I am a Fellow member of the Association of Chartered and Certified Accountants (ACCA) and member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT). I am a Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Taxation for undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. I am an active researcher in areas surrounding accounting, taxation, public social welfare policy and their implications on individuals, organisations, society and social inequality.

I teach accounting and taxation and also supervise research projects (UG level) and dissertations (PG level). Providing and facilitating space to deliver and maintain high quality teaching and learning is very important to me. Making use of information technology and developing innovative methods for teaching and learning is an important part to my approach. 

Prior to my academic career, I worked in the accountancy and taxation industry for around fifteen years (since 1997). I managed tax enquiry cases (personal and business) and coordinated and managed a busy tax department at an accountancy firm, where I was also the Training Officer  and the ACCA Mentor for trainees. I also owned and managed my own accountancy firm offering accountancy services, taxation advice and tax planning to businesses, individuals and accounting firms. 

I embarked on a career in academia in 2008, partly because I enjoyed teaching and sharing knowledge and skills that I had gained from industry, and also because I wanted to make a change to the way tax and social welfare policy is administered with the aim of improving the experiences of practitioners, citizens (in particular vulnerable groups), leading to improved effective deliery of policy. It is due to this passion that I immersed myself into accounting, tax, social welfare and public administration research, and completed an MRes and PhD in accounting.

My research is multidisciplinary and transcends across several disciplines to include: accounting, public administration, taxation, social welfare and sociology. In the main, my research focuses on the role of accounting in public policy and administration. In particular, I examine tax and social welfare administration and their implications and impact on individuals, organisations, society, and social inequality. My research also explores the role of accounting technologies and techniques, their implications, to include how they enact power and control. I adopt qualitative research methods and use a critical interpretivist approach, through ethnography, critical discourse analysis, and the application of grounded theory, to name a few. 

In addition to my teaching and research, I hold several other roles:

• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and Teaching Fellow at Bangor University.
• PhD supervisor and examiner.
• Academic Advisor.
• Expert reviewer and panellist at the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Peer Review College.
• Chair of Interdisciplinary Perspectives Special Interest Group (IPSIG) British Accounting and Finance Association (BAFA).
• Co-editor of the Tax Research Network (TRN) Blog.
• Executive Board member of the Tax Research Network (TRN).
• Academic Advisor and Volunteer for the Low Income Tax Reform Group (LITRG) Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT).
• Trustee and Director of Citizens Advice Ynys Môn.
• Committee member of the CIOT Digitalisation and Agent Services Committee.
• Committee member of the CIOT Education Committee.
• Journal reviewer for Critical Perspectives on Accounting (CPA) Journal, Social Policy & Administration Journal, Journal of Accounting & Organisational Change, Journal of Accounting Literature, British Accounting Review Journal, and Accounting and Finance Journal.
• External Examiner for the University of Limerick, Ireland, for their undergraduate and postgraduate tax and tax law modules.
• External Associate Member for the Centre on Household Assets and Savings Management (CHASM) at Birmingham University.

My previous awards include:

• £24,328 awarded by Welsh Government;
• £18,000 from Economic Intelligence Wales Limited;
• £70,672 grant from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Doctoral Training Programme (DTP);
• £24,999 awarded by the Welsh Government;
• £198,377 Grant award from the Nuffield Foundation and The British Academy;
• £62,436 grant from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Doctoral Training Programme (DTP);
• £12,000 Financial and non-financial support from Citizens Advice Ynys Môn as part of a successful ESRC DTP application;
• £18,200 grant from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Impact Acceleration Account (IAA);
• £10,000 grant from the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) Wales Research Grant;
• £1,500 research bursary from Departments of Accounting and Finance (CDAF);
• £2,000 College Seed Funding, Bangor University;
• Nominated twice for Teacher of the Year category, by the Students’ Union and the Student Led Teaching Awards Panel (UK);
• 5-year Lectureship in Accounting (Welsh Medium) funded by the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol (UK); and 5-year Welsh Medium Postgraduate Scholarship in Accounting from Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol (UK).