Academic biography

Dr. Orla Feeney is a chartered accountant and associate professor in accounting in Dublin City University Business School. She is program director of the Accounting & Finance degree and lectures in the areas of management accounting, critical thinking and research methodology. Her research focuses on the exploration of accounting as a social phenomenon within organisations, with a particular emphasis on strong structuration theory as a theoretical lens. She is a member of the Irish Centre for Digital Business and researches the impact of digital technology on accounting and the future of work in an accounting context. She has also published work on the economization of public utilities.  Her work has been published in journals including Accounting, Audit and Accountability Journal and Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management.