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Anne Stafford joined Alliance Manchester Business School in 2004. Her prior academic roles include lectureships at UMIST and Birmingham City University. Her experience includes five years working as a management accountant in industry and commerce, where she qualified as an accountant, and over thirty years lecturing in financial reporting, financial statement analysis and corporate governance to a wide range of undergraduate, postgraduate, professional and executive students. She has served as a member of the ACCA’s (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) Global Forum for the Public Sector and a committee member of the CIGAR (Comparative International Governmental Accounting Research) network, and as a committee member of the BAFA (British Accounting and Finance Association) Special Interest Group for Public Services and Charities. 

Her research interests lie in the area of critical and historical analysis of institutions and accountability. One current area of research is the financial analysis of public policy, particularly in relation to the UK’s Private Finance Initiative (PFI) and Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs), public sector corporate governance and accountability. Together with her fellow authors her research has created a body of evidence used to influence national and international public debate about the costs, affordability, value for money, and accountability and governance of PPPs. Her work has been cited in submissions to governments, the OECD, he World Bank and the Ottawa Light Rail Transit Enquiry and was the lead feature in a publication from the British Academy of Social Sciences: Making the Case for Accounting and Finance.

Another area of research is investigating from a disciplinary perspective the relationship between professional development and academic knowledge in accounting, including the development of professionalisation within accounting.