Thomas Ahrens

Thomas Ahrens is a Professor of Accounting at United Arab Emirates University. He held positions at the University of Southampton, the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and the University of Warwick, where he served as Associate Dean for graduate programmes for three years. He earned his PhD at the LSE.

He has conducted research on managerial uses of accounting in companies as well as the institutional functioning of accounting in a variety of public sector contexts. This work was based on qualitative field research and has sought to contribute to understandings of accounting as socio-material practice. He has also written on methodological questions related to qualitative accounting research.

Thomas is currently serving as Editor of Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management, Associate Editor of Management Accounting Research, and Co-Editor of the Journal of Management and Governance. For 10 years he was an Associate Editor of Contemporary Accounting Research.