Meetings 2024-2025
Overview of Cygna network meetings in the academic year 2024-2025
If you are interested in being on the mailing list and/or attending our events please contact Anne-Wil Harzing (anne@harzing.com). We have a readings and inspirations section for female academics, a LinkedIn group, and hashtags #cygna_london #cygnawomen.
A quick overview of past presentations can be found here. A newsletter for the 2024-2025 year can be downloaded here. If you want to comment, the accompanying LinkedIn post is here.
New members drop-in #6: 1 Oct 2024, 11.00-12.00
Organizers: Satkeen Azzizadeh (Middlesex University, UK), Ciara O'Higgins (Deusto Business School, Spain) and Anne-Wil Harzing (Middlesex University, UK).
Our biggest new members drop-in ever with no less than 33 participants (30 shown in the picture). Most were completely new members, but there were also established members who wanted to re-connect after a period of absence and four of our coordination team members welcoming our new CYGNA sisters (Argryro, Christa, Joanna and Shea, see: Cygna videos: expanding the team).
Meeting 61: 8 Oct 2024, 12.00-14.00: Co-creating CYGNA's future through academic story telling (online)
Organizers: Ciara O'Higgins (Deusto Business School, Spain) and Anne-Wil Harzing (Middlesex University, UK).
Speakers: Tatiana Andreeva (Maynooth University, Ireland), Satkeen Azzizadeh (Middlesex University, UK), Jane Neal-Smith (Univ. of York, UK, Ruwaiha Razik (Univ. of Colombo, Sri Lanka), Christa Sathish (Univ. of Westminster, UK)
See blogpost for write-up and resources: CYGNA: General assembly - co-creating our CYGNA future through academic storytelling
New members drop-in #7: 5 Nov 2024, 15.00-16.00
Organizers: Satkeen Azzizadeh (Middlesex University, UK), Ciara O'Higgins (Deusto Business School, Spain) and Anne-Wil Harzing (Middlesex University, UK).
Another successful new members drop-in, with seventeen members attending. Most were completely new members joining us for the first time. However, we also welcomed a number of established members who wanted to re-connect after a period of absence. Two of our Lead/CYG team members (Christa and Jane) joined us in welcoming our new CYGNA sisters (see: Cygna videos: expanding the team and CYG: Teaching & Scholarship Research).
Meeting 62: 10 Dec 2024, 11.00-13.00: End of year celebration (online)
Organizers: Satkeen Azzizadeh (Middlesex University, UK), Dan Ha Le (University of Turku, Finland). Invitation with details can be downloaded here.
See blogpost for write-up and resources: CYGNA: End of year celebration - ABC of research careers, Christmas carols and more...
Meeting 63: 24 Jan 2025, 12.00-16.30: Finding your voice and making it heard University of Leeds (on site)
Organizer: Annie Wei (University of Leeds, UK) and CYGNA North team.
New members drop-in #8: 28 Jan 2025, 11.00-12.00
Organizers: Satkeen Azzizadeh (Middlesex University, UK), Ciara O'Higgins (Deusto Business School, Spain) and Anne-Wil Harzing (Middlesex University, UK).
Another successful new members drop-in, with twenty members attending. Eight were completely new members joining us for the first time and we enjoyed hearing about their backgrounds. However, we also welcomed many established members who wanted to re-connect after a period of absence.
As always Satkeen did a wonderful job hosting the meeting and Ciara took everyone on a whirlwind tour of CYGNA past, present, and future. CYG Chair Jane O'Neal introduced the CYG: Teaching & Scholarship Research and Lead Team member Christa introduced the weekly Cygna Writes initiative that she is running and the CYGNA Whatsapp group.
Argyro, Shasha and Shea represented our wider CYGNA organization team (see: Cygna videos: expanding the team) and shared their own experiences on engaging within CYGNA. I only had two small jobs: keeping the register and taking a group picture. I promptly forgot the second, so I am showing one of Ciara's beautiful slides as visual spice.
Meeting 64: 14 March,12.00-14.00: The good, the bad and the ugly of editorial & reviewing responsibilities (online)
Organizer: Ciara O'Higgins (Deusto Business School, Spain). Speakers: a panel of 10 CYGNA members
See blogpost for write-up and resources: The good, the bad and the ugly of editorial and reviewing responsibilities
New members drop-in #9: 9 April 2025 15.00-16.00
Another successful new members drop-in, with twelve members attending. Five were completely new, joining us for the first time and we enjoyed hearing about their backgrounds. We also welcomed many established members who helped us welcoming our new members.
As always Satkeen did a wonderful job hosting the meeting, and I (Anne-Wil) tried to match Ciara's performance with our new members presentation, taking us on a whirlwind tour of CYGNA past, present, and future. CYG Chair Jane O'Neal introduced the CYG: Teaching & Scholarship Research and Lead Team member Christa introduced the weekly Cygna Writes initiative that she is running.
Anne-Wil emphasised our recent Cygna Collaborations, the Career stage CYGs we are planning to introduce next year after trialing a CYG Senior this year, and the fact that anyone can get involved in organising an official CYGNA meeting to get experience of organising in a safe setting. One of the new members also commented on how welcome she had felt at one of the Conference and informal meet-ups (EIBA 2024), giving a clear indication of how our different activities are reaching our members.
Meeting 65: 16 May, 9.30-11.30: Research on gender and diversity in CYGNA: who is doing what?(online)
Organizers: Emamuzo Idegbesor (Univ. of Westminster, UK), Seonyoung Hwang (Royal Holloway University, UK), Huong Nguyen (LaTrobe University, Australia), Tina Miedtank (Radboud University, the Netherlands).
See blogpost for write-up and resources: CYGNA: Research networking meeting in gender & diversity
Meeting 66: 13 June, 12.00-17.00: Getting creative with qualitative research methods, Oxford Brooks Univ (on site)
Organizer: Sylwia Ciuk (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
See blogpost for write-up and resources: CYGNA: Getting creative with qualitative research methods
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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.
