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A-CSEAR Conference 2024

15 February 2024

Nau mai, tauti mai, ki te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha, welcome to the University of Canterbury. Te Kura Umanga | UC Business School is honoured to be hosting the 23rd annual A-CSEAR conference.

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Te Kura Umanga | UC Business School is honoured to be hosting the 23rd annual A-CSEAR conference.

Since its inception in 2002, the A-CSEAR conference has been held in cities around Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific, and comes to Christchurch for the first time in 2024.

A-CSEAR 2024 is being held at UC’s Ilam campus, situated in Ōtautahi Christchurch, known as the Garden City of Aotearoa New Zealand.

The Ilam campus is a 15-minute drive or bus ride from the Christchurch International Airport, and is a short drive from the Botanic Gardens, Riverside Market, and CBD.

Full details of the conference programme will be made available closer to the conference date.

Early scholar colloquium

Wednesday 4 December 2024

Conference

Thursday 5 - Friday 6 December 2024

Location

Rehua Building, Forestry Road, Ilam, Christchurch, New Zealand

Paper/Abstract submission deadline 31 July 2024

Submit here

About

The A-CSEAR conference is an important Australasian conference that provides a forum for accounting academics and practitioners to enhance understandings of social and environmental issues, paralleling the annual CSEAR (Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research) conference held in the United Kingdom.

A‐CSEAR aims to foster a supportive and inclusive community of emerging and established scholars undertaking research on social and environmental aspects of accounting and accountability theory and practice.

The annual A‐CSEAR conference provides an international forum in which to showcase this work and to foster much needed interdisciplinary research in accounting.

The conference theme for A-CSEAR 2024 is “Creating Communities: Accounting for, with, to, of, despite, or beyond?”. We invite accounting scholars to consider the multitude of ways in which accounting exists for and with communities, and how communities might be formed and reinforced through processes of accounting. We therefore encourage conceptual, empirical, and creative submissions that consider accounting’s role in enabling, directing, permitting or restricting communities to emerge and thrive.

View the call for papers

We look forward to announcing our plenary speakers very soon – watch this space for exciting updates!

Registration details coming soon.

All rates include the conference dinner on 5 December 2024.

We encourage delegates who are yet to pay their annual CSEAR membership to update their membership now to enjoy the special member rates to A-CSEAR 2024.

Main conference

Early bird fee (up to 31 October 2024)

CSEAR member - $350
Non-CSEAR member - $500

Regular fee (after 31 October 2024)

CSEAR member - $550
Non-CSEAR member - $700

Research students early bird fee (up to 31 October 2024)

CSEAR member - $200
Non-CSEAR member - $300

Research students regular fee (after 31 October 2024)

CSEAR member - $250
Non-CSEAR member - $350

Early Scholar Colloquium

(Fees for research/doctoral students, includes main conference attendance):

Early bird fee (up to 31 October 2024)

CSEAR member - $200
Non-CSEAR member - $300.

Regular fee (after 31 October 2024)

CSEAR member - $250
Non-CSEAR member - $350.

Further details of special conference rates will be made available soon.

In keeping with the format of the CSEAR (Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research) main conference, two types of submissions are encouraged this year:

full paper (suggested limit of 8,000 words, excluding references)
abstract, representing 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 300 word abstract.

To submit a conference paper or abstract, please click here

We would additionally like to welcome creative outputs and non-traditional forms of research output.

Please contact the organising committee at acsear2024@canterbury.ac.nz for questions regarding your submission.

Submission deadline is 31 July 2024, and decisions provided to authors by 31 August 2024.

Awards will be presented to the best full papers within the following categories:

Best overall paper
Best ECR paper
Best paper researching on a topic related to First Nations / Indigenous Peoples

View the call for papers

We are pleased to invite submissions for the Early Scholar Colloquium (ESC) – a one-day event for emerging scholars working in the social and environmental accounting space.

This year’s colloquium will take place in-person on 4 December 2024, immediately preceding the main conference.

Participants of the ESC also have the opportunity to join the conference after the colloquium.

The aim of the colloquium is to provide an opportunity for emerging scholars in social and environmental accounting and accountability research to present and discuss their research projects with established academics. The colloquium will be relatively informal with the aim of promoting engaging discourse.

Find out more about the Early Scholar Colloquium