Professor Stephen Walker

Qualifications

Graduated BA (Hons) (University of Kent) and PhD (Edinburgh University).

Teaching profile

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

Research interests

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

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

• 2007 President, Academy of Accounting Historians
  
• 2005 Recipient of the Hourglass Award of the Academy of Accounting Historians
  
• 2001-2005 Editor, Accounting Historians Journal
• 1994-1998 Academic Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
• 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.
• External Examiner, London School of Economics (MSc)

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