Stewart Smyth

Professor Stewart Smyth

Small Group Project 2015-16

Critical Realism and accounting research workshop series

There is an emerging strand of accounting research that seeks to utilise critical realist ideas (Modell, 2014). To date these researchers have come to critical realism (CR) on an individual and isolated basis. Further, there is a wider recognition in the accounting research community of the role that critical realist ideas have had in informing interdisciplinary research in other fields. This research project will hold a series of workshops that seeks to bring this embryonic research community together for the first time. Further, it is anticipated that the workshops will attract other accounting researchers who may not have published work using CR but are attracted to its ideas.

More information

Research outcomes

Smyth, S. , Uddin, S. and Lee, B. (2022).

Subject, method and praxis – conducting critical studies in accounting research. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 86. 102481.

Areas of interest

Public Services Social Housing Public Infrastructure Accounting Trade Unions Social Movements Auditing

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Biography

Stewart Smyth joined Cork University Business School in July 2023. Stewart's research interests cover the policy and financing of public services, focusing on public/social housing and the use of PPPs to deliver public infrastructure; the use of accounting information by trade unions and social movements; and related conceptions of public accountability. Stewart has been teaching accounting and related subjects since the late 1990s, with a particular emphasis on financial reporting and auditing, in both the private and public sectors. In recent years, he has developed and delivered Research Methods and Philosophical Perspectives to Accounting and Financial Management students. The nature of Stewart's research leads him to pursue a range of public and policy engagements, including speaking at housing policy conferences and writing for different media outlets on accounting and finance issues.

Biographical details correct as of 15.09.26