HOST: CSEAR UK
Location: University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Scotland
This residential conference at The University of St. Andrews is a gathering of academics, practitioners and researchers who focus on the teaching, research, theory, and practice of social, environmental and sustainability accounting and reporting. The spirit of the conference is interdisciplinary and so submissions are also invited from perspectives beyond accounting. Please note the conference venue and the submission date. The CSEAR conference provides a forum for scholarly work in various stages of development and explicitly encourages open discussion as well as close collegiality.
The conference is preceded by 12th Emerging Scholars Colloquium (25 August 2025) and CSEAR Education Community of Practice event (25 August 2025).
Two types of submissions are encouraged this year: (1) full papers and (2) 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 250-word abstract. Please note that abstracts will be made available to all delegates prior to the conference. Submissions will be subject to review by a scientific committee.
NOTE: research submitted to the Emerging Scholars Colloquium cannot be submitted to
the main conference. Emerging Scholars wishing to present at the main conference must
submit work that is substantively different to that which is presented at the Emerging
Scholars Colloquium.
Online presentations
The conference provides the possibility for online presentations. Online presentations will run as parallel sessions of the conference, will be made on a virtual platform and will be open to paid CSEAR members (at the time of the conference).
Note that given the limited space for presentation slots, an author can submit and present only one paper. However, a presenter can always be a non-presenting co-author on additional papers. The submission deadline is 27 April 2025 and paper acceptance will be notified by 30 May 2025.
Best paper award
All full-paper submissions will be eligible for the best paper recognition, which will be
awarded through a blind review conducted by an ad hoc committee.
Registration
We anticipate heightened demand for places and urge early registration. The CSEAR website will soon provide charges and full details of how to register at: https://csear.co.uk/. Registration will open in Spring 2025.
Education Community of Practice workshop (25 August, 2025)
The CSEAR Education Community of Practice (ECoP) will host an in-person workshop before the conference. Workshop attendees will hear from leading educators and have a chance to try out different activities as well as share experiences from their own work. Anyone wishing to join the workshop will be required to register for this event as well as the conference. Further details will be shared in due course. For now, please save the date!
Emerging Scholars Colloquium (25 August, 2025)
The 35 CSEAR International Congress will feature the 12th CSEAR Emerging Scholars Colloquium. The colloquium aims to introduce emerging scholars to the social and environmental accounting research community, and providing them an opportunity to present and discuss their research projects alongside a cohort of distinguished international faculty. Further details about the colloquium will be provided in a separate call for applications and on the CSEAR website.
For more information and to buy tickets, visit the conference website:
Visit conference websiteFor more details please see the second call for papers.
