Award Winners Announced at BAM2021 Conference
We at BAM are delighted to be able to announce various awards presented at our annual Conference last week and celebrate the excellence and contribution made by members of our community in different ways and at different levels.
Richard Whipp Lifetime Achievement Award
The Richard Whipp Lifetime Achievement Award is presented at every BAM Annual Conference and was created in memory of Professor Richard Whipp to acknowledge his considerable contribution in developing the Academy. It is designed to reward the course of a career within the Business and Management field.
We are delighted to award the 2021 Richard Whipp Lifetime Achievement to Prof Gibson Burrell, University of Manchester.
Professor Gibson Burrell
Fellowships
We award Fellowship of the British Academy of Management to recognise academics who have a strong international profile of high-quality research and who have made a significant contribution to the well-being of BAM, following a process of nomination, scrutiny and election by the College:
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
Paul Hibbert is Professor of Management at the University of St Andrews, and in January 2024 joins Warwick Business School where he will lead the Organization and Work Group.
He researches reflexive practice and processes of organizing and learning, to develop insights for managers and leaders. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, the Chartered Management Institute, the British Academy of Management, and the Academy of Social Sciences. He earned his MBA and PhD from the University of Strathclyde in Scotland. Paul is widely involved in leadership and service to journals and learned societies.
His editorial roles have included: current co-Editor-in-Chief, British Journal of Management; former Editor-in-Chief and current editorial board member, Academy of Management Learning & Education; former Associate Editor and current editorial board member of both the Journal of Management Education and Management Learning; and editorial board member of Organizational Research Methods. He is the former Chair of the Academy of Management’s Management Education and Development Division.
Prof Emmanuel Ogbonna
He gained his PhD from University of Wales Cardiff in 1990. His research interests cut across the fields of organisation theory, strategy, marketing, and anti-racism. He has served in advisory and consulting capacities to a range of national and international organisations and agencies. He has also held a number of Ministerial appointments including: member of Welsh Government Equality in STEM Education and Industry Sub-group, member of First Minister of Wales Black, Asian and minority ethnic COVID-19 Advisory Group, Chair of First Minister of Wales Black, Asian and minority ethnic COVID-19 socio-economic sub-group, and Co-chair (with the Permanent Secretary of the Welsh Government) of the Steering Group that developed the Anti-racist Wales Action Plan. He is currently co-chair (with the Permanent Secretary of the Welsh Government) of the External Accountability Group that is leading the implementation of the anti-racist Wales plan. Emmanuel has been elected to the Fellowships of Academy of Social Sciences, British Academy of Management, Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, and Learned Society of Wales. He is a Trustee and vice-chair of Race Council Cymru.
Prof Maureen Meadows
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 Valerie Stead
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.
Companionships
Companionship of the British Academy of Management is made by invitation to recognise outstanding contributions to the field of Management and is a way in which our community honours those who have provided leadership in management practice or thought, or development of the field and its diverse community:
British Academy of Management Medals
The British Academy of Management Medals recognize outstanding and important achievement and service to our community by its members and also to recognize important external contributions:
Professor Greg Bamber
Leadership, Transformation and Resilience Keynote Panel Chair
Wednesday 4th September
Greg J. Bamber is a British-Australian Professor, Department of Management and Director, International Consortium for Research in Employment & Work, Monash Business School, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. He is also Research Theme Lead: Future of Work @ Monash Data Futures Institute.
He has received numerous awards and has served as President of several academies including: Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM), International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management. He is a Fellow of several academies including ANZAM, BAM, Academy of Social Sciences; Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia; Australian Human Resources Institute; Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.
He was educated at University (U) of Manchester, London School of Economics and Heriot-Watt U, Edinburgh. He was formerly an academic at Durham U, UK and also in Australia at Queensland U; Queensland U of Technology (Director, Australian Research Council (ARC) Key Centre in Strategic Management); Griffith U (Dean/Director, Graduate School of Management). He has been appointed as a visiting professor by a range of business schools including Nottingham Business School.
He has served on several boards in the fields of education, healthcare and sport, as well as on more than 20 editorial boards for international journals. Many universities and conferences have invited him to give presentations. He has more than 200 publications. He has helped to lead many research projects funded by the ARC and the UK Economic and Social Research Council. International agencies (e.g. International Labour Organization), governments and enterprises have commissioned him to conduct research projects or to be an advisor on work organisation, HR or industrial relations.
He has conducted research in many sectors including aviation, agriculture, building, chemicals, education, electronics, engineering, finance, health, hotels, infrastructure, mining, the public sector, railways, restaurants, retailing, tourism, telecommunications, manufacturing, universities and unions as well as a range of enterprises. He is also cited in the media. For more, see The Conversation, Linkedin, Orcid, Twitter, Who's Who in Australia, YouTube.
Professor Peter Buckley
Professor Gerard Hodgkinson
Professor Sharon Mavin
Sharon Mavin is Professor of Leadership and Organisation Studies at Newcastle University. Recently awarded the British Academy of Management Medal for Leadership, her research interests are in gender and women leaders, gendered media representations, vulnerability, identity, learning, dirty work and organisation studies.
Recent research about women elite leaders, identity, learning and vulnerability is published in Management Learning, Human Relations, Gender in Management an International Journal and Gender, Work and Organization. Along with Professors Valerie Stead and Carole Elliott, Sharon co-authored the 2021 Routledge Handbook of Research Methods on Gender in Management.
Professor Pawan Budhwar
Pavita Cooper
Dr Heather Melville OBE
BAM Management Education Practice Awards
The BAM Management Education Practice Awards are two competitive awards presented to early career and experienced practitioners, reflecting the value we place on excellence in education practice:
- The Experienced Teaching Practitioner Category winner is a team from Nottingham Business School at Nottingham Trent University: Dr Muhammad Usman Mazhar, Dr Richard Howarth, Dr Shaun Gordon, Fiona Winfield and Professor Dr Petra Molthan-Hill for their ‘Carbon Management consultancy project’
- The Early Career Teaching Practitioner Category winner is: Dr Anna Dubiel of Kings College, London, for her International Marketing Communications Consulting Project: ‘Don’t Blame Bats: How King’s Students Fight Misinformation.’