Sunday Workshops




Getting Published

Professor Keith Grint, Said Business School, University of Oxford
Professor David Collison, Lancaster University, UK

This workshop will consider how to get published. It is intended for PhD and post doc students, or those just starting out on their academic career, and will consider the various methods and processes to enhance the chances of getting papers published in academic journals or longer pieces as books. 


It will start with a brief overview of things I wished I’d known when I started out (150 years ago when the Romans were still around), and hopefully that will be enough to start conversations, generate questions, and provide answers. By the end of the session everyone, including me, should be just a little wiser and have a better understanding of what to expect, what not to do, and how to persuade your reviewers and editors that your work deserves an audience.


Exploring Interactional Approaches to Leadership 

Jakob Barfod, Royal Danish Defence College, Denmark 
Jonathan Clifton, Université Polytechique Hauts-de-France, France 
Magnus Larsson, Lund University, Sweden 
Stephanie Schnurr, Warwick University, England 

Recently, interactional approaches to leadership have been gaining traction (see Special Issue of Leadership, 16(5), 2020). Starting with transcripts of video- or audio-recorded data and building out to leadership theories, the aim of this research has been to show how leadership is brought off in the here-and-now of in situ organisational practice.


What are the aims of the workshop? We consider this workshop to be a data-session in which the aim is to explore interactional approaches to leadership, and see how, working out from observation of leadership practice(s), such an approach can contribute to current debates in leadership. We have no a priori methodological or theoretical demands beyond arguing for the centrality of the empirical analysis of actual interaction. With this caveat in mind, the workshop welcomes a variety of methodological approaches such as: ethnography; discourse analysis, ethnomethodology; (multi-modal) conversation analysis; communicative constitution of organisation; narrative as practice; and many more.


Who is the workshop designed for? The workshop is designed for anybody interested in observing and analysing leadership as in situ practice, from confirmed leadership scholars to PHD students starting out on their career.

Are there any prerequisites? Whilst bringing your own data is not a prerequisite of attendance, we nevertheless encourage anybody wishing to attend to bring their own data. This, we hope, will make the workshop more relevant to your own needs and interests.

What data? We are primarily interested in any observational data of leadership in action (video- or audio-recorded), though interview talk, or any other talk about leadership, also provides a rich seam of data that can be analysed from an interactional perspective.


Considering time constraints, we suggest that such data is limited to no more than two pages of transcripts or three of four minutes of video- or audio-recorded interaction.

What to do next? If you are interested in attending please contact: jonathan.clifton@uphf.fr

Reference

Clifton, J., Larsson, M., & Schnurr, S. (2020). Leadership in interaction. An introduction to the Special Issue. Leadership, 16(5), 511-521.




On the use (and misuse) of history and the humanities in leadership studies (LS)

Dr. Paul Saunders, Neoma Business School, France 

The workshop provides a brief introduction to the humanities in leadership research. The first part of the workshop will be dedicated to understanding how/why humanities scholars approach leadership, and how this diverges from the ‘hard science’ approach to leadership using statistics, psychology and other quantitative angles. A particular emphasis will be placed on history, historians and the historical method, and on the value this work can add to leadership research. The learning content will be illustrated through examples and workshop participants will be encouraged to actively participate in exercises. Besides the potential, we will also discuss the challenges and limitations of humanities-based LS; and how the two divergent approaches in LS (‘quants’ versus ‘qual’) can complement each other.




Doing reflexive, engaged and empowering leadership research




Katja Einola, Stockholm School of Ecomomics, Sweden;

Emma Bell, Open University, UK

Scott Taylor, University of Birmingham, UK 

Carole Elliott, St Andrews University, UK  



This methodology workshop will provide PhD students and early career scholars with an opportunity for dialogue with leading practice-based, critical leadership scholars about how they use methods to craft a research identity that aligns with their purpose and values. Using the concepts of reflexivity, engagement and empowerment it will provide methodological guidance on how to study leadership in a way which is aligned with your ethics and politics.


By thinking about why we study leadership in the way that we do and how we understand our own situatedness, the workshop will help participants to avoid the fetishization of method in leadership studies in the interests of telling stories that matter.