Awards

The British Academy of Management has a number of awards which are presented at the Annual Conference which include the Richard Whipp Lifetime Achievement Award, Companionship's, BAM Medals and the Education Practice Award.

Richard Whipp Lifetime Achievement Award:

The Richard Whipp Lifetime Achievement Award is made in memory of Professor Richard Whipp, an outstanding scholar in the field of business and management and former Chair of the British Academy of Management. The purpose of the Award is to acknowledge the course of a career within the management field where the beneficiary will have done one or more of the following: enhanced a field of study, founded or effectively led a major national / international academic initiative or provided unusually effective service to a major professional institution and/or the Academy.

Please find below a list of receipients of the Richard Whipp Lifetime Achievement Award:

  • 2023 - Nic Beech and Rick Delbridge
  • 2022 - Paul Sparrow
  • 2021 - Gibson Burrell
  • 2020 - Ken Starkey
  • 2019 - Sue Cox, OBE and Abby Ghobadian
  • 2018 - Gary Powell
  • 2017 - Susan Vinnicombe, CBE and Ruth Simpson
  • 2016 - Mike Reed
  • 2015 - John Child and Peter McKiernan
  • 2014 - Sir George Bain and Richard Thorpe
  • 2013 - Karen Legge and Howard Thomas
  • 2012 - Robin Wensley
  • 2011 - Andrew Pettigrew
  • 2010 - Mark Easterby-Smith, Peter Buckley and David Otley
  • 2009 - Sir Cary Cooper and Derek Pugh

Companionships

Companions of BAM (CBAM) include:

  • Leaders in the private, public, and third sector who have had a significant impact on management practices and thinking in their own organizations and/or beyond;
  • Leaders of professional institutions and bodies, trade and business associations, and trades unions who have influenced management thinking and the conduct and activity of management in the UK and beyond;
  • People who have played a significant institutional role in the leadership and development of scholarly associations advancing management knowledge – in related fields, in sibling management academies and equivalent beyond the UK, and within BAM itself;
  • Thought leaders on management outside academia, including journalists, politicians and other public intellectuals.

The recipients of Companionships are: 

  • 2023 - Richard Spencer
  • 2022 - Diana Beech, Amanda Blanc, Nick Hillman, Andrew Jack, Mark Leach, Gordon Marsden, Juergen Meier, Rosie Tressler
  • 2021 - Lord Blunkett, Lord Willetts, Rt Hn Chris Skidmore MP, Dr David Nabarro, John Atkinson, Prof Kerry Brown, Prof Xavier Castañer, Prof Sandro Castaldo, Prof Anthony McDonnell , Prof Kathrin Moeslein, Prof Arabella Mocciaro, Prof Alberto Pastore
  • 2020 - Dr Andrew Hawkins, Dr Melanie Knetsch, Dr Joe MacDonagh, Professor Robert MacIntosh, Professor Sue Rigby
  • 2019 - Prof Melanie Bryant, Prof Julia Clarke, Dr Felicity Kelliher, Prof Angus Laing, Sir Michael Marmot
  • 2018 - Lord Bichard, Lord Bilimoria, Prof Lee Di Milia, Jonathan Dimbleby, Dr Margaret Linehan, John Manzoni, Vicky Pryce
  • 2017 - Eliat Aram, Chris Daly, Dr Jacky Holloway, Prof Kate Kearins, Howard Kerr, Andy Rubin

Medals

2023

  • The Cooper Medal for Outstanding Leadership and Contribution, Prof Nic Beech
  • BAM Medal for Research, Prof Alison Pullen
  • BAM Medal for Research, Prof Emmanuella Plakoyiannaki
  • BAM Medal for Leadership, Dr Stewart Johnstone
  • President's Medal for Management Practice, Professor Dame Jane Dacre

2022

  • The Cooper Medal for Outstanding Leadership and Contribution, Prof Robert Blackburn
  • The Cooper Medal for Outstanding Leadership and Contribution, Prof Peter McKiernan
  • The Cooper Medal for Outstanding Leadership and Contribution, Prof Howard Thomas
  • BAM Medal for Research, Prof Florian Bauer
  • BAM Medal for Leadership, Dr Anne Clare Gillon
  • BAM Medal for Leadership, Prof Nicholas O'Regan
  • BAM Medal for Knowledge Development, Prof Lisa Anderson
  • BAM Medal for Knowledge Development, Prof Mark Loon

2021

  • The Cooper Medal for Outstanding Leadership and Contribution, Prof Greg Bamber
  • BAM Medal for Research, Prof Peter Buckley, OBE
  • BAM Medal for Research, Prof Gerard Hodgkinson
  • BAM Medal for Leadership, Prof Pawan Budhwar
  • BAM Medal for Leadership, Prof Sharon Mavin
  • President's Medal for Management Practice, Pavita Cooper
  • President's Medal for Management Practice, Dr Heather Melville, OBE

2020

  • The Cooper Medal for Outstanding Leadership, Prof Yehuda Baruch
  • BAM Medal for Leadership. Prof Rick Delbridge
  • BAM Medal for Research, Prof Caroline Gatrell
  • BAM Medal for Research, Prof Luis Araujo
  • BAM President's Medal for Management Practice, Dr Wilson Wong

2019

  • BAM Medal for Leadership, Dr Adelina Broadbridge
  • BAM Medal for Research, Prof Jean Hartley
  • BAM President's Medal for Management Practice or Policy, Chris Webber

2018

  • BAM Medal for Research, Prof Katy Mason
  • BAM Medal for Outstanding Leadership, Prof Sir Cary Cooper

2017

  • BAM Medal for Leadership, Prof Mark N K Saunders
  • BAM Medal for Research, Prof Christine Coupland
  • BAM Medal for Knowledge Development, Prof Paul Hibbert and Dr Leonard Holmes

Education Practice Award

The Education Practice Awards are designed to recognise individual and/ or team initiatives that enhance management learning and education.

Please find the list of recipients of the Awards below:

2023

  • Early Career Practitioner Award: Dr Tin Doan, Northumbria University for his project 'Diversity Champion: Poster and Postcard Competition'

2022

  • Experienced Practitioner Award:  Dr Mike Kennard, University of Manchester for his project 'Developing and delivering a new Innovation and Entrepreneurship unit for the MSc Management Practice Senior Leader Master’s Degree Apprenticeship programme’
  • Early Career Practitioner Award: Dr Eleni Meletiadou, London Metropolitan University for her project 'Learning about digital business management and emerging technologies with digital stories, translanguaging and inclusive collaborative group assessment: engaging students as partners in learning and assessment, decolonising the curriculum, and promoting creativity and digital learning’.

2021

  • Experienced Practitioner Award:  Dr Muhammad Usman Mazhar, Dr Richard Howarth, Dr Shaun Gordon, Fiona Winfield and Professor Dr Petra Molthan-Hill for their ‘Carbon Management consultancy project’.
  • Early Career Practitioner Award: Dr Anna Dubiel, King's College London for her International Marketing Communications Consulting Project: ‘Don’t Blame Bats: How King’s Students Fight Misinformation.’

2020

  • Experienced Practitioner Award: Dr Inge Hill, Royal Agricultural University
  • Early Career Practitioner Award: Dr Paul-Joseph Richard, Ulster University

2019

  • Experienced Practitioner Award: Prof Denis Fischbacher-Smith, University of Glasgow
  • Early Career Practitioner Award: Dr Thomas Elston, University of Oxford

2018

  • Experienced Practitioner Award: Dr Ian Stewart, University of Manchester
  • Early Career Practitioner Award: Ms Victoria McCall and Dr Ahmed Al-Abdin, University of Liverpool

2017:

  • Experienced Practitioner Award: Professor Rafael Ramirez, University of Oxford

2016: 

  • Experienced Practitioner Award: Professor Karise Hutchinson, University of Ulster