Joan Ballantine BA, MSc, PhD, FCCA is an accounting graduate and Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA). After working in industry and gaining her professional qualification, she moved into academia: working at Warwick Business School (where she gained a PhD) and Queen’s University Belfast.
She is currently a Professor of Accounting, Ulster University (since 2008). She has experience of teaching a range of subjects, including strategic management accounting, at both undergraduate and Masters level. Joan is an active researcher and is passionate about accounting education and gender equality (including gender budgeting and gender in senior management). She has secured circa £600k in research funding as principal investigator and is currently leading on a work package for a £4.8m EPIC Futures NI Local Policy Innovation Partnership (funded by UKRI, ESRC, AHRC and Innovate UK) to support those considered economically inactive back into work. She has examined numerous doctorates, is widely published and is on the editorial board of several journals.
Joan holds/has held a number of board positions and is an Independent Assessor for the Commissioner for Public Appointments in Northern Ireland. She is actively involved in organising the Irish Accounting and Finance Association Doctoral Colloquium and was the joint convenor of the annual British Accounting and Finance Association (BAFA) Doctoral Masterclasses for a number of years.
Joan recently won the BAFA Outstanding Contribution to Accounting & Finance Education Award (2023) and was appointed Vice-President of BAFA in April 2024. She has been involved for several years in the review and revision of the UK Quality Assurance Agency’s Accounting Benchmark Statement, most recently serving as Chair for its substantial revision.
