Roslender, Robin

Professor Roslender joined the School of Business in 2011 from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh where he held the Chair in Accountancy for six years. Prior to that he taught accounting at the University of Stirling, having begun his academic career teaching sociology and organisational behaviour at Napier University, Edinburgh.

External Affiliations

• Associate Editor of the Accounting Forum
• Editor in chief, Journal of Human Resource Costing and Accounting
• Visiting Professor, Centre for Research Excellence in Business ModelS, University of Aalborg
• Visiting Professor, Deusto Business School, Bilbao
• Visiting Professor, Turku School of Economics, Finland

• Intellectual capital
• Accounting and strategy
• Social and sociological theory

Research Grants

• Workforce health as a key organisational asset - an accounting perspective: funded by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (£12,000), 2005 (with J Stevenson and H Kahn).
• Workforce health and management control: funded by SALTSA, a joint venture between the Swedish National Institute for Working Life and several Swedish professional unions (90,000€), 2004.
• The management of intellectual capital and its implications for business reporting: funded by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (£8,600), 2001 (with R Fincham).
• The valuation and evaluation of customer databases: a study commissioned by the Royal Mail (£24,000), 1999 (with S Hart and N Tzokas).
• The development of the strategic management accounting concept: funded by the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (£25,500), 1997 (with S Hart).