Business Week 2010
Starts:
Finishes:
Venue:
Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street
No booking required
Whether you want to understand organizational behaviour or search engines, commodities or unemployment, or whether you want to discuss if 1=0, Birkbeck Business Week addresses all this and more in an exciting all-week showcase of research, practice and scholarship.
From the business of sport to the economics of war, from workplace ethnicity to corporate governance, business partnering or transformation through information systems, our internationally-acclaimed academics give you a preview of how to understand today what will shape the workplaces of tomorrow.
Birkbeck Business week highlights research and teaching excellence from all Departments of the School of Business, Economics and Informatics. Join us for our evening series, lunch time events, one hour, a day or even the whole week. Please see our programme below for more information.
Monday 28 June - Computer Science and Information Systems
1.00 - 2.00pm
Prof Mark Levene
Understanding search engine queries
2.00 - 2.40pm
Dr Nigel Martin
Integrating life sciences data: Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much!
3.00 - 3.40pm
Dr Sven Helmer
Building a knowledge base for research on Andean Weaving
3.40 - 4.20pm
Dr George Roussos
RFID in pervasive computing
4.20 - 5.00pm
Professor Alex Poulovassilis
MiGen: A system supporting exploratory learning of mathematics generalisation
6.15pm
Inaugural Business Week Lecture
Prof Philip Powell, Executive Dean of the School of Business, Economics and Informatics
Growing Pains: Small firm transformation through information systems
Tuesday 29 June - Organizational Psychology
1.00 - 2.00pm
Prof Raymond Caldwell
HR Business Partnering: Emerging Models, Future Challenges
2.00 - 2.40pm
Prof Philip Dewe
Coping with work related stress research
2.40 - 3.00pm
Jamie Priestley,
Embracing paradox: the construction of the short and long term - MSc Thesis Presentation
3.00 - 3.20pm
Refreshments - Room B02
3.20 - 3.40pm
Katherine Carr
The relationship between self regulation and sales performance
3.40 - 4.20pm
Dr Kate Mackenzie Davey & Dr Megan Joffe
Medical director role and identity: translators, bridges and gatekeepers
4.20 - 5.00pm
Dr Etlyn Kenny
Ethnicity at work: What do we know? What don't we know?
5.00 - 6.00pm
Reception
6.15pm
Alec Rodger Memorial Lecture
Prof Dame Carol Black DBE MD FRCP FMEDSci
Maximising the health and wellbeing of the working age population
Wednesday 30 June - Management
1.00 - 2.00pm
Dr Geoff Walters
Governance in Sport: National Governing Bodies and 'Modernisation'
2.00 - 2.40pm
Prof Birgitte Anderson
Shackling the Digital Economy means less for everyone
2.40 - 3.00pm
Refreshments - Room B02
3.00 - 3.40pm
Dr Sue Konzelmann
Anglo-Saxon Liberal Market Economies in Crisis
3.40 - 4.20pm
Dr Linda Trenberth
Workplace bullying, stress and you
4.20 - 5.00pm
Dr Kannika Leelapanyalert
Factors influencing Internationalisation of Retailing Firms
6.15pm
Birkbeck Sports Centre Evening Lecture
Getting more Businesslike about the Management and Business of Sport: A Roundtable Event
Thursday 1 July - Economics, Mathematics and Statistics
1.00 - 2.00pm
Prof John Driffill
A century of boom and bust
2.00 - 2.50pm
Dr Ken Hori
Investigating Job Market Matching Mechanism
2.50 - 3.20pm
Refreshments - Room B02
3.20 - 4.10pm
Dr Sarah Hart
1 = 0 and other little-known facts
4.10 - 5.00pm
Prof Ron Smith
Military Economics and the Defence Review
5.00 - 6.00pm
Reception - Room B02
6.15pm
Commodity Finance Centre (CFC) Business Week Evening
A talk by Prof Helyette Geman, Director of the Commodity Finance Centre, will be followed by a panel discussion including Birkbeck alumni and high profile practitioners working in the commodity world.
Friday 2 July - The best job in the world
As a closing event for Birkbeck Business Week and the Business Lunch Seminars, we are delighted to screen a documentary by award-winning, Emmy-nominated internationally acclaimed Director Agnieszka Piotrowska.
Her film is the only documentary made about the most successful advertising campaign in the last twenty years and those affected by the classified advert which appeared around the world about a- dream- come -true job of an island's caretaker in Australia.
Following the screening, there will be a round table discussion with the Director.
Contact name:
Isobel Edwards