Professional Development
MKE supports a broad range of professional development opportunities for all academics and colleagues that champion students’ learning.
Education-focussed Professor Programme
This programme offers a unique professional development programme to support Business and Management academics regardless of their career stage on a teaching and scholarship track (T&S) to develop their own scholarship profile and career.
Launched in 2019 by the MKE community, to date around 250 academics located in more than 10 countries have participated on the programme. The programme has focused upon capacity building to define education-focused scholarship in a way that becomes useable, accessible, and open to assessment, building on the Boyer/Carnegie fundamentals that it should be supported externally and open to peer review.
The programme has the overarching goals of:
- Promoting the centrality of the scholarship of teaching and learning in Business Schools and to achieve parity for teaching and scholarship (T&S) academics with research-focused academics in consideration of promotion decisions. We propose that the scholarship of teaching and learning and conventional basic research (the scholarship of discovery) should be valued equally in terms of the status, recognition and reward for success.
- Exploring and establishing the relevance of other forms of scholarship for T&S academics. This may include (to some extent and with particular focus) the scholarship of discovery
(conventional research), along with the scholarship of integration and the scholarship of application.
- Providing a programme of development for BAM members who wish to understand the nature and modalities of scholarship and develop their own scholarship profile.
Applications for the 2026 program are now open. Learn more about the program and book your place HERE.
TESTIMONIALS
Education-focussed Scholarship Incubator Programme
The programme will be facilitated by an international group of experienced authors, reviewers and journal editors who will take you through the whole process from exploring options for scholarly writing, developing good writing habits, setting up a contribution, using literature, research design and methods through to writing persuasively. You will also be part of a small group that will be encouraged to have regular check-ins to support each other’s progress against your target over the course of the programme. We will also offer mentoring support for your writing project.
This programme is for you if you have little experience of writing for academic outlets or you would benefit from some new insights and practical advice on academic writing with a structure that encourages you to write productively.
The aims of the Education-focussed Scholarship Incubator programme are to support you:
- To better understand the nature, value and impact of education-focussed scholarship
- To disseminate your education-focussed scholarship
- In your continuous professional development for career progression
- In building and sustaining a Management Knowledge and Education Community of Practice
Applications for the 2026 program are now open. Learn more about the program and book your place HERE.
"How-To" Series
These workshops, which are usually held online, provide opportunities for the community to collectively examine and co-construct understandings of, and approaches to, specific aspects of teaching practice, education and scholarship that might present challenges. These have included:
- Publishing in Management Education: Meet the journal editors
- Writing academic blogs for education impact
- LinkedIn for educators
- Writing Teaching Cases
- Supervising Quantitative Research projects
- Using comic theory to develop conference abstracts and papers
- S/PFHEA – Mapping your Impact
Alumni Network
We support an alumni network for members of the community who have completed the BAM MKE Education-focused professor programme. The purpose of this network is to provide peer support in addressing educational challenges and support members in navigating their academic careers.