Description
This is a well-established and popular annual workshop for Doctoral and Early Career Researchers. The aim of this ‘hands-on’ session is to enable ECRs to successfully transform part of their research into a paper and prepare for high quality conferences such as the BAM2025 as well as build a strong basis for future publications.
Within a safe environment, participants will be able to experiment with their writing style, receive feedback from well-renowned academics to improve and develop their conference paper.
Who Should Attend?
Postgraduate (PhDs and DBAs) as well as Early Career Researchers aiming to submit a full or developmental paper to high quality conferences such as the BAM 2025 Conference.
Benefits of Attendance
- Developing a convincing argument for your paper
- Learn how to demonstrate the contribution of your work within the field
- Network opportunities with leading scholars
Paper Submission Details
Participants are encouraged to submit a draft of their working paper in order to receive more tailored feedback during group discussions.
The draft could take any form from one-page, bullet-point document to an extended abstract of 600 words (excluding references). Whichever the format, please, make sure that the word count is up to 600 words -otherwise, the paper will not be allocated.
Please submit your paper by filling in the following form, paper submission form by 12:00 GMT on 16 December 2024.
*Please note that for the paper submission, you will need to either log-in or create an account on xCD, the Submission Platform.
Speakers
Professor Sarah Robinson
Sarah Robinson is a Professor at Rennes School of Business and a visting Professor at the University of Glasgow. Previously, she worked as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Leicester, the Open University, Lancaster University and in international development in China and Ukraine.
Her interests relate to learning in its many forms, both personal and organisational. She is particularly interested in developing visual, digital and hermeneutic research methodologies for organisational research and in applications of Pierre Bourdieu’s work to organisation studies.
Projects
Current projects include:
- a study of the learning and development of early career academics in contemporary business schools
- the origins and development of the English wine industry
- the genesis of women as political leaders in Scotland.
Journals
Sarah has published in a broad range of journals including:
- Human Relations
- Organization Studies
- British Journal of Management
- Organisation
- Business History
- Management Learning
- Leadership and International Small Business Journal.
Professor David Sarpong
David Sarpong is Professor of Strategy and the Marketing and Strategy Subject Group Head at Aston Business School, Aston University. An elected Vice Chair of the British Academy of Management (BAM), David serves on the BAM Council’s Sub-Committee of Academic Affairs of Conference and Capacity Building (AACCB), and is a former Convenor of the Annual Doctoral Symposium of the Academy. A Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Higher School of Economics (HSE) Laboratory for Economics of Innovation, David has since 2015 conducted research on Russia's Basic Research Program (RBRP) on 'Global Competitiveness’ at the National Research University in Moscow. He is Associate Editor for the Journal of Strategy and Management, and currently enjoys a Visiting Professorship at the Bristol Business School, and an Honorary Research Fellowship at the School of Management, Information Technology, and Public Governance, University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa.
Professor Dermot Breslin
Dermot Breslin is Professor of Organizational Behaviour at Rennes School of Business, France. He has previously held faculty positions at the University of Sheffield, UK, Tor Vergata University, Italy, the University of Saarlandes, Germany and Lincoln Business School, UK. His current research focuses on evolutionary approaches in organization studies, organizational learning and creativity. Dermot has been Co Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Management Reviews since 2017, and he sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Management Studies, International Small Business Journal and the International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research. His research has been published in leading business and management journals including International Journal of Management Reviews, Organization Studies, Organizational Research Methods, Work Employment and Society, Technological Forecasting & Social Change, European Management Review and Studies in Higher Education. Before entering academia, Dermot worked in the steel, aluminium and paper industries, in engineering design, operations and sales management.
Programme
09:45 – 09:55 Welcome and objectives for the day – Prof Sarah Robinson and Prof David Sarpong
09:55 – 10:25 Why attend an academic conference - (TBC)
10:25 – 10:55 Lessons from a reviewer - what we look for in a good conference paper - Prof Dermot Breslin
10:55 – 11:25 - Preparing your paper for the conference: some top tips - (TBC)
11:25 – 11:35 Break
11:35 – 12:45 Paper feedback session – break-out rooms
12:45 – 13:00 Takeaways – Prof Sarah Robinson and Prof David Sarpong
Contact
For general enquiries please contact the BAM Office at programmes@bam.ac.uk
Event Fee
BAM Members fee: Free
Non-BAM Members: £30
Registration
Log into your account and proceed with the registration for the event by pressing the “register now” button on the top right side of the workshop page.
Contact us via e-mail at programmes@bam.ac.uk should you have any queries.
For the paper submission, you will need to either log-in or create an account on xCD, the Submission Platform.
Payment and Cancellation Policy
Payment for the event must be received before the start date of the event concerned. Access will not be permitted to the event if full payment has not been received.
Cancellations
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Cancellations received within 14 days of booking your place on the event will receive a full refund.
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Cancellations received after the 14-day cancellation period and later than 14 days before the start date of the event will not be eligible for a refund.
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Although we endeavour to run all events as advertised, BAM reserves the right to cancel any event if, for example, there are not enough people to justify running the event or if other significant unforeseen circumstances arise.
To cancel a booking a cancellation request must be submitted via your BAM Account, to do this:
- Go to your BAM Account
- Click 'My Events'
- Under 'Upcoming Events' will be the booking, please click Cancel Booking
- Follow the steps and complete the request
