Tuesday 2nd September 2025 I 18:00 – 18:50 BST
Session Summary
The Doctoral Symposium is about community, learning and making connections within the business and management world. At BAM, we support academics at all stages of their careers, from Doctoral Students to full Professors and beyond. In turn, our outstanding community do all they can to share their knowledge and encourage thought leadership to colleagues and students alike.
The BAM Fellows Q&A at the Doctoral Symposium is a 50 minute panel discussion with five of the leading academics, who have made outstanding academic contributions to business and management scholarship, as well as demonstrating a significant contribution to the community of scholars in the field and within BAM.
This is followed by a Q&A, where doctoral students can ask our Fellows about their academic journey's, thier greatest acheivements, their ups and their downs.
Our Q&A will be directly followed by a 10 minute award ceremony for the Tony Beasley Best Paper and Best Poster Award winners.
Chair:
Professor Fiona Wilson
Fiona Wilson was Professor of Organisational Behaviour in the Adam Smith Business School. Having retired after over 21 years there, she is currently Emeritus Professor, an Affiliate and Honorary Senior Research Fellow.
She has published two books and around 44 articles in journals such as AMR, ASQ, Sociology, Work, Employment and Society, Organization, Organization Studies and Human Relations. Her research interests are focussed mainly on equality and gender at work.
Panellists:
Professor Savvas Papagiannidis
Prof Savvas Papagiannidis is the David Goldman Professor of Innovation and Enterprise at Newcastle University Business School. His research interests revolve around electronic business and its various sub-domains.
More specifically, his research aims to inform our understanding of how e-business technologies affect the social and business environment, organisational strategies and business models, and how these are implemented in terms of functional innovations. His work puts strong emphasis on innovation, new value creation and exploitation of entrepreneurial opportunities, within the context of different industries.
Savvas has served as a track/SIG Chair for Ebusiness & Information Management, as a BAM Council Member and on the BAM Executive as the co-Vice Chair for SIGs. He also hosted the 2016 BAM Conference in Newcastle.
Professor Mark Saunders
Mark N.K. Saunders is Professor of Business Research Methods at the University of Birmingham Business School, UK; and a Visiting Professor at the Gordon Institute of Business Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa. His research focuses on research methods, and trust and distrust within and between organizations.
He has published widely including in Work Employment and Society, British Journal of Management, Human Relations and the Human Resource Management Journal. Mark is lead author of 'Research Methods for Business Students' (currently in its 9th edition), series editor for Edward Elgar's ‘Handbooks of Research Methods in Management' and has a YouTube channel on research methods.
Mark holds fellowships of the Academy of Social Sciences, British Academy of Management and First International Network on Trust and is co-chair of BAM's Research Methodology SIG.
Professor Emmanuella Plakoyiannaki FBAM
Emmanuella Plakoyiannaki, BA, PhD is Chaired Professor of International Business and Head of the Department of Marketing and International Business at the University of Vienna, Austria. She is also Visiting Professor at Leeds University Business School, UK.
Before she joined the University of Vienna, Emmanuella Plakoyiannaki was Professor of International Business at the University of Leeds, UK. She holds a PhD from the University of Strathclyde, UK where she subsequently remained as a Post-Doctoral Fellow. Her doctoral studies were supported by the Greek State Scholarships Foundation, while her Post-doctoral research was funded by the Economics and Social Research Council (ESRC), UK.
Emmanuella Plakoyiannaki currently serves as Associate Editor in the British Journal of Management. Her research interests refer to qualitative research in International Business; SME and family firm internationalization and international entrepreneurship. She also seeks to understand and problematize the role of time, context and space in International Business theorizing. She has published in highly ranked academic journals including the Academy of Management Review, British Journal of Management, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business and Journal of Management Studies.
Emmanuella Plakoyiannaki has been awarded the Medal for Research of the British Academy of Management (BAM) in 2023. In 2021, she received the prestigious Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS) Decade Award for her co-authored paper entitled “Theorising from Case Studies: Towards a Pluralist Future for International Business Research”. She is regularly invited as a guest Professor and keynote speaker at leading international universities and conferences and provides supervision for PhD Theses.
Professor Greg Bamber
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.
