Dr Rebecca Warren
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Email
rebecca.warren@essex.ac.uk -
Telephone
+44 (0) 1206 872583
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Location
EBS.3.120A, Colchester Campus
Profile
Biography
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. 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)
Research and professional activities
Conferences and presentations
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
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
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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Successful Futures (BE910)
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Democracy in Action (CS316)
Previous supervision
Degree subject: Accounting
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 11/5/2023
Publications
Journal articles (8)
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
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
Reports and Papers (5)
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
Grants and funding
2023
Community360 KTP 22_23 R4
Innovate UK (formerly Technology Strategy Board)
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
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