Professor Jan Bebbington focuses on research that emerges at the intersection of sustainable development concerns and organisational operations. As an accounting scholar she focuses on the use of accounting technologies to create organisational control as well as reporting activities that might discharge accountability relationships. Her work includes a focus on the Sustainable Development Goals; how reporting norms emerge and carbon acounting/accountability.

Professor Bebbington is the Director of the Pentland Centre for Sustainability in Business, Lancaster University, UK.