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Dr. Neil Dunne

Assistant Professor (Trinity Business School)
ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH
      
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Dr. Neil Dunne

Assistant Professor (Trinity Business School)
ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH

 nedunne@tcd.ie

 3531896 2312


Neil is an award-winning interdisciplinary scholar that mobilizes sociological and philosophical concepts to better understand the accounting profession. He is an Assistant Professor in Accounting at Trinity Business School, and authored/directs Trinity's MSc. in Accounting and Analytics. Neil is a Chartered Accountant by training, and prior to entering academia, had many years' experience in both practice and industry. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce from University College Cork, a Master's degree in Finance from Trinity with first-class honors achieved, and a PhD from University College Dublin. Prior to joining Trinity, Neil held positions in two other educational institutions in Dublin for almost seven years. He has been involved in course and syllabus design for a range of institutions in Ireland and France. Teaching responsibilities at Trinity include undergraduate and postgraduate modules in financial reporting, for which Neil has won multiple Teaching Excellence Awards. Neil also engages in Doctoral and MSc supervision within the School. Neil's research takes an interdisciplinary approach to audit and financial reporting, and mobilizes concepts such as impression management, strategic framing, institutional logics and Stoic philosophy. In connection with this, he has presented at a range of international conferences, and published in major international scientific journals such as Accounting, Organizations and Society and Critical Perspectives on Accounting. Neil has also acted as a judge at Chartered Accountants Ireland's Published Accounts Awards, and serves on various hubs and committees, including the Scientific Committee for the British Accounting and Finance Association's (BAFA) annual conference, the Committee of BAFA's Interdisciplinary Perspectives Special Interest Group, and ACCA's University Steering Group. He also acts as a mentor to doctoral students via his role as facilitator/mentor for the Irish Accounting and Finance Association's Doctoral Colloquium, and as a mentor for the BAFA Mentoring Scheme.
  Accounting   BUSINESS AND PHILOSOPHY   Sociology
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Reviewer, Contemporary Accounting Research Ongoing
Reviewer, European Accounting Review Ongoing
Reviewer, British Accounting Review Ongoing
Reviewer, Critical Perspectives on Accounting Ongoing
Reviewer, Accounting, Finance and Governance Review Ongoing
Textbook author (questions), Cengage Publishing 2022
Textbook reviewer, McGraw Hill Ongoing
Textbook reviewer, Oxford University Press Ongoing
Textbook reviewer, Pearson Publishers Ongoing
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ACCA University Steering Group 2023 Present
British Accounting and Finance Association (BAFA) IPSIG Committee 2022 Present
Alternative Accounting Research Network 2021 Present
British Accounting and Finance Association 2015 Present
Irish Accounting and Finance Association 2013 Present
European Accounting Association 2012 Present
Fellow of Chartered Accountants Ireland 2004 Present
Dunne, N. J., Brennan, N. M., & Kirwan, C. E., Uncovering the Nature of Framing: The Big Four audit firms versus a competition regulator, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 102, (102822), 2025, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Dunne, N.J., Confronting dark academia: A Stoic strategy of acceptance and resistance, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 102, (102817), 2025, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Dunne, N.J,. Brennan, N.M. & Kirwan, C.E., How the Big Four maintain and defend logic equilibrium at concurrent performances, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 94, (102479), 2023, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Dunne, N.J,. Brennan, N.M. & Kirwan, C.E., Impression management and Big Four auditors: Scrutiny at a public inquiry, Accounting, Organizations and Society, 88, (101170), 2021, p1 - 20, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
Auditors in, editor(s)Lucey, B., Maher, E. and O'Brien, E. , Recalling the Celtic Tiger, Dublin, Peter Lang, 2019, pp21 - 22, [Dunne, N.J.], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
IAS 39 in, editor(s)Lucey, B., Maher, E., and O'Brien, E. , Recalling the Celtic Tiger, Dublin, Peter Lang, 2019, pp167 - 168, [Dunne, N.J.], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
  

Dunne, N.J., Call for accountants to teach real-world skills to the next generation, Accountancy Ireland, 57, (5), 2024, p48 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Dunne, N.J., Exit your comfort zone: five tips for new Programme Managers. Available at https://accountingcafe.org/2024/03/21/programme-managers/, 2024, -, Miscellaneous, PUBLISHED
Dunne, N.J., Calm in the storm: Managing online assessment during a pandemic. Available at https://academic-practice.com/2021/10/04/333/, 2021, -, Miscellaneous, PUBLISHED
Dunne, N.J,. Brennan, N.M. & Kirwan, C.E., Blameless and powerless: How the Big Four react to public scrutiny. Available at https://cobsinsights.org/2021/09/23/blameless-and-powerless-how-the-big-four-react-to-public-scrutiny/, 2021, -, Miscellaneous, PUBLISHED

  


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Nominated for Teaching Award, Trinity College Dublin 2025
Teaching Excellence Award, Trinity Business School 2025
Nominated for consideration for the Award for Excellence in Research Student Supervision 2025
Teaching Excellence Award, Trinity Business School 2024
Teaching Excellence Award, Trinity Business School 2023
Teaching Excellence Award, Trinity Business School 2022
Teaching Excellence Award, Trinity Business School 2021
Research Excellence Award, Trinity Business School 2021
Teaching Excellence Award, Trinity Business School 2020
Teaching Excellence Award, Trinity Business School 2019
Teaching Excellence Award, Trinity Business School 2018
Teaching Excellence Award, Trinity Business School 2017
Winner of Doctoral Research Funding Competition, Irish Accounting & Finance Association 2016
Teaching Excellence Award, Trinity Business School 2015
Winner of Doctoral Research Funding Competition, Irish Accounting & Finance Association 2015
Sue Hrasky Doctoral Scholarship, Financial Reporting and Business Communication Research Unit 2015
My research uses an interdisciplinary and interpretive approach to better understand accounting. In particular, I apply sociological and philosophical concepts to study the experiences and behavior of individuals and firms in the accounting and auditing professions. For example, I mobilize concepts popularized by the sociologist Erving Goffman, such as impression management and strategic framing, to study the behavior of accounting firms in their annual reviews and in their responses to the scrutiny emanating from public and regulatory inquiries. I am also interested in the nature, origin and influence of institutional logics on large and small accounting firms, and in how these institutional logics (e.g., the professional and commercial logics, amongst others) affect and are affected by the individuals that comprise these firms. I have also used concepts such as Stoic philosophy and image repair to understand various organizational contexts. My research has achieved not only academic impact via publication in leading international journals, but also practitioner impact via publication in outlets such as Accountancy Ireland, Accounting Café, and the Council of Business and Society.