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Dr. Zhifeng Chen serves as a Lecturer in Accounting at the University of Southampton's Southampton Business School since 2020. She holds a PhD in Management from the University of Bath, an MSc in Accounting and Finance from the University of Birmingham, and a BSc in Accounting from Fudan University, China. As a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), she contributes significantly to both teaching and research within the accounting discipline.
Her educational background includes:
- PhD in Management (University of Bath)
- MSc in Accounting and Finance (University of Birmingham)
- BSc in Accounting (Fudan University, China)
Chen's research focuses on social and environmental accounting with particular emphasis on GHG disclosure in social media contexts. Her work explores organizational hypocrisy, moral licensing mechanisms, and how accounting information influences stakeholder judgments. Using psychological theories and experimental methods, she bridges accounting with behavioral science to examine fundamental social issues through a cross-disciplinary lens. Her research has been published in top-tier journals including Business Ethics Quarterly and Annals of Tourism Research.
Analysis of her recent publications reveals a strong trend connecting accounting practices with crisis response mechanisms, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. Her work spans corporate social responsibility during emergencies, emotional attachment in service contexts, and the intersection of AI with digital economy transformation. The publications demonstrate consistent focus on ethical decision-making frameworks and stakeholder responses to corporate disclosures across multiple disciplines including business ethics, tourism management, and digital economy.
Chen actively supervises PhD students in Business Studies & Management, currently guiding three doctoral candidates. Her professional experience as a qualified FCCA accountant with 15 years in industry (including roles at Coca-Cola China, Nortel Network UK, and Michael Page Holding) informs her practical approach to teaching financial and management accounting at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She serves as module leader for Financial Accounting 1 at postgraduate level.
Her research affiliations include the Centre for Democratic Futures, Centre for Research in Accounting, Accountability and Governance, Centre for Accounting Education, and CESAR (Centre of Excellence in Sustainability Accounting and Reporting), positioning her work at the intersection of accounting practice, sustainability reporting, and ethical governance frameworks.
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