Dr Olga Cam

Olga's research concerns the emancipatory and enabling power of accounting in facilitating sustainable living. In particular, she looks at how the application of accounting - a tool central to organisational decision-making, can be expanded beyond the currently narrow financial focus to stop business organisations from contributing to environmental and social degradation and instead adopt a multiple value creation approach. This covers topics such as processes of organisational accounting and reporting strategy adaptation to emerging societal pressures, historical cases of emancipatory accounting application, and practical ideas for integrating sustainability into business through accounting.

Like in many social sciences disciplines, the conceptual rethinking of a subject also demands rethinking the traditional educational models that prepare future professionals. There is a growing need to meet the demands of the current employers while also providing a critical education for an 'unknown future'. This drives Olga's other research interest - education for sustainable development. From this research perspective, she is concerned with searching for educational models that can combine the dual educational aim of contemporary higher education providers.