Dr Barbara Voss (they/them)
BSc, MSc, PhD, FHEA, CA
Management School
Lecturer in Accounting
+44 114 222 2181
Full contact details
Management School
C100
Western Bank Villa
300-302 Western Bank
Sheffield
S10 2TN
- Profile
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Barbara’s research concern is Equity within the politics of businesses.
Barbara discusses the inter-related aspects of accounting, politics, regulation and discourses.
Current work is divided into three projects:
- Diversity – including understanding initiatives and politics concerning diversity in the corporate space, including issues of sexuality, gender, identity and intersectionality. All projects endeavour to uncover the role of accounting through multi-spheres and multi-voices.
- Corporate social responsibility and sustainability – involving a deeper understanding of the meanings of sustainability and the politics of sustainability for business and its appropriation of knowledge.
- Financial accounting and regulation – including discussing the influence of neoliberal and post-colonial policies on financial accounting standards, regulation of auditing and the impacts on businesses and societies.
- Qualifications
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- PhD - University of Sao Paulo BS (Hons.)
- MSc Accounting - Federal University of Santa Catarina
- Research interests
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- Diversity – including understanding initiatives and politics concerning diversity in the corporate space, including issues of sexuality, gender, identity and intersectionality. All projects endeavour to uncover the role of accounting through multi-spheres and multi-voices.
- Corporate social responsibility and sustainability – involving a deeper understanding of the meanings of sustainability and the politics of sustainability for business and its appropriation of knowledge. In some extent, this project expands the implications of the technologies of governance and discusses issues such as corruption, fraud, political campaigns and marketing with a special focus on Brazil.
- Financial accounting and regulation – including discussing the influence of neoliberal and post-colonial policies on financial accounting standards, regulation of auditing and the impacts on businesses and societies.
- Publications
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Journal articles
- Finding Our Voices – Exploring Diversity, Inclusion and Accounting by the Marginalised and Managed Diverse. Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, 44(2), 87-92.
- LGBTIQ+ staff and shifting client power within professional services firms. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 37(6), 1537-1557.
- Redressing the Big 4’s male, pale and stale image, through LGBTIQ+ ethical praxis. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 96, 102511-102511.
- Ephemeral promises of happiness: Coming out in the Australian accounting profession into the late 2010s. Gender, Work & Organization, 30(6), 2033-2048.
- A car wash: post-truth politics, Petrobras and ethics of the real. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 36(2), 437-463.
- Corporate Accountability and Human Rights Disclosures: A Case Study of Barrick Gold Mine in Tanzania. Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, 35(2), 127-128.
- Evidenciação ambiental dos resíduos sólidos de companhias abertas no Brasil potencialmente poluidoras. Revista Contabilidade & Finanças, 24(62), 125-141.
- EVIDENCIAÇÃO AMBIENTAL: ESTUDO COMPARATIVO DAS CONTRIBUIÇÕES TEÓRICO-METODOLÓGICAS DE BRASIL E ESPANHA. Revista Universo Contábil, 123-140.
- Disclosure of environmental impacts within the agribusiness chain: A study on transport of solid waste in a city in Santa Catarina. Custos e Agronegocio, 8(3), 91-112.
- Evolução do currículo de Contabilidade no Brasil desde 1809. Revista Catarinense da Ciência Contábil, 10(30), 27-42.
Conference proceedings papers
- Finding Our Voices – Exploring Diversity, Inclusion and Accounting by the Marginalised and Managed Diverse. Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, 44(2), 87-92.
- Teaching interests
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Barbara is passionate about equity, diversity and inclusion, which come across at all teaching experience. Barbara taught financial accounting units including introductory to advanced levels since 2011. Barbara has also experience working in one the Big 4 that supports their teaching in auditing and assurance. Barbara is a chartered accountant at the CA ANZ.
Barbara’s principal teaching philosophy is critical pedagogy inspired by the Brazilian philosopher Paulo Freire. In this approach, Barbara invites students to reflect on their learning and experiences through practical case studies. In addition, Barbara is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) in the UK.
Barbara has an extensive experience in supervision from honours (bachelor), masters by research, professional doctorate to PhD. Barbara has contributed to several higher education students.
- PhD Supervision
Projects available:
- Critical accounting perspectives on the role of accounting and auditing concerning technologies, regulation and practices
- Deeper understandings of the meanings of sustainability and the politics of sustainability for business and its appropriation of knowledge
- Understandings of the neoliberal and (post)colonial policies on financial accounting and auditing standards
- Examination of the diversity and inclusion initiatives in a range of businesses
- Critical exploration of intersectionality, sexuality and gender within accounting, accountants and/or corporate praxis
- Exploration of Accounting Education - reflecting, recognising and incorporating diverse values and cultures