Overview
Claire graduated from Aberystwyth University with an economics degree before moving into public accountancy practise and qualifying as a Chartered Accountant with PWC.
The next ten years she spent as a financial accountant in the printing industry and as a management accountant in the food manufacturing sector. Claire's final industrial role, before moving into academia, was supporting the manufacturing process in a Pepsico subsidiary.
Claire’s research focuses on gender, pay and equality. Her doctoral research focused on gendered structures operating within the UK accounting profession. Her ongoing research embraces the juxtaposition of professional and personal identities, as well as inequalities that result in low or unequal pay.
Research Publications
Parenting by day, studying by night: challenges faced by student-parents in the COVID-19 pandemic
Evans, C., 20 Feb 2024, In: Educational Review. p. 1-20 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
A marriage of convenience: How employers and students working in hospitality view the employment relationship
Evans, C., Ritchie, C., Drew, H. & Ritchie, F., 1 Sept 2022, In: Hospitality and Society. 12, 3, p. 299-318 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Gender inequality and the professionalisation of accountancy in the UK from 1870 to the interwar years
Evans, C. & Rumens, N., 22 May 2020, In: Business History. 64, 7, p. 1244-1259 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review