Dr Mercy Denedo
| Biography | Mercy Denedo is an Associate Professor in Accounting. Before joining Durham in November 2017, she was a doctoral student and a Graduate Teaching Assistant at Heriot-Watt University. Her undergraduate and MSc degrees were in Accounting from Delta State University, Nigeria and Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge respectively. Underlining Mercy’s research is interest in social and environmental issues that affect our everyday realities from a critical perspective. Mercy’s research is concerned with how accounting or other alternative forms of accounting could be used to facilitate stakeholders’ engagement, improve governance and accountability, organisational decision making, their everyday operations and the everyday realities of voiceless stakeholders. Mercy’s research has been presented at practitioner-focused conferences and workshops, international conferences, seminars including those organised by the British Accounting and Finance Association (BAFA), Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting, the Alternative Accounts Conference, and the Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research (CSEAR) among others. Mercy has had the privilege of been an invited guest speaker and workshop guest speaker at highly acclaimed academic, and non-academic conferences, practitioner focused workshops, and also has been invited to give both written and oral evidence to policymakers. |
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| Research Interests | Sustainable Development Goals Social Housing Counter accounting in conflict arenas Social, environmental and sustainability accounting NGOs accountability Organisational activities and engagements, particularly it impacts on the everyday realities of the other stakeholders Public sector accounting from developing countries context |
| ResearcherID | E-7097-2016 |
| PhD Supervision Availability | Yes |
| PhD Topics | Mercy welcome applications from prospective PhD students whose proposals relate to her research interests. |