About The Speaker

Alan Parkinson

Alan is Professor of Financial Education at University College London (UCL) where he is School Deputy Director (Education) in UCL School of Management, and Lead of the Finance, Accounting and Economics Teaching Team. He is a qualified accountant, with a Doctorate in Education (Theme: Accounting Education), two Masters degrees (Administration, and Early Modern History) and a Higher Education Teaching Certificate. He is Visiting Professor at Ecole des Ponts in Paris, and a Faculty Adviser at Harvard Medical School. He is very much involved in the UCL MBA at Peking University. He is Deputy Director of the online MSc Professional Accountancy at University of London. He is Fellow of the Center for Distance Education at University of London. In 2018 he was awarded UK Public Sector Accountancy Lecturer of the Year by PQ magazine. 

Alan's research interests focus on Curriculum Evaluation, Performance Measurement in Accounting Education, Historical Perspectives on Business, and Technology Applications within Education. He presents regularly at national and international Education-related conferences and workshops, winning a number of awards, and publishes in scholarship journals, and in textbooks. Alan likes all sport (especially football – soccer – and travels the emotional roller coaster journey accompanying the life and times of a Tottenham Hotspur FC supporter), reading, and travel. He thinks smiling is a particularly good hobby.