The Doctoral Networking Café aims to facilitate doctoral and early career researchers networking. The BAM Project Experiences (PREX) SIG wants to provide a platform where researchers in the early stages of their research journey discuss their research in interactive networking sessions.
Dr Regina (Gina) Frei will describe her journey from a high-school student who knew what she didn’t want to her current situation as aspiring professor of sustainability, a journey marked by the continued search for an academic home. She will discuss factors that strongly influenced her development, including:
- Chance: How a shared metro ride in Switzerland led to an MSc project in Sweden and a PhD in Portugal
- The courage not to grab the next best opportunity, or: knowing your own value
- The importance of networking; how one thing leads to another
- Human relations at the work place: They can turn everything sour!
- A multidisciplinary education: blessing or curse?
- Forming identity and expertise in ever-changing environments: a manufacturing engineer working in circular business
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Provider Information
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Who Should Attend?
- Early career researchers working in the areas of strategy, innovation and entrepreneurship, and international business.
- PhD students at any stage working in the areas of strategy, innovation and entrepreneurship, and international business.
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Speakers
Dr Regina Frei
Dr Regina Frei joined Surrey Business School in March 2023 as an Associate Professor of Digital Economy. She is the research coordinator for the Department of Digital Economy, Enterpreneurship and Innovation. Regina created and leads the Product Returns Research Group, and interdisciplinary and industry-oriented team of academics from various universities.
Her main interests are sustainable value chains and the Circular Economy, with a special focus on product returns in multichannel retail.
She has been awarded 23 research grants worth over £1.3M, and she has published over 50 peer-reviewed papers, whereof 28 journal articles.
From September 2019 to March 2023, Regina was with Southampton Business School as an Associate Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management. She launched and led the MSc Strategic Operations and Supply Chain Management and had it accredited by CIPS UK and CILT UK.
From 2013 to 2019, Regina was a Senior Lecturer in Manufacturing Engineering and Supply Chain Management at the University of Portsmouth, UK. Previously, she was a Postdoc at Cranfield University and Imperial College London. She holds a PhD in Distributed Robotics from Universidade Nova, Lisbon, Portugal, and an MSc in Micro-Engineering, with a specialisation in manufacturing engineering, from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. She wrote her MSc Thesis at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden, and did internships with the International Watch Company (IWC) and Schindler Lifts, both in Switzerland.
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Chaired by
Dr Nicholas Dacre
Dr Nicholas Dacre is an Associate Professor of Project Management, a leading ‘ITS Complex’ scholar, DAR’s Director of the Advanced Project Management Research Centre (APROM) at the University of Southampton Business School, is a Fellow of the Chartered Association for Project Management (FAPM), and Vice Chair of the British Academy of Management Project Experiences Special Interest Group.
With over 20 years of executive experience spanning academia and industry, Nicholas has developed a significant track record of developing high-impact research by actively collaborating with international partners, industry experts, and the UK government on emergent ‘ITS Complex’ research topics, focused on Innovation, Technology, and Sustainability in Complex Projects.
As a passionate transformative academic and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA), Nicholas Dacre has also received multiple awards for his innovative approach to teaching and learning by delivering highly engaging project management sessions, in order to provide the skills, knowledge, and expertise required for future project professionals.
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Benefits of attending
- Acquire insights into effective publishing strategies.
- Gain a deeper understanding of the academic job market.
- Opportunity to learn from the expertise of distinguished keynote speakers.
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Contact
Please contact the BAM Office at [email protected] with any queries.
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Event Fee
- This event is free for BAM Members
- Non-Members: £25
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Registration closes on 21st May 2024 at 23:59 BST
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