Dr Kate Ringham
PhD, BA
Associate Dean, Professional Education and Business Engagement
Oxford Brookes Business School
Role
As Associate Dean, Professional Education and Business Engagement, Kate has responsibility for our portfolio of programmes supporting learners within businesses. This includes the Global MBA, MA Coaching and Mentoring Practice and HRM Programmes. She also manages the academic team deliverying Help to Grow: Management and supporting Knowledge Transfer Partnership activity.
Having qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Price Waterhouse, London and then completed her doctorate with Oxford Brookes University, Kate understands the value of combinating academic and professional practice.
Teaching and supervision
Modules taught
- Reserach and Analysis project
I am involved in the delivery of professional education courses.
Supervision
I supervise students interested in non financial reporting and disclosure.
Research
Kate’s research interest is non financial reporting (CSR reporting or sustainability reporting) and in how business accounts for the wider (social and environmental) impact of its actions. She has analysed the CSR reporting of the FTSE 100 to explore how business defines the boundary of social and environmental reporting.
Research impact
Interest in the social and environment impact of business is increasing and there is a wide range of guidance relating to non financial reporting. This guidance, may or may not, provide the transparency users expact or want and can lack conceptual clarity. My reserach seeks to analyse the conceptual assumptions made by the guidance providers, assess the extent to which non financial reporting meets user needs and to support business in their decision making on issues relating to social and environmental impact.
Centres and institutes
Publications
Professional information
Memberships of professional bodies
Chartered Association Business Schools Executive Education Committee
Consultancy
Courses introducing finance to non financial managers