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Chandana joined Adam Smith Business School as a Professor of Accounting in September 2019, after holding the Chair in Accounting at the University of Aberdeen Business School. With over 20 years of experience in teaching and research in accounting-related subjects, Chandana is an internationally recognized scholar in critical accounting. She has published extensively in leading accounting journals such as Accounting, Organizations, and Society, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, and the Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal. Her notable academic texts include 'Strategizing Management Accounting: Liberal Origins, Neoliberal Trends' (2019) and 'Management Accounting Change: Approaches and Perspectives' (2007). Her research interests delve into ethnographic insights into the dialectic between global discourses and local practices, drawing extensively on Marxist and post-Marxist social theories to explore the implications of western managerial development on societies and economies in peripheral nations. Chandana is a member of the School's Accounting research cluster, focusing on areas including cultural political-economy accounting, organisational control, governance accountability, sustainable development, and neoliberalism in accounting.