Mr Richard Cartwright BSc, ACA, FHEA
Principal Teaching Fellow
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Richard is a Non Executive Director, Chartered Accountant, Deputy Head of the Department of Accounting, a member of the University Senate and a former member of the University Council.
Having completed his BSc in Economics at the University of Birmingham, he started his career working as an auditor at KPMG where he completed his ACA. Richard moved into Higher Education in 2012 working at Southampton Solent University where he completed his Post Graduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education and obtained Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy. He joined Southampton Business School in 2015.
Richard specialises in teaching Financial Accounting and Audit and is interested in the role of extra and co-curricular activities in supporting the learning and professional development of students, graduates and professionals.
He has pioneered the use of ICAEW educational films at universities and regularly presents sessions using them at conferences in the U.K. and abroad.
Off campus, Richard is a Non Executive Director at CNWL NHS Foundation Trust, a Governor at Motability and an Independent External Member of the Audit and Risk Assurance Committee at the National Audit Office. He is an active member of his professional institute, a member of ICAEW Council and a former Chair of their Assessment Committee.
Richard has also worked for the Department for Education in the development of their forthcoming T Level in Accounting.
In 2018 Richard was included in the Shaw Trust Power List, a listing of the 100 most influential disabled people in the U.K.