Rate My Professor Dawn Reilly

Dr Dawn Reilly serves as Associate Professor of Accounting Education and Head of the School of Management and Marketing within the Faculty of Business at the University of Greenwich. She earned her MA in Physics from Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, a PhD in financial accounting from the University of Greenwich in 2015 with a thesis titled "An institutional perspective on the timing of the adoption of accounting standards by large non-financial firms," and a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education. Before entering higher education, Reilly built a robust career in professional accounting, beginning in the audit practice at Deloitte Haskins + Sells, where she achieved placement in the ICAEW's order of merit upon completing her final professional exams. She advanced to audit manager at Deloitte, worked in the mixed tax department passing the tax practitioner exams, and held positions in audit, technical, and tax departments at Spicer & Oppenheim and Mazars, culminating as a corporate tax manager. Prior to joining the University of Greenwich in 2010 as an accounting lecturer, she taught courses leading to professional accounting qualifications. Reilly is a Senior Fellow of Advance HE (SFHEA) since 2018 and winner of the Faculty Star Award in the 2019 Student Led Teaching Awards. She currently leads the Advanced Financial Accounting module on the undergraduate Accounting and Finance degree.

Reilly's research specializations include financial accounting and business education, focusing on widening participation, self-efficacy, formative feedback, employability support, blended learning, and student induction. Key publications include "Factors which impede or facilitate widening participation students’ engagement with employability services" (2025, Studies in the Education of Adults, co-authored with Brickman, Herdan, Leopold), "An investigation into the self-efficacy of year one undergraduate students at a widening participation university" (2021, Teaching in Higher Education, with Warren, Kristandl, Lin), "Mastering the transition: induction activities for Chinese students to facilitate adaptation to the UK learning environment" (2024, Compass: Journal of Learning and Teaching, with Quan), "Building working relationships with peers: an induction activity for students" (2023, Compass, with Yan), "Next slide, please: developing students' digital literacy and online collaboration skillsets" (2022, Compass, with Leopold), and the book chapter "Developing teaching expertise through peer support" (2022, in Developing Expertise for Teaching in Higher Education). Her scholarly contributions have advanced pedagogical practices supporting student success and employability in business education.