Dr Alan Parkinson
Member of Editorial BoardEmail: a.t.parkinson@ucl.ac.uk
Dr., Deputy Director (Education) and Principal Teaching Fellow
University College London, UK
Alan is Deputy Director of the School of Management with responsibility for Education, responsible for curricula of UG and PG Programmes, line management of teaching staff. He is Principal Teaching Fellow in Accounting, and Teaching Lead: Accounting. He is a qualified accountant (FCCA and ACMA/CGMA), with a Doctorate in Education (EdD), an MSc in Business, a Higher Education Teaching Certificate and an MA in Early Modern History. He is Professor in Managerial Accounting at Ecole des Ponts, Paris. He specialises in Managerial Accounting, and Financial Management, and contributes to more generic Accounting modules. His scholarship interests are accounting history, technology in education, and curriculum design/evaluation. He has extensive international training and consultancy expertise. He has published custom textbooks, scholarship papers, and presents regularly at international scholarship conferences. He has held a number of senior positions elsewhere: Director of the Masters Programmes in the School of Business and Management at Queen Mary, University of London; Head of Centre for Financial Management, and MBA Programme Director in the Open University Business School; Director of Accounting Studies in Hatfield Polytechnic, Head of School of Accounting and Taxation, and Sub-Dean of the Faculty of Administrative Studies at South Bank Polytechnic. In February 2018 he was voted UK Public Sector Accountancy Lecturer of the Year by PQ Magazine, and Accountancy magazine read by up to 40,000 students. In November 2017 he was part of the team which received the UK National Learning Technology Gold Award for the Best Learning Simulation.
