Session theme: Managing your finances during your doctoral journey
The session will address the financial challenges PhD students face by providing practical strategies for managing personal finances, including budgeting, financial planning, and accessing university assistance like grants and teaching assistantships. It will aim to offer tips for self-funders and those balancing full-time work with studies, along with advice for students managing personal financial commitments.
Additionally insights will be provided to cover funding for conferences, avoiding overspending, and managing debt effectively, helping participants reduce financial stress and focus on their academic journey.
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
Dr. Hillary Jephat Musarurwa
Dr Hillary Jephat Musarurwa is a distinguished academic with a PhDs in Business Management, a DPhil in Public Administration, specializing in Peace Studies. He also holds an MPhil in Inclusive Innovations and completing an MCom in Development Finance from the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business.
Hillary’s research spans youth development, non-violent resistance, financial literacy, financial wellbeing and development finance. He applies systems thinking in interdisciplinary work which sees the convergence of social entrepreneurship, transformative service research, service-dominant logic, structural violence, social justice and service co-design with the intention of business model innovation that leads to multilevel wellbeing and societal impact.
He has been actively involved in philanthropic work through youth empowerment and microfinance projects, school fees support, and providing mentorship to postgraduate students. A Bertha and Canon Collins Scholar, Hillary is committed to social justice, financial inclusion, and creating opportunities for marginalized communities. He is a business unreasonable person who believes that “it should be business unreasonable if we are to achieve inclusion for marginalised people. If I am not fighting poverty through creating jobs then my story is not worth talking about.”
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: £35
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For more information, please visit BAM Membership
Registration closes on 12th December 2024 at 23:59 GMT
Payment and Cancellation Policy
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Cancellations
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