Early Career Academic Network (ECA)
About the Early Career Academic Network
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.
Network Events
Network Committee Members
The Network is part of the Academic Career Development doctrine at BAM and is led by:
Dr Mollie Bryde-Evens
Dr Mollie Bryde-Evens finished her VC-Scholarship funded PhD in October 2023 and is currently a full-time Senior 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.
Network Community Pages
