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Dr Jane Burt

Head of Department

Department of Finance, Accounting, and Risk; Glasgow School for Business and Society

Jane is Head of Department of Finance, Accountancy and Risk, as well as a Senior Lecturer in Accountancy, teaching at both postgraduate and undergraduate level, leading modules in Ethics, Governance and Responsible Leadership across GSBS.

Prior to Jane’s move to academia, she was a Director of Finance in the engineering industry where she worked for 18 years.

Jane’s PhD thesis focused on Ethics, Virtue and Decision-Making, investigating the ethical decision-making processes of accountants in business, establishing a philosophical and psychological framework to explain moral reasoning.  Jane continues to research in this area.