Role
Bernard is a Lecturer in the Accounting and Finance Department, and a member of the Accountability and Governance Research Group in the Centre for Economics, Policy and Public Management at Nottingham Business School. Bernard was awarded a Vice-Chancellor’s Scholarship in 2018, and has recently completed his PhD in Public Sector Accountability and Financial Management. His PhD was entitled “Financial Resilience in the face of Austerity: An Empirical Study of Local Authorities in England”.
Career overview
Bernard has a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting and Finance from the University of Cape Coast in Ghana. He was recruited in the University as a Graduate Teaching Assistant for his mandatory National Service (placement). He has Masters Degree Finance and Accounting from Nottingham Trent University. As part of his MSc, Bernard gained accounting experience as a Graduate Finance Assistant at the Finance Department at NTU. After completing his MSc in 2018, Bernard worked as a Research Assistant in the Department for Structured Products at Stanbic Bank in Ghana before commencing his PhD in 2018.
While pursuing his PhD, Bernard engaged in ad-hoc research activities that complemented his research on financial resilience. Bernard worked as a Research Officer at the University of Essex, where he collaborated with external colleagues on the development of a Financial Resilience Toolkit, a tool that has been developed to help local authorities assess their levels of perceived vulnerability and financial resilience.
Research areas
Although Bernard’s research is primarily Local Government Financial Resilience and Public Service Management, he also conducts research in the following research areas:
- Private Sector, and Public Service Accounting and Accountability,
- Governmental Financial Resilience and Perceived (Financial) Vulnerability,
- Artificial Intelligence and Digitalisation,
- Sector & Organisational Resilience.
Bernard uses the following academic software: RefWorks, Mendeley, SPSS, STATA, Qualtrics, and NVivo.
External activity
Bernard is currently part of an on-going international project to develop a Financial Resilience Toolkit for public sector agencies (particularly, Local Governments), which is sponsored and led by the Essex Business School. It includes a group of scholars from across Europe (Austria, Germany, France, and Italy) focussing on European perspectives of Local Government Financial Resilience.
He is an active member of the Research Network on Public Authorities and Financial Distress (RPAFD), a special interest research group that emerged from a public sector project at the International Insolvency Institute. The network already counts more than 60 academics and practitioners, lawyers and non-lawyers based all over the world. The objective of RPAFD is to develop comparative research based on concrete case studies to suggest principled policy outcomes for the treatment of local authorities in financial distress.
Bernard is also a member of an NBS team working with colleagues from Japan led by the President of CIPFA (Japan) Professor Dr. Toshihiko Ishihara on “Local Authority performance and the former Audit Commission”.
Sponsors and collaborators
Bernard’s academic collaborators within NTU include Dr. Martin Jones, Professor Alan Collins, Professor Peter Murphy, Dr. Peter Eckersley, and Katarzyna Lakoma.
His external collaborators include Professor Ileana Steccolini (Essex and Bologna), Professor Iris Saliterer (Freiburg), Professor Sanja Korac (Speyer), Professor Toshihiko Ishihara (Japan), Professor Yseult Marique (Essex), Professor Laura Coordes (Arizona State University, USA), Dr. Celine du Boys (Aix-Marseille), Dr. Carmela Barbera (Bergamo), Dr. Deborah Agostino (Politecnico di Milano), Dr. Andre Lino (Brazil and Essex, UK), Dr. Eugenio Vaccari (London), Dr. Paola Riva (Politecnico di Milano), Rebecca McCaffry (CIMA), and Jeffery Matsu (CIPFA).
Bernard has collaborated with the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) and the Chartered Institute for Management Accountants (CIMA) both as a research officer and as a member of roundtable discussions on an ESRC-funded project to co-produce an interactive online toolkit that enables local authorities to assess their financial resilience.
Publications
Bernard's iREP name is DOM, B. K. https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/view/creators/Dom=3ABK=3A=3A.html
Journal article
BARBERA, C., DOM, B.K., DU BOYS, C., KORAC, S., SALITERER, I. and STECCOLINI, I., 2024. Insights from local government managers: navigating crises through organizational capacities and perceptions. Public Administration Review. ISSN 0033-3352
MURPHY, P., LAKOMA, K., ECKERSLEY, P., DOM, B.K. and JONES, M., 2023. Public goods, public value and public audit: the Redmond Review and English local government. Public Money and Management, 43 (3), pp. 242-250. ISSN 0954-0962
Chapter in book
BARBERA, C., DOM, B.K., DU BOYS, C., KORAC, S., SALITERER, I. and STECCOLINI, I., 2023. Government financial resilience – a European perspective. In: C.L. JOHNSON, T.T. MOLDOGAZIEV and J.M. ROSS, eds., Research handbook on city and municipal finance. Elgar handbooks in public administration and management . Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 408-432. ISBN 9781800372955
Conference contribution
DOM, B.K., COLLINS, A., JONES, M. and MURPHY, P., 2024. Delivering local authority cultural services in the era of austerity. In: International Research Society for Public Management (IRSPM), Tampere, Finland, 15-18 April 2024.
DOM, B.K., MURPHY, P., JONES, M. and COLLINS, A., 2024. Local government, austerity localism, financial resilience, and perceived vulnerability in England. In: International Research Society for Public Management (IRSPM), Tampere, Finland, 15-18 April 2024.
DOM, B.K., MURPHY, P., JONES, M. and COLLINS, A., 2023. Wicked problems and tempting solutions: navigating local government finance amid austerity and perceived vulnerability. In: International Centre of Public Accountability (ICOPA) Workshop, Durham University, 11-12 December 2023.
DOM, B.K., COLLINS, A., JONES, M. and MURPHY, P., 2023. Financial resilience in English local authorities: delivering cultural and related services (CRS) during the era of austerity. In: 22nd Association for Cultural Economics International (ACEI) Conference, Bloomington, Indiana, United States, 27-30 June 2023.
DOM, B.K., LINO, A. and STECCOLINI, I., 2023. Co-producing an evidence-based toolkit for financial resilience: translating ideas across practitioner and academic communities. In: International Research Society for Public Management, Budapest, Hungary, 03-05 April 2023.
STECCOLINI, I., SALITERER, I., BARBERA, C., DOM, B.K., KORAC, S. and LINO, A., 2023. Resilience between risks and uncertainty. In: IRSPM Public Service Accounting and Accountability (PSAA) Group Annual Workshop, Bologna, Italy, 30 November - 1 December 2023.
DOM, B.K. and LINO, A., 2022. East of England local authorities’ financial resilience in order to be partners for sustainable, inclusive growth. In: East of England APPG (All Party Parliamentary Group) Meeting, Online, 3 November 2022.
DOM, B.K., JONES, M., COLLINS, A. and MURPHY, P., 2022. Managing the twin pressures in Welsh Local Authorities during the austerity era. In: The 12th Annual EIASM Public Sector Conference: Public Service Accounting, Accountability and Management, Comilla Universidad Pontificia, Madrid, Spain, 30-31 August 2022.
SALITERER, I., BARBERA, C., DU BOYS, C., DOM, B.K., KORAC, S. and STECCOLINI, I., 2022. Local government resilience in times of the pandemic: a European perspective. In: 25th Annual Conference of the International Research Society for Public Management (IRSPM). Facing the Future: Evolving Social-Political-Administrative Relations and the Future of Administrative Systems., [virtual], 18-22 April 2022.
MURPHY, P., ECKERSLEY, P., LAKOMA, K., DOM, B.K. and JONES, M., 2022. The enduring publicness of public audit: the Redmond Review and English local government. In: 25th Annual Conference of the International Research Society for Public Management (IRSPM). Facing the Future: Evolving Social-Political-Administrative Relations and the Future of Administrative Systems, [virtual], 19-22 April 2022.
STECCOLINI, I., LINO, A., DOM, B.K. and MCCAFFRY, R., 2022. Governmental financial resilience. In: Research Workshop, University of Essex, 9 February 2022.
STECCOLINI, I., LINO, A., DOM, B.K. and MATSU, J., 2021. Governmental financial resilience. In: CIPFA Round Table Discussion on the Financial Resilience Toolkit [virtual], University of Essex, 9 December 2021.
DOM, B.K., MURPHY, P. and JONES, M., 2021. Financial failure and corporate intervention at Northamptonshire County Council: a sorry saga not a surprise. In: The JUC PAC Annual Conference 2021: How Place Matters? Leadership, Governance and Public Administration, De Montfort University, Leicester, 7-8 September 2021.
KORAC, S., SALITERER, I., BARBERA, C., DOM, B.K., DU BOYS, C. and STECCOLINI, I., 2021. Governmental financial resilience – a European perspective. In: European Group for Public Administration, Brussels, Belgium [virtual], 7-10 September 2021.
DOM, B.K., 2021. Impacts of austerity on Welsh Local Government funding: cuts to the bone? In: JUC PAC Pre-Conference Doctoral Workshop, De Montfort University, Leicester, 6 September 2021.
MURPHY, P., ECKERSLEY, P., LAKOMA, K., DOM, B.K. and JONES, M., 2021. Local authority financial reporting and external audit in England: The Redmond Review and the future of Local Audit. In: The JUC PAC Annual Conference 2021: How Place Matters? Leadership, Governance and Public Administration, De Montfort University, Leicester, 7-8 September 2021.
KORAC, S., SALITERER, I., BARBERA, C., DOM, B.K., DU BOYS, C., JONES, M. and STECCOLINI, I., 2021. Governmental financial resilience – a European perspective. In: PICPA Not-for-Profit and Government Accounting Conference Webcast, Pennsylvania, USA, 12-13 July 2021.
MURPHY, P., ECKERSLEY, P., LAKOMA, K., DOM, B.K. and JONES, M., 2021. Local authority financial reporting and external audit in England: the Redmond Review and the future of local audit. In: The 24th Annual IRSPM Conference, Virtual, 20-23 April 2021.
DOM, B.K., COLLINS, A. and JONES, M., 2021. The impact of austerity on Welsh local authorities: where the axe falls. In: The 24th Annual International Research Society for Public Management (IRSPM 2021), Virtual, 20-23 April 2021.
DOM, B.K., JONES, M. and MURPHY, P., 2019. Perceiving financial vulnerability: investigating Northamptonshire County Council through the lens of financial resilience. In: British Academy of Management (BAM2019) Conference, Aston University, Birmingham, 3-5 September 2019.
JONES, M., DOM, B.K. and MURPHY, P., 2019. Perceiving financial vulnerability: investigating Northamptonshire County Council through the lens of financial resilience. In: European Group for Public Administration Conference, Queen’s University, Belfast, 11-13 September 2019.
DOM, B.K., JONES, M. and COLLINS, A., 2019. UK Local Authorities financial resilience during the era of austerity. In: European Group of Public Administration PhD and Early Career Symposium (EPGA 2019), Queen's University, Belfast, Belfast, 9-10 September 2019.
DOM, B.K., JONES, M. and COLLINS, A., 2019. UK local authorities’ financial resilience during the era of austerity. In: Public Administration Committee (PAC 2019) Doctoral Symposium, Northumbria Business School, Northumbria University, Newcastle, 16-18 September 2019.
DOM, B.K., JONES, M. and COLLINS, A., 2019. Where the axe falls: austerity and cutback management in social services and education. In: British Academy of Management (BAM2019) conference, Aston Business School, Aston University, Birmingham, 03-05 September 2019.
Confidential report for external body
STECCOLINI, I., LINO, A., DOM, B.K., LAKOMA, K., MURPHY, P. and JONES, M., 2022. Governmental financial resilience: South Gloucestershire Council. South Gloucestershire Council.
STECCOLINI, I., LINO, A., DOM, B.K., LAKOMA, K., MURPHY, P. and JONES, M., 2022. Governmental financial resilience: St. Albans City and District Council. St. Albans City and District Council.
STECCOLINI, I., LINO, A., DOM, B.K. and LAKOMA, K., 2022. Project report: Co-producing a Toolkit for assessing and enhancing Local Governments Financial Resilience – follow up. Colchester: University of Essex.
STECCOLINI, I., LINO, A., DOM, B.K., LAKOMA, K., MURPHY, P. and JONES, M., 2022. Summary report on Governmental financial resilience: Wigan Council. Colchester: University of Essex.
Digital or visual media
VACCARI, E., COORDES, L., MARIQUE, Y., MURPHY, P. and DOM, B.K., 2023. UK/US municipal bankruptcies. [Digital or Visual Media]
Research report for external body
STECCOLINI, I., LINO, A. and DOM, B.K., 2024. Better understanding financial resilience through an innovative toolkit. Colchester: University of Essex.
STECCOLINI, I., LINO, A. and DOM, B.K., 2023. Financial reporting and audit in local authorities. London: Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee, House of Commons.
MURPHY, P. and DOM, B.K., 2023. Written evidence to the Welsh Affairs Select Committee inquiry on the impact of population change in Wales. Nottingham Trent University.
DOM, B.K. and LINO, A., 2022. East of England local authorities’ financial resilience in order to be partners for sustainable, inclusive growth. Colchester: University of Essex.
MURPHY, P., ECKERSLEY, P., LAKOMA, K. and DOM, B.K., 2021. Local authority financial sustainability and the Section 114 regime. London: Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee, House of Commons.
Working paper
DOM, B.K., 2022. Developing the data sets for English and Welsh local authorities to understand their financial resilience in the face of austerity. UNSPECIFIED.