Judy Brown is Professor of Accounting and a Fellow Chartered Accountant of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CAANZ).

Professor Brown’s research and policy-related work focuses on the study of accounting and accountability practices in politically contentious areas such as labour relations and sustainability. A key emphasis is on the use of accounting in enabling or constraining democratic participation in organizational and civil society contexts. She has a strong commitment to interdisciplinary research and supporting innovative PhD studies. Over 2011-2015, she led a research project on Dialogic Accounting: The Challenge of Taking Multiple Perspectives Seriously funded by the Royal Society of New Zealand’s Marsden Fund.

Judy has published on accounting, pluralism, sustainability and democracy in such journals as Accounting, Organizations & Society, Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, International Journal of Accounting Information Systems, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Ecological Economics and Business Strategy and the Environment, and co-authored two books and several contributions to edited volumes. Her work has been widely cited in and beyond accounting.

She is an Associate Editor for Critical Perspectives on Accounting and a member of several other Editorial Boards, including the Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change, Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, Issues in Social and Environmental Accounting, Advances in Public Interest Accounting and International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education.