Dr Pingli Li PhD, MSc, BSc
Associate Professor in Accounting

Pingli Li is an Associate Professor in Accounting and currently teaches on the Management Accounting modules.
Prior to joining the University of Southampton in September 2014, Pingli held academic positions at Middlesex University and Beijing Technology & Business University (China).
She has taken the roles of programme and module leader, and taught the modules of management accounting, corporate finance, financial statement analysis, and international accounting at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.
Pingli’s research interests include management control systems and organizational change, the institutionalization of management accounting practices, the use of management control techniques in Chinese State-owned Enterprises and the public sector, the roles of independent directors in listed companies, and environmental performance and corporate governance. In addition to the publications in a number of Chinese accounting journals, her recent publications appear in British Journal of Management and Management Accounting Research (UK). She has successfully completed a number of externally funded research projects.
She is the editorial board member of the Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management (ISSN: 1176-6093, Emerald) and Journal of Management Accounting Studies (China), and have acted as a reviewer for British Journal of Management, Accounting Education: an international journal, International Journal of Performability Engineering, Journal of Accounting in Emerging Economies, and a variety of international conferences.