SIERRA GARCIA, LAURA NIEVES

I have a degree in Business Administration and Management from the University of Seville. Master in Consultancy and Auditing from the University of Birmingham (UK). European PhD in Accounting and Auditing from the University of Seville.

I am an Associate Professor in Accounting and Auditing at Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Seville, Spain) with more than 20 years of experience in university teaching. I have specialised in Financial Accounting, teaching in bilingual bachelor's and master's degree programmes in International Business.

My research activity has focused on accounting and auditing, as well as sustainability. In addition, she has focused on auditing from the professional's ethics, assurance by auditing firms, as well as the profitability and performance of organisations through their credibility and reliability. As a result of the dissemination and quality of her research output, my CV includes 26 indexed publications (21 indexed in JCR, 24 indexed in SCOPUS), with more than 2000 citations in Google Scholar and 1191 citations in SCOPUS. I have published in prestigious international journals such as the British Accounting Review, Australian Accounting Review, Spanish Accounting Review, Business Strategy and the Environment, Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, among others. In addition, I have published 3 full-length books and 3 book chapters. She has presented more than 30 papers or communications at national (20) and international (25) conferences, organised by scientific associations in the field of accounting (European Accounting Association, Spanish Association of University Professors of Accounting, European Auditing Network, European Academic Conference on Internal Audit and Corporate Governance).

I have participated in different projects awarded by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities in Spain (ECO2014-58799-R). In 2019, I participated in a project awarded by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (RTI2018-093423-B-100). I also participate in different research grants from the local administrations Junta de Andalucía (P20-00856) and Comunidad Valenciana (CIAICO/2022/075 and AICO/2017/092). In addition, I have been Principal Investigator of the V Own Research Plan of the UPO. I belong to the CICSMA centre of the Pablo de Olavide University.

I have been a collaborating member of the Research Group in ACCOUNTING (SEJ-180) at the University of Seville and currently, I am a collaborating member of the Research Group in MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS (SEJ-409) at the University of Seville and I have participated in the MARIE CURIE FELLOWSHIP of the European Union at the Manchester Business School. I have carried out six stays in prestigious national and international research centres: Wroclaw University (Wroclaw, Poland) (1 postdoctoral stay: 3 months), School of Accounting (RMIT University) in Melbourne (Australia) (1 postdoctoral stay: 6 months), Accounting Department of the University of Valencia (2 postdoctoral stays: 6 months each), and Business School of the University of Manchester (UK) (1 predoctoral stay: 6 months and 1 postdoctoral stay: 3 months).