PhD student in Employment Relations and Organisational Behaviour
Biography
Jonathan is a graduate of the University of Bristol (UK) where he read Economics and Accounting with Law and Politics. Following his undergraduate degree Jonathan qualified as a Chartered Accountant (ICAEW) working in various Finance and Consultancy roles in the Media industry. His employers and clients included the Walt Disney Company, Channel 4 and News International.
Jonathan’s interest in academia was rekindled following a chance encounter with a research problem highlighted in an Accounting Journal. His academic experience includes being a Course Assistant at Queen Mary University in London teaching Managerial Accounting and acting as an examiner for Corporate Financial Strategy MSc at University College London. Jonathan’s teaching interests extend beyond academia where he provides professional training and consultancy for small businesses and entrepreneurs.
Research interests
Subject areas: Critical Accounting, Professional Identity, Stereotypes, Diversity, Ethnicity
Jonathan’s research was motivated by his own experiences as an accountant. Accounting research has made limited insights into the existence of Accountancy as a social phenomenon in its organisational context (Hopwood, 2008). The most influential journals in academic accounting are concerned with auditing, financial accounting, management accounting and tax (Bonner, Hesford, Van der Stede & Young, 2006).
As a consequence, accounting research has been limited by these dominant paradigms (Hopwood, 2007) and this has encouraged studies that reproduce a hegemonic set of cultural values and conceptions of reality (Hines, 1992). The Accountancy profession’s lack of demographic monitoring is indicative of its homogeneity. Jonathan’s research seeks to explore the experiences of minority ethnic groups within the profession but outside of the dominant homogenous group. The study will explore the experience of black accountants regarding their engagement with the socialisation process of the profession exploring concepts of stereotype and the intersection of gender, class and ethnicity as part of professional identity.
This project uses a critical approach to draw upon several disciplines and literature including professionalization, identity and race.
Supervisor
Publications and Papers
Papers in progress
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Ashong-Lamptey, J. (2012). Accounting as a Social Phenomenon: An Exploration of Ethnicity and Gender in UK Accounting Profession. IPA 2012 Emerging Scholars Colloquium. University of Cardiff (UK). July 2012.