Alice Shepherd

*Areas of expertise: *

• Innovative teaching approaches;
• Year in Industry;
• Digital learning;
• 19th century accounting and business history

Previous roles:

• PricewaterhouseCoopers: Associate, executive, manager and group leader in core Assurance, Audit Technical and Risk Assurance (2002-2007, 2012)
• Kaplan Financial: Tutor (2008-2009)
• Manchester Business School: Teaching Fellow in Accounting (2009-2011)

I joined LUBS as a Senior Teaching Fellow in Accounting in 2013, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2018.

Teaching:

• Module leader: Auditing and Assurance Services, Intermediate Financial Accounting, Contemporary Issues in Accounting

Other responsibilities:

• Vice-Chair, ICAEW Assessment Committee
• Member of Student Lifecycle Programme Academic Advisory Group
• A&F representative on LUBS Faculty Enhancement Group
• Member of Professional Development workstream in Curriculum Redefined project
• Member of Educational Futures Institute working group
• Placement tutor

Awards

• Winner of University Teaching Award for ‘Sustained excellence’ 2021
• Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA)
• Certified Management & Business Educator (CMBE)
• Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence 2017, 2018

Publications:

• Shepherd, A. (2020) ‘Not just men in grey suits’: An Accounting, Finance and Business Massive Open Online Course. Practice and Evidence of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 14(1), 84-116
• Shepherd, A., & Toms, S. (2019) Entrepreneurship, Strategy, and Business Philanthropy: Cotton Textiles in the British Industrial Revolution. Business History Review, 93(3), 503-527
• Toms, S. and Shepherd, A. (2017) Accounting and social conflict: Profit and regulated working time in the British Industrial Revolution, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 49, pp.57-75

Book chapter:

• Shepherd, A. (2021) ‘Making class time count: Introductory management accounting in a collaborative lecture theatre’, Cases on Active Blended Learning in Higher Education, IGI Global
• Shepherd, A. and Underwood, S. (2016) ‘The scale of the challenge: staff vs student perspectives of iPads in Higher Education’, in iPads in Higher Education Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on the Use of iPads in Higher Education (ihe2016) ISBN(13): 978-1-4438-9973-4

Research interests

I am engaged in scholarship of teaching and learning and present regularly at internal events and national and international conferences on student education topics such as digital learning, teaching innovation, collaborative teaching space use and academic reading. I am a LUBS/Law Transformation Programme Flagship Module Leader, and a Leeds Institute for Teaching Excellence Transformation Fellow.

I was a Teaching Enhancement Project Leader in the Leeds Institute for Teaching Excellence researching Year in Industry with Dr Mark Sumner from the School of Design at Leeds.

I have also conducted accounting and business history research with Professor Steve Toms.

Qualifications

• MA Online and Distance Education - The Open University
• Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants
• BSc in Biochemistry - The University of Manchester
• Apple Teacher and Microsoft Certified Educator

Professional memberships

• Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
• British Association of Accounting and Finance
• British Educational Research Association

Student education

I teach a range of accounting modules.