The British Journal of Management is pleased to announce the new Special Issue entitled: “Augmenting the Impact of the Practice Turn in Business and Management Research”.
This session provides the opportunity for prospective authors to submit a brief abstract of their proposed idea for feedback and discussion with the guest editorial team during an online paper development workshop held online.
Following a brief introduction to the aims, scope and priorities for prospective submissions to the special issue, attendees will have the opportunity to join a breakout room to engage directly with a guest editor on their proposed idea. Authors will be allocated 5 minutes to present their idea following which the guest editors will provide some initial comments and feedback on the abstract and brief presentation before opening up the discussion for fellow participants to ask questions or provide any additional comments. Approximately 10-15 minutes will be allocated to each paper.
Process:
Participation in the paper development workshop is subject to acceptance of a structured abstract. Authors should submit a 500 word structured abstract by 2nd October, 2025 (via email to [email protected]) covering the following:
- Overview of the paper idea/ research.
- Anticipated contributions to understanding of practice theory and the substantive topic.
- How might this paper add to conversations within the journal? (e.g. bodies of work, conceptual issues).
- Core area of discipline
- 3 keywords.
These keywords will help us categorise and allocate the papers to appropriate breakout rooms which will be facilitated by a member of the guest editorial team. Authors will be notified of decisions by 8th October and those accepted to attend the workshop will be sent joining instructions to register by 10th October.
Participation in the paper development workshop is subject to acceptance of your abstract and does not guarantee inclusion in the peer review process or publication of the manuscript in the special issue. All submissions to the special issue will undergo the standard BJM selection and review process.
Provider Information
British Journal of Management
Guest Editors in Attendance
Professor Katy Mason
Katy is an internationally- recognised academic with an extensive profile in leadership roles in BAM, IFSAM and UK Universities. Her research focuses on how market practices foster sustainable, collaborative innovation across sectors. She is a Fellow of BAM and Cabinet Office Policy, and a core member of the Practice Theory Consortium.
Dr Fiona Spotswood
Fiona is Associate Professor in Marketing and Consumption at the University of Bristol Business School. She has a background in social marketing and social change, and her research focuses predominantly on gender inequalities in sport, and on ingrained patterns of unsustainable consumption, with a committed impact orientation. Fiona’s work particularly uses theories of practice to illuminate and understand inequalities in practice recruitment and reproduction in relation to sport and physical activity.
Professor Joe Raelin
Joe is Visiting Professor at the Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland; former PEML Visiting Scholar at the Lancaster University Management School, United Kingdom; and Asa S. Knowles Chair Emeritus at Northeastern University, USA. His research has been centered on co-developing the respective fields of leadership-as-practice, leaderful practice, work-based learning, managing professionals, and work self-efficacy.
Dr Katherine Parsons
Dr Katherine Parsons is a Lecturer in Management, Employment and Organisation at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University. Katherine’s broad areas of research interests in entrepreneurship and organisation studies coalesce around responsible business and inclusive innovation – always with implications for policy and practice in mind.
Dr Sahar Bakr
Sahar is Senior Lecturer in Marketing at Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University. With a background in digital and social marketing, her research critically explores the adoption and everyday use of smart technologies and their unintended consequences for health and wellbeing. Sahar’s work focuses on vulnerable consumers and draws on practice theory to examine how smart technologies are integrated into daily routines and how their uses shape, and are shaped by, social and individual practices.
Dr Qian Li
Qian is an assistant professor at the Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UK. She trained at the University of Missouri-Columbia in the U.S. and received her PhD from Cass Business School, City, University of London in the U.K. Her qualitative work, taking a social practice theory approach, examines emerging contexts and field phenomena, such as startups and digital innovation. She also published on methodological issues.
Upcoming Events
We will also be hosting the following events to support authors interested in submitting to the special issue:
- 17th September 2025 | 16:00–17:00 BST – Meet the editors webinar. Register here - https://tinyurl.com/34uty8sc )
- 12 November 2025 | 16:00–17:00 BST – Early-career Academics Focused Q&A session. Please keep an eye on the British Academy of Management website for details – coming soon!
Contact
Please contact the BAM Office at [email protected] with any queries.
Event Fee
Registration closes on 11th October 2025 at 23:59 BST
This PDW is open to all (members and non-members), but participation is subject to acceptance of the 500-word abstract and so it is expected that only those interested in submitting to the SI would be attending.