Download the presentation slides used by the speakers, and listen to podcasts of the speakers and respondents at the seminar held at CASS Business School, City University, London in June 2009.
Speeches
Speaker: Professor Jan Bebbington, St. Andrews University
Title: Sustainable development, corporate social responsibility and accounting
Jan's research interests focus on the dual themes of corporate reporting on sustainable development and full cost accounting and modelling, where she has worked with many organisations that are seeking to model their sustainable development impacts, especially their externalities. She is Vice-Chair (Scotland) of the UK's Sustainable Development Commission, Associate Director of the Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research (CSEAR), and Director of the St Andrews Sustainability Institute.
Download: Presentation slides (Powerpoint)
Podcasts
There are three podcasts. They are hosted on City University's website. Please use the links below or go to http://www.cass.city.ac.uk/elearning/audio/esrc/esrc.html and download each session, or all three sessions as one zip file.
Session 1 (MP3 audio file): Introduction by Profesor Paul Palmer, CASS Business School, City University; Presentation by Professor Jan Bebbington, University of St. Andrews, on Sustainable development, corporate social responsibility and accounting; Presentation by Chiew Chong, Director of WWF Living Planet Fund, on Socially Responsible Investments.
Session 2 (MP3 audio file): Responses. Will Oulton, Strategic Advisor, FTSE Group for Socially Responsible Investments; Professor Roger Steare, Visiting Professor in Organisational Ethics, CASS Business School, City University; Leo Johnson, Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers; Mallen Baker, Founding Director of Business Respect.
Session 3 (MP3 audio file): Questions and Answers. Closing remarks by Professor Alan Murray, Sheffield University.
