Prof Jane Davison, BA (Liverpool), MA, PhD (London), FCA, FHEA
Professor of Accounting

Research Interests

• Accounting and the visual
• Accounting narratives
• Literary, fine art and philosophical approaches to communication issues in accounting
• Reporting of intangibles/intellectual capital
• Organizational accountability and corporate governance
• Myth and accounting

Research Grants

2010-2012 ESRC
Researcher Development Initiative funding for advancing visual methodologies in business and management in conjunction with inVISIO: International Network of Visual Studies in Organisations www.som.surrey.ac.uk/invisio (group project with colleagues from Surrey, Bath, Exeter and Sheffield), £81,000.

2008-2009 ESRC
Research Seminar Series funding for inVISIO: International Network of Visual Studies in Organisations (group project with colleagues from Surrey, Bath, Exeter and Manchester), £15,000.

2003-2006 Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland.
Grant for work on visual and narrative material in annual reports and links with intangibles (with Professor Len Skerratt, Brunel University), £6,200

2001 Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland.
Seedcorn grant for work on communication techniques in financial reporting, £250

1992-1994. British Academy.
Major scholarship for research in the fine arts, £12,000

Journal Editorial Roles

Guest editor (with Dr Chris McLean [University of Manchester] and Dr Samantha Warren [University of Surrey]) of a special issue of Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management on the theme of Qualitative Research: Exploring the Visual in Organizations and Management, planned for publication in 2012.

Guest editor (with Dr Samantha Warren [University of Surrey]) of a special issue of Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal (August 2009, Vol. 22 No. 6), on Visual Perspectives on Accounting and Accountability.
» Link to the special issue

Joint editor (with Madeleine Renouard [Birkbeck College, University of London]) of a special issue of La Chouette on the theme of Lorand Gaspar, 1995.

Other Activities

Founding member, inVisio: International Network of Visual Studies in Organisations www.som.surrey.ac.uk/invisio