Accounting historian

I am a Teaching Fellow in Accounting at Aston Business School, Aston University, and an Honorary Research Associate in Accounting History at the University of Bristol. I am also a PhD candidate in Accounting at the University of Portsmouth, where my thesis, Accounting as Imperial Governance: Financial Reporting, Disclosure, and Legitimacy in British, Belgian, and Portuguese Overseas Enterprise, c. 1890–1940, is due for submission in August 2027.

My research interrogates how accounting technologies—reserve structures, narrative disclosure, and financial reporting—operated as instruments of governance in overseas enterprise. Drawing on archival material from Europe, Latin America, and sub-Saharan Africa, I examine accounting choice under political risk, the construction of legitimacy through disclosure, and the role of accounting in colonial extraction. I hold a PhD from the University of Bristol and was previously a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Reading, where I was mentored by Professor Mark Casson.

My work has appeared in Accounting History, Business History Review, The Economic History Review, Enterprise & Society, Business History, and the Revista de Historia Económica.

Selected work