Irvine Lapsley

• Public sector reforms, particularly the Audit Society
• The role of accounting and transparency in New Public Management
• Performance Management in public services
• The impact of the Global Fiscal Crisis on government activities.

This includes research on charities, government (local and central) and the NHS.

Research activities include:

• Director, Institute of Public Sector Accounting Research (IPSAR)
• Editor, Financial Accountability & Management
• Co Chair (with D. Hatherly), The New Thinking Group
• Co Chair (with P. Miller, LSE), The New Public Sector Research Workshop
• Co Chair (with M. Jegers (VUB) and B. Helmig (Mannheim), The EIASM Third Sector Research Workshop
• Chair, Scientific Committee, EIASM Public Sector Conference
• CIMA Research Board Member
• EIASM Faculty Visiting Professor, University of Mannheim since 2009
• Visiting Professor, University of Lund since 2010
• Visiting Professor, Politecnico di Milano since 2012
• Visiting Research Professor, Queen's University, Belfast from 2013.