5 reasons to attend the University Forum for Human Resource Development / Academy of Human Resource Development Doctoral Symposium:
- Develop your network – being a PhD / Professional Doctoral student can be an incredibly lonely place. The UFHRD/AHRD Doctoral Symposium will offer you both structured and unstructured networking opportunities during and after the event, networking with likeminded people who share your passion and specialism interests.
- Meet the experts – the UFHRD/AHRD Doctoral Symposium provides an informal and developmental space where you will speak with, learn from, and gain valuable opinions and dedicated feedback from established senior professionals and scholars from the people management field.
- Innovative ideas – the UFHRD/AHRD Doctoral Symposium is the annual meeting place where you can ‘test’ your ideas and put them out there to gain constructive and developmental insight. It is also a place where you will find out what ground-breaking ideas, discoveries and current theories are for your specialism.
- Dealing with the killer question – one of the most important aspects of creating new knowledge, and evidencing implications for professional practice, is being able to ‘theorise’ and answer the ‘killer question’ – “What is my unique contribution?” This event will provide you with tips and tricks on how to do this.
- Building your confidence – the UFHRD/AHRD Conference will provide you with a safe space, where you can ask questions, present ideas, and talk to like-minded people about your research, building your confidence as both a researcher and scholar in your subject specialism. It doesn’t matter where you are in your research journey; the start, the middle, or the end – we would love for you to join us and to hear about your ideas, and to help build your confidence in a friendly and fun environment!
Click here to see the full programme: Doctoral Symposium UFHRD 2022.
Your Doctoral Symposium Lead is Dr Andrea Subryan
KEYNOTE:
Mark NK Saunders BA MSc PGCE PhD FCIPD FAcSS
Mark Saunders is Professor of Business Research Methods at the Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham and Director of Global Engagement. Mark currently holds visiting professorships at the Universities of London (Birkbeck), Surrey and Worcester. He was awarded a fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2019 in recognition of his contribution to methods and human resource management research and social science researcher development. He was elected to Fellow of the British Academy of Management in 2014 and in 2017 was awarded the British Academy of Management Medal for Leadership in recognition of prolonged contribution to doctoral capacity building. In 2021 his textbook Research Methods for Business Students was ranked the most influential business and economics textbook in the World by the “FT (Financial Times) Teaching Power” league table.
Mark’s research interests include research methods, in particular participant selection and methods for understanding organizational relationships; human resource aspects of the management of change, in particular trust within and between organizations and organizational learning; and small and medium sized enterprise (SME) success. Throughout his academic career Mark has tried to ensure synergies between his research, teaching and consultancy work wherever possible. This is also reflected in his publications; his work having been cited in excess of 62,000 times. He has published over 100 research articles and book chapters including papers in journals such as British Journal of Management, Field Methods, Human Performance, Human Relations, Human Resource Management Journal, Journal of Small Business Management, Management Learning, R&D Management, Social Science and Medicine and Annals of Tourism Research. He is a consulting editor for the International Journal of Management Reviews, European editor for The Service Industries Journal and is on the editorial boards for Human Resource Development Quarterly, Journal of Trust Research and Personnel Review.
Mark has co-authored and edited over 30 books including Research Methods for Business Students (forthcoming 9th edition), How to Keep Your Doctorate on Track: Insights from Supervisors’ and Students’ Experiences, Organizational Trust: a Cultural Perspective, Handbook of Research Methods on Trust (currently 2nd edition), Handbook of Research Methods on Human Resource Development and Doing Research in Business and Management (currently 2nd edition), Doing Case Study Research and How to Keep Your Research Project on Track. He is joint editor with Bill Lee and Vadake Narayanan of Sage’s Understanding Research Methods for Business and Management Students book series and editor for Edward Elgar’s Handbooks of Research Methods series.
Mark began his career in academia after a variety of research posts in UK local government. He worked at the Gloucestershire Business School, University of Gloucestershire between 1990 and 2001. During this period he was Head of the Human Resource Management Research Centre. Between 2001 and 2009 he worked at Oxford Brookes University Business School where, he was Assistant Dean (Director of Research and Doctoral Programmes) and Professor of Business Research Methods. Between 2009 and 2015 Mark was Professor in Business Research Methods at the Surrey Business School, University of Surrey, and was Faculty Director of Postgraduate Research Programmes. Since 2015 he has worked at the Birmingham Business School where, until recently, he was Director of PhD Programmes. He continues to supervise doctoral students and teach research methods and methodology to masters and doctoral students
Mark has a long-term interest in facilitating research capacity building and doctoral training and supervision. He has organised numerous doctoral summer schools, symposia and colloquia, including for the British Academy of Management, the University Forum for Human Resources Development and the First International Network on Trust. He has supervised 24 doctorates to successful completion and examined over 30 doctorates.