Lee Parker

Professor Parker is Research Professor of Accounting at the University of Glasgow. His previous academic posts include the Universities of Glasgow, Dundee, Monash, Griffith, Flinders, Adelaide, South Australia, Royal Holloway University of London, RMIT University Melbourne, honorary professorship at the University of St Andrews, and visiting professorships in the USA, UK, Australasia, Asia and the Middle East.

His research has been published in over 250 articles and books on management and accounting, with a Google Scholar H score of 72 and cited in over 21,000 publications. Scopus SkiVal lists him as one of the highest published scholars in the accounting discipline globally. He is joint founding editor of the globally leading interdisciplinary research journal Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal (AAAJ) and serves on over 20 journal editorial boards internationally.

Professor Parker is a distinguished expert advisor to the Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research at the University of St Andrews, Convenor of AAAJ's Asia Pacific Interdisciplinary Research in Accounting global Thought Leadership Events, and Honorary Fellow of The Hanken Centre for Accounting, Finance and Governance, Hanken School of Economics, Finland. He is a 2020 member of the Australian Accounting Hall of Fame and a 2016 Hall of Fame Member of the Australian Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research. His academic leadership roles have included President of the Academy of Accounting Historians (USA), the American Accounting Association (AAA) Public Interest section, Vice-President International of the AAA and chair of its centennial celebrations taskforce. He has also been Deputy Chair of the Australian Institute of Management Board and Chair and President of CPA Australia’s South Australian Divisional board.

As a research professor in the Adam Smith School of Business, Professor Parker is focussed on supporting the research program in the accounting group, including advisory services to staff researchers, PhD students and supervisory teams, research projects mentoring and international networking.

Research interests

Professor Parker is a member of the Accounting research cluster.

Areas of expertise:

• Strategic Management and control
• Corporate Governance
• Accounting and Management History
• Social and Environmental Accountability
• Public/Nonprofit Sector Audit and Accountability
• Accounting communication
• University corporatisation & commercialisation
• Office Design, Efficiency and management control
• Qualitative and Historical Research Methodology

Teaching

Past and present interests include:

• Qualitative research methods
• Management accounting and control
• Strategic management
• Social and environmental accounting & management.

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Monash University
• Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.) The University of Dundee
• Bachelor of Economics University of Adelaide