Dr Caroline Linhares
Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Course Leader for MSc Accounting & Finance, MSc Financial Management and MSc Forensic Accounting
Summary
I am an interdisciplinary scholar specialising in social and environmental accounting. My research focuses on the role of accounting in achieving sustainable development, spanning the fields of sustainability reporting, sustainable supply chains, accountability and accounting in developed and developing countries to influence policy and practice.
Experienced within both academia and dynamic corporate environments, I held positions as Corporate Reporting and Financial Accounting Senior Analyst and later as a Financial Accounting Subject Matter Expert.
I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy with solid experience teaching in higher education in the UK. I joined Sheffield Business School in 2022 from the University of Leicester School of Business.
About
Qualifications
2020: Fellow, Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
2018: PhD Accounting, University of Sheffield
2011: MBA, University of Sheffield
2005: BSc Accounting, FAE Business School
Teaching
Subject area: Financial Accounting and Management Accounting
Courses taught:
MSc Accounting & Finance
MSc Financial Management
BSc Accounting & Finance
Modules taught:
Strategic Management Accounting
Environmental Accounting
Publications
Journal articles
Dibben, P., Meira, J., Linhares, C., Bruce, R., & Wood, G. (2020). Vanishing value chains, industrial districts and HRM in the Brazilian automotive industry. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 31 (2), 254-271. http://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2016.1233446
Book chapters
Johnson, P., Wood, G., Dibben, P., Cullen, J., Meira, J., Bonnin, D., ... Linhares, C. (2018). Reconfiguration and Regulation of Supply Chains and HRM in Times of Economic Crisis. In Human Resource Management A Critical Approach. Routledge
Reports
Cookson, G., Linhares, C., & Choo, L.S. (2022). CO2e Written verification standard creation.
Presentations
Linhares, C., Ejiogu, A., & Denedo, M. (2024). Social and Environmental Reporting and organisational change: the case of the Social Housing sector. Presented at: 34th International Congress on Social and Environmental Accounting Research, University of St Andrews, Scotland
Linhares, C., Ramsbottom, O., & Duffy, M. (2024). Systems Thinking in Practice and Application: A collaborative, multi-university, inter-disciplinary approach to provide students with a systems view toolkit for Responsible Strategic Thinking. Presented at: PRME UK & Ireland Chapter Conference 2024, University of Exeter, UK
Linhares, C., Ramsbottom, O., & Duffy, M. (2024). Systems Thinking in Practice and Application: A collaborative, multi-university, inter-disciplinary approach to provide students with a systems view toolkit for Responsible Strategic Thinking. Presented at: PRME UK & Ireland Chapter Conference 2024, University of Exeter, UK
Linhares, C., Ejiogu, A., & Denedo, M. (2024). Sustainability Reporting for Social Housing. Presented at: Inaugural Environmental, Ecological and Extinction Accounting, Governance and Economics Research Group (EEEAGER) Conference, Cardiff Business School
Linhares, C., & Cullen, J. (2018). An exploration of the potential of supply chain accounting for promoting both economic and social upgrading. Presented at: European Management Control Symposium, Nice, France
Postgraduate supervision
I am currently supervising two Doctoral students. I welcome Research Proposal from prospective PhD and DBA students.