Lisa Wakefield

I am an experienced academic working as a teaching focused leader in Higher Education. Prior to starting work as an academic I trained as a Chartered Accountant and held roles in a number of accounting practices and as a group accountant for a large national organisation. I use this practical experience to underpin the theoretical content of my teaching. I am passionate about developing high quality student focused higher education for all students within the University of Leicester Business school.

I am current Associate Dean: Learning and Teaching – Quality and Development and am responsible for ensuring the academic quality of the education provision within the school.

I am a qualified Chartered Accountant and Fellow of the ICAEW (FCA), a Senior Fellow of Advance HE (SFHEA), a Chartered Management and Business Educator (CMBE) with the Chartered Association of Business Schools, and Associate Member of the Association of Learning Technology (ALT).

My current research interests include:

Educational Research

• Second Career Academics
• Assessment Strategy and Feedback mechanisms
• Engagement in Higher Education

Financial Reporting

• Signalling Within Narrative Disclosure
• Social and Environmental Reporting Standards

Wakefield, L. (accepted for publication, December 2021) “Knowing me, knowing you”, Educational Developments, SEDA, 22:2

Wakefield, L. (2021) ‘……Is Anybody There?’, Gateway Papers: A Journal of Education and Pedagogic Research. De Montfort University, 2(1)

I have experience teaching at all academic levels from foundation degrees to masters level modules, within the UK and overseas. While I have taught a number of subjects related to accounting my main teaching focus is on regulatory and legal compliance within financial accounting and reporting. 

• MN2115 Financial Reporting
• EC3087 Financial Reporting
• MN3142 Advanced Financial Reporting
• MN7037 Social and Environmental Accounting
• Supervision of undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations

• 2023
  University of East London Business School, Teaching and Learning Conference. Keynote speaker - The role of data in supporting quality education
  University of Leicester, CSSAH Ed Showcase, Roundtable Convenor
• 2022
  BAFA Accounting Education SIG - Emerging paper on the link between access hours and success in asynchonous learing
• 2021
  BAFA Accounting Education SIG – Emerging paper on asynchronous learning and the creation of excellent student focused resources
  University of Johannesburg – staff learning and teaching conference presentation on asynchronous material design