Early Career Academic Network (ECA)
The Early Career Academic (ECA) network is a multi-disciplinary community of business and management scholars currently at the start of their academic careers. The aim of this Network is to create a space for Doctoral and Early-career BAM members to learn, network and develop as future leaders in the field.
The ECA Network offers:
- Academic support
- Professional development events
- Mentoring (through the annual Mentorship Month)
- Networking (online and offline)
- Wellbeing support
- A friendly community (online and offline)
Who can join:
All BAM members who are in the mid-late stages of their doctoral journey, and/or up to 5 years in their first academic position.
Upcoming ECA Network Events
Social media:
Sign up to the Early Career Network LinkedIn group by clicking here
Who is this network run by?
The Network is part of the Academic Affairs and Capacity Building doctrine at BAM and is led by Dr Sahar Bakr, Dr Rebecca Beech and Dr Mollie Bryde-Evens (on maternity leave).
Contact us via our profiles below:
Dr Sahar Bakr
Dr Sahar Bakr is a Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Marketing at Nottingham Trent University.
A pharmacist by background she holds an MSc in Biotechnology and Entrepreneurship and a PhD in Business and management from the University of Nottingham which focuses on consumer use of smart devices in the context of health, fitness and self-tracking.
Sahar spent time in the pharmaceutical and medical device industry as a Product Manager, where she managed several social media campaigns and worked with organisations to launch both consumer (B2C), and medical-grade (B2B) products successfully in the MENA region.
Her experience in industry has formed the basis of her teaching ethos which is centred around the power of industry-focused marketing education and the application of theoretical concepts, to real-life situations.
Before joining NTU, Sahar held a full-time position at De Montfort University, after working part-time at the University of Nottingham and Birmingham City University while doing her PhD.
During her time in higher education, she designed, led and taught several modules on undergraduate, MSc, and MBA courses which included Direct Marketing, Global Marketing, Digital Consumer Behaviour, Digital Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Marketing and Project Management.
- Email:
- [email protected]
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/sahar-bakr/
Dr Rebecca Beech
- Email:
- [email protected]
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/dr-rebecca-beech-3b165359/
Dr Mollie Bryde-Evens
Dr Mollie Bryde-Evens finished her VC-Scholarship funded PhD in October 2023 and is currently a full-time Lecturer in Ethical Business and Responsible Management at Liverpool Business School.
Mollie’s scholarly background is in philosophy and normative ethics, and her broad areas of interest are triple bottom line sustainability and business ethics, with a focus on normative ethical theories.
She was awarded the Emerging Scholars Award by the Society of Business Ethics in 2022. Mollie is also interested in and passionate about EDIR related issues, and was a co-founder of the first EDIR society at Liverpool John Moores: the RIDE (Respect, Inclusivity, Diversity and Equity) Society.
She also co-leads an inclusion and diversity project titled 'I Belong!'. Beyond this, Mollie is Co-lead of the Early Career Academic Network for the British Academy of Management (BAM) and is a BAM council member.
On Maternity Leave
- Email:
- [email protected]
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/molliebryde/