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Dr Ulrike Marx

Ulrike

Lecturer in Accounting

Email: u.marx@qmul.ac.uk

Profile

Roles:

Biography:

I am a Lecturer in Accounting at School of Business and Management, Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) where I lead and teach modules on management accounting and control as well as corporate financial reporting. I am a researcher with expertise in qualitative methods working in the fields of management accounting and control, the accounting profession, feminism, social studies of accounting and accounting for health and wellbeing. I was awarded a PhD from the University of Innsbruck, Austria in 2014 and have since worked at University of Essex and University of Leicester.

Teaching

Ulrike adopts an interdisciplinary, social-scientific approach to management accounting, balancing this with technical expertise and training in order to deliver high-quality, research-led teaching and meet professional bodies’ requirements for accreditation purposes.

BUS140/BUS140F – Introduction to Management Accounting on BSc Accounting and Finance, BSc Accountancy (Flying Start with PwC)

BUS241 Corporate Financial Reporting for Math and Actuarial Science

Ulrike has been a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy since 2017 (now Advance HE).

Research

Research Interests:

Research Interests

Ulrike’s research mainly focusses on social studies of accounting, such as the emergence and translation of new (management) accounting phenomena as a response to crisis and political problematizations, for example the emergence of gender budgeting as ‘accounting for equality’, or more recently the emergence of managing and measuring well-being. Interdisciplinary in nature, her research draws upon organization theory, feminist theory, political philosophy and science and technology studies in order to develop insights to inform organizational, social and political action. Her research has been published in international journals such as Gender, Work and Organization and she is member and affiliated researcher in a wide range of national and international research networks and communities.

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Publications

  • Munro, I., Contu A., Dallyn, S., Edwards, P., Frandsen, A.-C., Go Jefferies, J., Hoskin, K., Hughes, K., Land, C., Marx, U. Tweedie, J., Ul-Haq, S., Zaeemdar, S. (2025), Reading as Communal Luxury: On the Formation of a Resistant Subject Group, Management Learning, https://doi.org/10.1177/13505076251374948
  • Marx, U. (2024), Measuring and Managing Gender Equality – The Case of Gender Budgeting in Austria, in: Feminism in Public Debt, Too - A Human Rights Approach, edited by: Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky and Mariana Rulli, to be published by The Bristol University Press, University of Bristol
  • Marx, U. (2024), Accounting for gender equality, in: Handbook of Accounting in Society, edited by Hendrik Vollmer, to be published by Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.
  • Marx, U. (2023), Midiendo y gestionando la igualdad de género. El caso del presupuesto con perspectiva de género de Austria, in: BOHOSLAVSKY, JP and RULLI, M. (eds.) Deuda feminista. ¿Utopía u oxímoron? (pp 303-403). Editorial de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata (Edulp).
  • Marx, U., & Becker, A. (2020, June). Geschlechterverhältnisse steuern: Zahlen und Feminismus [governing gender: numbers and feminism]. In Geschlechterverhältnisse im Kontext von Unternehmen und Gesellschaft (pp. 165-180). Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG.
  • Tsaousi, C., Weir, K., Marx, U., Kokkinidis, G., Stoborod, K. and Burridge, M. (2019): ‘Wellbeing in the Accounting Profession: Measuring and understanding the reluctance to seek help’, final report prepared for Chartered Accountants Benevolent Association (CABA), 178p.
  • Marx, Ulrike (2018), Accounting for equality: Gender budgeting and moderate feminism, Gender, Work and Organization, https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12307
  • Nitzl, C./Hirsch, B./Marx, U. (2015): Zur Genese von Vertrauen von Manager/innen gegenüber Controller/innen – ein Vergleich zwischen Frauen und Männern, [gender differences in trust formation between managers and management accountants], Die Betriebswirtschaft (Business Administration Review), 75. Jg., Nr. 2, pp. 97-127.
  • Marx, Ulrike & Becker, Albrecht (2012): Gender Budgeting: Frauen und Männer zählen [Gender budgeting: counting women and men]. In Ortlieb, Renate & Sieben, Barbara (eds.), Geschenkt wird einer nichts - oder doch? Festschrift für Gertraude Krell. (pp.129-134). München Mering: Hampp.
  • Marx, Ulrike & Becker, Albrecht (2011): Gender Budgeting: Quantifizierung und Lippenbekenntnisse [Gender budgeting: quantification and lip services]. In Eibl, Doris G., Jarosch, Marion, Schneider, Ursula A. & Steinsiek, Annette (eds.) Innsbrucker Gender Lectures I. (pp. 179-200). Innsbruck University Press.
  • Janke, Madeleine & Marx, Ulrike (2008), Genderbezogene Forschung und Lehre im Fachgebiet Rechnungswesen und Controlling [Gender related research and teaching in accounting and management control], Discussion Paper Series published by the Harriet Taylor Mill-Institute for Economics and Gender Studies, Berlin School of Economics and Law. Discussion paper No. 02, 05/2008.

 

Books

  • Janke, Madeleine, Marx, Ulrike; Pietzner, Andrea; Speda, Aileen (2009): Rechnungswesen und Gender. Ausgewählte Aspekte aus Theorie und Praxis [Accounting and Gender. Theoretical and practical issues]. Berlin: P+H Wissenschaftlicher Verlag ( Schriftenreihe Wirtschaftspraxis 5).

 

Book reviews

  • Marx, Ulrike (2011), Review of Projektgruppe GiB, Achatz, J., Beblo, M., Bothfeld, S., Fuchs, T., Gartner, H., Höyng, S., Hübers, S., Klenner, C., Kohaut, S., Krell, G., Maschke, M., Rouault, S., Tondorf, K, Wolf, E. & Ziegler, A., Geschlechterungleichheiten im Betrieb. Arbeit, Entlohnung und Gleichstellung in der Privatwirtschaft [Gender Inequalities in Business. work, payment and equality], Feministische Studien 01/2011, pp.161-164.

 

Supervision

On a general level, Ulrike’s research interests are located in interdisciplinary work in the area of management accounting. She understands accounting as social and organisational practice and she is particularly interested in projects which look at the emergence and implementation of new accounting practices in the area of social accounting, in policy reforms and performance management, and in feminist research in accounting.

Grants

Chartered Accountant Benevolent Association (CABA) 2017

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