Middlesex events

Overview of seminar events run at Middlesex University Business School

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Below is a (partial) overview of events run at Middlesex University Business School as well as meetings of the CYGNA female academics network. If you are an MDX Business School staff member organizing an event, feel free to send me information in the exact format below.

Unless indicated otherwise all events are online and in the UK time zone (Winter time UTC+0, Summer time UTC+1). Starred (*) events are also open to external participants. Please contact the relevant organizers for further details if you want to attend. CYGNA events are open only to CYGNA members, please contact me if you'd like to join the network.

This month: June 2021

Tue, 22 Jun 2021: 17:30-19.00 (UTC+1) Alternative Organisations & Transformative Practices Research Cluster: Opportunities for Cooperative and Democratic Working in the Post-Pandemic Milieu. (Joe Fortune, Cooperative Party and Clive Powell, Middlesex University). For further details see here.

Thu, 24 Jun 2021: 10.00-12.00 (UTC+1) CYGNA: Writing a literature review paper: whether, what, and when? (Tatiana Andreeva, Maynooth University, Ireland). For further details see here.

*Fri, 25 June 2021: 14.00-16.00 (UTC+1) Panel Discussion: Research academics as change makers – opportunities and barriers (Panellists: Members of the Business Ethics, CSR and Governance Research Cluster, Middlesex University, London). Contact Andrea Werner for further details.

Previous events 2020-2021

Fri, 28 May 2021: 10.00-12.00 (UTC+1) CYGNA: Who ‘does’ scholarly impact: women’s narratives of impact case studies in Business & Management (Emily Yarrow, University of Portsmouth, UK). For further details see here.

*Thu, 13 May 2021: 13.30-15.00 (UTC+1) Informal institutions and Entrepreneurship: A Review and Framework (Ute Stephan, King’s College, London). Contact Andrea Werner for further details.

*Wed, 12 May 2021: 15.30-17.00 (UTC+1) Dance and Well-being. (Michela Vecchi, Middlesex University). Contact Athina Dilmperi for further details.

*Wed, 28 Apr 2021: 14.00-15.30 (UTC+1) Hello from the other side: Reflections on a decade at the editor’s desk. (David Collings, Dublin City University, Ireland). Contact Andrea Werner for further details. Event recording is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj1s8864Amw

*Fri, 16 Apr 2021: 11.30-13.00 (UTC+1) Female Empowerment and Women's Erotic Consumption. (Athanasia Daskalopoulou, University of Liverpool). Contact Athina Dilmperi for further details.

*Thu, 15 Apr 2021: 11.00-12.00 (UTC+1) Critical pedagogy for working students. (Parisa Dashtipour and Claudio Morrison, Middlesex University). Contact Andrea Werner for further details.

*Thu, 25 Mar 2021: 12.30-14.00 (UTC+0) What happens in the C-Suite after women break the glass ceiling? (Corinne Post, Lehigh University, USA). Contact Andrea Werner for further details. Even recording is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyDEOiTWT-c

Tue, 23 Mar 2021: 16.00-17.00 (UTC+0) Research funding for beginners. (Fergus Lyon, Middlesex University). Slides and recording can be downloaded for Middlesex academics.

Thu, 18 Mar 2021: 9.00-11.00 (UTC+0): CYGNA: Climbing up the academic career ladder (Sharon Bell, Australian National University, Australia; Huong Nguyen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia). For further details see this blogpost.

*Wed, 10 Mar 2021: 15.00-16.30 Alternative enterprise models for sustainable fashion (Andrea Werner, Fergus Lyon, Patrick Elf, Ian Vickers, Middlesex University, UK). Contact Andrea Werner for further details.

Fri 26 Feb 2021: 9.00-11.00 CYGNA Resistance to equality in academia and how to overcome it (Susanne Täuber, University of Groningen, the Netherlands). For further details see this blogpost.

*Wed, 27 Jan 2021: 11.00-12.30 “Let them not make me a stone”- Repositioning Entrepreneurship (Sarah Dodd, University of Strathclyde, UK). For further details see this blogpost.

Fri 22 Jan 2021: 14.00-16.00 CYGNA GLOMO: Working a Horizon-2020 project (Acil Abdul Hadi Cordula Barzantny, Giovanna Milani, Toulouse Business School, France; Emilija Oleškevičiūtė, Monique Raupp, Cranfield Management School). For further details see this blogpost.

*Tue, 12 Jan 2021: 13.00-14.30 The practice of ‘we’ (Ainurul Rosli, Brunel University, UK). Contact Andrea Werner for further details.

Fri 18 Dec 2020: 14.30-16.30 CYGNA Everything you always wanted to know about the REF (Anne-Wil Harzing, Middlesex University, UK). For further details see this blogpost.

*Tue, 1 Dec 2020: 14.00-15.30 Publishing a research monograph (Dan Ozarow, Middlesex University, UK). Contact Andrea Werner for further details.

*Tue, 3 Nov 2020: 11.00-12.30 How to build a sustainable academic career (Martyna Sliwa, University of Essex, UK). For further details see this blogpost.

Thu, 26 Nov 2020: 9.00-11.00 CYGNA The wonderful world of book publishing (Marian Mahat, University of Melbourne, Australia; Francine O'Sullivan (Edward Elgar, UK), Kimberley Chadwick (Emerald, UK), Kiren Shoman (SAGE, UK). For further details see this blogpost.

*Wed, 18 Nov 2020: 15.00-16.30 A conflict-based view of business model innovation (Kristian Sund, University of Roskilde, Denmark). Contact Andrea Werner for further details.

Thu 22 Oct 2020: 10.30-12.00: CYGNA: How do I keep my job (in academia) in uncertain times? (Axele Giroud, University of Manchester, UK; Shea Fan, RMIT University, Australia; Mariana Dodourova, Middlesex University, UK; Marian Jones, Sheffield University, UK). For further details see this blogpost.

*Wed, 7 Oct 2020: 13.00-14.30 At the limits of ‘Capability’: The sexual and reproductive health of women migrant workers in Malaysia (Tim Freeman, Middlesex University, UK). Contact Andrea Werner for further details.

Fri, 25 Sep 2020: 10.50-13.30 CYGNA: Female leadership before and after COVID-19 (Kristiina Mäkelä, Aalto University, Finland; Susan Lea, University of Hull, UK; Linn Eleanor Zhang, Loughborough University London, UK). For further details see this blogpost.