Dr Anne Steinhoff
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Email
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Location
EBS.3.120B, Colchester Campus
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Academic support hours
Student Support Hours via: https://calendly.com/as19552-essex/15min
Profile
Biography
Anne is Lecturer in Accounting at Essex Business School, specialising in the areas of emancipatory accounting, (self-)accountability and management accounting practices. Her PhD thesis co-won the Critical Management Studies AoM Best Thesis Award in 2024. The award-winning thesis explores the impact of performance-based practices on employees living with the autoimmune disorder coeliac disease, contextualising the lived experiences through post-structuralist discourse theory taught by the Essex School of discourse analysis. Anne is interested in questioning and debating societal understandings of value and being a contributing or productive member of society. In her work, she brings together the areas of management, accounting, health, politics and post-structuralist discourse theory. Anne's research is published in leading peer-reviewed journals including Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Sociology of Health and Illness, Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal as well as Financial Accountability and Management. She contributes to the work of two innovative KTP projects which explore the social value and impact of two independent charities based locally in Colchester as well as London. Creating an impact toolkit to measure social and financial impact of educational services, the partnership in London was recognised by the Essex Celebration of Innovation with the 2025 Best Public/Third Sector Partnership Award.
Qualifications
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MSc Political Economy of the European Union London School of Economics,
Appointments
University of Essex
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Lecturer, Essex Business School, University of Essex (1/10/2022 - present)
Research and professional activities
Research interests
Accounting and health(care)
Accounting Education
Accounting in the third sector
Accountability and counter-accounting
Public Sector Accounting
Conferences and presentations
Navigating the Transition to Adulthood: Experiences, Challenges, and Support for Adults with Learning Disabilities
British Sociological Association Annual Conference, British Sociological Association Annual Conference, 23/9/2025
Publishing from the Periphery: Navigating Challenges and Reflecting on the Epistemology of Language
Invited presentation, Academy of Management, Professional Development Workshop, Copenhagen, Denmark, 25/7/2025
From Corruption to Redemption: Petrobras and the role of decontestation in shaping political capital in Brazil
ICMS Conference, Stream 8 Inequalities & The Global South(s), Manchester, United Kingdom, 20/6/2025
The power of transformative accountability: Holding the public sector to account through community organising
Online Workshop "Co-assessment of public services' performance", 12/11/2024
The silent career companion: working with physical health considerations in academia
Academy of Management, Chicago, United States, 9/8/2024
(Self-) accountability practices and the invisibilized non-able body: a case study of celiac disease
IPA conference, Royal Holloway, London, United Kingdom, 5/7/2024
BUILDING AFFECTIVE SOLIDARITY THROUGH AGONISM-CAMPAIGN AGAINST VIOLENCE TOWARDS WOMEN AND GIRLS
RESISTING BUSINESS-AS-USUAL ORGANIZING FOR HOPE & JUSTICE IN TIMES OF SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL CRISES, Vienna, Austria, 22/2/2024
Understanding the role of social workplace activities on performance in intellectual labour: A case study of celiac disease
Academy of Management, Boston, USA, 7/8/2023
Understanding the role of social workplace activities on performance in intellectual labour: A case study of celiac disease
CPA conference, Universidad National de Colombia, Bogotá, 26/7/2023
The politics of accounting: A temporal analysis of the Lava Jato scandal At Petrobras
EGOS Colloquium 2023, 7/7/2023
Building agonistic solidarity: Violence against Women and girls campaign
Gender, Work and Organization, Stellenbosch Business School, South Africa, 28/6/2023
Building agonistic solidarity: campaigning against misogyny
DISCOURSE THEORY: WAYS FORWARD, 2nd EDITION, Brussels, 23/3/2023
Speaking truth to funders: Alternative accountabilities in the voluntary and community sector during the pandemic
Alternative Accounts Europe 2023, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, 6/1/2023
Speaking truth to funders: Alternative accountabilities in the voluntary and community sector during the pandemic
Resilience and the Third Sector Conference at the University of Edinburgh Business School (UEBS), 10/11/2022
The Challenges of Celiac Disease at Work: A Research Agenda on Organizational Inclusion
Academy of Managment Annual Meeting, Seattle, 13/8/2022
Community Organising from a radical democratic point of view
Association for Social and Political Philosophy Annual Conference, 14/7/2022
Performance Measures and Coeliac Disease: An analysis of the lived experiences of employees in immaterial labour in the UK
Invited presentation, International Doctoral Consortium, Universidad EAFIT, Medellín, 15/6/2022
Coeliac disease and the British Equality Act 2010: an exclusionary experience in the workplace
Invited presentation, Social Policy Research Colloquium, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, 8/5/2022
Capturing pandemic stories: (un)accountabilities for inequality in the Voluntary and Community Sector
Invited presentation, Research seminar with Dr Green, Dr Warren and Ms Woodward, University of Roehampton, History and Classics, 22/3/2022
Management accounting practices and long-term health conditions: Problematizing performance measures in the workplace
Qualitative Research and Accounting Conference (QRAC), Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, 17/11/2021
Management accounting practices and health: problematising the political nature of performance measures in the workplace
Emerging Scholars Colloquium, University of Innsbruck, 6/7/2021
Management accounting practices and health: Problematizing chronic illness in the workplace
Alternative Accounts Europe Conference, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom, 5/1/2021
Performance Measures and Coeliac Disease: An analysis of the lived experiences of employees in intellectual labour in the UK
PhD Consortium QRCA Latin America 2020, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, 12/11/2020
Democracy in action – Extending Work-based learning to Community Action and Citizenship
Symposium Alternative Education/Educational Alternatives, Kaplan Singapore, Singapore, 29/7/2020
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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International Management Accounting (BE154)
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Research Project with a Community-based Organisation (BE944)
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Democracy in Action (BE947)
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Career Management and Professional Development (BE917)
Current supervision
Publications
Journal articles (5)
VAZQUEZ GARCIA, J., Glynos, J., Mohor Valentino, C., Roussos, K., Steinhoff, A., Warren, R., Woodward, S., Schneider, J. and Cunningham, C., (2025). Democracy in Action: Experiencing Transformative Education. Education Sciences. 15 (5), 561-561
Steinhoff, A., Warren, R. and Carter, D., (2024). (Self-) accountability practices and the invisibilized non-able body: a case study of celiac disease. Critical Perspectives on Accounting. 99, 102737-102737
Warren, R., Morales, J., Steinhoff, A. and Woodward, S., (2024). Speaking truth to funders: Alternative accountabilities in the voluntary and community sector during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Financial Accountability and Management. 40 (4), 573-591
Steinhoff, A., Warren, R., Carter, D. and Glynos, J., (2024). The challenges of coeliac disease at work: A contestation of the politics of inclusion. Sociology of Health and Illness. 47 (1), e13826-
Carter, D., Warren, R. and Steinhoff, A., (2023). The Anatomy of Tragedy: Starbucks as a Politics of Displacement. Accounting Auditing and Accountability Journal. 36 (1), 146-176
Book chapters (2)
Steinhoff, A., Systemic barriers of health inequality: Committing to an academic career with celiac disease. In: Systemic barriers and discrimination in academia. Editors: Williams, K., Segarra, P. and Sauerbronn, F., . University of Bristol Press
Warren, R., Steinhoff, A., Glynos, J. and Roussos, K., (2024). The Accountability Assembly as a Counter-Accounting Performance. In: Handbook of Accounting in Society. Editors: Vollmer, H., . Edward Elgar. 310- 327. 978 1 80392 199 0
Reports and Papers (1)
Warren, R., Glynos, J., Roussos, K., Jimena, V., Steinhoff, A. and Crippa, L., Democracy in Action - Building Better Communities And Organisations Through Collective Decision Making and Action - Project Evaluation
Thesis dissertation (1)
Steinhoff, A., (2023). Performance-based practices and coeliac disease: an analysis of the lived experiences of employees in intellectual labour in the UK
Grants and funding
2026
Building partnerships with Eastern European-led community organisations to strengthen collective voices in migrant justice campaigning
University of Essex (QR Impact Fund)
2023
Community360 KTP 22_23 R4
Innovate UK (formerly Technology Strategy Board)
Pursuing Independent Paths KTP
Innovate UK (formerly Technology Strategy Board)
Community and Residents Experience
North East Essex Clinical Commissioning Group
Community and Residents Experience
North East Essex Clinical Commissioning Group
Community and Residents Experience
North East Essex Clinical Commissioning Group
2022
Communities Responding to Crisis: Sharing, Celebrating and Collecting
University of Essex (ESRC IAA)
Contact
Academic support hours:
Student Support Hours via: https://calendly.com/as19552-essex/15min