Tax Compliance; Ethics in Tax Practice; Tax Policy Making; Voice and Silence in Tax; Tax History; Research Ethics; Innovation in Higher Education Teaching

Professor Elaine Doyle teaches a number of tax modules at undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Professor Elaine Doyle is a Professor of taxation in the Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick in Ireland. She served as interim Head of the Department of Accounting and Finance from February 2021 until June 2022. She designed and was the course director for the Master of Taxation programme from 2011 until 2014. She won the UL Excellence Award for large group teaching (2010 and 2015), the National Jennifer Burke Award for Innovation in Teaching (2013), a National Teaching Experts Award (2015), The Wharton/QS Stars Bronze award for Europe (2015) and The UK Academy for Information Systems award for teaching innovation in IS (2021). She served as Chair of the KBS Research Ethics Committee from 2009 until 2013. In 2012 she spent 3 months as an International Research Scholar with the Open University Business School in Milton Keynes, UK. She served as Director of AACSB accreditation for the KBS for the academic year 2014/15. She was chair of the Irish Accounting and Finance Association (May 2018- Nov 2020). Her research interests include inter alia, professional ethics and risk management in tax practice, tax policy making, research ethics, voice and silence in tax and accounting practice, ethical reasoning and ethics education. She has published both nationally and internationally in these areas in journals such as Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of International Accounting Auditing and Taxation and Computers and Education , co-edited Innovative Business School Teaching: Engaging the Millennial Generation published by Routledge in 2013 and Innovative Business Education Design for 21st Century Learning, published by Springer in 2016. She has secured national and international funding to support her research activities. She has been a visiting Professor at Universidad de Chile in Santiago, Chile and Universidad Catolica Argentina in Buenos Aires, Argentina.