Professional Development
MKE supports a broad range of professional development opportunities for all academics and colleagues that champion students’ learning.
Education-Focussed Professor Programme
This programme offers a unique professional development programme to support Business and Management academics regardless of their career stage on a teaching and scholarship track (T&S) to develop their own scholarship profile and career.
Launched in 2019 by the MKE community, to date around 200 academics located in more than 10 countries have participated on the programme. The programme has focused upon capacity building to define education-focused scholarship in a way that becomes useable, accessible, and open to assessment, building on the Boyer/Carnegie fundamentals that it should be supported externally and open to peer review.
The programme has the overarching goals of:
- Promoting the centrality of the scholarship of teaching and learning in Business Schools and to achieve parity for teaching and scholarship (T&S) academics with research-focused academics in consideration of promotion decisions. We propose that the scholarship of teaching and learning and conventional basic research (the scholarship of discovery) should be valued equally in terms of the status, recognition and reward for success.
- Exploring and establishing the relevance of other forms of scholarship for T&S academics. This may include (to some extent and with particular focus) the scholarship of discovery
(conventional research), along with the scholarship of integration and the scholarship of application.
- Providing a programme of development for BAM members who wish to understand the nature and modalities of scholarship and develop their own scholarship profile.
Applications for the 2024 program are now closed. Learn more about the program and join the waiting list for the 2025 cohort can be found HERE.
"How-To" Series
Designed to provide opportunities to collectively examine and co-construct understandings of, and approaches to, specific aspects of teaching practice, education and scholarship that might present challenges. Previous physical and online workshops have been delivered on:
- Supervising Quantitative Research projects
- Using comic theory to develop conference abstracts and papers
- Publishing in Management Education journals
- S/PFHEA – Mapping your Impact
Mentoring Programme
We support a mentoring programme for colleagues who have been involved with MKE's Education-focussed professor series, to support them in navigating their academic careers.