Judge Business School hosts Management Education Fellows' Day

The event highlights the importance of management education and research for business and policy makers in the UK.

The FME funds training fellowships and development programmes and helps to secure funding for new research initiatives for its Fellows who are all experienced business practitioners who have moved into business school academia.

The two day programme at Judge Business School will discuss the subject of funding for research opportunities, with sessions on how to strike the balance between credible academic research that can also be applied in business management.

It will also offer FME Fellows the unique opportunity to network with each other to support their professional and personal development.

Dr Chander Velu commented: “The FME Fellows are uniquely positioned to contribute to research that integrates academic rigour with managerial relevance. The Fellows' Day at Judge Business School, based on the theme of ‘Research with Relevance,’ aims to further strengthen the collective research capabilities of the Fellows in order to have significant impact on management decisions.”

The seminar will open with an introduction from Mike Jones and Dr Chander Velu. This will be followed by three sessions: “Connecting Scholarship and Practice for Impact: The GNOSIS Experience” led by Professor Elena Antonacopoulou, Professor of Organisational Behaviour, University of Liverpool; “Publishing in Business/The Business of Publishing” led by Professor Jaideep Prabhu, Nehru Professor of Indian Business, Judge Business School and “AIMing Together – How FME Fellows might benefit from a closer relationship with AIM” led by Professor Andy Neely, Deputy Directory of the Advanced Institute for Management Research.

The day will conclude with a dinner at Corpus Christi College with a welcome address from Professor Arnoud De Meyer, Director of Judge Business School, and an after dinner speech from, Sir David Varney, Prime Minister's Adviser on Public Service Transformation, Cabinet Office

The second day of the seminar comprises of two main sessions: “Teaching Masterclass
The Case Study Method - A time Honoured Approach” led by Dr John Constable, formerly Director of the Cranfield School of Management, co–author of the report, ‘The Making of British Managers’, FME Council member and “Research Opportunities with ESRC Funding” led by Anna Marshall, Principal Policy Manager ESRC.

Commenting on the event, Mike Jones said: “The Fellows’ Day brings together many people who have all made the career change from business to business school. It provides an opportunity to create a learning network that fosters working collaborations and friendships.”

Over 18 business school deans from across the UK and 20 FME Fellows will be attending the programme along with guests from several businesses including UBS Bank and Emerald Publishing.

The programme has been jointly organised by Mike Jones, Director, FME, Dr Chander Velu, Lecturer in Marketing, Judge Business School and FME Fellow and Dr George Olcott, FME Teaching Fellow, Judge Business School.

The FME was founded in 1960 by business and political figures and led the business schools movement in the UK in the early 1960s, in order to progress the development of management education institutions, skills and knowledge in the UK. The FME financed the creation of London Business School and Manchester Business School – the first two business schools in the UK.

With the growth of graduate and post graduate business education programmes that followed, the FME focused on targeting policy makers and management education providers, to give an independent view on management education issues. The FME funds initiatives such as research projects and Fellowships for business practioners developing a new career in academia, helping to secure improvements in the quality and relevance of management education in the UK.

The council members and members of The FME are all experienced business managers or political leaders who have made a contribution to management education in the UK, or who have applied their expertise in their chosen field to support The FME.