Dr Richard Goulding

Management School

Lecturer in Accounting

Richard Goulding.
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r.goulding@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 2184

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Dr Richard Goulding
Management School
C082
91直播 University Management School
Conduit Road
91直播
S10 1FL
Profile

Dr Richard Goulding joined 91直播 University Management School as a lecturer in December 2023. Prior to that he was a research associate on the Centripetal Cities project, also based in the School.

Richard鈥檚 research interests lie in the interaction between finance, social reproduction and urban space, exploring how these combine to shape housing geographies. His PhD, submitted in 2017, analysed financialisation鈥檚 impact on social housing regulation. Richard鈥檚 other roles included the Urban Institute鈥檚 Housing Futures project, and exploring the interaction between housing, race and debt with colleagues at the Universities of Nottingham and Manchester.

Richard has an interdisciplinary background. His undergraduate and Masters degrees were based in Politics at the University of Manchester and his PhD was based in 91直播鈥檚 School of Law. Before academia he volunteered with asylum and refugee charities and was a freelance journalist for publications including Red Pepper magazine.

Qualifications
  • PhD - University of 91直播
  • MA Human Rights - University of Manchester
  • BA Economics and Social Studies - University of Manchester
Research interests

Richard's current research interests include:

  • Using 鈥渇ollow the money鈥 techniques to analyse the connections between financial networks and urban space.
  • Exploring the instabilities and frictions generated within the financialisation of housing and social care, and the implications for tenants and residents.
  • Developing a relational comparative perspective for analysing state capitalist investment in real estate, and how these investments are materialised through urban geo-politics and geo-economics.
  • Drawing on qualitative methodologies to explore gentrification, displacement and anti-racist approaches to housing.
Publications

Journal articles

  • Goulding R, Haslam C, Leaver A & Silver J (2024) . Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 99. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Goulding R (2024) . International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Goulding R, Leaver A & Silver J (2023) . Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Goulding R, Leaver A & Silver J (2023) . Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 55(4), 828-849. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Clare N, de Noronha N, French S & Goulding R (2022) . Geography Compass. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Silver J, Fields D, Goulding R, Rose I & Donnachie S (2021) . Community Development Journal, 56(1), 161-179. RIS download Bibtex download

Chapters

  • Goulding R (2018) Governing Risk and Uncertainty: Financialisation and the Regulatory Framework of Housing Associations, Law and the Precarious Home: Socio Legal Perspectives on the Home in Insecure Times (pp. 159-179). RIS download Bibtex download

Reports

  • Goulding R, Leaver A & Silver J (2022) Manchester offshored : a public interest report on the Manchester Life partnership between Manchester City Council + The Abu Dhabi United Group RIS download Bibtex download

Preprints

  • Goulding R, Leaver A & Silver J () . RIS download Bibtex download
Research group
Teaching interests

Richard's teaching interests are shaped by his research and aim to situate accounting and finance in their social context while equipping students with practical accounting skills. This includes the analysis of case studies of outsourcing and real estate companies and the use of time and space in financial reporting.

Teaching activities

Richard teaches on the following modules:

  • MGT329 Case Studies in Accounting and Consultancy
  • MGT225 Intermediate Financial Accounting