Dr Claudine Grisard

Profile

Roles:

• Lecturer in Accounting
• Member of the Department of Accounting and Financial Management
• Co-director of the AARG research group

Biography:

Claudine Grisard is a Lecturer in Accounting at Queen Mary University of London, School of Business and Management. She investigates interactions between accounting and politics. Her studies explore how actors use accounting tools and discourses to influence organisational practices in accordance with their views and interests. She also looks at how accounting tools and discourses influence organisational actors. On the other hand, she explores the role that accounting plays in managing collective and public life within democratic settings.

Claudine's work has been published in leading journals of interdisciplinary and critical research in accounting, such as Accounting, Organisations and Society, and Critical Perspectives on Accounting.

Before joining Queen Mary, Claudine worked in the same position at Strathclyde Business School in Glasgow (Scotland) and was a Post-doctoral Fellow at Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto (Canada). She holds a PhD in accounting and a Master degree in sustainable development from Paris-Dauphine (France). I was initially trained in Political Sciences and History.   

Teaching

Undergraduate:

• BUS363: Social and Environmental Accounting 
• BUS365: Contemporary Issues in Accounting and Ethics 

Claudine's teaching draws on management accounting, CSR reporting and critical theory to foster critical and analytical thinking and problem-solving skill to students. She uses her ethnographic training to decipher her students’ needs through attentive class observations. She carefully aligns modules’ content and skills development with modes of assessment to develop innovative learning approaches mixing research-based, team-based and flip-flat pedagogies.

Claudine's teaching and learning practices have had a good track record of student and peer feedback. She is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Research

Research Interests:

Research interests

• Critical and interdisciplinary approaches of accounting,
• Accounting and inequality
• Accounting and conflicts
• Accounting, public affairs and collective rights

Claudine's research broadly considers the links between accounting and politics, using two different understandings of politics. She explores first, the way actors manoeuvre to push their agendas within organisations and enter into conflicts with their management. She also explores peers who hold different views on how organisational affairs should be conducted. Her studies, therefore, incorporate the ways actors develop political arguments and controversies through the mobilisation of accounting metrics to influence decisions. The process considers how accounting shapes and influences actors’ behaviours in such conflictual processes. She examines the role that accounting plays in organising public affairs in a democratic setting, for instance by investigating the role that accounting plays in enacting rights of all through financial acts.

Her work covers a variety of contexts, and objects. So far, Claudine has studied the links between politics and accounting in relation to CSR, to inequality, to the right for financial access, time etc., in multiple contexts (Mali, France, Bangladesh, United Kingdom…).

Her methodology is of qualitative nature, inspired by sociological, anthropological, and historical approaches.

More recently, she has started new projects that aim to explore debts. This new project aims to unpack the role that accounting techniques and discourses plays in shaping the debt of collective entities, such as State or municipalities. It also looks toward how individuals manage their personal debt, all of which transforming the living existences of people but as well shape the rights that the collective can grant to them. 

Centre and Group Membership:

• Co-director AARG Accounting & Accountability Research Group (AARG)

• Member of CLASP: Centre on Labour, Sustainability and Global Production

Publications

Journal articles

• Grisard, C. (2023). Time, workload model and the entrepreneurial construction of the neoliberal academic. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 96
• Grisard, C., Annisette, M. & Graham, C. (2020). Performative Agency and incremental change in CSR contexts, Accounting, Organizations and Society, (International collaboration)
• Graham, C. & Grisard, C. (2019). Rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief: Accounting and the stigma of poverty, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 59:32-51. (International collaboration)

Book Chapter

Grisard, C. (fc). Ethnographic work in accounting studies: how to build reflexively on challenges and limitations Research in O’Leary. S. and Crvelin. D, Handbook on NGO Performance and Accountability

Supervision

Co-supervisor

• Jaudaan Zafar (with Nick Taylor), ‘The Political Economy of Pensions: The Ramifications of IAS 19 Employee Benefits on Business and Society’ LISS DTP commenced April 2026
• Ruthi Margulis (with Ahu Tatli), ‘How students with physical/mobility impairments experience the production of space on a university campus: lived experiences of barriers and enablers to participation in university life’. QMUL studentship commenced in October 2022.

Claudine welcomes inquiries about PhD supervision for any projects studying some forms of interactions between accounting and politics, and that build on a qualitative research design.

Public Engagement

Claudine is an editorial Board member of "Critical Perspectives in Accounting".

Scholarly Contributions

Book Chapter

• Grisard, C., Mitrou E and Merendino A. (fc), Social and Environmental Accounting, in McGurk, P. (Ed.) (forthcoming) Managing and Leading for Social Justice, Bristol University Press.