Head of Department of Accounting and Financial Management
Suki is Professor of Accounting and Head of Department of Accounting and Financial Management. She previously served as Head of Department of Accounting and Financial Management for six years at Queen Mary University of London, leading the department through a period of significant change and extensive growth. She was also a member of the Senior Leadership Team in the School of Business and Management there and involved in the decision-making processes for defining development and strategy for the School. Suki has also been a research leader and was the founding director of AARG (Accounting and Accountability Research Group) and a member of CRED (the Centre for Research in Equality and Diversity).
Suki’s research is themed around the profession and professionalisation processes and her work has a particular focus on exclusion from and marginalisation within the accounting profession. Recent externally-funded research projects have focused on historical/sociological aspects of the professionalisation of accountancy; gender-based marginalisation and discontinuous careers in contemporary professional accountancy within an international context, and diversity and social mobility within the UK accounting profession. More recent work has drawn attention to changes in the audit model arising from enforced homeworking during the pandemic with a particular focus on how this has an impact on gender equality. She has served on the editorial board of key accounting journals in her field and her work has been published in journals such as Accounting, Organisations and Society; Critical Perspectives on Accounting; Accounting, Auditing and Accountability. Suki holds an MSc from The London School of Economics, a PhD in Accounting from The University of Aberdeen and is a Senior Fellow of the HEA. She is an ICAEW member and has worked as an auditor and accountant in practice.
