Join us for our latest webinar with the BAM Early Career Academics Network, which provides our community members who are doing their PhD whilst undertaking a full time/part time academic job with insights into how it could be done.
During our April online monthly session, we have the pleasure of inviting Dr Simon Smith, Principal Lecturer in Business, Management and Enterprise from Oxford Brookes University.
Simon boasts an envious success rate in grant successes, however during this event he will deliver his perspective on the highs and lows of finding a grant and tailoring to the grant specification, the grant submission alongside the support from university, colleagues and other professional/practitioner bodies, all the way to a happy success or dreaded rejection.
Simon shines a light on the overlooked rejections that he has received, which has ultimately paved the way to his successful career. As a result of these rejections, Dr Smith recalls the key lessons that he has learnt from the process and the do’s and don’t’s.
This is a particularly enlightening sessions for early careers who are interested in bidding for money and to learn about the process, and to know that highs and lows which are part of the game.
Provider Information
BAM Early Career Academics Network
Who Should Attend?
This session is aimed at the early career academic network's community (ECA is defined as someone who is in the last year of their PhD or is up to 5 years post PhD)
Speakers
Dr Simon Smith
Dr Simon Smith has been working in Higher Education for nearly 20 years. He is Principal Lecturer in Business, Management and Enterprise at Oxford Brookes University.
Simon is co-Chair for the Sustainable and Responsible Business SIG at BAM and his research has developed over time to be very much focused on sustainable development, responsible management/leadership and better achieving the SDGs. He has had successes with funding, but would be the first to admit that there are many others who are much more successful in terms of amounts of money brought in and levels of success.
Simon comes at this series as someone who has had some funding success, but happy to share his experiences with a view to improve success for all involved
Chaired by
Dr Laura Reeves
Dr Laura Reeves is a Research Associate at The University of Suffolk who successfully completed her PhD in Management Studies at The Open University (2021).
Laura is a qualitative researcher with a keen interest in understanding how organisations can practice effective inclusivity for marginalised and/or under-represented groups through exploring lived experienced of different groups of workers and considering alternative leadership approaches.
Her areas of research include leadership and management studies, well-being, women’s health and careers, and the impact of identity and belonging, issues of dialectics and wicked problems at work.
Dr Rebecca Beech
Dr Rebecca Beech is a Senior Lecturer in Marketing at Oxford Brookes Business School, at Oxford Brookes University.
Her research interest entail online consumer behaviour, online communities, social media and knowledge sharing, and is interested in sustainable fashion and the circular economy.
Rebecca was awarded my PhD in Marketing in July 2020 from Coventry University. Her research was based within the Centre for Business in Society (CBiS). Rebecca's thesis title was 'Understanding Knowlege Sharing in an Online Community: Within the Context of Green clothing'. She submitted my PhD in January 2020, and was awarded very minor corrections in her Viva in April 2020.
She gained my qualification as a Fellow in the Higher Education Academy (HEA) in Nov 2021 and was awarded the External Examiner qualification from Advance HE in December 2022. Rebecca has been a deputy course director, module leader and seminar tutor across modules in Business Management and Marketing.
Rebecca previously studied BA Hons Business and Marketing at Coventry University, graduating in November 2014 with an Upper 2:1. Rebecca studied MSc Strategic Marketing at Coventry University, in which she was awarded a Distinction and the Course Tutors Prize, she graduated in November 2015.
- Email:
- [email protected]
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/dr-rebecca-beech-3b165359/
Benefits of attending
- Gain rich insights into work-PhD balance
- Develop a network
- Informal space to engage and grow
Contact
Please contact the BAM Office at [email protected] with any queries.
Event Fee
BAM Members: Free
Non-Members: £30
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Registration closes on 16th April 2025 at 23:59 BST
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