Professor Jane Frecknall-Hughes

Jane Frecknall-Hughes is professor of accounting in the Accounting and Finance Research Unit at The Open University. After completing two undergraduate degrees at the University of Oxford, Jane became a qualified chartered accountant and tax consultant. In 1992 she joined the University of Leeds, gaining postgraduate teaching qualifications and a PhD (in Taxation). She was awarded a master's degree (with distinction) in Commercial Law from the University of Northumbria in 2007, and is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Her research focuses on taxation from an interdisciplinary perspective, and she has been instrumental in taking tax research forward into the areas of strategic management, international business, finance, history, ethics, e-commerce and small business performance evaluation.