Join Professor Mark Saunders and the ECA Network to discuss whether journal rankings really matter. Learn how to navigate the role of journal metrics in your publishing strategy, from balancing institutional pressures and prestige lists, to making informed, strategic choices about where to share your work.
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 and E1, as detailed in the BAM Framework.
Speakers
Professor Mark Saunders
Mark N.K. Saunders is Emeritus Professor of Business Research Methods, holding visiting professorships at the Gordon Institute of Business Science (University of Pretoria), and the University of Worcester.
His textbook, Research Methods for Business Students (9th edition), was ranked the world's 10th most cited article or book in Business and Economics by the Financial Times. His research focuses on research methods, the human resource aspects of change management (particularly trust), SME success, and pedagogic practice. He has co-authored and/or edited over 30 books - including How to Keep Your Doctorate on Track (2026, 3rd edition) - and published over 150 research articles and chapters in leading journals, his research has been cited over 120,000 times.
He serves as a consulting editor for the International Journal of Management Reviews, European Editor for the Service Industries Journal and is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Trust Research, the European Journal of Management and Human Resource Development Quarterly. Having formally retired, Mark lives with his partner and their two children in South Africa’s Western Cape spending some of his time undertaking researcher development, writing and researching.
Facilitator
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.
- Email:
- [email protected]
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/molliebryde/
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
- Increased understanding of publishing process,
- Network development,
- Insights into important contemporary contextual factors relating to publishing.
Contact
Please contact the BAM Office at [email protected] with any queries.
Event Fee
BAM Members and Student Members: Free
Non-Members: £60
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Registration closes on 20th October 2026 at 23:59 BST.