Professor Nick Rowbottom

The Department of Accounting
Professor of Accounting and Corporate Reporting

Contact details

Telephone: +44 (0) 121 414 6676
Email: n.rowbottom@bham.ac.uk

Address: Birmingham Business School
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Nick is a Professor of Accounting and Corporate Reporting whose research focuses on how extensions and innovations in the corporate reporting model are shaped, constructed and implemented. Through publications, funding, and collaborations with regulators, practitioners and firms, Nick is an active researcher in the fields of sustainability reporting, digital reporting (using iXBRL/XBRL) and ‘wider’ corporate reporting. He is a member of the UK Sustainability Disclosure Technical Advisory Committee advising the UK Government’s Department of Business & Trade (DBT) on the suitability of sustainability disclosure standards for implementation in the UK, and an Associate of the Centre for Responsible Business.

Nick teaches at undergraduate and postgraduate level across the School.

Qualifications

PhD (Birmingham)
FHEA

Postgraduate supervision

Nick welcomes applications from those considering pursuing a PhD in the fields of management commentary, integrated reporting, 'sustainability' / ESG / CSR reporting and XBRL.

Research

Research Interests

Narrative Corporate Reporting (management commentary, sustainability/SEA/CSR, ESG, integrated reporting standards and standardisation).

Digital Corporate Reporting (and XBRL).

Research Funding

I. Troshani & N. Rowbottom. ‘Digital Corporate Reporting and XBRL: international practice and implications’, CPA Australia (2021) A$9,951.

I. Troshani, B. Howieson & N. Rowbottom. ‘Digital transformation of corporate information infrastructure for sustainability reporting’, AFAANZ Research Fund (2020-2021) A$6,837.

N. Rowbottom ‘The Development of Global Accountability Standards: Competition, Collaboration and Standardisation’, BBS Responsible Business Seedcorn Fund (2019-2020) £2,850.

D. Herbert. & N. Rowbottom ‘The Education Experience of Widening Participation Students’, UoB Education Enhancement Fund (2014-2015) £5,260.

N. Rowbottom, 'An investigation of the business case for investor relations and online reporting', UK ESRC INDEX scheme (2008) £3,000.

A. Lymer, N. Rowbottom & A. Allam 'Measuring and understanding the demand for online corporate reporting', UK ESRC (2003-2004) £75,000.