research master work on Accounting Ethics, published by Sage in 2013 and two special journal issues, one on Accounting and Human Rights and a second on Accounting & Theology. In 2011, I was awarded an honorary membership of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia for my work on accounting, ethics and human rights.