Keele Management School

I joined Keele University in September 2006 and am currently teaching Management Accounting and Financial Management. My PhD was awarded in August 2005 by Manchester Metropolitan University. I was subsequently appointed as ESRC Research Fellow at MMU and worked on an ESRC project entitled ‘The Evolution of Business Knowledge in SME’s’. I have taught Management Accounting and Financial Accounting for twelve years in Further and Higher Education including teaching on CIMA and AAT professional programmes. I have an MSc in Accounting and Finance from UMIST/Manchester University and is a CIMA passed finalist. I also have a degree in Philosophy from Manchester University and a degree in Music from Liverpool University.

My current research interests include the roles of accounting in the Public Sector and the nature and processes of knowledge development in organisations and society.

• Oakes, S., Dennis, N.K., and Oakes, H. (forthcoming 2013) 'Web-based forums and metaphysical branding.' Journal of Marketing Management
• Oakes, S., Patterson, A., and Oakes, H. (forthcoming May 2013, 3, 1) 'Shopping soundtracks: Evaluating the musicscape using introspective data.' Arts Marketing: An international Journal.
• Oakes, H. and Oakes, S. 'Accounting and marketing communications in widening arts engagement: A multiple discourse analysis with Habermasian emphasis', Accounting Forum, (forthcoming).
• Oakes, H., ‘The Role of Accounting in the Learning and Skills Council Strategy: A Case Study of Partners’, MMU Working Paper Series, October 2002 (ISSN1478 8209).
• Oakes, H.,‘The role of accounting discourse in the Learning and Skills Council and Further Education Colleges: A multi-perspective approach’ MMU Working Paper Series, January 2005 (ISSN 1478 8195).
• Oakes, H. and Berry, A. (2009) 'Accounting colonization: Three case studies in further education' Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 20, 3, 343-378.
• Oakes, H.,(2010), 'Uncertainty in accounting knowledge: a response to the Davidsonian view of accounting', Int. J. Critical Accounting, Vol. 2, No.1.

Conference papers

• ‘Power, Indeterminacy and Knowledge Management Strategies in a UK Manufacturing Firm: Creating a Shared Understanding’, Beyond Knowledge Management Conference, Durham University, September 2006, Helen Oakes, Oswald Jones and Allan Macpherson.
• ‘Accounting Colonization: Three Case Studies In Further Education’, Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting Conference, Cardiff University, July 2006, Helen Oakes and Anthony Berry
• ‘Postmodern Reflections on Accounting Colonisation Theory: A Case Study of local Learning and Skills Councils and Further Education Colleges’, British Accounting Association (BAA) Annual Conference, Edinburgh University, April 2005

Invited speaker

• ‘Absorptive Capacity, Solipsism and Performance in SMEs’, British Academy of Management Performance Management Special Interest Group, Leeds University: April 2005, Helen Oakes and Allan Macpherson.