Dr Curtis is Associate Professor of Accountancy at the University of Galway and a visiting Lecturer in Auditing at Dauphine University in Paris. She is a fellow of the Chartered Accountants Ireland. She is a fellow of Chartered Accountants Ireland. She completed her B.Comm. at University College Dublin, and her PhD at The University of Manchester in 2006. Her PhD studies and research agenda focus on the practice and regulation of Auditing and she is currently supervising one doctoral students engaged in the study of innovation related to data analytics in auditing. She has applied her expertise on the development and implementation of innovation in the audit field to the use of control systems in managing creativity and innovation in industry settings.

Dr Curtis is the Associate Head of Internationalisation at the J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics, and a member of Academic Council at the University of Galway. She is a non-executive director of Students Union Commercial Services, a not-for-profit company that runs the University of Galway on-campus commercial services.

My research agenda is focussed on innovation in external audit methodologies, audit regulation and institutional arrangements in the audit field, with a particular interest in the use of data analytics and AI in external audit.

Advanced Financial Accounting and Reporting, and External Audit.