Awards for Excellence

Citation

(2003), "Awards for Excellence", Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Vol. 16 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/aaaj.2003.05916daa.001

Awards for Excellence

Literati Club

Awards for Excellence

Jane BroadbentSchool of Management, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, UKandRichard LaughlinThe Management Centre, King's College, London, UK

are the recipients of the Mary Parker Follett Award for Excellence for their paper

"Accounting choices: technical and political trade-offs and the UK's private finance initiative"

which appeared in Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Vol. 15 No. 5, 2002

Jane Broadbent, BA (Sociology) (York), MA (Accounting and Financial Management) (Sheffield), PhD (Accounting) (Sheffield), FCCA is Professor of Accounting at Royal Holloway, University of London. She started her career in the NHS where she qualified as an accountant. In 1981 she returned to full-time education, completing a first degree in sociology at the University of York. She has held posts at Leeds Polytechnic, the University of Sheffield and at the University of Essex. She was appointed as Professor of Accounting at Royal Holloway, University of London in 1997 and has served as Dean of History and Social Sciences before taking the post of Vice-Principal (Academic Affairs) in 2002. She has held a number of visiting appointments in Australia and New Zealand. She has a range of refereed publications aligned to management and accounting change in the public sector and is joint editor of three books, two of which are related to the area of management control, the third relating to the changing role of the professions. She has made numerous presentations to workshops and conferences in the UK, Europe, Canada, USA, Australia, New Zealand and Japan. She has jointly (with Richard Laughlin) held a number of research grants, the most recent with the Chartered Institute of Management Accounts (CIMA). This grant has financed the research into the Private Finance Initiative from which a range of academic and policy publications have been forthcoming.

Richard Laughlin, SocSc (Accounting (Birmingham), PhD (Accounting) (Sheffield), FCA, FRS is Professor of Accounting at King's College, London, University of London. He worked as a trainee and manager in a professional accounting practice and as a consultant accountant before taking a postgraduate degree in 1971 leading to an appointment as a lecturer at the University of Sheffield in 1973. He was promoted to Professor in 1991 at Sheffield. He moved in 1995 to take up a Chair in the University of Essex before taking up his current position at King's College, London in 1999 where he has just stepped down from being Head of the Department of Management. He has held a number of visiting appointments in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Kenya. He has a range of publications in accounting, management, organisation and political science refereed journals, books and conference proceedings, related to methodological issues and to understanding the organisational and human effects of changes in accounting, finance and management systems in organisations and society, with particular emphasis on the public sector. He has made numerous presentations to conferences and workshops in the UK, Europe, Canada, USA, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Fiji. He has jointly (with Jane Broadbent) held a number of research grants, the most recent with the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA). This grant has financed the research into the Private Finance Initiative from which a range of academic and policy publications have been forthcoming.