The Early Career Academic Network at BAM will be organising a monthly online network session that will be held online over Zoom. In the last academic year we held a monthly online session, it is informal in nature for the early career academic community at BAM. This session will be titled 'how to manage a research team/teaching team' with an invited senior academics to talk questions and contribute to the informal conversation.

Session Theme:

How to Manage a Research Team/Teaching Team

Event Hosts:

Early Career Academic Network - Dr Rebecca Beech, Mollie Bryde-Even and Dr Sahar Bakr.

Guest Speaker:

Dr Peter Wolstencroft 

After working in various roles in the public sector, I moved into education by teaching part time at the local college. From this I started a varied career in education which involved teaching across a range of age groups in a range of settings. It has instilled in me the absolute belief that education is transformative in nature and everyone should have the opportunity to participate. My career in further education brought me experience in both Teacher Training and also within the Faculty of Business where I became the Head of School for Business and Professional Studies. A key aim during my time there was to raise the profile of teaching and learning within the faculty, something that resulted in a number of awards.

I moved full time into Higher Education in 2009 and worked in a School of Education, specialising in both Initial Teacher Education (in particular in the post compulsory sector) and Educational Leadership. After completing my PhD at the Centre of Lifelong Learning at Warwick University I became an Associate Head of School responsible for the Student Experience at Coventry University. As part of that role, I was responsible for ensuring that the learning experience for the student was a positive one and that the faculty modelled innovative, effective teaching. I moved to LJMU in 2020 where I am very pleased to be Subject Leader at Liverpool Business School. My responsibilities include learning enhancement and leading on collaborative provision.

I have numerous external roles including being an external examiner, sitting on the editorial board for the Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, advising the Department for Education on matters concerning the recruitment of lecturers within post-compulsory education, reviewing for a number of journals and being a member of many professional bodies including BELMAS, BERA, BESA and ARPCE. I am also a Certified Management and Business Educator (CMBE)

I have written extensively on subjects as diverse as educational leadership, innovative teaching, widening participation and digital literacy and I am the co-author of the bestselling textbook 'The Trainee Teachers Handbook'. The third edition of this book is due out later this year.

Who should attend?

The early career academic network's community of early career academics - last year of their PhD and 5 years post PhD.

Benefits of Attending:

• Gain rich insights
• Develop network
• Informal space to culminate new ideas and converse