Rate My Professor Suki Sian

Sian's research examines profession and professionalisation processes in accounting, exclusion and marginalisation within the profession, historical and sociological aspects of accountancy professionalisation, gender-based marginalisation and discontinuous careers in international professional accountancy, diversity and social mobility in the UK accounting profession, and impacts of audit model changes—such as those from pandemic-enforced homeworking—on gender equality. She has published in prestigious journals including Accounting, Organizations and Society, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, and Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal. Key publications include co-editing Accountancy and Empire: The British Legacy of Professional Organization (Routledge, 2010) with Chris Poullaos; UK small owner-managed businesses: accounting and financial reporting needs (Accountancy & Finance, 2009); Professionalisation, Power and Empire: Accountancy in British India, 1913–1932 (Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 2025); Temporal signification of careers and organisational return-to-work barriers after an extended career break: insights from professional women in the United Kingdom (Gender, Work & Organization, 2025); and Trapped between the past and future: temporal orientations and the ‘becoming’ of post-maternity extended career-breaks among women professionals in the UK (Sociology, 2025). Sian serves on the editorial board of Critical Perspectives on Accounting and leads departmental strategy and growth at Royal Holloway.