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Postcards from the front: changing narratives in UK financial services (2009)
Journal Article
Collins, D., Dewing, I., & Russell, P. (2009). Postcards from the front: changing narratives in UK financial services. Critical Perspectives On Accounting, 20(8), 884-895. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpa.2009.05.004

This paper seeks to explore the methodological difficulties that confront those who would seek to explain, to account for and to intervene in social affairs. Noting the predominance of ‘behaviourist' and ‘cognitivist' accounts of the change process a... Read More about Postcards from the front: changing narratives in UK financial services.

The actuary as fallen hero: on the reform of a profession (2009)
Journal Article
Collins, D., Dewing, I., & Russell, P. (2009). The actuary as fallen hero: on the reform of a profession. Work, employment & society : a journal of the British Sociological Association, 23(2), 249-266. https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017009102857

This article investigates reform of the actuarial profession following the establishment of the UK Financial Services Authority and as a result of the problems emerging at the Equitable Life Assurance Society. Perceptions on changes to the role of li... Read More about The actuary as fallen hero: on the reform of a profession.