10th Annual Doctoral Conference,
‘Building Impact into Qualitative Research’
3-4 June 2015
Programme
Venue: Weetwood Hall, Leeds
Organizing Committee: Dr Jean Clarke, Professor Ann Cunliffe, Professor Jackie Ford, Dr Hannah Dean
DAY 1 / Activity
10.15-10.45 / Registration, refreshments
10.45-11.00 / Welcome / Professor Ann Cunliffe and Jo Garrick
11.00-12.30 / Plenary session / Applicants selected to present their research
12.30-13.30 / Lunch
13.30-14.30 / Workshop on Pragmatism, Practice and Process Approaches to Research / Professor Barbara Simpson, Professor of Leadership and Organizational Dynamics and Associate Dean for Postgraduate Research, Strathclyde Business School
14.30-15.30 / Keynote: ‘Exploring Ethnography and the Self: The Contribution of Autoethnography’ / Professor Mark Learmonth, Professor of Organisation Studies and Deputy Dean for Research, Durham Business School
Professor Mike Humphreys, Professor of Organisation Studies, Durham Business School
15.30-16.00 / Refreshment break
16.00-17.30 / Workshop / Professor Terry McNulty, Professor of Management and Corporate Governance
17.30 / Check in accommodation
19.00 / Drinks reception and dinner
DAY 2 / Activity
08.45 / Coffee
09.00-10.00 / Presentations / Student methodology presentations/discussions
10.00-10.30 / Refreshment break
10.30-12.00 / Presentations / Student methodology presentations/discussions
12.00-13.00 / Publishing Qualitative Research - with journal editors / Professor Ann Cunliffe, Professor Robin Holt, Professor Andrew Popp
13.00-14.00 / Lunch and close
Registration and pre-conference requirements:
To apply to attend the conference, each participant must submit the following:
(1) A research methodology summary or proposal, maximum 3 pages, double-spaced:
· For doctoral students approaching the end of their studies, this will be a summary of your research design and methodological choices. Including any key issues/questions you would like to address.
· For doctoral students at an earlier stage of their studies (i.e., pre-fieldwork), this should be a proposal comprising a rationale for your intended methodology, an explanation of why it has been adopted, and any key issues/questions you would like to address.
In both cases, the emphasis should be on methods-focused questions, with the research projects treated as case studies to generate, illustrate, and/or engage relevant methodological issues. This should not be a presentation of research findings.
That is, discussion of the substantive content and research findings should be kept to a minimum. Use at most one short paragraph (e.g., 3 sentences) to set out: 1) the research question [what is it that your research set out to learn?] and 2) the theoretical ‘hook’ (what is the literature with which your research is engaged in conversation?] – i.e., just enough to enable someone who knows nothing of your project to understand the methods you adopted and the methodological issues you are exploring. To repeat: It is the methods and their methodological issues that should be the focus of your summary or proposal.
(2) CV
(3) A letter of recommendation from their PhD supervisor
Please note that the deadline for applications is Thursday 30th April 2015.
How we will proceed:
On the basis of these short synopses, up to six students will be selected to present in the first plenary session. We anticipate that these will be students who have completed their field research and are in the midst of writing research ‘reports’, but we will determine this when reviewing the applications.
Those presentations will be limited, with up to 10 minutes for each one, plus 5 minutes for questions of clarification. There should be no more than one powerpoint slide for the research question AND theoretical conversation being enjoined. The focus, once again, should be on the methods selected, the rationale, and any methodological questions you wish to raise. This is not the venue for presenting research findings and arguing in support of them!
In the subsequent small group sessions, these presentations will be discussed more in-depth, as time allows. It is our intention to use the plenary presentations to reflect work across the subfields and qualitative-interpretive methods, based on the range of work submitted.
Keynote Speakers:
Professor Mark Learmonth is Professor of Organization Studies and Deputy Dean (Research) at Durham University Business School, having worked previously at the Universities of Nottingham and York. Prior to his academic life, he spent almost 17 years in the UK National Health Service as a manager/administrator. His previous life as a manager is still important to him in shaping his current research preoccupations – which include making things like language and one’s own self the subject for research.
Professor Mike Humphreys is Professor of Organization Studies at Durham University Business School, having worked previously at the University Of Nottingham. Prior to his life as a research academic he spent 27 years in further education, first as a chemistry teacher then as a science teacher trainer. His work in setting up technical teacher training institutions in Egypt, Turkey, Tanzania and El Salvador prompted him to begin ethnographic research into educational management. Reflection on the role of the researcher continues to be an important theme in his work.
Organizing Committee:
Professor Ann L. Cunliffe is Professor of Organization Studies at the University of Bradford, having also held positions at the Universities of Leeds, New Mexico USA, California State, and New Hampshire. She is also Visiting Professor at Escola de Administraçâo da Fundaçâo Getulio Vargas, Brazil. Ann’s research interests include: leadership, identity, ethics, embodied sensemaking, and reflexivity. She has published 4 books, including A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Management (2014) and articles in Organizational Research Methods, Human Relations, Management Learning, Journal of Management Studies, and Organization Studies. She is Co-Editor in Chief of Management Learning, and organizes the biennial International Qualitative Research in Management and Organization Conference.
Professor Jackie Ford is Professor of Leadership and Organization Studies at the University of Bradford, with former Professorial roles at the Universities of Leeds and Bradford. Her research interests include the exploration of working lives, with a particular interest in studying leadership, gender, ethics, and management practices. She has co-authored a monograph entitled Leadership as Identity: Constructions and Deconstructions (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008); co-edited Making Public Services Management Critical (Routledge, 2010); co-edited a textbook entitled Leadership: Contemporary critical perspectives (Sage, forthcoming 2015); and has published in a range of journals including British Journal of Management, Human Relations, Journal of Management Studies, Leadership, Management Learning, Organization, Sociology, Work Employment and Society.
Dr Jean Clarke is Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship and Organizational Theory at the University of Leeds. She is currently working on a 3-year ESRC Future Research Leaders project focusing on a linguistic perspective of entrepreneurship. Her other research interests include visual symbols in entrepreneurial legitimacy creation and business ethics; and qualitative and process approaches to the study of organizations. She has published in a number of journals including Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Business Ethics, Academy of Management Review, International Small Business Journal and Entrepreneurship and Regional Development.
Dr Hannah Dean is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Leeds. Her PhD thesis explored female entrepreneurs and the metanarrative of economic growth. She is seeking to emancipate female entrepreneurs from the oppression of this metanarrative by destabilizing it theoretically and empirically. This aim is achieved by adopting a multidisciplinary approach that draws upon critical studies, Schumpeter’s theorization, sociology and oral history.
Conference venue:
Set within 9 acres of woodland and gardens the award winning Weetwood Hall is one of the finest conference centres and hotels in Leeds and the north of England. Situated on the northern ring road it is the closest 4* hotel to Leeds/Bradford Airport, only 4 miles (6.4km) from Leeds City Centre and offers extensive free parking.
http://www.weetwood.co.uk/
Maps and location: http://www.weetwood.co.uk/page.php/id=604
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