Category Archives: Northampton Business School
Spring 2016 NBS Research Seminar Series announced
Submitted by Debbie Christopher
The Northampton Business School (NBS) have announced dates for their Research Seminar Series in April and May. The sessions are open to all staff and doctoral students.
28th April 2016 at 13:00 in C226.
Dr Yongjiang Shi from Oxford University. ‘International Operations Management (IOM) of Multinational Corporations (MNCs): To pursue a holographic understanding for their IOM network systems.’
4th May 2016 at 13:00 in C226.
Visiting Professor Deborah Johnston: ‘Combining Excellence in Research and Teaching.‘
11th May 2016 at 13:00 in C309.
Maher Daboul, Phd Student. Transfer Seminar.
25th May 2016 at 13:00 in C227.
Payal Jain, Phd Student. ‘Developing social value creation framework: perspectives of private, public and third sectors.’
Please email Debbie Christopher if you would like to attend.
CFP: 19th annual Dilemmas for Human Services International Research Conference
Submitted by Dr Hala Mansour
Northampton Business School is holding the 19th annual Dilemmas for Human Services International Research Conference from 12-14 September 2016. The link for the call for paper to the Conference 2016 is here.
The Dilemmas conferences date back to 1995, and are organised by researchers working at Keele University, Staffordshire University UK, the University of East London UK, Luleå University of Technology, Linköping University, and Linnaeus University, Sweden and now Northampton Business School. Theme of this year’s conference is change management and most of the discussion will be around managing change from different perspectives (Challenges, Ethics, Gender,……).
Workshop: Conceptual and Methodological Issues in Sustainability Research
Submitted by Dr Sandy MacDonald
The above workshop will be held in room C226 on 18th November from 2 to 4pm.
About the speaker:
Dr Mohamed Saeudy is lecturer in Accounting and Finance at School of Management and Business, Aberystwyth University. Dr Saeudy is a qualitative researcher in Social and Environmental Accounting. His research interest centres on how financial and accounting practices may help business institutions to be more sustainable. His work has focused on developing organisational lenses to understand accounting for sustainable development practices in different organisational settings e.g. small and medium size businesses and higher education institutions. His current work explores the accounting for sustainable development practices in the banking sector. Furthermore, his research interests focus around the main impediments and motivations of organisational sustainability. Dr Saeudy has spent many years working in the banking industry in Egypt and UK. He had also held a research and teaching commitments in accounting and finance at the University of Derby. He also led and taught the Green Accounting and Sustainability Modules at Keele University covering the topics ranging from accountability processes to sustainable business strategies and policies.
If you wish to attend please let Debbie Christopher know.
Transfer seminar on aviation security
Calling research staff and students! You are invited to the transfer seminar of one of our research students, Paul McFarlane, in Northampton Business School.
Paul’s seminar is entitled “Aviation security as a self-organised critical phenomenon” and it takes place tomorrow (Weds 1st July) at 2pm in Cottesbrooke C227, Park Campus.
Santander Staff Research Award
Santander funding is available for staff that require support for a research project. The project should be aligned to the University or School’s objectives, and have an international theme or connection with one or more of the countries below. The project should also be in collaboration with a current or potential Partner University.
Santander network countries currently include Argentina, Brazil, Belgium, Chile, China, Colombia, Germany, Ghana, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Russia, Singapore, Spain, USA, UAE and Uruguay.
There are 5 awards of £1,000 available.
Applications using this form should be submitted by 30 June 2015 to corinna.coleman@northampton.ac.uk
Further information can be obtained from
Corinna Coleman
Scholarships Administrator
Direct Line: 01604 893009
Email: corinna.coleman@northampton.ac.uk
The inaugural Northampton Business School Research Conference on 18th June
The very first Northampton_Business_School_Conference will take place on Thursday 18th June at Sunley Management Centre, University of Northampton. All staff and PhD students from the Business School and across the University are welcome. The Programme will be released shortly.
The day begins with a presentation from our Guest Speaker, our Visiting Professor Carol Atkinson, Professor of HR and Associate Dean for Research, MMU Business School. This is followed by three streams of presentations by NBS staff and PhD students, totalling nearly 30 papers, split into five tracks: Marketing and Logistics, Education and Language, HRM, Entrepreneurship, and Sustainability & Corporate Governance.
For more information please contact Sandy McDonald or Kathleen Mortimer.
‘Opps for Apps’ Symposium (17 June 2015) will welcome mobile technology innovators Touchpress
Dr Sonya Andermahr and Dr David Simmons will be hosting the ‘Opps for Apps’ symposium on Wednesday 17 June 2015. Sponsored by the Institute of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, this event will be a great opportunity to discuss the use of digital technologies such as apps in educational environments. We are also very lucky to have two representatives of app design company Touchpress, Selam Zuru and Louise Rice addressing the symposium.
Researcher Links Workshop in Brazil: Eco Food Supply Chains
Researcher Links Workshop on Eco Food Supply Chains: Exploring Industrial Ecosystems to Minimize Food Waste and Maximize Social Benefits
The Business School is now inviting researchers from the UK and Brazil to apply to attend this workshop which will take place in Sao Paulo, Brazil, from 24th to 26th August 2015. All travel and accommodation expenses will be covered by the Researcher Links programme. The application form, with more details on the initiative, is available for downloading from http://www.northampton.ac.uk/research/business-and-management-studies (scroll to the bottom of the page).
The deadline for application form submissions in both countries is 15th June 2015 and candidates will be notified about the submission result by 30th June 2015.
Organisation Studies Network (OSN) seminar on 9th June
Submitted by Dr Hala Mansour
The next Organisation Studies Network (OSN) seminar will be held at Northampton Business School on 9th June 2015 from 12 noon. The OSN includes the University of East London, Keele University, Staffordshire University and the University of Northampton and the group meets regularly to discuss and debate issues around Organisation Studies. The programme on the 9th June includes papers on Research and Writing, Choosing and Trusting in Health and Medicine, Cultures of Mis-selling in the Financial Services Industry and more. Full details of the programme are attached.
If you would like to attend please let Hala Mansour or Debbie Christopher know by 11th May 2015.
Holocaust Memorial Day Event Tomorrow – 21st January 2015
Please note that in order to attend Professor Cesarani’s lecture and the subsequent academic talks in HLT1 from 1pm – 4pm, all University of Northampton members are required to bring their staff and student IDS to this event.
Bookings for members of the public have now been taken. There will be no admission of members of the public to the lecture hall without prior booking.
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