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Staff Profile

Dr Shanta Davie

Senior Lecturer in Accounting & Financial Management

  • Email: shanta.davie@ncl.ac.uk
  • Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 1645
  • Address: Newcastle University Business School
    5 Barrack Road
    Newcastle upon Tyne
    NE1 4SE
    England
    U.K.
Background

Dr Davie is a Senior Lecturer in Accounting & Financial Management (AFM) at Newcastle University Business School (NUBS). Shanta was born, raised and educated in Fiji. She is a former Deputy Head of Accounting & Finance Subject Group (2017-2020) and is the current Chair of NUBS Personal Extenuating Circumstances (PEC) Committee. The role involves co-ordinating provision of pastoral care between academic units and central services, as well as making decisions on applications for consideration of personal extenuating circumstances. The role requires patience and listening. She is also the point of contact for Accounting & Financial Management (AFM) personal tutors and the second point of contact for AFM stage 1 students. As a member of ‘Equality, Diversity and Inclusion’ Working Group Shanta actively engages with students as well as colleagues and individuals both within and outside the University to promote and enhance diversity, fairness and equal opportunities. Shanta’s directorship role promoted these values beyond the University.

Dr Davie read for her PhD at University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST). Her thesis was accepted as presented. In 2003 she published a paper in Accounting Historians Journal based on her PhD findings on “Accounting’s uses in exploitative human engineering” for which she was awarded the Vangermeersch Manuscript Award by the Academy of Accounting Historians.

Dr Davie is passionate about research-based doctoral supervision as well as research informed undergraduate teaching and learning.


Previous Positions

Auditor, Ali & Co., Suva, Fiji 

Lecturer, University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji.

Lecturer, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K.


Languages

English

Hindustani

Fijian

Informal Interests

Scuba diving

Snorkelling

Tree climbing

Cycling

Research

Dr Davie’s research focuses on exploring the implications and consequences of using statistical techniques, such as accounting, in policy implementations in the context of British colonial history, as well as, in developmental projects in emerging and transitional economies. In doing so, she is concerned to understand accounting’s autopoietic capacities in social enactments of change, such as: (a) IMF and the World Bank imposed financial re-structuring of state-owned enterprises; (b) the concomitant contradicting developmental policies of nation/colonial states during processes of transition from a centrally planned economy to a more market-based economy; (c) accounting implications of female and male gendering policies and processes; as well as, (d) the involvement of accounting in policies relating to culture, race & ethnicity, and/or Indigenous Peoples. In this respect, Dr Davie’s research interests align well with the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosure (TNFD) “Guidance on Indigenous Peoples”.



Current Work

(i)       On accounting, indigenisation and persistence of a racialised trickle-down patriarchy

(ii)      Accounting, culture and emancipation: Missing appreciation of accounting’s emancipatory actualities and potentialities.

(iii)     The intertwining of accounting and relationships of ethnicity: A case of British Indian indentured labour system.

(iv)     Accounting for encompassing mortification practices. 


Research Roles

Dr Davie has considerable experience in supervising Honours as well as MSc dissertations. She has also jointly supervised doctoral and potential doctoral candidates in their research for a higher degree.


Funding

HASS Faculty Research Fund (£5,327.22)

NUBS Research Fund (£2495.50)


DOCTORAL SUPERVISION

Completions

Dr Davie has two completions and was the Primary Supervisor to both:

(i)    Meryem Altaf “Corporate sustainability: The role of value co-creation from multiple stakeholders’ perspectives in the food and beverage sector of Pakistan” (completed 2021, jointly supervised with Dr Chen Su). Meryem’s thesis was accepted as presented. She is currently a Lecturer in Business and Management at De Montfort University.

(ii)   Rana Sabah “The impact of culture on corporate governance: Evidence from Lebanese Financial Institutions” (2024, jointly supervised with Prof. Habiba Al-Shaer. Rana’s thesis was accepted with minor corrections. She is currently a Lecturer in Accounting & Financial Management at Northumbria University.


Current

Dr Davie is currently the Primary Supervisor to two doctoral researchers:

(i)    Lovewell Chiti “Accounting & accountability in Black Minority churches in England: The role of annual reports in the discharge of accountability” (jointly supervising with Prof. Louise Crawford).

(ii)   Kolapo Odeniyi “Ethical values and perceptions within the Accounting profession in Nigeria” (jointly supervising with Prof. David Higgins). 


ESTEEM INDICATORS

(i)       Referee for international journals: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Accounting Forum, Accounting History, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Organisation Studies.

(ii)      Reviewer of various international accounting and audit conference papers.

(iii)     Editorial Board member – Accounting History (2018 – present)

(iv)     Director – Company of Others (2017 -20)

(v)      Deputy Subject Group Head, Accounting & Finance (2017-2020)

(vi)     Best Paper Award (Qualitative) at the International Management Accounting Conference held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, July 2006.

(vii)   Vangerschmeer Award (US based) in 2003 for the best accounting history paper. Published in Accounting Historians Journal.

(viii)  Awarded the ODA British Council Scholarship in 1993 to read for a PhD in accounting and financial management at UMIST. The award was partly based on Dr Davie’s performance on the Masters and Postgraduate Diploma programmes.

(ix)     Awarded ‘Outstanding Performance in Government Accounting’ as an undergraduate.

Teaching

Dr Davie’s principal research-based learning & teaching interests during her academic career for more than three decades have been to present accounting and auditing as social science, emphasising their organisational, developmental, gendering, and racialising impact in specific socio-political and cultural contexts. She puts equal conceptual and practical emphasis with reference to macro-social and political viewpoints. Accordingly, she has developed and designed courses at various levels, for both on-campus and distance learning that take-into-account these interests whilst also meeting professional accreditation requirements. Shanta adopts team-teaching as a way of enhancing collaborative education.


Current

Dr Davie leads two undergraduate modules which she designed. ACC3008: Auditing as Social Accountability is a research-based module focusing on critical analysis of contemporary practices in accounting and auditing. ACC2020: Auditing (jointly taught with Prof. Louise Crawford) is a specialist module which has professional accreditation from ICAEW, ACCA, AIA.

 

Past 

Dr Davie has designed and led both undergraduate as well as postgraduate modules:

ACC3016: Accounting, Organisations & Society

ACC3018: Accounting, Change & Development

NBS8146: Fundamentals of Accounting

NBS8144: Auditing Theory and Practice



Publications