Award Winners Announced at BAM2021 Conference

Professor Carole Elliott

Carole Elliott is Professor of Organisation Studies at Sheffield University Management School. She was recently elected to BAM's College of Fellows, and in 2021 also received the Academy of HRD's (AHRD) Laura Bierema Excellence in Critical HRD award. She is an associate editor of Gender, Work and Organization, and former editor-in-chief of Human Resource Development International. Her research interests include: gender and leadership learning; gendered media representations; critical HRD; power and politics. Along with Professors Valerie Stead and Sharon Mavin, Carole co-edited the 2021Routledge Handbook of Research Methods on Gender in Management.

Professor Paul Hibbert

University of St Andrews

Professor Robert MacIntosh

Prof Emmanuel Ogbonna

Professor of Management and Organization , Cardiff Business School

Emmanuel Ogbonna is Professor of Management and Organization at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University.  He gained his PhD from University of Wales Cardiff in 1990. His doctoral thesis explored the organizational cultural implications of the strategic directions of leading companies in the UK supermarket sector in the late 1980s.  He joined Cardiff Business School as a lecturer in 1990 and progressed through the ranks and was appointed to his present professorial position in 2002.  His research interests cut across the fields of organization studies, strategy, marketing, and human resource management.  His recent research interests have been in the areas of organizational culture, equality, diversity and inclusion, and his work has explored the position of Black and minority ethnic communities in the labour market.  He was part of a team that completed a recent British Academy and Chartered Management Institute sponsored research project on diversity in the management pipelines of FTSE 100 organizations.  He is currently extending his work in this area to include the impacts of a range of intra-organizational interventions (such as leadership, organizational culture, and management control) on equality, diversity, and inclusion.  He has published over 100 scholarly papers, monographs, and edited collections, many of which are leading-edge contributions in high-ranking international outlets.  Emmanuel is currently a Trustee and vice-chair of Race Council Cymru.

Prof Maureen Meadows

Co-Vice Chair: Special Interest Groups, Professor of Strategic Management, Coventry University

Maureen Meadows is Professor of Strategic Management at the Centre for Business in Society (CBiS) at Coventry University. Maureen spent ten years at the Open University Business School, including five years as Head of Department for Strategy and Marketing, OUBS, and leader of the MBA module in strategic management. She was previously at Warwick Business School for thirteen years, where she directed the MSc in Management Science and Operational Research for five years.

Professor David Sarpong

Co-Vice Chair: Academic Affairs of Conference and Capacity Building

David Sarpong is Professor of Strategy and the Marketing and Strategy Subject Group Head at Aston Business School, Aston University. An elected Vice Chair of the British Academy of Management (BAM), David serves on the BAM Council’s Sub-Committee of Academic Affairs of Conference and Capacity Building (AACCB), and is a former Convenor of the Annual Doctoral Symposium of the Academy. A Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Higher School of Economics (HSE) Laboratory for Economics of Innovation, David has since 2015 conducted research on Russia's Basic Research Program (RBRP) on 'Global Competitiveness’ at the National Research University in Moscow. He is Associate Editor for the Journal of Strategy and Management, and currently enjoys a Visiting Professorship at the Bristol Business School, and an Honorary Research Fellowship at the School of Management, Information Technology, and Public Governance, University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa.

Professor Valerie Stead

Professor in Leadership and Management, Lancaster University Management School

Valerie Stead is Professor in Leadership and Management, and Director of the LUMS Academy for Gender, Work and Leadership at Lancaster University Management School (LUMS), UK.  Valerie has a research reputation of international standing in gender, leadership and learning, with a focus on applying and advancing critical approaches to explore women’s leadership, including the role of popular culture in women’s career advancement. Valerie is currently working with international partners on the  EU Horizon 2020 funded TARGETED MPI project to develop, implement and monitor gender equality plans in Business and Management Schools. Valerie’s research is widely published including in Leadership; Gender, Work & Organization; Management Learning; Gender in Management, and Organization Studies. Most recently, Valerie has published, with Carole Elliott and Sharon Mavin, the Edward Elgar Handbook of Research Methods on Gender and Management.

Valerie is a Fellow of the British Academy of Management, a Fellow of CIPD, and Senior Fellow of the HEA.