Joining the academy in Africa: opportunities, potentialities, and possibilities

This workshop will seek to explore the growing career and research opportunities and potentialities in Africa, the amazing prospects of working in an African university, and how to build research collaboration links with our fellow scholars based in Africa.

Description

The British Academy of Management supports and represents a growing community of management scholars who are committed to advancing management scholarship. Driving forward the internationalisation of our capacity development efforts across the four nations of the UK and beyond The British Academy of Management offers African scholars’ unique opportunity to access top-notch resources, training, and funding opportunities as well as potential to network with leading management scholars from around the world. This workshop will seek to explore the growing career and research opportunities and potentialities in Africa, the amazing prospects of working in an African university, and how to build research collaboration links with our fellow scholars based in Africa. 

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Provider Information

BAM Council Sub-Committee of Academic Affairs of Conference and Capacity Building

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Who Should Attend?

The event speaks to Sections A1, A2 and E1, as detailed in the BAM Framework 

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Speaker 

Professor Nathaniel Boso, Oliver R. Tambo Africa Research Chair in Technology Entrepreneurship and a Professor of International Marketing and Strategy at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Dean of KNUST School of Business

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Benefits of attending 

This workshop will be of a particular benefit to management scholars who want to: 

  • Learn about the growing academic career opportunities in Africa. 
  • Understand the processes involved in getting on the academic ‘career escalator’ in Africa. 
  • Familiarise yourself with the training potentialities and the growing Africa focused research funding opportunities 
  • Network with leading African management scholars, ECR's, and Policy makers to explore possibilities of initiating joint research projects.  

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Contact

Please contact the BAM Office at [email protected] with any queries.  

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Event Fee 

BAM Members: Free 

Non-BAM Members: £25

Non-BAM Members, Students: £15

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