24^th A-CSEAR Conference 2025

Monash Business School, Melbourne, Australia

3^rd – 5^th December 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS

Rewilding accounting research, education, and practice

Monash Business School warmly invites you to the 24th Australasian Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research (A-CSEAR) Conference and Early Scholars’ Colloquium. The Early Scholars’ Colloquium will be held on 3^rd December 2025, followed by the main conference from 3^rd to 5^th December 2025.

A-CSEAR 2025 will be held at Monash University’s Caulfield Campus in Melbourne (Naarm) Australia. The campus is 20 minutes from the CBD and easily accessible via public transport.

The conference will foster a supportive and inclusive community of emerging and established scholars investigating research on the social and environmental aspects of accounting theory and practice. It will provide an international forum in which to showcase this work and to continue to foster much needed interdisciplinary research in accounting.

The conference theme for 2025 is Rewilding accounting research, education, and practice. Rewilding is often conceived as a phenomenon confined to conservation biology, yet rewilding is increasingly seen as a broader, multi-faceted concept that involves embracing messiness, complexity, interconnectedness, curiosity, and compassion[1]. Drawing upon the concept of rewilding in its broadest sense, we encourage the widest possible array of understandings, applications, and interrogation of rewilding in the context of accounting. This may include themes related to (but not limited to) rewilding in the context of accounting and accountability research, including the research process itself; rewilding accounting knowledge and practices; rewilding accounting education including curriculum and pedagogy; and rewilding ourselves, academics, and the accounting profession. The conference will hold space for diversity of perspectives, including the visible, invisible, and those that do not have a voice. We encourage interdisciplinarity, collaboration with those who think and do differently, to nurture imagination and craft collective insight into accounting’s role in addressing the challenges of our time.

Plenary Speakers

Professor Jill Atkins

Cardiff University, Wales

Dr Jill Atkins is Professor in Accounting at Cardiff University, UK and is also a Visiting Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Her research focuses on corporate governance, responsible investment, sustainability, integrated reporting and extinction accounting. Professor Atkins has an interest in exploring the historical roots of environmental and ecological accounting. Accounting for biodiversity and financial mechanisms for the protection of biodiversity and species is an overriding theme across all her current projects. She is Series Editor for the de Gruyter Studies in Corporate Governance and her leading textbook, Corporate Governance and Accountability, is now in its 5th edition. Professor Atkins’ academic qualifications include a BA Hons (First Class) in European Economics with a Licence ès Sciences Economiques from the University of Nantes, an MSc in Corporate and International Finance from the University of Durham, and a PhD in Finance from the University of Manchester. Well-known throughout the ESG investment industry and governance area as a thought leader, Professor Atkins is regularly being invited to give keynotes at international practitioner and academic events.

Associate Professor Daniel Ramp

University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Daniel Ramp is the Founder and Director of the Centre for Compassionate Conservation at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), where he is an Associate Professor in the Transdisciplinary School. He leads the development of research, teaching, and public outreach in the centre, where the goal is to stimulate innovation, novel research, and conservation practices that promote the flourishing of the more-than-human world. Dan conducts scientific research on human-wildlife interactions, wildlife trade, conservation practice, and wild animal welfare, while also collaborating widely across disciplines. He has led multiple ARC and CRC projects, working with government and industry to engage in evidenced-based policy transformation that promote multispecies coexistence and sustainability, particularly in production landscapes. He has published over 170 journal articles and book chapters and received over $12M in competitive funding. He was a founding member of THINKK – the think tank on kangaroos, is a Director of Voiceless, and a founding member of the Society for Compassionate Conservation.

Full Conference Submissions

We invite paper presentations on any aspect of social and environmental accounting. The deadline for submissions is 25^th August 2025. Notification about the decision will be made by 29^th September 2025.

All papers should be submitted via the conference online submission system found at: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=acsearconference2025. Two types of submissions are encouraged: (1) full papers and (2) work in progress. Authors submitting full papers are expected to provide a complete manuscript by the submission deadline, whereas authors submitting a work in progress are invited to submit a 250-word abstract. Emerging scholars who would like to take part in the Emerging Scholars’ Colloquium please refer to the separate details provided on the conference web page. Please note that abstracts will be made available to all delegates prior to the conference. Submissions will be subject to review by a scientific committee.

For more information, please contact the conference organisers at acsear2025@monash.edu

Visit conference website at https://www.monash.edu/business/events/a-csear-conference-2025

Not yet a member of CSEAR?

If you are not already a member of CSEAR we encourage you to join to take advantage of member benefits such as access to the SEA Journal, newsletters, research resources and bibliography, teaching and education resources and access to other members. For more information, visit https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/csear/