9th Alternative Accounts Europe Conference 2027

Submissions may address, but are not limited to, the following areas:

• Accounting and accountability in conditions of crisis, uncertainty, risk, ignorance and unknowability
• Accounting’s role in producing, reshaping or challenging accountability and unaccountability
• Power, visibility, voice, silence, recognition and marginalisation in accounting practices
• Feminist, queer, postcolonial, decolonial and Indigenous perspectives on accounting
• Sustainability, climate change, biodiversity and ecological accounting
• Social justice, human rights, labour and inequality
• Activism, social movements, social conflict, counter-accounting and alternative forms of accounting
• Participatory, democratic and inclusive accounting and accountability practices
• Accounting in public services, public governance and the public interest
• Values, valuation, economisation, marketisation and financialisation
• Accounting history, globalisation, imperialism and coloniality
• Accounting professions, expertise, auditing, ethics, regulation and governance
• Digital technologies, artificial intelligence, data infrastructures, platforms and social media
• Accounting, political discourse and populism
• Accounting education and critical or alternative pedagogies
• Accounting and alternative economies, ownership structures and organisational forms

We welcome empirical, theoretical, conceptual, methodological and historical contributions from accounting and finance and from related disciplines, including sociology, political economy, anthropology, psychology, history, law, environmental studies, organisation studies and public policy.

We particularly encourage submissions from doctoral researchers and early-career scholars, as well as contributions involving practitioners, communities and other research partners. Research at different stages of development is suitable for the conference.

The abstract should normally include:

• Title, author names, affiliations and email addresses
• Three to five keywords
• Purpose, motivation or central research question
• Theoretical or interdisciplinary perspective
• Methodology, where applicable
• Preliminary findings or emerging arguments
• Intended contributions

Notifications of acceptance will be sent by Monday 26 October 2026.

The Alternative Accounts Conference 2027 will be held at Birmingham Business School, University House.

For those not familiar with University House, please see the campus map for reference. The address is 116 Edgbaston Park Rd, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TY.

The university has an onsite hotel, Edgbaston Park hotel and Conference Centre, with over 180 bedrooms or serviced apartments. Booking details can be found via their website. Located across the road from the main hotel, is Peter Scott House, which offers 37 ensuite twin and double rooms and breakfast served at the main hotel. Bookings can be made via their website or through the usual hotel booking sites via an internet search.

Both Edgbaston Park hotel and Peter Scott are a short walk (less than 10 minutes) away from University House, where the Future Food Symposium will be held.

Alternatively, you may wish to stay in the local area, those that are in walking distance to campus include:

The Highfield in Edgbaston

Edgbaston House

There is plenty of accommodation in Birmingham City Centre, which just over 2 miles away from campus and a short 10–15-minute taxi ride.

• Premier Inn at Birmingham By New Street Station
• Holiday Inn Smallbrook Queensway By New Street Station
• Ibis Birmingham

Our Edgbaston campus is served by its own railway station, University. Providing a high-frequency service to and from Birmingham New Street in just seven minutes. Whether you’re travelling by public transport, car, bike, or air, please refer to the Getting to campus page.

Registration details and further keynote announcements will follow.

Participants may also attend an informal conference dinner; details will be provided nearer the time.