Danielle McConville

Danielle McConville (nee McMahon) has been a member of teaching staff on the Accounting pathway since September 2008, having previously qualified as a Chartered Accountant (CAI) with Ernst & Young LLP, Belfast. 

Danielle is a Senior Lecturer (Education) and Associate Director of Education (Student Support) for Queen’s Management School.

Danielle's research interests are in charity regulation, accountability, transparency and trust, including:

• International approaches to regulation of performance reporting (McConville and Cordery, 2018 and forthcoming)
• Public and private mechanisms used by UK charity managers to discharge accountability and build trust with stakeholders (Hyndman and McConville, 2017, 2018)
• The impact of stakeholders on the development of accounting and reporting in the UK charity sector (specifically, on the Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP)) (Hyndman and McMahon, 2010, 2011; Connolly, Hyndman and McConville, 2013 (BAR); McConville, Cordery and Henderson, forthcoming)
• UK charities’ transparency on performance in the context of meeting stakeholder needs, with a particular focus on publicly-available communications and reporting on efficiency (Connolly, Hyndman and McConville, 2013 (Voluntas); Hyndman and McConville, 2015) and effectiveness (Hyndman and McConville, 2018)
• Current practice in UK charity accounting and areas for further research, including an article Connolly, Hyndman and McMahon, 2011) and a book chapter (Connolly, Hyndman and McConville, 2013)
• The importance and challenges of impact reporting in the charity sector (McConville 2017)

Related to her research interests, Danielle has been involved with a number of charity sector initiatives in the UK and Ireland. These include a report for the Charity Commission with QUB colleagues on the development of the charity SORP (Connolly, Hyndman and McMahon, 2009), presented at a number of regulator/government hosted conferences in London, Edinburgh and Dublin. She has been a member of the organising committee of joint consultations with the Charity Commission NI (October 2013, September 2016) and the Centre for Not-for-Profit and Public Sector Research’s biennial conferences (January 2017 and September 2019).

Undergraduate

• Lecturer and Tutor on ACC1004 Accounting Information Systems
• Lecturer and Tutor on ACC1002 Accounting
• Lecturer and Tutor on ACC3014 Issues in Not-for-Profit and Public Sector Accounting

Clinton Leadership Institute 

• Facilitator of Executive Education programme: Finance for Non-financial Managers
• Facilitator of Fusion programme module: Finance and Information Management

External 

• Chartered Accountants Ireland: Lecturer in CAP1 Management Accounting
• CPA Ireland: Examiner for F2 Information Systems
• Accounting Technicians Ireland: Reviewer for P2 Management Accounting

Danielle holds a PGCHET qualification (QUB, 2011) and was voted 'Most Involved Staff Member' in the Students' Union Education Awards 2013. She received the Queen's Merit Award in September 2020 and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

She is Associate Director of Education (UG) for Student Support for the Management School, and has recently launched and co-ordinates a 'Teaching and Learning Forum' in the School, raising the profile of pedagogical research and sharing good teaching practice.