Management, Knowledge and Education (MKE) is pan-British Academy of Management. We support events and dialogue within a collaborative community of practice interested in management education. Our “How to” Series of events provides opportunities for us to collectively examine and co-construct educational/teaching practice and scholarship.

Professional football provides fertile ground for historians interested in exploring continuity and change. It has undergone considerable change and evolution in terms of its identification as an industry – historically football identified as a representative competition between locales, and in many countries profit or even turnover were not considered significant in the purpose of clubs.

Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is an alternative way to approach research questions, such that they are not ‘problematised’. AI starts the research not from the point of problem solving but from a continuous improvement perspective – what’s going well and how can we emulate that elsewhere? This session will introduce the approach, give some examples of AI in action and allow participants to experiment with applying it to their own research.

The post-conference writing retreat will offer an opportunity for members of the British Academy of Management to build a supportive writing group with colleagues from our community and to join in group discussions on writing and publishing.