Awards

The British Academy of Management has a number of awards which are presented at the Annual Conference which include the Richard Whipp Lifetime Achievement Award, Companionship's, BAM Medals and the Education Practice Award.

Richard Whipp Lifetime Achievement Award:

The Richard Whipp Lifetime Achievement Award is made in memory of Professor Richard Whipp, an outstanding scholar in the field of business and management and former Chair of the British Academy of Management. The purpose of the Award is to acknowledge the course of a career within the management field where the beneficiary will have done one or more of the following: enhanced a field of study, founded or effectively led a major national / international academic initiative or provided unusually effective service to a major professional institution and/or the Academy.

Please find below a list of receipients of the Richard Whipp Lifetime Achievement Award:

2024 - Neal Ashkanasy and William H. Starbuck
2023 - Nic Beech and Rick Delbridge
2022 - Paul Sparrow
2021 - Gibson Burrell
2020 - Ken Starkey
2019 - Sue Cox, OBE and Abby Ghobadian
2018 - Gary Powell
2017 - Susan Vinnicombe, CBE and Ruth Simpson
2016 - Mike Reed
2015 - John Child and Peter McKiernan
2014 - Sir George Bain and Richard Thorpe
2013 - Karen Legge and Howard Thomas
2012 - Robin Wensley
2011 - Andrew Pettigrew
2010 - Mark Easterby-Smith, Peter Buckley and David Otley
2009 - Sir Cary Cooper and Derek Pugh

Companionships

Companions of BAM (CBAM) include:

Leaders in the private, public, and third sector who have had a significant impact on management practices and thinking in their own organizations and/or beyond;
Leaders of professional institutions and bodies, trade and business associations, and trades unions who have influenced management thinking and the conduct and activity of management in the UK and beyond;
People who have played a significant institutional role in the leadership and development of scholarly associations advancing management knowledge – in related fields, in sibling management academies and equivalent beyond the UK, and within BAM itself;
Thought leaders on management outside academia, including journalists, politicians and other public intellectuals.

The recipients of Companionships are:

2024 - Carmen Cabello, Kevin Lowe, Margaret Heffernan, Xose Vasquez
2023 - Richard Spencer
2022 - Diana Beech, Amanda Blanc, Nick Hillman, Andrew Jack, Mark Leach, Gordon Marsden, Juergen Meier, Rosie Tressler
2021 - Lord Blunkett, Lord Willetts, Rt Hn Chris Skidmore MP, Dr David Nabarro, John Atkinson, Prof Kerry Brown, Prof Xavier Castañer, Prof Sandro Castaldo, Prof Anthony McDonnell , Prof Kathrin Moeslein, Prof Arabella Mocciaro, Prof Alberto Pastore
2020 - Dr Andrew Hawkins, Dr Melanie Knetsch, Dr Joe MacDonagh, Professor Robert MacIntosh, Professor Sue Rigby
2019 - Prof Melanie Bryant, Prof Julia Clarke, Dr Felicity Kelliher, Prof Angus Laing, Sir Michael Marmot
2018 - Lord Bichard, Lord Bilimoria, Prof Lee Di Milia, Jonathan Dimbleby, Dr Margaret Linehan, John Manzoni, Vicky Pryce
2017 - Eliat Aram, Chris Daly, Dr Jacky Holloway, Prof Kate Kearins, Howard Kerr, Andy Rubin

John G. Burgoyne Prize for Management Learning

This award, in memory of Professor John G. Burgoyne, a Fellow of BAM who sadly passed away in April 2023 and who left a significant academic legacy in advancing management learning, aims to celebrate those making a significant and sustained contribution to the field. We thank John’s widow Trudi Wakeman, who has generously funded this new award.

This award adopts a broad conceptualisation of management learning, covering all aspects of learning and knowing in management and organizations. This award looks to recognise research that engages in disciplinary, trans or inter-disciplinary dialogue and is open to a range of methodological and theoretical approaches.

Please find below a list of receipients of the John G.Burgoyne Prize for Management Learning

2024 - Professor Ann Cunliffe

Medals

2024

The Cooper Medal for Outstanding Leadership and Contribution - Prof Susan Vinnicombe OBE
BAM Medal for Knowledge Development - Prof Mark Saunders
BAM Medal for Leadership - Arabella Destri Li Mocciaro
BAM Medal for Contribution by Early Career Academics - Dr Sahar Bakr, Dr Rebecca Beech, Dr Mollie Bryde-Evens
BAM Medal for Communities - Madeleine Barrows

2023

The Cooper Medal for Outstanding Leadership and Contribution, Prof Nic Beech
BAM Medal for Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity, Prof Nic Beech
BAM Medal for Research, Prof Alison Pullen
BAM Medal for Research, Prof Emmanuella Plakoyiannaki
BAM Medal for Leadership, Dr Stewart Johnstone
President's Medal for Management Practice, Professor Dame Jane Dacre

2022

The Cooper Medal for Outstanding Leadership and Contribution, Prof Robert Blackburn
The Cooper Medal for Outstanding Leadership and Contribution, Prof Peter McKiernan
The Cooper Medal for Outstanding Leadership and Contribution, Prof Howard Thomas
BAM Medal for Research, Prof Florian Bauer
BAM Medal for Leadership, Dr Anne Clare Gillon
BAM Medal for Leadership, Prof Nicholas O'Regan
BAM Medal for Knowledge Development, Prof Lisa Anderson
BAM Medal for Knowledge Development, Prof Mark Loon

2021

The Cooper Medal for Outstanding Leadership and Contribution, Prof Greg Bamber
BAM Medal for Research, Prof Peter Buckley, OBE
BAM Medal for Research, Prof Gerard Hodgkinson
BAM Medal for Leadership, Prof Pawan Budhwar
BAM Medal for Leadership, Prof Sharon Mavin
President's Medal for Management Practice, Pavita Cooper
President's Medal for Management Practice, Dr Heather Melville, OBE

2020

The Cooper Medal for Outstanding Leadership, Prof Yehuda Baruch
BAM Medal for Leadership. Prof Rick Delbridge
BAM Medal for Research, Prof Caroline Gatrell
BAM Medal for Research, Prof Luis Araujo
BAM President's Medal for Management Practice, Dr Wilson Wong

2019

BAM Medal for Leadership, Dr Adelina Broadbridge
BAM Medal for Research, Prof Jean Hartley
BAM President's Medal for Management Practice or Policy, Chris Webber

2018

BAM Medal for Research, Prof Katy Mason
BAM Medal for Outstanding Leadership, Prof Sir Cary Cooper

2017

BAM Medal for Leadership, Prof Mark N K Saunders
BAM Medal for Research, Prof Christine Coupland
BAM Medal for Knowledge Development, Prof Paul Hibbert and Dr Leonard Holmes

Education Practice Award

The Education Practice Awards are designed to recognise individual and/ or team initiatives that enhance management learning and education.

Please find the list of recipients of the Awards below:

2024

Experienced Education Practitioner Award: Dr Gary Walpole, Swansea University for the project 'Circular Economy Innovation Communities (CEIC) Programme'
Early Career Practitioner Award: Dr Jennifer Davies, University of Liverpool for her project 'Enabling Digital Adaptability through AI-Driven Campaign Creation in Business Education initiative'

2023

Early Career Practitioner Award: Dr Tin Doan, Northumbria University for his project 'Diversity Champion: Poster and Postcard Competition'

2022

Experienced Practitioner Award: Dr Mike Kennard, University of Manchester for his project 'Developing and delivering a new Innovation and Entrepreneurship unit for the MSc Management Practice Senior Leader Master’s Degree Apprenticeship programme’
Early Career Practitioner Award: Dr Eleni Meletiadou, London Metropolitan University for her project 'Learning about digital business management and emerging technologies with digital stories, translanguaging and inclusive collaborative group assessment: engaging students as partners in learning and assessment, decolonising the curriculum, and promoting creativity and digital learning’.

2021

Experienced Practitioner Award: Dr Muhammad Usman Mazhar, Dr Richard Howarth, Dr Shaun Gordon, Fiona Winfield and Professor Dr Petra Molthan-Hill for their ‘Carbon Management consultancy project’.
Early Career Practitioner Award: Dr Anna Dubiel, King's College London for her International Marketing Communications Consulting Project: ‘Don’t Blame Bats: How King’s Students Fight Misinformation.’

2020

Experienced Practitioner Award: Dr Inge Hill, Royal Agricultural University
Early Career Practitioner Award: Dr Paul-Joseph Richard, Ulster University

2019

Experienced Practitioner Award: Prof Denis Fischbacher-Smith, University of Glasgow
Early Career Practitioner Award: Dr Thomas Elston, University of Oxford

2018

Experienced Practitioner Award: Dr Ian Stewart, University of Manchester
Early Career Practitioner Award: Ms Victoria McCall and Dr Ahmed Al-Abdin, University of Liverpool

2017:

Experienced Practitioner Award: Professor Rafael Ramirez, University of Oxford

2016:

Experienced Practitioner Award: Professor Karise Hutchinson, University of Ulster