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Crawford Spence is a Professor of Accounting at King’s College London and Co-Director of the FinWork Futures Research Centre. He holds a PhD from the University of St Andrews (2005) and has held academic positions at the University of Warwick, Concordia University (Canada), and the UAE University. His research spans corporate accountability, tax practices, professional elites, and the impact of technology on financial professions. He serves on editorial boards for journals like Accounting, Organizations and Society and Contemporary Accounting Research.
Research interests include the sociology of financial markets, audit practices in digital eras, and the intersection of technology with professional expertise. His recent work explores algorithmic cultures, blockchain’s challenges to auditing, and inertia in financial markets, as detailed in his co-authored book Inertia: Purposeful Inefficiencies in Financial Markets (Columbia UP, 2025).
He has led executive education programs and contributed to accreditation processes at King’s. Current initiatives include the FinWork Futures Centre, examining technological disruption in financial work. No active PhD students are listed, though he recently secured a LISS-funded studentship for public sector audit research.
