Professor Stephen Walker

Teaching profile

Financial Accounting (3rd year undergraduate)
The Accountancy Profession (3rd year undergraduate)
Analysis of Financial Reporting Information (3rd year undergraduate)
Research Topics in Accounting (Postgraduate)

Research interests

Emergence and development of the accountancy profession
History of accounting in social institutions since the late eighteenth century
Gender and accounting in historical contexts.

Selected publications

Walker, S.P. (2011) Ethel Ayres Purdie: Critical Practitioner and Suffragist, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 22 (1): 79-101

Walker, S.P. (2011) Professions and Patriarchy Revisited. Accountancy in England and Wales, 1887–1914, Accounting History Review, 21 (2): 185-225.

Walker, S.P. (2010) Child Accounting and the Handling of Human Souls, Accounting, Organizations and Society, 35 (6): 628-657.

Edwards, J.R. and Walker, S.P. (2010) Lifestyle, Status and Occupational Differentiation in Victorian Accountancy, Accounting, Organisations and Society, 35 (1): 2-22.

Carmona, S., Donoso, R. and Walker, S.P. (2010) Accounting and International Relations: Britain, Spain and the Asiento Treaty, Accounting, Organizations and Society, 35 (2): 252-273.

Anderson, M. and Walker, S.P. (2009) 'All Sorts and Conditions of Men'. The Social Origins of the Founders of the ICAEW, British Accounting Review, 41 (1): 31-45.

Walker, S.P. (2008). The Search for Innovation, Convergence and Argument Without End in Accounting History, Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 21 (2): 296-322.

Walker, S.P. (2008). Accounting, Paper Shadows and the Stigmatised Poor, Accounting, Organizations and Society, 33 (4/5): 453-487.

Walker, S.P. (2008) Accounting Histories of Women: Beyond Recovery? Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 21 (4): 580-610.

Edwards, J.R. and Walker, S.P. (2008), Occupational Differentiation and Exclusion in Early Canadian Accountancy, Accounting and Business Research, 28 (5): 373-391.

Edwards, J.R. and Walker, S.P. (2008) (eds) The Routledge Companion to Accounting History, London: Routledge

Edwards, J.R. and Walker, S.P. (2007). Accountants in late nineteenth century Britain: A spatial demographic and occupational profile, Accounting and Business Research, 37 (1): 63-89.

Walker, S.P. (2006). Philanthropic women and accounting. Octavia Hill and the exercise of quiet power and sympathy. Accounting, Business & Financial History, 16 (2): 163-194.

Walker, S.P. (2004). The genesis of professional organisation in English accountancy. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 29 (2): 127-156.

Walker, S.P. (2004). Expense, social and moral control. Accounting and the administration of the old poor law in England and Wales. Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, 23 (2): 85-127.

Jacobs, K. and Walker, S.P. (2004). Accounting and accountability in the Iona Community. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 17 (3): 361-381.

Walker, S.P. (2004). Conflict, collaboration, fuzzy jurisdictions and partial settlements. Accountants, lawyers and insolvency practice during the late nineteenth century, Accounting and Business Research, 34 (3): 247-265.

Walker, S.P. (2003). Professionalisation or incarceration? Household engineering, accounting and the domestic ideal, Accounting, Organizations and Society, 28 (7/8): 743-772.

Walker, S.P. (2003). Agents of dispossession and acculturation. Edinburgh accountants and the highland clearances. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 14 (8): 813-853.

Walker, S.P. (2003). Identifying the woman behind the 'railed in desk'. The proto-feminisation of bookkeeping in Britain. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 16 (4): 606-639.

Walker, S.P. (2002). Men of small standing"? Locating accountants in English society during the mid-nineteenth century. European Accounting Review, 11 (2): 377-399

Activities

Editorial Board Member

Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal
Accounting, Business and Financial History
Accounting Historians Journal
Accounting History
Accounting, Organizations and Society
Critical Perspectives on Accounting
European Accounting Review
International Journal of Auditing

Other Activities

Editor, Accounting Historians Journal, 2001-2005.
President, Academy of Accounting Historians, 2007.
Recipient of the Hourglass Award of the Academy of Accounting Historians, 2005.
Has held visiting positions at Deakin University and Victoria University of Wellington.
Formerly Convener of Accounting History Committee, ICAS and member of Research Committee, ICAS.
Academic Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, 1994-1998
External Examiner, London School of Economics (MSc)