AIM Capacity Building Workshop: Collaborative Academic Practitioner Research

10.00 am – 4.00 pm
BAM Office, 137 Euston Road, London
(see www.bam.ac.uk)

This workshop was run by Professor Jean Bartunek, AIM Visiting International Fellow, the Robert A. and Evelyn J. Ferris Chair, Carroll School of Management, Boston College, with Professor Elena Antonacopoulou, AIM Senior Fellow, Professor of Organizational Behaviour, University of Liverpool Management School, and Professor Julia Balogun, AIM Ghoshal Fellow, the Professor Sir Roland Smith Chair in Strategic Management, Lancaster University Management School. 

Developing research which is of relevance to both academics and practitioners remains a challenge, yet is something increasingly expected of management academics.  The workshop focused on collaborative approaches that enabled relevance for both audiences: the collaborative research.  It was aimed at individuals engaged in or considering how to engage in collaborative research.

The workshop was designed to share the knowledge of Jean, Julia and Elena on not only designing and managing collaborative research relationships, but also the challenge of publishing from such research for academic audiences in international academic journals and communicating the outcomes of the studies in a way that practitioners find valuable.

The workshop had two parts.  It opens with Jean, Julia and Elena presenting their approaches and experiences on collaborative research.  These presentations set the scene for the rest of the workshop which consisted of roundtable discussion groups. Each delegate will have the opportunity to participate in 2 of 3 themes: forming and managing collaborative research partnerships, providing value and relevance during the research, writing from collaborative research partnerships. 

The workshop was closed by Jean, presenting her current research on potentially problematic issues that traditional academic research has with engaging with practice and practitioners and the implications for collaborative research.

Please see the attached flyer for further details.
 

Presentations

Challenging How we do Research: Incorporating Rigour & Relevance by Professor Elena Antonacopoulou




What academic publishing says to practitioners (literally) by Jean M. Bartunek





Insider/Outsider Inquiry and the Larger Issue of Academic- Practitioner Relationshops by Jean M. Bartunek




Collaboration Workshop Presentation by Julia Balogun





If you have any queries regarding this event please contact Agi Witaszczyk on 020 7862 8519 or agnieszka.witaszczyk@wbs.ac.uk