Programme
9:00: Registration - Tea, coffee and a light snack
9:30: Welcome by Professor Rod Sheaff, Interim Director iSPER
9:40: Keynote address - Professor Carole Parkes, Professor of Global Issues & Responsible Management, University of Winchester.
- Responsible Management Education: Fighting global poverty as a challenge for business and management education
10:20: Managing People in an Age of Uncertainty - Dr Richard Saundry, Professor in Human Resource Management and Employment Relations
10:40: Enterprising Refugee Women Navigating Borders in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey - Dr Haya Al-Dajani, Associate Professor (Reader) in Entrepreneurship
11:00: Agri-tech in the EU: Risk and uncertainty in the agricultural product value chain - Professor Shaofeng Liu, Professor of Operations Management and Decision Making, with Lynne Butel, Huilan Chen, Professor Phil Megicks, Dr Carmen Lopez and Guoqing Zhao
11:20: Break
11:40: Climate Change Criminology - Dr Oliver Smith, Reader in Criminology
12:00: Global Problems, Local Solutions: Recruitment and retention of seafarers in China - Dr Lijun Tang, Lecturer in Port and Shipping Management
12:20 The Role of Mobility in Tax and Subsidy Competition - Dr Alex Haupt, Associate Professor (Reader) in Economics
12.40: Final questions and discussion led by Professor Rod Sheaff and Professor Carole Parkes
12.50 Closing remarks from Professor Jerry Roberts – Deputy Vice-Chancellor-Research and Enterprise
13:00–14:00: Lunch and Networking - CHITCHAT interactive exhibit 'Local Transgression to Global History via Analogue to Digital: Plymouth as a Transitional Town' and PhD posters - Professor Kim Stevenson and Craig Newbery-Jones, CHITCHAT Co-directors
Keynote address
Responsible Management Education: Fighting global poverty as a challenge for business and management education - Professor Carole Parkes
As the UN global initiative Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) reaches its first decade, UN Special Adviser for PRME, Professor Carole Parkes, will address its stated goal to develop the capabilities of students to be generators of sustainable value for a more inclusive global economy, through teaching, research, engagement and organisational practices.
Fighting poverty is number one in the Sustainable Development Goals and it presents a big challenge to all management education stakeholders to provide students with opportunities to study poverty-related issues. The challenge is to institutionalise responsible management education’s promise to help shape the mind-sets of the next generation of business professionals.
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