Prof Sue Llewellyn

Biography

Sue Llewellyn graduated in 1978 with a BA (Econ) (joint Honours in Econometrics and Political Theory, First Class) from the University of Manchester. She then spent eleven years as a housewife and mother to four sons. She entered academic life in 1989 as a research assistant on a project forecasting property returns at the University of Stirling, where she gained an MSc. Her first lectureship was at the University of Edinburgh in 1991, where she did her PhD; she was subsequently promoted to a senior lectureship and, then, a Chair in 1999. In 2004 she moved to a Chair at the University of Leicester. She joined Manchester Business School in 2007. She has held visiting posts at: Queens University, Kingston, Canada; the University of Adelaide, Australia; the University of Linköping, Sweden; The University of Macquarrie, Australia; the University of Ferrara, Italy; the University of Otago, New Zealand; and Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand.

Teaching and Research interests

Her work is mainly qualitative in nature; research interests lie in: public sector management, particularly in health; costing and budgeting as organisational practices; management control; accountability and responsibility; organisational agents and agency; and research methodologies.