Gain strategies for identifying current debates in your field, positioning your contribution, and engaging with ongoing research dialogues to enhance the impact of 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, B1, C1, D1 and E1, as detailed in the BAM Framework.
Speakers
Prof Niki Panteli
Professor Niki Panteli, PhD (Warwick), is a Professor of Digital Business at Lancaster University Management School and an Adjunct Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Her main research interests lie in the areas of digital transformation, cybersecurity, virtual teams, virtual collaborations and online groups, online communities and digital health platforms.
Within this field, she has studied issues of trust, conflict, creativity, identification and leadership in the online environment. She led and participated in several research projects and her work appeared in numerous top-ranked academic journals including the Journal of the Association of Information Systems, Work, Employment & Society, Information Systems Journal, European Journal of Information Systems, Human Relations, Information Technology and People, Decision Support Systems, Communications of the ACM and New Technology, Work and Employment among others.
She served as the Chair of the IFIP - International Federation of Information Processing- W.G. 9.5 on Virtuality & Society (2006-09) and is currently serving as the President of the UK Academy for Information Systems. She is a Senior Editor for Information Systems Journal and Information Technology & People and is on the editorial board of the Journal of the Association of Information Systems, New Technology, Work and Employment and the International Journal of Information Management. Professor Panteli is a BAM Peer Review Fellow.
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 Sahar Bakr
Dr Sahar Bakr is a Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Marketing at Nottingham Trent University.
A pharmacist by background she holds an MSc in Biotechnology and Entrepreneurship and a PhD in Business and management from the University of Nottingham which focuses on consumer use of smart devices in the context of health, fitness and self-tracking.
Sahar spent time in the pharmaceutical and medical device industry as a Product Manager, where she managed several social media campaigns and worked with organisations to launch both consumer (B2C), and medical-grade (B2B) products successfully in the MENA region.
Her experience in industry has formed the basis of her teaching ethos which is centred around the power of industry-focused marketing education and the application of theoretical concepts, to real-life situations.
Before joining NTU, Sahar held a full-time position at De Montfort University, after working part-time at the University of Nottingham and Birmingham City University while doing her PhD.
During her time in higher education, she designed, led and taught several modules on undergraduate, MSc, and MBA courses which included Direct Marketing, Global Marketing, Digital Consumer Behaviour, Digital Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Marketing and Project Management.
- Email:
- [email protected]
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/sahar-bakr/
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.
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- 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.
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 9th December 2025 at 23:59 GMT