Newcastle University

Introduction

Dr Shanta Davie is a Senior Lecturer in Accounting & Finance at Newcastle University Business School. She is a member of Cultures, Accounting and Management History Research Group. She is also an Academic Warden at Newcastle University Castle Leazes Halls of Residence.

Dr Davie has worked as a civil servant as well as a senior auditor prior to becoming an academic. She has also worked as a lecturer at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji, and at Heriot-Watt University in Scotland. 

Background

Dr. Davie was born, raised and educated in Fiji. She is of an Indo-Fijian and Indigenous Fijian background and speaks English, Fijian and Hindustani fluently. Dr. Davie read for her PhD at University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, Manchester, U.K.

Roles and Responsibilities

Module Leader - ACC3008: Auditing as social accountability
Module Leader - ACC3016: Accounting, organisations & society
Module Leader - NBS8144: Auditing Theory and Practice

Module Leader - NBS8146: Fundamentals of Accounting
Module Leader - ACC2020: Auditing
Academic Warden - Castle Leazes Halls of Residence

Qualifications

BA, MA, PGDAFM, PhD

Previous Positions

Auditor, Ali & Co., Suva, Fiji 

Lecturer, University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji.
Lecturer, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K.

Memberships

British Accounting Association
Management Control Association

Honours and Awards

(1)Awarded 'Outstanding Performance in Government Accounting' as an undergraduate.
(2)Awarded an ODA scholarship in 1993 to read for a PhD in accounting and financial management at University of Manchester Institute of Science & Technology (UMIST).
(3)Vangerschmeer Award 2003 for best accounting history paper.
(4)Best Paper Award (Qualitative)International Management Accounting Conference

Languages

English
Hindustani
Fijian

Informal Interests

Scuba diving
Snorkelling
Tree climbing
Cycling

Research Interests

Research methodology in social science (especially within Acc & Fin)
Critical perspectives on accounting more generally
And in particular:
Any aspect of management accounting
Historical studies of accounting
Relationship between accounting and societal/institutional policies
Relationship between accounting and exclusionary policies
Accounting in transitional and emerging economies
Accounting, culture and ethnicity
Accounting and imperialism, with particular emphasis on ex British colonies

Dr Davie is always keen to discuss research proposals for posgraduate studies in these areas.

Current Work

Current research projects include:

The politics of cultural ontology.

Accounting for colonial labour relations: The politics of production in the periphery.

A critical ethnography of accounting knowledge production: Deliberate
choices for understanding the mundane.

Future Research

Accounting for indentured labour: An examination of British Indian indentured labour policies between 1834 - 1920.

Research Roles

Co-ordinator of faculty research group: Cultures, Imperialism & Accounting Practices

Postgraduate Supervision

Dr Davie has considerable experience in supervising Honours as well as MSc dissertations. She has also jointly supervised doctoral and potential doctoral candidates in their research for a higher degree.

Funding

Dr Davie has received seed-corn funding from:
Overseas Development Administration
Management Control Association
Edinburgh Centre for European Financial Studies
Arts and Humanities Research Fund, Newcastle University
Heriot-Watt University

Keywords

Newcastle University Accommodation
Henderson Hall
Academic Warden

Undergraduate Teaching

Dr Davie has considerable experience of teaching at all undergraduate levels - Pre 1st Year (Foundation) to Year 4 Honours level.

Postgraduate Teaching

She has also taught research methodology at the Masters and MSc levels.

• Tyson T, Davie SSK. The Livret system: the interface of accounting and indentured labor in British Guiana. Accounting History 2009, 14, 145-165.
• Davie SSK. An autoethnography of accounting knowledge production: Serendipitous and fortuitous choices for understanding our social world. Critical Perspectives on Accounting 2008, 19(7), 1054-1079.
• Davie SSK. A colonial "social experiment": Accounting and a communal system in British-ruled Fiji. Accounting Forum 2007, 31(3), 255-276.
• Davie SSK. Accountings's uses in exploitative human engineering: theorizing citizenship, indirect rule and Britain's imperial expansion. Accounting Historians Journal 2005, 32(2), 55-80.
• Davie SSK. The politics of accounting, race and ethnicity: A story of a Chiefly-based preferencing. Critical Perspectives on Accounting 2005,16 5 551-577.
• Davie SSK. Accounting and Reform Initiatives: Making Sense of Situation-specific Resistance to Accounting. In: Hopper, T., Hoque, Z., ed. Accounting and Accountability in Emerging and Transition Economies. Amsterdam; London: JAI Press, 2004, pp. 333-358.
• Davie SSK. Accounting for imperialism: A case of British-imposed indigenous collaboration. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 2000, 13(3), 330-359.
• Davie SSK. The Significance of Ambiguity in Accounting and Everyday Life: The Self-perpetuation of Accounting. Critical Perspectives on Accounting 2000, 11(3), 311-334.
• Davie, S.S.K. The aesthetics of ambiguities in accounting. The journal of Pacific Studies 1999, 23(2), 229-253.