SAMS/BAM Grant Winner Announced
The Society for the Advancement of Management Studies (SAMS) and British Academy of Management (BAM) are delighted to announce the latest award in their collaborative Research and Capacity Building Grant Scheme. Both societies welcomed the success of the joint scheme, noting the high level of interest as well as the quality of the applications for this second round of funding, which attracted 32 proposals from a wide range of business and management and other disciplines. The SAMS-BAM Research and Capacity Building grants, worth up to £150,000 each, are aimed at researchers who want to develop an empirical research project that:
- Enables capacity building by bringing together a group of researchers from at least two HE institutions, including early career as well as experienced researchers
- Produces novel conceptual outcomes based on rigorous, innovative use of methods and by developing original ways of thinking to address complex management problems
- Demonstrates the social value of management research conducted in the public interest
This grant scheme is an important means of supporting the business and management research community to produce high-quality collaborative research that will have clear benefit to society.
Following a peer-review process, and interviews held in September, the awarded project for 2021 is:
Leadership, Language and Translating Meaning through Visual Methods
- Prof Gareth Edwards (University of the West of England) - Principal Investigator
- Prof Doris Schedlitzki (London Metropolitan University)
- Dr Sylwia Ciuk (Oxford Brookes University)
- Dr Harriet Shortt (University of the West of England)
The project responds to calls for more reflexivity about language and translation in organisation, management and leadership studies. Recognising the centrality of language for organizations and organising and the methodological challenges of processes of translation within leadership research, the project aims to enhance our understanding of how leadership practices are rooted in and translated across cultural and linguistic contexts. It will apply visual methodologies to the study of translation of leadership across cultures and languages, and will make a contribution to practice by building capacity within BAM around culture and language sensitive research, as well as the use of visual methods to research and develop more inclusive leadership in organisations in the future.
Notes to editors
The Society for the Advancement of Management Studies (SAMS) is a charity founded in 1963 to advance education in the field of management and to develop the management studies community. It also provides a governance structure for the Journal of Management Studies, an FT50 journal with an Impact Factor of 5.839.
The British Academy of Management (BAM) is the leading authority on the academic field of management in the UK, supporting and representing the community of scholars and engaging with international peers. It has over 2000 members, from the UK and around the globe, who include management researchers, practitioners and doctoral students.