Session theme: Finding your researcher's voice (writing and thinking critically)
Finding your voice as a doctoral researcher is crucial. Your voice as an author is unique and it helps you to engage with your audience. Reading will help you to learn how to be a better author and build your confidence to balance objectivity and originality in your thesis or publication.
This session forms part of the Doctoral Fridays: Journey to the BAM2025 Doctoral Symposium sessions from the BAM Council's Sub-Committee of Academic Affairs of Conference and Capacity Building (AACCB).
Vision:
The aim is to enable doctoral researchers to be confident, successful, and excited about their doctorial journey choices. This space is about being open and having innovative minds come together to learn, share, and network in a safe environment.
Mission:
We are curious minds, that strive for success and recognition. We will be confident through discussion, knowledge sharing, and celebrating success. As per the doctoral researcher’s definition.
Values:
To share information that will help inspire doctoral researchers to thrive in their doctoral journeys. Knowing what matters as a doctoral researcher is key to having a successful research journey.
Provider Information
BAM Council's Sub-Committee of Academic Affairs of Conference and Capacity Building (AACCB)
Who Should Attend?
Doctoral Students
The event speaks to Sections A1 and A2 as detailed in the BAM Framework
Guest Speaker
Professor Sarah Gilmore
Sarah Gilmore is Professor of Organisation Studies and Head of the Management, Education and Organisation section at Cardiff University Business School. Her research interests are wide-ranging but essentially cover three linked areas. First, Sarah’s longitudinal ethnographic studies in elite sport highlight the precariousness of sport science professionals. These are contributing to the ways we understand the precarity of emergent professions as well as the emotional labour involved with sport science work. Papers concerning ethnographic research based on these studies continue to inform debates on this method and challenge the ways reflexive accounts of these experiences are written. The final contribution here concerns the management of change and strategic HRM within elite sport, providing modelling as to how clubs can secure high performance outcomes via a process of asset maximization. This was adopted by a variety of English Premier League and Championship clubs and led to consultancy work with them as well as work with the sport’s governing bodies.
A second area of research uses psychoanalytical theories to theorize (differently) about managerial work in fast-paced environments using the critical case of English football managers. Her recent and current work uses these ideas to build on her existing research on leadership and to explore: (i) the materiality of leadership, (ii) collective leadership, and, additionally, (iii) a new understanding of socialisation. These papers build on initial studies exploring management learning in professionally accredited environments that use psychoanalysis to highlight the central role of anxiety within these settings. Her forthcoming book examines these domains in more detail, using psychoanalytic ideas to critique key ideas in the field of HRM. Many of the theories and ideas are new to the existing intersection of management studies and psychoanalysis and provide new ways of understanding and critiquing this hugely influential academic and practitioner field.
Finally, she is often associated with the ‘writing differently’ movement within management studies. This sprang from the co-editorship of an influential special issue on writing differently for Management Learning (2018). It was also accompanied by a Dialogues in Critical Management Studies issue on writing differently (2019) where she was Editor in Chief and undergirded by the hosting and organization of two writing retreats in 2016 and 2017 and the co-hosting a writing differently workshop at Bradford University School of Management in 2016. The editorial for the special issue has been heavily cited and the taste for ‘writing differently’ has expanded into an additional focus on ‘researching differently’ where her use of the feminist methodology of memory work (with Profs Jackie Ford and Nancy Harding) is providing an additional inspiration.
Chaired by
Alisha Masih
Alisha Masih is a doctoral researcher at the University of Liverpool Management School.
Alisha's current work focuses on incumbent firms, ecosystems, and industries' responses to disruptive technological innovation.
Noma Mguni
Noma Mguni is a doctoral student at the University of Derby in the UK.
Noma has 7+ years of working in HR and as an employment mentor.
Finally, Noma is the host for Ph.D. hard-talk.
You can subscribe and follow her on YouTube.
Benefits of attending
- Network with other doctoral students and academics all in one place
- Educational purposes (learning new skills)
- Knowledge sharing
Contact
Please contact the BAM Office at [email protected] with any queries.
Event Fee
BAM Members: Free
Non-Members: £60
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Registration closes on 26th June 2025 at 23:59 BST
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