Conference Programme
Sunday 8th December - Workshops
| Time | Session/ Activity | Room |
| 12:00 - 12:45 | Registration & Refreshments | 1st Floor Corridor |
| Workshops | Corelli Room | Lodge/MacNeice Room |
| 12:45 - 14:45 | Jonathan Clifton, Universite Polytechique, Hauts-de-France, France Magnus Larsson, Lund University, Sweden Stephanie Schnurr, Warwick University, UK | Doing reflective, engaged and empowering leadership research Katja Einola, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden Emma Bell, Open University, UK Scott Taylor, University of Birmingham, UK Carole Elliott, St Andrews University, UK |
| 14:45 - 15:00 | Refreshment Break | 1st Floor Corridor |
| Workshops | Corelli Room | Lodge/MacNeice Room |
| 15:00 - 17:00 | On the use (and misuse) of history and the humanities in leadership studies (LS) Dr Paul Sanders, Neoma Business School, France | Getting Published Professor Keith Grint, Warwick Business School, Warwick University, UK Professor David Collinson, Lancaster University, UK |
| 17:00 - 19:00 | Welcome Reception & ‘Why Write Books' – insights from Keith Grint, Barbara Simpson, Leah Tomkins & Antonio Maturano | Composers Suite |
Monday 9th December
| Time | Session/ Activity | Room | |||
| 08:00 - 09:00 | Fry Lounge | ||||
| 09:00 - 09:15 | Welcome by Conference Chairs | Fry Suite | |||
| 09:15 - 10:15 | Keynote Panel - Monologue on Dialogue? Megan Reitz & Scott Allen Chair: Donna Ladkin | Fry Suite | |||
| 10:15 - 10:45 | Refreshment Break | Fry Lounge | |||
| 10:45 - 12:15 | Parallel
Panel Session 1 | ||||
| Fry Suite | Corelli | Lodge | MacNeice | Elgar | Bantock |
| Chair: David Collinson Theme: Leading identities - Gender and race 1 - Changing ideologies & colonizing ideas on gender: the impact for women managers and leaders in the transitioning societies of Mongolia and Kazakhstan Aidan McKearney 2 - Performing hybrid masculine leadership in craft brewing Nicole Ferry 3 - Sharing the tensions: Black female leaders in the UK embracing and rejecting a collective Black female identity Obiageli Heidelberger-Nkenke | Chair: Valerie Stead Theme: Epistemological and ontological concerns 4 - Conflict, to Resolve or Assuage? A Study of Academic Middle Managers Strategies Sarah Robinson 5 - Unifying Leader and Leadership: Illuminating deep ontological lens of relationality through the essentialist entrenchment Ellina Watanabe 6 - Sacrificing Leadership: Rethinking Popular Images of Jacinda Ardern’s Resignation with Georges Bataille’s Philosophy Wanjun Lei 7 - Collaborative Leadership In Inter-organizational Coalitions: A Relational Social Constructionist Leadership Lens Stanley Ntakumba | Chair: Brigid Carroll Theme: Leadership development 1 - Participatory and participative practices 8 - Developing Leaders’ Ability to Engage in Participative Thinking Matthew Eriksen 9 - Virtuous adventures in intra-practice dialogue: Cultivating phronesis in leadership decision-making Steve Kempster & Merv Conroy 10 - Mediating the spaces between differing ethical discourses: leadership development, commercial improvements and sustainability transitions Annemarie De Jong 11 - Leader Development and Flourishing: Managers’ Mindfulness Learning Journeys Jeanette Eidmann & Elena Antonacopoulou | Chair: Richard Temperley-Little Theme: Leading for sustainability 1 – Identity, integration, systems, and worldviews 12 - ‘I’m a king without a country’: Role crafting and identity work among Norwegian sustainability managers Charlotta Levay & Atiyeh Kheirabi 13 - An integrated model of transformative potential, consciousness-raising, and critical consciousness in the context of sustainability leadership Rita Klapper 14 - Sustainability Leadership Theory: Subaltern and Earth System horizons for critical leadership studies Joanna Stanberry & Peter Case | Chair: Jen Jones Theme: New theoretical directions 16 - Telling lies: Towards a mendaciology of leadership Johan Alvehus 17 - Exploring the language of collective leadership in a professional football team. Towards a more engaging dialogue between (applied) linguistics and leadership studies Stephanie Schnurr 18 - Leadership as the sacralization of toilets Marcus Persson 19 - Why should I follow? – Potential positive returns of adopting a follower role and their underlying mechanisms Maike Kugler | Chair: Guy Lubitsh Theme: Leadership in dialogue 1 - Critical, psychoanalytic, discourse, micro analysis 20 - Critical Practices of Leadership - Let's Do It! Erica Lewis 21 - Leadership Death: An Existential-Psychoanalytical Perspective on Leadership Succession Anders Klitmøller 22 - Exploring Leadership Power and Its Impact on Absorptive Capacity: A Microfoundational Perspective Alexander Schmidt 23 - Temporal practices of leadership in interorganisational projects Dicle Kortantamer |
| 12:15 - 13:15 | Lunch & Welcome from Professor Edgar Meyer, Dean of Birmingham Business School | Fry Lounge | |||
| 13:15 - 15:05 | Parallel Panel Session 2 | ||||
| Fry Suite | Corelli | Lodge | MacNeice | Elgar | Bantock |
| Chair: Aiden McQuade Theme: Politics and political leadership 24 - Political Leadership and Violence: an Elected Affinity? Keith Grint 25 - The myths of bad leadership. Why harmful politics and policies are still believed to be right? Rudolf Metz 26 - Political leadership and monological speech: opening up ideological space for the ultra-Right Ron Kerr 27 - Dialogic Ruptures, Economic Disruptions, and Public Resistance: Liz Truss and the Constitution of Failed Leadership Timothy Betts | Chair: Kelly Rogers Theme: Leading professions and occupations – Conflict, narrative, and resolution 28 - Journey to the dark side: Conflict within collective leadership in an elite professional services firm Laura Empson 29 - Prompting a narrative shift: How managers construct a new understanding of shared leadership in response to child welfare problems Oemar Van Der Woerd 30 - Managing conflict: healthcare managers' considerations on how to navigate occupational disputes Ingrid Svensson 31 - Perspectives and explanations of successful executive nurse leadership in English NHS Trust Boards – findings from a professional doctorate critical realist and narrative inquiry study Sally Bassett 32 - From fractured to flourishing systems– the development of a Conceptual Framework and Impact Continuum for Clinical Leadership Programmes Helen Stanley | Chair: Peter Case Theme: Leading through faith and ideals 33 - Daoist Leadership: The Way of a Sage Devin Joshi 34 - Developing agency through leadership ideals: The case of Finland and the Bildung master discourse Peter Kenttä 35 - Stoic Leadership: Can it work? Joseph Gibson & Kae Reynolds 36 - Social movements in relief: Ma leadership as a heuristic to consider and make visible the life reflected in the space-in-between Janis Balda 37 - Moments of collective leadership configurations: A study of military teams in action Magnus Larsson, Jakob Rømer Barfod, Jonathan Clifton & Stephanie Schnurr | Chair: Richard Bolden Theme: Leadership development 2 – Individuals, collectives, and contexts 38 - Lead, Follow, or Get in the Way John Carroll 39 - If leadership is a collective practice, how do we do leadership development? Laura Reeves & Clare Rigg 40 - Teaching and Practicing Global Leadership Critically: Acknowledging Context and Power in an Intercultural Dialogue for Social Change Antonio Jimenez Luque 41 - Embracing Harmony: Confucian Values-Based Leadership in Fostering Social Good and Individual Flourishing Barbara Xiaoyu Wang 42 - Learning to listen: Leader humility and intergenerational learning for sustainability leadership at universities Carole Elliott, Maribel Blasco, Annemette Kjærgaard & Sarah Robinson | Chair: Jean Hartley Theme: Collective and collaborative leadership 43 - Acting Collectively: Universities as Responsible Leaders in Global Climate Governance Sasha Maher & Brad Jackson 44 - The Collective, Discursive Construction of Leadership: How Cultural Discourses Impact our Communities and Worldviews Peter Stephenson 45 - Building Resilience through Collaborative Leadership Practices: Effective Community Engagement Strategies for High-Containment Laboratories Sean Eddington & David Barnhart 46 - Pop-up Punk: An examination of shifting power dynamics underpinning emergent collective leadership within Chinese underground scenes Anthony Ryan | Chair: Brigitte Biehl Theme: Leadership development 3 - Systems 47 - Learning to be led by and through affecting bodies Victor Andres Perez Moraga 48 - A Student Perspective on Dialogue for Undergraduate Leadership Education Lilian Haney, Samuel Raymond & Clara Holmes 49 - Leadership Through Art: A Method for Training Future Leaders Andrew Schenkel, Katja Einola & Paul Rosenbaum 50 - Leadership as discourse – Leadership development as dialogic practice Tuukka Kostamo & Jari Ylitalo |
| 15:05 - 15:15 | Refreshment Break – Grab a quick coffee | Fry Lounge | |||
| 15:15 - 16:30 | Keynote – Leading in the Grey Zone Jim Gamble QPM, Dr Aidan McQuade & Darren Murphy Chair: Joanne Murphy | Fry Suite | |||
| 16:30 - 18:00 | Close of day Refreshments | Fry Lounge | |||
| 18:00 - 19:00 | Free time | ||||
| 19:00 - 22:30 | Conference Dinner (Coaches arranged for 6:30pm from Edgbaston Park Hotel to The Old Library and return coaches will be from 10:30pm) | The Old Library, Digbeth | |||
Tuesday 10th December
| Time | Session/ Activity | Room | |||
| 09:00 - 09:15 | Welcome Refreshments to Day 2 | Fry Lounge | |||
| 09:15 - 10:15 | Keynote
- Leadership and the Art of the 'Kafkaesque': Three Kinds of Dialogue Leah Tomkins Chair: Donna Ladkin | Fry Suite | |||
| 10:15 - 10:45 | Refreshment
Break | Fry Lounge | |||
| 10:45 - 12:30 | Parallel
Panel Session 3 | ||||
| Fry Suite | Corelli | Lodge | MacNeice | Elgar | Bantock |
| Chair: Charlotta Levay Theme: Critical concerns – Darkness and technologies 51 - Feminism, faith, and the family: A critical intersectional analysis of the dialectical tensions between gender and religious identities among women academic leaders Brad Jackson 52 - Algorithmic leadership and the question of distance Johan Jönsson & Sverre Spoelstra 53 - Is studying leadership epistemically justified? An epistemic worthiness-focused examination Linda Evans 54 - Out of tune: cinematic conductors and the misrepresentation of leadership Richard Longman & Stewart Campbell | Chair: Lydia Martin Theme: Poststructuralist and phenomenological perspectives 55 - Arendt, Beauvoir, and Barnes: Thinking Critically about Critical Leadership and Collectives Jen Jones, Rita Gardiner & Helet Botha 56 - On reading, writing and researching differently in leadership Barbara Simpson 57 - Everyday encounters of the phenomenological kind: Developing an approach to leadership-as-practice doctoral research Matthew Knowsley 58 - The Missing ‘Where and How’ of Leadership: Leadership and Directionality Brigid Carroll & Lydia Martin | Symposium 59 - Collective Leadership: Connecting ideas, communities and worldviews Richard Bolden, Laura Empson, Brad Jackson, Nicole Ferry, Kerry Priest, Suzanne Gagnon & Eric Guthey | Chair: Malcolm Higgs Theme: Leadership for flourishing and the common good 60 - Ventriloquism in dialogue with leadership studies. What can ventriloquism add to emerging trends in leadership research? Jonathan Clifton 61 - Negotiating Leadership in a self-styled HolocracyTM System Gunilla Avby & Ingela Bergmo-Prvulovic 62 - A Dialogic Perspective on Leadership for Human Flourishing and the Common Good Dimitrios Spyridonidis & Elena Antonacopoulou 63 - The Impact of Leaders' Emotional Style on Employee Health: Pathways to Flourishing and Organisational Well-Being Kathrin Schweizer | Chair: Matthew Eriksen Theme: Leadership in dialogue 2 – Reviewing cognate fields 64 - CEOs as catalysts and inhibitors of the relationship between vertical and shared leadership Jari Ylitalo 65 - What a long, strange trip it’s been: Exploring the Gronn model of the leadership journey in social entrepreneurship Kelly Rogers & Scott Lichtenstein 66 - A Case for a Caring Approach: How SME Leaders can benefit from collaborative economic theory Alison Miles & Lynda Williams 67 - Inclusive leadership as a force for good – critical insights into lived experiences Doris Schedlitzki | Chair: Carole Elliott Theme: Leadership in dialogue 3 – Acknowledging the excluded 68 - Digital leadership and gender: Safe spaces and dead ends in hybrid work Brigitte Biehl 69 - Revitalizing class leadership: Introducing a sociotechnical measure Teresa Almeida 70 - The role of leadership in transforming Scotland’s approach to violence reduction Jenny Britton 71 - Banking on the “Unbanked”: Narrative Leadership and Economic Inclusion at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Lauren Berkshire Hearit & Timothy Betts |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch | Fry Lounge | |||
| 13:30 - 15:10 | Parallel Panel Sessions 4 | ||||
| Fry Suite | Corelli | Lodge | MacNeice | Elgar | Bantock |
| Symposium 72 - Critical Approaches to Phenomenological Inquiry and Leadership Studies Rita Gardiner & Jen Jones | Chair: Sverre Spoelstra Theme: Gender and conformity – Spaces and voices 74 - Challenging Gender Conformity in Coaching Female Leaders: Who is the coach and how does she get to speak?Annie Anderson-Faulkner 75 - Sisters in Suits – Where is the women’s policy machinery in devolution?Erica Lewis Theme: Indigenous futures and leading 76 - Reimagining healthcare leadership through the African philosophy of unembeza Richard Bolden & Peter Case 77 - Empowering Indigenous Futures: Female Leadership in Tribal Colleges Lindasue Warner & Geraldine Sanipaw | Chair: Doris Schedlitzki Theme: Leading in military and policing organizations 78 - (Desperately) Seeking Transformational Leadership. Is Transformational Leadership Observable as part of in the situ Practice of Military Teams on Active Service? Jakob Barfod 79 - Police Leadership: Contradictions and Complexities Naomi Davis-Crane 80 - Shared and contested leadership in the purple zone: The case of policing Jean Hartley | Chair: Suzanne Gagnon Theme: Leadership and leading in public sector organizations 81 - The Impact and Legacy of a Long-Serving Group Chief Executive's Retirement on Collaborating NHS Trusts Janet Mortimore 82 - Rubber levers – the limitations of adaptive leadership approaches in driving change in long term care Catherine Mangan 87 - Evolving Leadership in the UK Charity Sector Carina Schofield & Guy Lubitsh 83 - Changing when it matters: The effects of change leadership and societal value on change embeddedness in public teams Ben Kuipers & Malcolm Higgs 84 - What Year is It Again? A case study and systems analysis of the relationship between structure, agency and power in complex regulatory systems Katherine A Hoffman | Chair: Rita Klapper Theme: Leading in digital worlds 85 - Unveiling Dark Leadership: Exploring Behaviours, Influences, and Implications: A study of leaders in Further Education Institutions Kelly Rogers & Malcolm Higgs 86 - Effective Communication Strategies with Remote Workers in the Post–Covid 19 Pandemic World Christine Jackson 88 - AI as a leadership actor Frank Meier 89 - Developing collective leadership in online peer learning environments: Exploring the role of collaborative dialogue Katie Willocks | Chair: Jenny Britton Theme: Leadership in dialogue 4 – Higher education and responsibility 90 - UNSDGs in Contemporary Firms: The power of Sustainable Network Leadership Framework in addressing Societal Challenges in a Middle Eastern Context Dr Nawaf Al-Ghanem 91 - Leading engineering inclusion: Affective and fluid organizing of belongingness in higher education Sean Eddington & Patrice Buzzanell 92 - From Policy to Practice: Exploring the Mediating Role of School Principals in System-Wide Reforms Matías Sanfuentes |
| 15:10 - 15:30 | Closing Conference | Fry Suite | |||
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Closing Refreshments | Fry Lounge | |||