Dr Bedanand Upadhaya

Biography

Bedanand Upadhaya is currently working as a Senior Lecturer in Accounting at Essex Business School, University of Essex. His research interests include sustainability/climate change accounting, accountability, corporate social responsibility, organisational culture, management control systems and developing/emerging countries. Bedanand has published his research papers in the leading international peer-reviewed academic journals, including the British Accounting Review, Financial Accountability and Management, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, and Journal of Business Research. Bedanand is an Associate Editor of RAE – Revista de Administração de Empresas and currently a co-guest editor of Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting and Financial Management (Climate Change Accounting, Reporting and Accountability: Responses by Governments, Not-for-Profit Organisations and Charities). He is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK and an Executive Committee Member of the Accounting & Finance in Emerging Economies SIG, British Accounting & Finance Association (BAFA). In 2023, Bedanand received the 'Best International Research Impact Award’ (University of Essex) and he was also nominated for the ‘Supervisor of the Year Award 2022-23’ at Essex Business School. As a module leader/unit coordinator and lecturer, Bedanand has been teaching a wide range of modules including Accounting, Sustainability and Research Methodology among others. Prior to joining academia, Bedanand worked in a subsidiary of the Coca-Cola Company for over a decade.

Qualifications

• PhD Macquarie University,

• Postgraduate Certificate of Research (Accounting) Macquarie University,

• Master of Professional Accounting University of Southern Queensland,

Appointments

University of Essex

• Senior Lecturer, Accounting, Essex Business School (1/10/2021 - present)

• Associate Director of Postgraduate Research (Accounting Group), Essex Business School, University of Essex (8/2022 - present)

• Departmental Representative (EBS) and Management Team member of the ‘Sustainable Transitions in Governance, Ecological Management and Society – Leverhulme Doctoral Training Programme' (Total grant value: £2.2 million), University of Essex (1/1/2024 - present)

• Academic Faculty Member (Faculty of Social Sciences) at the University’s ‘Environmental Sustainability Action Group’ (ESAG), University of Essex (1/1/2024 - present)

• Member of Management Team and Advisory Group (representing EBS), Centre for Environment and Society (CES), University of Essex (25/9/2023 - present)