Samer Abdelnour

The British Academy - Innovation Fellowships 2024-25 award up to £120,000 Policy-led Digital Society Call Deadline date: 26 Jun 2024 - 17:00 BST Duration of award: 12 months Research on topics such as: - the nature of the emerging AI skills in the UK, across sectors, regions, and career stages, and its future trajectories; - the social, economic, and cultural impacts of the current distribution of AI skills in the UK, and the impacts of different strategies to improve this; - the development and maintenance of effective AI skills partnerships; studies of alternative AI skills strategies, both from within the UK and abroad. https://lnkd.in/dmAXstC5

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Good to see this book, co-edited with Nalini, out: https://lnkd.in/dEKgGsw6 The book directly captures the experience and insights from a group of important stakeholders - senior and young academics, practitioners in the government, media, and civil society, as well as communities directly impacted by climate change - on #climatechange #adaptation and the role of #local #knowledge. The discussion we all had during a workshop organized by Nalini using a Indo-US grant are articulated in the form of this book. The original plan was to organize the workshop in a local community directly impacted by climate change so that we could incorporate their voices into the conversations. Covid didn't allow that but Nalini's perseverance and support from GITAM Deemed University ensured that we could at least organize the workshop. Thanks to Palgrave Macmillan for publishing it under its #pivot series and experimenting with a rather unconventional format for a book. We hope that the book's empirical examples of community-based initiatives will help move forward the conversations on participatory climate adaptation planning in India. Our thanks to all the authors for agreeing to participate in the workshop and contribute to this volume.

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Looking forward to reading this report 📑 Addressing real-world issues in teaching, especially economics and political economy. By integrating topics like the climate crisis and colonialism, economics education can better prepare students to understand the pressing challenges of our time. Enriching the curriculum with real-world examples empowers students to apply their knowledge in meaningful ways, contributing to a more informed and proactive society. #economics #newideas #rethinking #curriculum

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Congrats to Science of the Total Environment (STOTEN) on impressive new journal citescore of 17.6 🌟 this reflects key usage data over a 4 year period from Scopus Very pleasing to see that I’ve co-authored 32 papers in this great journal over the past 5 years 😊 Topics of interest featured: ✅sustainable Sterilization modalities and reprocessing methods ✅ risk mitigation, transnational modelling on new innovation and services including green ✅ life cycle assessment, supply chain and circularity (bioeconomy) ✅ digital transformation of processes ✅ combining digital twin and extended reality for unlocking design thinking including medical devices ✅ covid 19 mitigation strategies ✅ pollination and bee disease mitigation ✅ non thermal processing and sustainability for foodsecurity ✅ contaminants of emerging concern, modelling, risk mitigation and solutions ✅ Quintuple helix hub and sustainable innovation, #zerowaste, #zeropollution ✅ biobased alternatives to address #amr crisis ✅ role of training and immersive technologies for sustainable medical device industry ✅fungal drug resistance and potential solutions …. 😊 #sustainability #disruption #diseasemitigation #digitaltransformation #foodsecurity #education #research #medicaldevices #climatechange Damia Barcelo Eoghan Clifford Patrick Barrett John Laffey Liam Brown Damien Toner Niall Murray Jane Burns Cormac O'Shea Seamus Hoyne Maeve Hynes Tania Marsh Brijesh K. Tiwari Lorna Walsh

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Call for Papers: Special Issue on "Learning to Manage in a Changing Climate Through Epistemic Change" Kostas Iatridis, Annie Snelson-Powell, Clare Rigg, Alex Faria, Sasha Maher, Robin Shields and I are curating a special issue for the British Journal of Management focusing on the role of business schools in addressing climate change. Our special issue raises three grounding questions for managerial education, knowledge, and development across business schools as managers learn to manage in a changing climate: 🌱 What are the alternatives to managerialist epistemologies of climate change? 🌎 Can business schools transition from being agents of capitalism to agents of holistic change by promoting epistemological shifts to save the planet? 🔄 How can business schools address various aspects of the environmental crisis, whether categorised as 'environmental' or 'non-environmental,' and elucidate the connections between them? We invite scholars to contribute their research to our special issue. 🗓 Paper Submission Window: 10th June to 10th July 2025 https://lnkd.in/ehpB6RT6

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📚 New #OpenAccess Publication in Journal of Management Inquiry - @JMgmt_Inquiry Payal Sharma, Ph.D., Madeline Toubiana, Kisha Lashley, Felipe Massa, Kristie Rogers & Trish Ruebottom (2024) Honing the Craft of Qualitative Data Collection in Extreme Contexts Link: https://lnkd.in/dWS3aPhU Abstract: Over the past several years, there has been ongoing dialog within our academic journals and the profession regarding the value of examining extreme, unconventional, or unsettling contexts in management research. These conversations have highlighted that perhaps more than ever, we as a society are facing unprecedented grand and perplexing challenges, and conducting research in unconventional or extreme settings can reveal complex dynamics or relationships that we may not understand otherwise. Less discussed, however, are methodological considerations for conducting research in unique contexts. As such, we aim to extend the explicit discussion of effective strategies for scholars who consider the perspectives and workplace realities of unusual or unconventional populations. We bring together a collection of reflective essays rooted in the authors’ experiences of collecting data from extreme contexts or unusual samples. We highlight how these rich experiences in the field required the authors to modify or extend methodological conventions with the goal of guiding scholars pursuing research in similarly unconventional contexts. Keywords: #QualitativeMethods #Interviews #QualitativeResearch #Stigma UNLV Lee Business School University of Nevada-Las Vegas Telfer School of Management at the University of Ottawa University of Ottawa UVA McIntire School of Commerce University of Virginia University of Vermont Grossman School of Business University of Vermont Marquette University DeGroote School of Business - McMaster University McMaster University

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Our recent publication at the Journal of Innovation Management highlights the strategies and mechanisms to encourage circular innovation among businesses. Please read below. Monash University, Monash Business School

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Available online for free: "Impact Evaluation in Practice" The second edition of the Impact Evaluation in Practice handbook is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to impact evaluation for policymakers and development practitioners.

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🌍 Call for Papers: Tackling the Sustainable Development Goals 🌿 Are you passionate about sustainable development and seeking ways to measure, monitor, and report on progress effectively? "Measuring Business Excellence" invites submissions for a special issue, "Measuring, Monitoring, and Reporting Sustainable Development Goals Performance." 📅 Submissions close on 15 June 2024 They are looking for cutting-edge research that navigates sustainable development's economic, environmental, and social challenges and addresses how businesses can play a direct role in achieving the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 📊 Criteria and tools for measuring SDGs performance 🔍 Monitoring progress towards the SDGs 📈 Integrated business management approaches for the SDGs 💰 Financial instruments to support the SDGs 🏢 Corporate governance systems to support the SDGs 🌟 Impact of the SDGs on corporate value creation 🚀 ... and many more! Make your contribution count in shaping global sustainability practices. Your research will help guide companies and governments in their mission to fulfill the SDGs by 2030. The guest editors are: Nicola Raimo, LUM University, Italy Filippo Vitolla, LUM University, Italy ISABEL MARÍA GARCIA SANCHEZ , University of Salamanca, Spain Beatriz Aibar Guzmán, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain More information at https://bit.ly/3VUPCNE. Your insights could lead to sustainable solutions for our world. We look forward to your submissions! #CallForPapers #SustainableDevelopment #SDGs #Research #Sustainability #BusinessExcellence #AcademicResearch #JournalSubmission #MeasuringBusinessExcellence

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Our book "Community Energy and Sustainable Energy Transitions," edited by Prof. Vanesa Castan Broto, is now available. Focusing on experiences in Ethiopia, Malawi, and Mozambique, the book addresses the challenges of implementing community energy in areas with limited electricity access. It discusses how community energy can help achieve universal energy access, promote justice, and build resilience in sustainable energy transitions. Definitely worth reading! https://lnkd.in/ePR7CYtG

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The important concerns raised in the five-year review of the UK Alan Turing Institute need to be addressed promptly. They are (quoting from the report): "• Governance. • Implementation of the strategy. • Relationships with the ecosystem. • Financial management. • Operational effectiveness." These look very serious, particularly given the comment (again, quoting from the report): "Any future core funding from UKRI-EPSRC should therefore be conditional on resolution of the specific concerns, to ensure the Institute acts as a national institute for AI and data science." Much good work is coming from university academics involved with, and supported by, the Institute. This must not be put in jeopardy by failure to rapidly resolve these issues. More details of these concerns, and how to resolve them, are to be found in the report: https://lnkd.in/e_PhrZdu

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A very common sense view on the linkages between Universities, Business and investment. Some key points: 1️⃣ Maintaining a global advantage requires a strong University sector. 2️⃣ International students have a positive impact on our skills base. 3️⃣ This position is now at risk. Great to see how large employers proactively support this message.

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🧐 Are we truly objective in our academic recruitment processes? Explore our initiative to combat unconscious bias in hiring within the Faculty of Science. The Equality and Diversity Commission has introduced a thoughtful tool—a deck of cards—to remind us of potential biases in CV assessments, with a focus on gender bias. 🃏✨ Learn how these cards are paving the way for a fairer, more inclusive recruitment process and fostering a sustainable research culture. 🔗 https://ow.ly/m3lw50ShPN4 #FacSciUNIGEnewsletter #highereducation #diversityinscience #inclusiverecruitment #FacSciUNIGE Université de Genève - 📩 Don't miss out on the latest updates—subscribe to our newsletter for more exciting news and stories! ⬇️ https://ow.ly/SmW250SlKI8

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Submit your abstract!!

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Hello all, Join us for the paper development workshop for the CJAS special issue on “Brief Phenomenon-driven Papers on United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). When: 1:00 PM ET, Wednesday 29 May 2024 (1 hour) https://lnkd.in/eRGqNpgh This virtual workshop is available to anyone regardless of ASAC 2024 conference registration. In the first 30 minutes, the guest editors will give an introductory session on the mission and expectations of the special issue, and tips on how to write short and powerful empirical-driven papers for this special issue. For this part of the PDW, anyone is welcome to attend, including scholars who did not submit abstracts beforehand. In the following 30 minutes, there will be breakout room sessions (see schedule for these spaces) where guest editors provide detailed feedback to each abstract that was accepted. This part of the PDW is restricted to those whose abstracts were accepted to the workshop. You can find more details about the special issue here: https://lnkd.in/es6PBnjt

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Critical Perspectives at the Midpoint of SDG4 Complete Special Issue of the International Journal of Education Development Edited by D. Brent Edwards Jr. Niaz Asadullah Amber Webb, PhD Including paper by Pauline Rose & #YusufSayed Faculty of Education Assessing progress in tracking progress towards the education Sustainable Development Goal: Global citizenship education and teachers missing in action? Highlighting the often invisible and contested nature of the process of developing indicators. #SDGs #SDG4 Download the full issue free, including many more interesting papers! https://lnkd.in/eiiScv4U

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Mystery of Impact-Factor Declines (published in July 2023, see link below) Quote: "In conclusion, the data from Management Science shows that the dip in the impact factor is largely due to the change in methodology and how the change was rolled out over time. If this trend continues, we could expect to see the full impact of the methodology change in 2024 and a stabilization of the impact factors from 2025 onward" 2nd quote: "According to one estimate, at least 90% of the top 300 chemistry journals also experienced a decline in their impact factors. A similar trend was observed among the top medical and engineering journals"

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