Dr Rebecca Warren
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Email
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Telephone
+44 (0) 1206 872583
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Location
EBS.3.120A, Colchester Campus
Profile
Biography
When I finished my PhD I spent time reflecting on the issues that I had been focused on, and whilst I was happy with the work I had undertaken I knew I needed to shift focus. I had spent that period of time critiquing the IASB and the systems and structures of financial capital the perpetuate social injustice and inequality. But I knew that I needed to move away from critique and focus on alternatives, and doing work that would be impactful to the wider world rather than focusing only on publishing in the academic community. This led me to work on several important and impactful projects that I continue to be excited about, which work to bridge the gap between academia and the community and push the boundaries of the universities civic role. I am passionate about being an academic activist and making changes to social injustices and inequalities, and those values reach across everything that I do in teaching, research and engagement. I work collaboratively with communities to make change. Through my involvement in community organising and developing social accounting approaches with community-based organisations my work focuses on accountability in a broad sense, focusing on how we hold power to account to make social change. My research, teaching, engagement and impact work are all interconnected through the work that I undertake on Democracy in Action. I work together with local community-based organisations to deliver research that they need, whilst also working with them and students on community organising campaigns. Teaching students how to make change in their communities on issues that they care about through Citizens UK’s approach to community organising is a focal point of my work. Through this work I focus on the creation and development of communities. Building on this work I currently am co-chair of Citizens Essex and am currently developing a clinic at the University focused on community action. This has led to my role as the director of the new community action clinic at the University of Essex: https://www.essex.ac.uk/life/community-action-clinic The work that I undertake with community-based organisations has led me to explore a range of accountability challenges for community leaders, community and cooperative based organisations, alternative economies, arts and cultural organisations and social enterprises.
Qualifications
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PhD in Management Royal Holloway, (2018)
Appointments
University of Essex
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Senior Lecturer, University of Essex (3/10/2022 - present)
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Director of the Community Action Clinic, University of Essex, University of Essex (1/4/2024 - present)
Research and professional activities
Conferences and presentations
The power of transformative accountability: Holding the public sector to account through community organising
Online Workshop "Co-assessment of public services' performance", 11/11/2024
(Self-) accountability practices and the invisibilized non-able body: a case study of celiac disease
Interdisciplinary perspectives on accounting conference 2024, 5/7/2024
Speaking truth to funders: Alternative accountabilities in the voluntary and community sector during the Covid-19 pandemic
SASE 2024, 29/6/2024
Democracy in Action: Reaching for Transformative Education
Higher Education Conference 2024: Universities as Civic Actors & Agents of Social Justice, 5/6/2024
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, 22/2/2024
Teaching Excellence, the Boredom Paradox, and the Engaged Student
Invited presentation, Panel event, 23/11/2023
From Extraction to Collaboration: Working with the voluntary and community sector
Invited presentation, CURE - Business and Industry Collaboration, 18/10/2023
Making change through community organising methods
Invited presentation, People and Culture Conference, University of Essex, 9/10/2023
The accountability assembly as a counter-accounting performance
Voluntary Sector and Volunteering Research Conference 2023: Action, Difference, and Change in Local Civil Society, Sheffield, United Kingdom, 12/9/2023
Speaking truth to funders: Alternative accountabilities in the voluntary and community sector during the pandemic
Voluntary Sector and Volunteering Research Conference 2023: Action, Difference, and Change in Local Civil Society, Sheffield, United Kingdom, 12/9/2023
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
Building agonistic solidarity: Violence against Women and girls campaign
Gender, Work and Organization, Stellenbosch Business School, South Africa, 28/6/2023
Democracy in action: Extending Work-based learning to Community-based learning for transformative education
Invited presentation, Education Development Conference, Colchester, United Kingdom, 21/6/2023
Community-based Participatory action research
Invited presentation, Centre for Research into Sustainability Royal Holloway, Royal Holloway, University of London, 16/5/2023
Accountability in Action: Performing Accountability and engaging with grass roots organisations through Community Organising methodology
Invited presentation, Royal Holloway Centre for Research in Sustainability methods workshop, 15/5/2023
Engaged Research with community-based organisations
Invited presentation, Workshop on research and engagement, 10/5/2023
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
Invited presentation, University of Bristol Seminar presentation, Bristol, United Kingdom, 6/2/2023
Democracy in Action: Extending Work-based learning to Community-based learning for transformative education
Invited presentation, Citizens UK: POWER/KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE conference, London, United Kingdom, 18/1/2023
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
Democracy in Action: Extending work-based learning to Community-based learning
Invited presentation, Staffordshire University Winter Learning and Teaching Festival, Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom, 8/12/2022
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
Community Organising from a radical democratic point of view
Association for Social and Political Philosophy Annual Conference, 14/7/2022
Communities responding to crisis
Invited presentation, Communities Can…Build Back Fairer Conference, 11/10/2021
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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Current Issues in Financial Reporting (BE130)
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Research Project with a Community-based Organisation (BE944)
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Democracy in Action (BE947)
Previous supervision
Degree subject: Accounting
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 11/5/2023
Publications
Journal articles (14)
Schneider, J., Warren, R. and Glynos, J., (2025). Community Organising and Radical Democracy From Praxis to Theory and Back Again. Journal of Language and Politics. 24 (1), 69-90
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., (2024). Maintaining and Extending Hegemony: the Politics of Accounting Standard Setting. Critical Perspectives on Accounting. 99, 102686-102686
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-
Warren, R., Carter, D., Glynos, J. and Voutyras, S., (2024). Articulating the ‘How’ of Social Return on Investment: Foregrounding the Plural and Pluralizing Character of Its ‘Moments of Judgment’. Financial Accountability and Management. 41 (2), 320-333
Glynos, J., Roussos, K., Voutyras, S. and Warren, R., (2023). Paradoxes in the management of timebanks in the UK’s voluntary sector: discursive bricolage and its limits. Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations. 34 (3), 486-496
d L Voss, B., Carter, D. and Warren, R., (2023). A Car Wash: Post-truth Politics, Petrobras and Ethics of the Real. Accounting Auditing and Accountability Journal. 36 (2), 437-463
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
Carter, D. and Warren, R., (2021). Economic Re-colonisation: Financialisation, Indigeneity and the Epistemic Violence of Resolution. Political Geography. 84, 102284-102284
Carter, D. and Warren, R., (2019). Metonyms and metaphor: the rhetorical redescription of public interest for the International Accounting Standards Board. Critical Policy Studies. 13 (3), 280-305
Warren, R., Carter, D. and Napier, C., (2019). Opening up the politics of standard setting through Discourse Theory: The case of IFRS for SMEs. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal. 33 (1), 124-151
Carter, D. and Warren, R., (2018). Accounting for indebtedness: geopolitics, technocracy and advanced financial capital. Innovation / Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research. 31 (1), 83-104
Book chapters (1)
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 (8)
Warren, R., Green, A., Woodward, S., Wiltshite, D. and Pailing, D., North East Essex Communities responding to Crisis COVID 19, social action and our local neighbourhood
Warren, R., Howarth, D. and Ana, D., Bradwell B Exit Polling Research Report
Warren, R., Dance East Theory of Change report
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
Warren, R. and Roussos, K., Mercury Theatre: A social Return on Investment of the Mercury Playwrights
Steinhoff, A., Warren, R. and Carter, D., Understanding the Role of Social Workplace Activities on Performance in Intellectual Labor: A Case Study of Celiac Disease
Warren, R., Klich, R. and Darkenwald, T., Digital Primaries Evaluation report for DanceEast
Roussos, K., Schneider, J., Warren, R. and Jennett, J., (2024). The Bringing Community Supermarkets to Essex Programme: A “Social Return on Investment” Approach on Sustainable Community Assets for Social Support and Care
Grants and funding
2024
Evaluation Braintree DC SROI
Braintree Distrct Council
2023
Community360 KTP 22_23 R4
Innovate UK (formerly Technology Strategy Board)
The case of Community Supermarkets at Essex: a Participatory Research on sustainable community assets for social support and care
UOE Participatory Research Fund
Community and Residents Experience
North East Essex Clinical Commissioning Group
Community and Residents Experience
North East Essex Clinical Commissioning Group
EU-CIEMBLY: Creating an Inclusive European Citizens� Assembly
European Commission
Community and Residents Experience
North East Essex Clinical Commissioning Group
2022
Evaluation of Eastlight Community Homes All In programme
Eastlight Community Homes Limited
Community Catalysts: Helen Rollason Cancer Charity
University of Essex (ESRC IAA)
Dance in Schools - A Digital Pedagogy
Dance East
Communities Responding to Crisis: Sharing, Celebrating and Collecting
University of Essex (ESRC IAA)
Independent research and evaluation of the Essex County Council Community Supermarkets
Essex County Council
The case of Community Supermarkets at Essex: sustainable community assets for social support and care
University of Essex (CPPE)
Independent research and evaluation of the Essex County Council Community Supermarkets
Essex County Council
2021
Creative Exchange: Using digital platforms to support peer-based exchange in the creative sector feasibility study
Hub Arts Lab CIC
Mid-Essex asset mapping for C360
Community360
2020
Subjectivity and valuation in community economies: A pilot study of the Essex time banks
University of Essex (ESRC IAA)
Covid-19, social action and our local neighbourhood - Research in Colchester
Community360
