Dr Karin Shields
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Overview
Overview
Biography
Karin Shields received her PhD in Accounting from the University of Leeds in 2014 after which she joined Birkbeck, University of London. Her PhD thesis examined the role of lobbying in the development of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) for Financial Instruments. Whilst much of her other research to date looks at gender in accounting, she maintains a research interest in accounting standards development and is currently studying the development and implementation of sustainability standards. She teaches Accounting Theory (level 6), Principles of Investment Management (level 7), Applied Financial management (level 6), Finance and Financial Management (Help to Grow) and Costing, Budgeting and Performance (MBA). She serves as Director of Postgraduate Education in the Department of Management.
Qualifications
- PGCE Higher Education, Birkbeck, University of London, 2017
- PhD Accounting, The University of Leeds, 2014
- MSc Accounting & Finance, The University of Leeds, 2011
- BA Management, The University of Leeds, 2010
Administrative responsibilities
- Director of Postgraduate Education - Department of Management
- Convener - Management Accounting BUMN134S5
ORCID
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Research
Research
Research interests
- Sustainability Accounting
- Gender Issues in Accounting
- Financial Reporting
Research overview
Karin's research to date has focussed on the development of international financial reporting standards for financial instruments, the association between the implementation of insider trading restrictions and incentives for earnings management, how gender and other commonalities facilitate information sharing and the extent of bias among financial analysts that work for brokerages with different gender compositions. Most recently, Karin's research is looking at the development of sustainability reporting standards and the economic consequences of their implementation.
Research Centres and Institutes
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Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching
Supervision
PhD Candidate: Ibrahim Haidar "Value Relevance of Integrated Reporting"
MSc Dissertations
Undergraduate Research Projects
Teaching
Accounting and Finance
Teaching modules
- Help To Grow: Management (BUBU071N0)
- Applied Financial Management (Undergraduate) (BUMN050S6)
- Principles of Investment Management (BUMN072H7)
- Accounting Theory (BUMN132H6)
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Publications
Publications
Article
- Clacher, I. and Garcia Osma, B. and Scarlat, E. and Shields, Karin (2021) Do commonalities facilitate private information channels? Evidence from common gender and insider trading. Journal of Corporate Finance 70 (102062), ISSN 0929-1199.
- Garcia-Osma, B. and Scarlat, E. and Shields, Karin (2020) Insider trading restrictions and earnings management. Accounting and Business Research 50 (3), pp. 205-237. ISSN 0001-4788.
- Shields, Karin and Clacher, I. and Zhang, Q. (2019) Negative tone in lobbying the International Accounting Standards Board. The International Journal of Accounting 54 (3), ISSN 1094-4060.