Gill Baker

Gill Baker

Senior Lecturer and Course Leader BA (Hons) Accounting

Lancashire School of Business and Enterprise

Greenbank Building, GR037

+44 (0) 1772 89 4540

GBaker4@uclan.ac.uk

Subject Areas: Accounting and Finance

Gill joined UCLan in December 2016 having taught in higher education since May 2013.  She is a Chartered Accountant and worked in accountancy practice, including sixteen years at PricewaterhouseCoopers, prior to moving to higher education.  Gill specialises in Auditing and Financial Management.  She is a Member of ICAEW and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Full Profile

Before moving to UCLan, Gill was Programme Leader for the MSc in Accounting and Financial Management and the ACCA Professional Papers Programme at the University of Bolton. She spent almost four years at Bolton specialising in Auditing and Taxation, including overseas teaching in Malaysia and Vietnam.  Before moving to Higher Education, she worked in accountancy practice, the majority as a senior manager in audit at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Manchester where she was also the Group Leader and Finance Manager for Public Sector North West and a personal tutor and interviewer for graduate trainees.

She is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales, and following her move to HE she gained her Post Graduate Certificate in Professional and Higher Education and became a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Memberships
  • Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Teaching Activities and Responsibilities

  • Course Leader for BA (Hons) Accounting
  • Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Finance specialising in Auditing, Taxation and Financial Management