Dr Patricia Martyn is a lecturer in the Accountancy & Finance Discipline in the J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics at University of Galway. Patricia's reserach interest focus on management control systems and employee behaviours. Specifically, she is interetsed in how different modes of control work in combination to shape middle management behaviours, the use of values systems & emphasis frames to manage multiple competing performance criteria and how middle managers mobilise informal controls. Patricia's research has been published in journals such as Management Accounting Reserach, Journal of Accounting and Organisational Change, and Accounting, Finance and Governance Review. Patricia is currently co-supervising doctoral students who are undertaking PhDs in the area of management contol. Patricia is the Programme Director for MSc International Accounting & Analytics at University of Galway. Patricia teaches in the area of management accounting placing emphasis on her practical experiences to foster interest in the potential for management accounting techniques to enhance firm performance.

Patricia's research interests are in the field of management control systems. She is interested in how different modes of control work in combination to shape middle managementbehaviours. Specifically, her interests lie in how value systems can be a powerful component of management control particularly in the context of pressure to deliver competing goals. She completed her PhD at the University of Galway in 2018. Patricia's PhD research focuses on the operation ofmanagement control systems at middle manager level specifically examining how management control systems act as levers to impact on how middle managers implement strategy and champion change. Patricia is a member of the Performance Management Research Cluster University of Galway.

Patricia's research has been published in: Management Accounting Reserach, Journal of Accounting & Organisational Change and Accounting, Finance & Governance Review.  Along with her co-authors Professor Breda Sweeney and Professor Anne Lillis, she won the 2025 David Sollomons Prize (sponsored by CIMA) for her paper on 'Using emphasis frames to embed values in the interpretation of multiple performance criteria' which appeared in Management Accounting Research, Vol. 66, 2025. 

Patricia teaches Management Accounting, Accounting & Management Control for Sustainable Organizations and Management Accounting for Sustainable Business Success. These courses are affiliated with the professional qualifications of Chartered Accountants Ireland (CAI), Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), Certified Public Accountants (CPA) and Charterted Financial Analysts (CFA).Patricia's teaching philosophy centres on developing in students a comprehensive knowledge of accounting and how its concepts and techniques can be used beyond the classroom to manage and grow all types of organisations. Her teaching draws extensively on contemporary business examples to provide a contextual frame for students learning.I n addition, Patricia is interested in new pedagogies for teaching and assessing accounting content and has participated in a number of initiatives. She has successfully designed and delivered management accounting modules via the medium of blended learning. Patricia has also coordinated a guest lecture series, inviting finance industry experts to NUI Galway, bringing contemporary industry ideas, challenges and opportunities to life in the lecture hall.