AMBS Event - Online Doctoral event with an EDI focus
| Dates: | 2 April 2025 |
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| Times: | 13:00 - 14:00 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | Alliance Manchester Business School |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, External researchers, Current University students |
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| Speaker: | Professor Nelarine Cornelius |
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On the 2nd of April 2025, Professor Nelarine Cornelius, University of Manchester alumnus and Professor of Organisation Studies, Queen Mary, University of London, will be giving a prestigious lecture on behalf of the British Academy: ‘ Reimagining business as a force for good’.
What are the implications for doctoral researchers, especially in a climate of increasing scrutiny of the value of equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI)/ diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)?
Professor Cornelius will share some of the personal challenges she has faced, and overcome, in her social justice research, highlighting the impact on organisations generally.
She will also discuss building research impact into research design, using illustrations from previous doctoral projects in the UK, Tunisia, China and Nigeria.
Speaker
Professor Nelarine Cornelius
Role: Professor of Organisation Studies
Organisation: Queen Mary - University of London
Biography: Nelarine Cornelius is Professor of Organisation Studies. Between 2017 and 2023: the School’s Associate Dean People, Culture and Inclusion; Co-Chair of the School’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee and Member of the School’s Steering Group (Senior Management Team). At the College level, she is a Member of the QMUL Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Steering Group, Gender Equality Action Group, and Disability Inclusion Action Group, She is currently a member of the School’s PhD Committee. Before joining Queen Mary, she was Professor of HRM and Organisation Studies, Associate Dean, Research and Knowledge Transfer and Director, Bradford Centre for Business in Society, at the University of Bradford. Professor Cornelius’ research is in the areas of social justice, business in society, the evolution of management practices in emerging, fragile economies, and international management.
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