Dr. Harriet Shortt: 2024 The Planner’s Woman of Influence 

Bristol Leadership and Change Centre (BLCC) at Bristol Business School, University of the West of England, is incredibly proud to ...

Event: Triple book launch.

We are incredibly lucky here at BLCC to have so many talented researchers within our group. With that in mind ...

Pieces of Us – Complexity and Leadership. By Jem Peel and Rob Sheffield

This is a re-blog from BMJ leader journal by Visiting fellow Rob Sheffield and his co-author Jem Peel . They ...

Reclaiming Leadership in Higher Education

This is a re-blog from Richard Bolden on the ILA blog in which he discusses the challenges facing higher education ...

The Invisible Labour of Maternity Leave in a Global Pandemic.

Dr. Jenna Pandeli, Dr Chloe Tarrabain & Dr Mahwish Khan Welcome to the home of our research on ‘The Invisible ...

Guest Seminar: Professor Brigid Carroll, The Governmentality of Hope: Retheorising Hope in Leadership

Mark your calendars for a compelling seminar as we welcome Professor Brigid Carroll, a distinguished scholar in the field of ...

Behind the Canvas: Balancing Creativity and Entrepreneurship in Arts.

Dr Selen Kars is a valued member of BLCC, an Associate Professor in Organisation Studies. Her research seeks to understand ...

Doing books, careers, and book launches differently

Dr Richard Longman Richard Longman joined The Open University in 2023 after four years at UWE Bristol. His interests emerge ...

Academic Spotlight: Arthur Turner & Unleashing the Power of Creative Coaching.

A member of BLCC with an impressive portfolio of experience Dr. Arthur Turner is well renowned both in research and ...

Academic Spotlight: Jenna Pandeli

In this article we speak with Jenna Pandeli, an active member of Bristol Leadership and Change Centre, who has recently ...

Perspectives on Unleadership: Collaborating and connecting — shifting the dialogue together.

Photo by Shane Rounce on Unsplash This is a re-blog. Click here to view the original Written by Dr Kay Galpin and other ...

The Social Imaginary: Rethinking the nature and purpose of social science

Christoforos’ expertise spans various fields, including philosophy, sociological theory, theories of the self and organization studies. In this blog Christoforos ...

Rise of the Machines

Blog post originally posted on the ILA wesbite 11th April 2023 by Professor Richard Bolden Whether or not we are ...

Academic Spotlight – Peter Case

Academics from many backgrounds gravitate to Bristol Leadership and Change Centre. Today we spotlight Professor Peter Case, who amongst other ...

Leadership for the Greater Good: Reflections on Today’s Challenges From Around the Globe: Leaving Leadership

Professor Richard Bolden delves into what the surprise resignations of Nicola Sturgeon and Jacinda Ardern reveal about today’s toxic leadership ...

New Editors-in-Chief for the journal Leadership

Who are the new Editors? Gareth Edwards, Professor of Leadership and Community Studies at UWE and Doris Schedlitzki, Professor of ...

ISLC 2022 – Leadership and the future of humanity

Bristol Business School at the ISLC Several representatives from Bristol Business School at UWE Bristol are attending this years International ...
football coach talking to the team.

Sage Handbook of Graduate Employability – Book launch

Members of UWE’s Bristol Business School have contributed a chapter to the Sage handbook of graduate employability with is scheduled ...
The door of 10 Downing Street

What Just Happened in UK Politics?

Professor Richard Bolden shares his views with the International Leadership Association (ILA). Blog post orginally posted on the ILA wesbite ...
Advance HE

Still time to complete the Advance HE Global Leadership Survey

The Advance HE global leadership survey aims to generate a unique evidence base for leadership in higher education, highlight contextual ...
International Leadership Association’s 24th Global Conference

Professor Peter Case talks at the 24th International Leadership Association Global Conference

Professor Peter Case was invited to join an expert panel at the 24th International Leadership Association Global Conference in Washington ...

HIV Programme Management and Service Delivery in Zimbabwe

Image: Professor Peter Case distributing PPCL degree certificates to successful graduands in Nyanga District, Manicaland, Zimbabwe CBL’s Professor Peter Case ...
Picture of paper boats

What works for leadership in higher education?

Over the past year Professor Richard Bolden, along with colleagues at the University of Bristol, has been conducting a scoping ...

Workshops at the Developing Leadership Capacity Conference 2022

The Bristol Leadership and Change Centre is hosting the 12th Developing Leadership Capacity Conference (DLCC) on the 12 and 13 ...

Research & Theory at the Developing Leadership Capacity Conference 2022

The Bristol Leadership and Change Centre is hosting the 12th Developing Leadership Capacity Conference (DLCC) on the 12 and 13 ...

Case Studies at Developing Leadership Capacity Conference

The Bristol Leadership and Change Centre is hosting the 12th Developing Leadership Capacity Conference (DLCC) on the 12 and 13 ...

Workshop at Developing Leadership Capacity Conference 2022

The Bristol Leadership and Change Centre is hosting the 12th Developing Leadership Capacity Conference (DLCC) on the 12 and 13 ...

Case Studies at Developing Leadership Capacity Conference 2022

(Image sourced from www.cre8rel8.com/we-believe) The Bristol Leadership and Change Centre is hosting the 12th Developing Leadership Capacity Conference (DLCC) on ...

Ameliorative work: Women electronic music artists’ responses to gender-based discrimination

In this seminar which took place online on 12 May 2022, Professor Samantha Parsley (University of Portsmouth) and Dr Marjana ...

Is Higher Education Broken? An online seminar with Professor Richard Watermeyer

Last week Bristol Leadership & Change Centre was delighted to host an online seminar with Richard Watermeyer, Professor of Higher ...

HIV Programme Management and Service Delivery in Zimbabwe

Bristol Leadership and Change Centre's Professor Peter Case recently returned from Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, where he helped run a series of ...

Build Back Better….With Care and Compassion

Written by Professor Richard Bolden, UWE Bristol, 23/03/2022 for the International Leadership Association It is now over two years since ...

The Unleadership Movement: Confident Connecting and Collaborating

The Unleadership Movement is a growing collaboration of practitioners and scholars from public, private and voluntary sectors. The movement seeks ...

Developing Leadership Capacity Conference 2022

We are pleased to announce the 12th Developing Leadership Capacity Conference (DLCC) will be taking place online from 12th-13th July ...

Monologue and Organization Studies

The following blog includes excerpts taken from a recent journal article written Professor Peter Case recently published an article (co-authored ...

End of the Age of Arrogance?

Written by Professor Richard Bolden, UWE, Bristol, 14/01/2022 for the International Leadership Association “In reality they all lived in a ...

Organizational Ethnography: An Experiential & Practical Guide

Jenna Pandeli, Hugo Gaggiotti and Neil Sutherland are over the moon to announce that their edited book 'Organizational Ethnography: An ...

The Unleadership Movement: Catching the Wave – Being alert to the possibility of NOW!

The Unleadership Movement is a growing collaboration of practitioners and scholars from public, private and voluntary sectors. The movement seeks ...

Routledge Focus on Team Academy – 4 Book Series

This blog post is written by Berrbizne Urzelai Why This Book Series, and Why Now? The idea of publishing a ...

Bristol Leadership & Change Centre 2021 Highlights

As one year comes to an end and another begins, we take a look back on 2021 to share some ...

Averting Climate Catastrophe: Where next after COP26?

Richard Bolden and Charlotte von Bulow, December 2021 With over forty thousand registered delegates from almost 200 countries the 26th ...

Perspectives on Leadership in Global Higher Education

Reposted with permission from the Advance HE blog, 16/12/2021 Over the past two months, as part of our scoping study ...

The Unleadership Movement: Living with the Unknown – Giving Ourselves Permission to Act Anyway

The Unleadership Movement is a growing collaboration of practitioners and scholars from public, private and voluntary sectors. The movement seeks ...

Averting Climate Catastrophe: Collaboration, Care & COP26

From 31 October to 12 November 2021 the UK is hosting the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties ...

The Unleadership Movement: Paying it forward – giving without expecting to receive.

The Unleadership Movement is a growing collaboration of practitioners and scholars from public, private and voluntary sectors who seek to ...

Spotlight on Professor Jonathan Gosling

The International Leadership Association (ILA) brings together professionals with a keen interest in the study, practice, and teaching of leadership ...

The Unleadership Movement: Lighting fires at the Collective Leadership for Scotland Campfires Festival

The Unleadership Movement is a growing collaboration of practitioners and scholars from public, private and voluntary sectors who seek to ...

HIV healthcare staff in Zimbabwe begin PG Certificate in Professional Practice in Change Leadership

Dr Greyling Viljoen and Dr Prisciplla Matuare (Women’s University in Africa), supported remotely by Professor Peter Case, recently delivered a ...

Innovative projects receive Vice-Chancellors Early Career Researcher Awards

Every year Research, Business and Innovation (RBI) invite Early Career Researchers working at UWE Bristol to apply for the Vice-Chancellors ...

Publication of Malaria Elimination Open Access Resources

Professors Peter Case and Jonathan Gosling from UWE Bristol, recently published a set of open access resources in collaboration with ...

Desperately Seeking ‘Self-ish’ space: the year of Covid-19, lockdown and making dens

The following excerpts are taken from an article written by Harriet Shortt for Organizational Aesthetics, the full article can be ...

Creative Workforce for the Future – developing an inclusive workforce

Creative Workforce for the Future is a one year pilot developing industry employment practices embracing inclusion and diversity as an ...

Global Leaders gather at ILA Conference

Leadership experts from around the world will gather live and online 5 – 9 November for the International Leadership Association’s ...

Distinguished Professorial Address Lecture with Jackie Ford

We are delighted to welcome Jackie Ford, Professor of Leadership and Organisation Studies at Durham University Business School, to present ...

Multidisciplinary Research Teams and Transdisciplinary Impacts

In September Peter Case, Professor of Organization Studies at UWE Bristol delivered a webinar for staff and doctoral students at ...

Bringing Ideas to Life: The role of mediating objects

Written by Dr Arthur F Turner - Senior Lecturer in Organisational Studies, UWE, Bristol. Since 2008 I have been looking ...

The Rhetoric and Reality of Systems Leadership

A talk by Professor Richard Bolden at The Future of Leadership conference hosted by Kings College, London. Professor Richard Bolden ...

The Fall of Edward Colston and the Rise of Inclusive Place-Based Leadership

by Professor Richard Bolden The killing of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis, USA on 25th May 2020 ...

What will the Leadership of Innovation look like in the post COVID world?

Rob Sheffield, Visiting fellow at UWE, and Stuart Morris, Facilitator of Design-led Innovation & Creativity at Thales, discuss the emerging ...

Home-working during Coronavirus – using the corners of our home for work, rest and play

Back in 2017 Dr Harriet Shortt, Associate Professor of Organisation Studies at UWE Bristol Business School, wrote a piece for ...

Dr Jenna Pandeli shortlisted for SAGE Prize for Innovation & Excellence 2020

We are delighted to announce that Senior Lecturer in Organisation Studies, Dr Jenna Pandeli, along with co-authors Michael Marinetto and ...

Leadership, Complexity and Change: Learning from the Covid-19 pandemic

Guest blog: Richard Bolden, Professor of Leadership and Management and Director of the Bristol Leadership and Change Centre What a ...

Distinguished Professorial Address – Jackie Ford

Date: Tuesday 24th March 2020 Time: 17:30 - 19:30 Location: Bristol Business School Bristol Business School will be hosting Jackie ...

Paradox of success and failure

Moon Executive Search recently spoke to the Director of Doctoral Research in Business and Law at UWE Bristol, Svetlana Cicmil, ...
Prof Richard Bolden thanking the panellists at City Hall

18th International Studying Leadership Conference

From 13-15 December 2019 Bristol Leadership and Change Centre hosted the 18th International Studying Leadership Conference, which was attended by ...
Managing Around the World

Managing Around the World: RoundTables for Experienced Managers

“A tale of two cities” – that’s how a colleague described Bristol when I asked for an introduction. There’s something ...

Fighting Malaria in Namibia: A New Cohort of Students Enroll in FBL’s Postgraduate Certificate in Professional Practice in Change Leadership

Professor Peter Case’s research on malaria healthcare service provision expanded to Namibia this year. Peter’s research teams – including three ...

A practice perspective: Facilitating a LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® workshop

Senior Lecturer in Strategy and Enterprise, Pam Seanor recently hosted a workshop for NMI, a payment solution company, in Lego ...

Dr Jenna Pandeli takes part in BBC world service podcast

Senior Lecturer in Organisation Studies, Dr Jenna Pandeli was invited to take part in a panel discussion on the BBC ...

Unlocking Performance through Employee Engagement Conference

On Tuesday 25 June Bristol Business School hosted the ‘Unlocking Performance through Employee Engagement Conference’ in collaboration with Engage for ...

Notes on the International Conference on Clusters and Industrial Districts and the VI International Conference of MOTIVA

Guest blog post from Berrbizne Urzelai Lopez De Aberasturi, Lecturer and Team Coach Team Entrepreneurship CLUSTERING 2019 I am part ...

BLCC Research Symposium, 6 June 2019- Responsible and Inclusive Leadership: Paradoxes and Possibilities

We are delighted to announce that we will be hosting a Research Symposium event on Thursday 6 June 2019. This ...

New Publication – Economic Clusters and Globalization: Diversity and Resilience

"Economic Clusters and Globalization: Diversity and Resilience", edited by our Dr Berrbizne Urzelai and Francisco Puig, shows that in today's ...

BLCC Annual Review 2018-19

We are delighted to share with you the Bristol Leadership and Change Centre Annual Review 2018-19. This annual review has ...

The 18th International Studying Leadership Conference 16th-17th December 2019

Bristol Leadership and Change Centre is delighted to be hosting the 18th International Studying Leadership Conference in 2019 at Bristol ...

Work-based pedagogy in Higher and Degree Apprenticeships Workshop

By Dr Doris Schedlitzki On Monday 28 January 2019, we welcomed colleagues from Sheffield Hallam University Business School to a ...

Facebook Usage and Mental Health- latest publication from Dr Guru Prabhakar

Dr Guru Prabhakar's co-authored paper has been published in the International Journal of Information Management (Impact Factor: 4.5). Facebook Usage ...

In Critical Condition? Challenges and possibilities for critical leadership and management studies in current times.

Guest post by Thomas Allan, Fellow, Centre for Welfare Reform What if Universities were seen as institutions with responsibilities to ...

Privatised profit inside prisons: real work for prisoners or invisible exploitation?

Dr Jenna Pandeli has recently published a blog post for the American Sociological Association. The blog piece is a condensed article ...

Ethical moments in International Development research with Professor Peter Case

Professor Peter Case gave a seminar paper last week entitled, ‘Ethical moments in International Development research: Aporia, undecidability and the ...

Reflections on the Aspire People Development Programme with Avon and Somerset Police

By Holly Poole, Policy and Support Coordinator for Avon and Somerset Police. When I was asked to write this blog, ...

“Rethinking Malaria” at Chatham House.

Professor Peter Case (UWE Bristol) was invited by Dr David Heymann, Director of the Centre on Global Health Security, to act as ...

10th Developing Leadership Capacity Conference hosted by UWE Bristol

Last week saw the Business School host the 10th Developing Leadership Capacity Conference (DLCC)with around 70 participants attending to present ideas ...

“Becoming enterprising”: a collaborative workshop

By Dr Pam Seanor. On Monday 11 June, BLCC hosted the "Becoming enterprising" collaborative workshop. The workshop was attended by differing practitioners: those taking a ...

Sustainability in the curriculum for responsible management education

This year, the UWE Student Union introduced for the first time ever the ‘Sustainability Teaching Award’ as part of their ...

Talking Leadership on Ujima Radi.

In March 2018 the topic of the month at Ujima Radio was Leadership. Alongside a range of local and national ...

‘Of course, trust is not the whole story; narratives of dancing with a critical friend in social enterprise-public sector collaboration’

Hot off the press! Our BLCC member Dr Pam Seanor has published the following chapter: 'Of course, trust is not the whole ...

Behaviour change in the illegal wildlife trade.

By Dr Fiona Spotswood. Recently I was invited to speak and take part in a policy workshop at Cambridge University ...

#myUWEBBSview …a new collaborative research project with ISG, Stride Treglown and Bristol Business School, UWE.

An exciting new research project is now underway at Bristol Business School and Law School. We would like all UWE Bristol ...

Creating space for a critical approach to entrepreneurship .

By Dr Pam Seanor. The idea of this book took off from the 3E conference with invited participants who, like ...

Dr Robert French: in memoriam…

Br Professor Peter Case. It’s with great sadness that we announce that our long-time colleague, Dr Robert French, passed away ...

‘Rich pictures’ – Delta 7 come to UWE to talk visual representations and relationship building

On the 6th December 2017, the BLCC hosted a practical workshop from Delta 7 – an innovative Organisational Development Consultancy ...

The Art of Management and Organization – deadline extended!

If you haven't been to this conference before...you might be missing out! Come to Brighton in the UK next summer ...

Organization and Leadership Development for Malaria Elimination in Zimbabwe

Picture above: ODME staff and trainees. From left to right: Dr Greyling Viljoen, Dr Gladwin Muchena, Professor Peter Case, Dr ...

How to Increase Coach-Coachee Trust in Coaching.

11 December 2017, UWE Bristol Business School and EMCC Event. Sign up now to this great morning event run by ...

Spaces of in-between-ness in a ‘green’ city: Exploring ‘wandering’ as an affirmative critique of utopian practice

By Dr Pam Seanor. " ... what does it mean to reflect upon a position, a relation, a place related to ...

Developing Leadership Capacity Conference (DLCC)

The Developing Leadership Capacity Conference (DLCC) is returning to UWE for its 10th anniversary. The conference will be hosted by ...

Katie Beavan appointed Research Fellow at Harvard University. 

We recently received some exciting and pleasing news concerning one of our part-time doctoral students, Katie Beavan. She has been ...

ISBE Forum: Adding the relevance to rigorous business research.

In association with SAMS (Society for the Advancement of Management Studies) ISBE Forum Wednesday 13 September 2017 0930 - 1600 ...

Who am I? Leadership seen through the lens of language and identity

By Associate Professor Dr Doris Schedlitzki. As a German national, I have always been both fascinated with and troubled by ...

Festival of Nature: a wander in Bristol on Monday, 12th June at 12 noon…

Dr Pam Seanor, Bristol Business School Meet at the footbridge over the River Avon near Sparke Evans Park, BS2 0BS We ...

Bristol Rising to the Leadership Challenge

Delegates discuss the need for a citywide approach to leadership (Front row, right to left – Tracie Jolliff, Mayor Marvin ...

Movement and Learning

By Dr Arthur Turner I have been working with the Centre in Bristol for 18 months and have often looked ...

Cake in the Office – health hazard or edible symbols of collegiality and teamwork?

By Dr Harriet Shortt A longer than average blog post, but it's about cake, so it's important...! I am sure ...

Serving yourself: value self-creation in health care service

By Dr Fiona Spotswood Yesterday, March 1st, the Bristol Leadership and Change Centre at UWE held the first seminar of 2017. Our external ...

US – Mexico borderland communities are resilient – says Dr Hugo Gaggiotti

Dr Hugo Gaggiotti, an academic from UWE Bristol and member of the Bristol Leadership and Change Centre who has extensively ...

Paradoxes of Leading and Following: lessons from Trump and Brexit

By Professor Richard Bolden. For anyone who believes that leadership and management are rational processes, where the most skilled and ...

Tools for Change

By Dr Fiona Spotswood I’m never happier than wallowing in practice theory. I love grappling with the intricacies of the original ...

Lego Serious Play – on its way!

Morning all! As some of you know, we have been successfully using my small box of Lego and childhood Duplo ...

A crafty start to the week!

Br Dr Harriet Shortt This is for anyone interested in crafting, the NHS, midwifery, dignity in care-giving professions, and creative/ ...

Women, dress, leadership and the 1980s

Br Dr Harriet Shortt Hello everyone! Well, it’s September already and the start of a fresh new term for many ...

UWE Graduation, Summer 2016

It's not only been a hot week here in Bristol, it has been one of celebration and achievement. UWE Summer ...

Summer Sun and Conference Fun…

On this boiling hot day in the South West of England (and most of the UK by the looks of ...

Calling all Ethnography fans!

Exciting news for ethnography fans... Here at UWE Bristol we are gearing up to host the Ethnography Symposium: Current Developments in Ethnographic ...

Organizing in the Borderlands

An important part of the OS blog is to share short snippets and updates from our current research projects. Today, ...

Current Conversations at the BLC

A brief post for today...but one that, perhaps rather appropriately, celebrates togetherness... Thanks to all those that came along to ...

The new Bristol Business School building wins award!

ISG won two awards at the Constructing Excellence South West Built Environment Awards 2016. The awards ceremony was held at ...

OSColdharbourlane back online!

The Organisation Studies blog is up and running once again! After some months ‘offline’ we are re-connecting with our online ...

Latest event organised by the Bristol Leadership Centre in partnership with The Leadership Trust Foundation

Bristol Leadership Centre and The Leadership Trust Foundation Research Seminar with Professor Dennis Tourish on "Complexity leadership theory: A processual, communication critique, ...

ESRC Future Leaders Scheme

Thanks Professor Richard Bolden, for sharing this info! Looks good... ESRC Future Leaders Scheme This is a great scheme for eligible ...

New Academic Year – New Bristol Leadership Centre website!

Hi everyone! We hope you are well. We haven't posted for a while - the summer months have been busy ...

Vice- Chancellor’s Student Leadership Programme

Vice- Chancellor’s Student Leadership Programme...thanks, Anita, for sharing this exciting news!... We have been quietly excited by our pilot programme ...

PhD position in Innovation management Entrepreneurship

PhD position in Innovation management Entrepreneurship The organisation The Faculté de Sciences Economiques et de Gestion (FSEG) is a faculty ...

Women’s leadership development programmes: Lessons learned and new frontiers

Hi all...great CFP below, for your interest! Thanks, Eda, for sharing!... Journal of Management Education Special Issue Call for Papers ...

Hot off the press! Congratulations to Margaret Page – new book, out now!

‘Gender Equality in Public Services; chasing the dream’  - the co-authored monograph Margaret and her co-author Hazel Conley have been ...

Space and The Modern Office: making change includes choice, creativity and cognitive engagement…

By Dr Harriet Shortt Hi all! For those interested in work space...and fancy some food-for-thought regarding our new building...you might ...

Small Change, Big Difference!

Hi all Please see the attached document below... This is a great way to help students with hardship bursaries. This is because ...

Chasing the Dream: Gender Equality in Local Government

Hi all The next CESR seminar will be held on Friday 11th April 2014, with a presentation by: Hazel Conley, Queen ...

Great news for OS scholars at UWE – BAM awards Researcher Development Grant!

Press release: The University of the West of England is pleased to announce that Eda Ulus and Inge Aben have been ...

Spirituality in a Challenging World

Hi all, Please see the link below for more information on a conference being held by the British Association for the ...

CRESC 2014 Conference: Power, Culture and Social Framing

We are delighted to announce the call for papers for the 2014 CRESC Annual Conference. This is on: Power, Culture ...

10th European Conference on Management Leadership and Governance

This is a second call for papers for the 10th European Conference on Management Leadership and Governance ECMLG - 2014 being ...

‘Writing Organization: Disruption and Difference Through Experimental, Embodied and Non-Written Texts’ …symposium at the University of Bradford, April 2014

‘Writing Organization: Disruption and Difference Through Experimental, Embodied and Non-Written Texts’  A Symposium organised by Marianna Fotaki, Nancy Harding, Mary ...

Studying Leadership – an exciting new publication from Doris Schedlitzki & Gareth Edwards

'Studying Leadership: traditional and critical approaches' is a fantastic new book by our very own Doris Schedlitzki and Gareth Edwards, ...

Forthcoming Seminars at Bristol University!

Hi all! Don't forget, there are some great seminars going on at Bristol University over the coming months.... .....Professor Peter ...

Calling all OS-people! Organization Studies has new cfp out!

Organization Studies Calls for Papers: January 2014-November 2014 - please see attached word doc below for all the details! Please ...

Newsletter from ‘The Researcher’

International Newsletter December 2013 Hi all, Happy New Year! Please find attached the December copy of the newsletter 'The Researcher' ...

BA Business (Team Entrepreneurship) hits the headlines!

Our fabulous new BA Business (Team Entrepreneurship) programme has hit the local headlines here in Bristol! The Bristol Post has ...

Sounds of the Salon – new paper out on ‘sound’ at work!

By Dr Harriet Shortt The International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion has a lovely new special issue out: Sensually Exploring ...

Free HEA Workshop on Decision Making, April 2014

By Dr Harriet Shortt. Hi all! I've just been sent an email that I thought some of you might be ...

Workplace Trends 2013…what’s new in work space?

By Dr Harriet Shortt Another part of my week last week was spent at the Workplace Trends Conference 2013, held ...

Re-imagining Learning Spaces Conference 2013

By Dr Harriet Shortt Last week I went to the second Re-imagining Learning Spaces Conference, at the University of South ...

A warm welcome to new colleagues in the Organisation Studies team, here at UWE…

The Organisation Studies team here at UWE is growing and we have quite a number of exciting new appointments! We ...

Gender, Work and Organization…June 2014 in Keele!

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS! SUBMIT DIRECT TO ONE OF THE 25 STREAMS Gender, Work and Organization 8th Biennial International Interdisciplinary Conference ...

UWE Students Doing Great Things

By Dr Harriet Shortt Hi all! I had three meetings with three UWE students the other week and I have ...

Exciting Seminars at the Department of Management, Bristol University!

Seminar Speakers 2013/2014 – Term 1, Department of Management, University of Bristol The Seminars are held in The Boardroom, 1st ...

Poetry in Motion…

By Dr Harriet Shortt Hi all! Eda has kindly shared news of the forthcoming publication of a great poetry book, Raisins and ...

Lack of management training causing culture problems

Thanks for sharing this article, Emir! Emir suggests that this could help when we look at examples for leadership and culture in our ...

Organization Studies update and reminder…

By Dr Harriet Shortt Hi all! We posted details of the Organization Studies '5 special issues call' some weeks ago....please ...

Launch Issue: Leadership and Humanities

By Dr Carol Jarvis Thanks, Carol, for sharing this link to a new journal: http://edwardelgarpublishing.createsend4.com/t/ViewEmail/r/5A89644FCBF821612540EF23F30FEDED/92C3594C6ED21ED64FB5D4CAE8F50064 Leadership and the Humanities is ...

Centre for Understanding Social Practices

By Dr Harriet Shortt Hi everyone! Thanks very much, Margaret, for sharing this! Please see attachment for the Centre for ...

Calling all those interested in the visual…

By Dr Harriet Shortt The super brilliant Routledge Companion to Visual Organization is out! This great book is edited by Prof ...

Call for papers : Psychoanalysis, work, organizations and society

SIG Business and Society, Euram 2014 – 4th to 7th June, Valencia For more information and guidelines, check out the Euram ...

Organizational routines: How they are created, maintained, and changed

Check out the details of this great looking symposium in June 2014: Sixth International Symposium on Process Organization Studies Theme: ...

2014 KIE Conference

Thanks for sharing Eda... Colleagues, The 2014 KIE Conference takes place in Riga, Lativa, 22-25 July, Raddison Blu Hotel. Conference ...

CFP Reframing Gender (In)equality in (Post)modern Times…

8th Biennial International Interdisciplinary conference, 24th - 26th June, 2014, Keele University, UK CFP Reframing gender (in)equality in (post)modern times ...

Call for papers – OLKC 2014 in Norway!

Please see below for details: “Circuits of Knowledge” OLKC 2014 – International Conference on Organizational Learning, Knowledge and Capabilities BI ...

More useful news and views on creating an online presence!

Thanks again to Eda who has shared this link about how we can all get a better online presence for ...

Start this week with some inspiration!

Hi all, Start this week with some inspiration from a couple of other blog sites! Here's one called The Sociological ...

As first year undergraduate modules start up again…how long before we hear the mention of Maslow?!

If...or rather when Maslow is mentioned this term...you might want to share this rather amusing, interesting and concise article from the ...

Are you going to make a new ‘academic’ year resolution…?

...if you are going to make a new 'academic' year resolution, then why not make one that involves blogging!? There ...

For those of us who experience the good old peer review process…

For those of us who experience the good old peer review process, you might find this amusing?! http://fundermental.blogspot.com/2011/05/peer-review-changing-lightbulb.html?spref=fb Thanks to ...

Forwarding message: Editor in Chief positions available for IJMR Journal

Hi all! Eda, thanks for sharing this with us... The British Academy of Management (BAM) is seeking to appoint one ...

Looking for conferences in Europe for 2014?

The 2014 International Conference on Organisational Learning, Knowledge and Capabilities is being held in Norway in April next year. The ...

5 exciting calls for papers for special issues of Organization Studies!

Hi all Please follow the link below for more details on 5 calls for papers for special issues of Organization ...

The Best University Workplace Survey

Hi all! Thanks Eda, for passing on this link: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/times-higher-education-best-university-workplace-survey/2005988.article Click on the link above and complete the Times Higher Education ...

The last in the series: Creative Leadership Project – Space

As many of you know, Doris Schedlitzki, Carol Jarvis, Gareth Edwards and I have been running the Creative Leadership Project ...

Enterprise and Innovation at the University of Bath: InBrain

I found a great article in the University of Bath alumni magazine a few weeks ago: Alumnus Chris Brill (BSc Mechanical ...

Creative Thinking at UWE this week…

The Aspiring Top Leaders Innovation Workshop took place this week, here at UWE. The workshop focussed on how to generate ...

Rate Your Lecturer – potential flaws in the site?!

A recent article in the Times Higher (13th June 2013) not only discusses the website 'Rate Your Lecturer' and the ...

A series of events held in conjunction with the Luce Irigaray International Seminar

Our colleague Dr Eda Ulus has highlighted the seminar below, which may of interest to some of you! Luce Irigaray ...

We are ‘driving innovation and growth’, says The Association of Business Schools!

The ABS has just published a report on the role of UK Business Schools in driving innovation and growth in ...

Visual records of academic life…

For those of you interested in 'the visual', you might be interested in the work of this photographer, Howard Guest ...

Congratulations to Dr Tchelebi and Dr Baker!

Hi all We would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Dr Nadine Tchelebi and Dr Graham Baker for successfully completing ...

A Passion for Books…

Hi all A friend of a friend runs this great online second-hand book store, here in the South West. I ...

Join a new conversation on leadership…

Hi all... Gareth has been kind enough to pass on this information about a new online community called 'InLeading'...please see ...

Human Relations CFP ‘Beyond Morgan’s Eight Metaphors’…

Hi all I've just seen this, and since we use this work in our teaching at UWE, I thought it ...

Employee Relations is seeking new members for their Editorial Advisory Board

Hi all We just thought you might like to know that Employee Relations is seeking new members for their Editorial Advisory ...

2nd July 2013: Creative Leadership Project – Event 3 – Leadership and Space

You are warmly invited to participate free of charge in a series of interactive workshops linking research and practice to ...

18th June 2013: Creative Leadership Project – Event 2 – Leadership and Innovation

You are warmly invited to participate free of charge in a series of interactive workshops linking research and practice to ...

4th June 2013: Creative Leadership Project – Event 1 – Leadership and Language

You are warmly invited to participate free of charge in a series of interactive workshops linking research and practice to ...

Cyberwork: cybernization and cyborgization

On Wednesday 30th October 2013, in the Street Café at UWE (Coldharbour Lane, Frenchay Campus), Professor Barbara Czarniawska, Chair in ...

Well done Eda and Leah!

Leah Tomkins and Eda Ulus have been awarded the Best Developmental Paper at the Management Learning conference, hosted by Lancaster ...

What are YOU doing on the 24th June?

The University of Bath School of Management would like to invite you to an Organization Studies seminar on 24th June ...

Kaffe Fassett was Fabulous!

I spent a great afternoon at the Fashion and Textile Museum last week, visiting the Kaffe Fassett 'a life in ...

Leah Tomkins – it’s all about the experience of happiness! 🙂

 This project is a collaboration with Virginia Eatough and Zoe Boden at Birkbeck, University of London.  We are interested in ...

Margaret Page’s recent work – equality and diversity

In ‘Re-imagining equality and diversity: An arts based participative Inquiry’- an article  accepted for publication by Management Learning, co authored ...

Welcome to OS@UWE’s first blog!

Welcome to the Organisation Studies blog at UWE! This is a place where we will be sharing bits and pieces ...