Ingrid Jeacle

A graduate of Trinity College Dublin, Ingrid Jeacle trained as a chartered accountant with KPMG before pursuing an academic career. Ingrid joined the University of Edinburgh in 2000. She is currently an Associate Editor of Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal and previously served as Editor of Contemporary Accounting Research and Associate Editor of Financial Accountability and Management and the European Accounting Review. Ingrid is on the Editorial Advisory Panel of Accounting History and is also a member of the Editorial Boards of several accounting journals. Ingrid is a founding member of the School's Culture, Accounting & Society (CAS) Research Network. She received the 2019 AAAJ Hall of Fame Award for her contribution to interdisciplinary accounting. 

Ingrid's research seeks to broaden the scope of accounting scholarship by recognizing the richness in exploring the inter-linkages between accounting, everyday life, and popular culture. She examines the ways and means in which accounting practices and notions of accountability permeate our everyday lives. Ingrid has guest edited special issues on this research theme for Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal (2012), Critical Perspectives on Accounting (2016), Management Accounting Research (2017) and Accounting History (2021).

Ingrid's PhD examined accounting practices within the department store and since then she has published papers on the role of accounting in the areas of architecture, furniture design, shopping, fashion, travel, cinema, user reviews, calorie counting, and YouTube.

Publications since 2020:

• Jeacle, I. and Carter, C. (2026). The Accountant-Influencer: ‘A Day in the Life’ of the Young Professional Accountant on YouTube. Journal of Professions and Organization, Vol.13, 1-19.

• Jeacle, I. (2024). Portraying the accountant in popular culture: reflections on The Accountant (2016) movie, in Vollmer, H. (Ed) Handbook of Accounting in Society. (pp. 253-264). Edward Elgar Publishing.

• Jeacle, I., & Carter, C. (2023). Calorie accounting: The introduction of mandatory calorie labelling on menus in the UK food sector. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 110, 101468.

• Jeacle, I. (2023). Calculating a life: Classification, valuation and compensation in the British abolition of slavery, Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 36, 1002-1031.

• Jeacle, I. and Carter, C. (2022). Audit society goes viral: the rise of the online reviewer, Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management, 19, 231-240.

• Jeacle, I. (2022). The gendered nature of valuation: Valuing life in the Titanic compensation claims process, Accounting, Organizations and Society. 99, 101309.

• Jeacle, I. (2021). Navigating netnography: A guide for the accounting researcher. Financial Accountability & Management, 37, 88-101.