Meetings 2020-2021
Overview of Cygna network meetings in the academic year 2020-2021
If you are interested in being on the mailing list and/or attending our events please contact Anne-Wil Harzing (anne@harzing.com). We also maintain a readings and inspirations section and have a Twitter hashtag #cygna_london. A quick overview of past presentations can be found here. For a full description of our network see: Celebrating CYGNA: Supporting women in academia.
Meeting 33: 25 September 2020, 10.50-13.30:
Female leadership before and after COVID-19
Organised by Ling Eleanor Zhang, Loughborough University London
- Kristiina Mäkelä, Aalto University: Women can have it all: how to balance research, leadership and family before and after Covid-19
- Susan Lea, University of Hull: Leadership and resilience during and after Covid-19 [see related blogpost for key slides]
- See also: CYGNA: Female leadership in Higher Education
Meeting 34: 22 October 2020, 10.30-12.00:
How do I keep my job (in academia) in uncertain times?
Organised by Axele Giroud, University of Manchester
- Shea Fan, RMIT University, Australia: Global Pandemic and its impact on women working in Australia’s Higher Education sector
- Mariana Dodourova, Middlesex University, UK: A brief no-nonsense overview of the current UK HE environment
- Marian Jones, Sheffield University, UK: Time to leave, or time to change? A gendered perspective on academic work during a crisis
See also: CYGNA: How do I keep my job (in academia) in uncertain times?
Meeting 35: 26 November 2020, 9.00-11.00:
The wonderful world of book publishing
Organised by Marian Mahat, University of Melbourne
- Francine O'Sullivan (Edward Elgar): Why would I edit a handbook?
- Kimberley Chadwick (Emerald): Book publishing for an academic and non-academic audience
- Kiren Shoman (SAGE): Publishing Your Textbook: Why, How, Where?
- See also: CYGNA: The wonderful world of book publishing
Meeting 36: 18 December 2020, 14.30-16.30:
Everything you always wanted to know about the REF & CYGNA Christmas celebration
Organizer & presenter: Anne-Wil Harzing, Middlesex University
- Anne-Wil Harzing, Middlesex University: The UK REF. What does it mean for you?
- See also: CYGNA: REF and Christmas during a pandemic
Meeting 37: 22 January 2021, 14.00-16.00:
GLOMO: Working a Horizon-2020 project
Organized by: Cordula Barzantny, Toulouse Business School
- Overview of the GLOMO project to provide CYGNA members with some insight into how this grant proposal came into life and what it is like to work in a large funded project.
- For all presentations, see: CYGNA: Working in a Horizon-2020 project
Meeting 38: 26 February 2021, 9.00-11.00:
Resistance to equality in academia and how to overcome it
Organizer & presenter: Susanne Täuber
See also: CYGNA: Resistance to gender equality in academia
Meeting 39: 18 March 2021, 9.00-11.00:
Climbing up the academic career ladder: structural constraints and female academics’ personal strategies
Organised by Huong Nguyen, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
- Sharon Bell, Dean, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Honorary Professor, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. Academic career strategies: the secret lives of us.
- Huong Nguyen, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia: Climbing up the academic career ladder: findings from a research project.
- See also: CYGNA: climbing up the academic career ladder
Meeting 40: 28 May 2021,10.00-12.00:
Who ‘does’ scholarly impact: women’s narratives of impact case studies in Business & Management
Organizer & presenter: Emily Yarrow, University of Portsmouth. Twitter: @EmilyYarrow1
- Emily Yarrow, University of Portsmouth, UK. Women management scholars leading impact cases-an empirical insight.
- See also: The UK REF: what does it mean for Early Career Researchers?
- See also: CYGNA: Women management scholars leading REF impact case studies
Meeting 41: 24 June 2021,10.00-12.00:
Writing a literature review paper: whether, what, and when?
Organizer: Tatiana Andreeva, Maynooth University
Presenters
- Catherine Welch, University of Sydney (Australia) and Aalto University (Finland), based on the paper “Putting process (back) in: Research on the internationalization process of the firm”
- Ciara O’Higgins, University of Deusto (Spain), based on the paper “International management challenges of professional service firms: A synthesis of the literature”
- Helene Tenzer, Tübingen University (Germany), based on the paper “Language in international business: A review and agenda for future research”
Resources
- Video lecture by Anne-Wil Harzing Doing a literature review
- Blogposts by Tatiana Andreeva Resources on doing a literature review and Want to publish a literature review? Think of it as an empirical paper.
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Anne-Wil Harzing is Emerita Professor of International Management at Middlesex University, London. She is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business, a select group of distinguished AIB members who are recognized for their outstanding contributions to the scholarly development of the field of international business. In addition to her academic duties, she also maintains the Journal Quality List and is the driving force behind the popular Publish or Perish software program.
