Open Day OfficerWelsh-medium (2015)

　　Higher EducationAcademy (HEA) Fellowship Panel member (2014) 

　　Higher EducationAcademy (HEA) Fellowship Reviewer (2014) 

　　Centre forExcellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT) Mentor (2014) 

　　Teaching Fellowof Bangor University 

　　Lecturer inAccounting (Welsh medium) 

　　PGCertHEExaminations Panel Member 

　　Personal Tutor 

　　RepresentingBangor University in the media regarding taxation and government budgetaryissues 

　　Auditor for theConference of Professors of Accounting and Finance (CPAF) 

　　Treasurer forBritish Accounting and Finance Association (BAFA): InterdisciplinaryPerspectives Special Interest Group (SIG) (2013) 

　　Member of thesteering committee for the Tax Research Network (TRN) (2012) 

　　Sara wasappointed as a Welsh-medium lecturer in accounting in 2013, fully funded by theColegCymraegCenedlaethol. The ColegCymraegCenedlaethol aims to increase anddevelop the Welsh-medium provision in Higher Education across all WelshUniversities. From 2008 to 2013 I was a lecturer in accounting and taxation,teaching both undergraduate and postgraduate modules. In addition, I was atutor on the ACCA (Association of Chartered and Certified Accountants)professional course programmes, teaching taxation, advanced taxation andcorporate reporting to trainee accountants. 

　　Prior to heracademic career she owned and managed her own accountancy business offeringaccountancy services and taxation advice to businesses and individuals andother accountancy firms. I managed tax enquiries (personal and business), dealtwith tax planning, managed a busy tax department and was a training officertraining accountancy and taxation staff within an accountancy firm. 

　　Sara’s researchwork focuses on the role of accounting in public administration. In particular,she examine the tax credit and universal credit systems and their interactionbetween government, officers, claimants and the general public. The UK taxcredit and universal credit systems are programs created and developed bygovernment to encourage people to work and to top-up low-income families. Thereis a growing interest in welfare programs, given the current economic andpolitical climate. Her work also explores how power relations are formed,maintained and change within society; and how power can constitute and persuadeaudiences to accept a particular version of reality. 

　　Her work isinterdisciplinary and encompasses the development of conceptual and theoreticalframeworks, adopting a critical interpretive approach, developing and applyingethnography and critical discourse analysis. For this purpose, she draw on herbackground in accounting (MRes in Accounting, ACCA and CIOT professional) andreal-life experiences stemming from my work in practice since 1997.