Learn how to assemble an effective research team including choosing complementary expertise, managing roles and relationships, and structuring collaborative proposals for funding.
Description
The BAM Early Career Academic Network Monthly Webinars are designed to support early-career scholars in business and management.
These informal, interactive sessions provide a platform for participants to engage with experienced academics, share experiences, and gain practical insights into various aspects of academic life. Each session focuses on a specific theme relevant to early-career academics, such as managing research and teaching teams, developing a personal teaching style, navigating grant applications, and engaging in peer review processes.
Webinars feature guest speakers, including senior academics and industry professionals, who share their expertise and experiences, providing valuable guidance and answering participants' questions.
The webinars are conducted via Zoom, fostering an informal environment where attendees can actively participate, ask questions, and engage in discussions with peers and experts.
Provider Information
BAM Early Career Academic NetworkWho Should Attend?
The event speaks to Sections A1, B1, C1, D1 and E1, as detailed in the BAM Framework.
Speakers
Professor Stephanie Decker
Stephanie Decker, FAcSS, is Professor of Strategy at Birmingham Business School. She has contributed substantially to interdisciplinary research that draws on historical knowledge to expand and problematise management knowledge.
This research stream was recognised in the REF 2022 panel report for its contribution to the theoretical sophistication of business history. Her work spans methodological and theoretical issues, as well as empirical research on the role of international business in global contexts that are often underrepresented in business research, such as Africa. She has been joint editor-in-chief of Business History since 2020.
As former Co-Vice Chair for Research & Publications at the British Academy of Management, she has developed BAM’s Open Access strategy to support the continued excellence of our journals, British Journal of Management and International Journal of Management Reviews, as well as supporting the further development of the BAM research grants scheme.
She co-authored the BAM Guide to Decolonising the Business School Curriculum with the BAM Vice Chair for Equality, Diversity, Inclusivity & Respect and continues to champion interdisciplinary research in business, management and beyond.
Facilitator
Dr Rebecca Beech
Dr Rebecca Beech is a Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Marketing at Oxford Brookes Business School. Rebecca holds a PGCERT and Fellowship from the Higher Education Academy (HEA). Her research is positioned at the intersection of digital marketing and sustainable marketing, with a particular focus on encouraging pro-environmental consumer behaviour, sustainable consumption, online knowledge sharing, activism, and the role of influencers.
Her current funded research projects include:
- Using an experimental research design and case study approach, this study explores the impact of luxury fashion brands AI influencers on consumers’ sustainable consumption intentions and attitudes.
- Using an experimental research design to examine the influence of AI versus human influencers’ sustainable messaging on social media, and how this affects consumers’ sustainable consumption behaviours related to clothing.
- A qualitative study exploring UK consumer perceptions and barriers to renting everyday clothing, with the aim of developing an effective business model for renting every day clothing.
Dr Beech also holds leadership roles in external learned societies, including the British Academy of Management and the Macromarketing Society.
- Email:
- [email protected]
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/dr-rebecca-beech-3b165359/
Dr Daniel Fisher
Dr Daniel Fisher is a qualitative researcher. His work draws on a wide variety of theoretical lenses to understand public and private dynamics among and between organizations, as well as within occupations.
Daniel's main objective is to understand what it is like to be the person he studies. What tensions do they encounter? How does their physical environment affect them? Why do they execute their job in a particular way? He is equally interested in how organizations, hierarchically or collectively, make sense of their public and private responsibilities.
Daniel's current research program has focused on the UK rail industry as it exemplifies a setting that grapples with both public and private demands. His research has explored narrative constructions of efficiency in public organizations, how organizations shape and influence bodywork of an occupational group, moral dynamics linked with drives for efficiency and wrongdoing by public-private partnerships.
These projects have maintained his interests in processes of automation, discourses and rhetoric, processes of commensuration, misconduct and wrongdoing as well as identity and temporality in organization studies.
- Email:
- [email protected]
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/daniel-fisher-03b145292/
Benefits of attending
- Develop practical skills relating to important topics such as publishing, grant applications, teaching strategies, and research management from experienced academics.
- Grow your network and community by connecting with peers and senior scholars, fostering collaborations, mentorship opportunities, and a supportive professional network.
- Gains insights from guest speakers who share real-world experiences, tips, and strategies to navigate the early stages of an academic career effectively.
Contact
Please contact the BAM Office at [email protected] with any queries.
Event Fee
BAM Members and Student Members: Free
Non-Members: £60
If you are booking multiple paid events as a Non-Member, it may be cheaper for you to purchase a BAM Membership as nearly all BAM Events are free or at a discounted rate for Members.
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Registration closes on 23rd April 2026 at 23:59 BST.