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SCOS Update: April, part I

Three items in early April:
1) Chair in Organisation Studies/Organisational Psychology at Aston Business School, Aston University, Birmingham
2) Invitation to the next Organisation Studies (OSN) Seminar, Keele University, 15th May 2012
3) Launch of the inVisio/ ESRC Researcher Development Initiative: inVisio inspire on Tuesday May 22nd

Item 1:
Please see the link below for an advert for a Chair in Organisation Studies/Organisational Psychology at Aston Business School, Aston University, Birmingham.

http://www.jobs.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search.cgi?keywords=Professorships+Aston&x=0&y=0


Item 2:
Invitation to the next Organisation Studies (OSN) Seminar, Keele University, 15th May 2012

We would like to invite you to join us at the next Organisation Studies Network (OSN) seminar, which will be held as follows:

Keele University
Tuesday 15th May 2012
Buffet Lunch 12.00pm, Papers Commence 1.00pm
Moser Building, Room number CM 0.12

Details of travel to Keele can be found by clicking here. You will find signs when you arrive on campus for the Moser Building, which is behind the chapel and next to the library.

There is no fee for the afternoon seminar, which will include the papers below, but could you please let the three of us know, as soon as you can and by Tuesday 8th. May at the latest, if you intend joining us; so that you can be included in the buffet lunch which will be available from 12.00 noon – 1.00pm. Presentation of papers will commence at 1.00pm sharp. We anticipate finishing between 4.00pm and 4.30pm.

We look forward to hearing from you, and welcoming you at Keele, for another critical, scholarly, supportive and enjoyable OSN afternoon.

Geoff, John and Jim

g.heath@mngt.keele.ac.uk; j.p.chandler@uel.ac.uk; j.j.barry@uel.ac.uk

Organisation Studies Network (OSN) seminar
Keele University
Tuesday 15th May 2012
Buffet Lunch 12.00pm, Papers Commence 1.00pm
Moser Building, Room number CM 0.12.
1.00 – 1.35pm: Supporting the front line managers of social work, Elizabeth Harlow (Chester)

1.35 – 2.10pm: “You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar”: a study of management control and employee resistance, Kim Mather (Keele)

2.10- 2.45pm: The production of the young male worker: controversies and contradictions, Teresa Oultram (Keele)

2.45-2.55 pm: Coffee/Tea

2.55-3.30pm: Movement and Coalition in Contention: Gender, Management and Academe in England and Sweden, Jim Barry (East London & Luleå), Elisabeth Berg (Luleå and East London) and John Chandler (East London)

3.30 – 4.05pm: What the business school can learn from Captain Jack Sparrow: Economic Outlaws and the Counter Culture of Organizing, Martin Parker (Warwick)

4.05 – 4.15 concluding remarks

This seminar is part of the 2011-12 programme of presentations arranged by the COM group within the Centre for Economics and Management research, Research institute for Social Sciences, Keele University


Item 3:
You are cordially invited to the launch of the inVisio/ ESRC Researcher Development Initiative: inVisio inspire on Tuesday May 22nd 6-9:30pm, at Central Working, 11-13 Bayley Street, London.

Champagne reception and hot buffet, and keynote address by Professor Sarah Pink, Loughborough University, UK. Places are FREE but strictly limited – please email invisiolaunch@gmail.com to reserve a place by 10th May 2012

Download the Launch flyer here.

The inspire resources have been assembled by the International Network for Visual Studies in Organization (www.in-visio.org) with funding from the ESRC Researcher Development Initiative, and include free to access, online reference materials, "how-to" guides, video case-studies, and teaching materials all aimed at developing business and management researchers' skills in visual methodologies. They will be premiered at the gala event on the 22nd May and publicly available after this date.

We look forward to welcoming you on the 22nd May!

from: Sam Warren, Emma Bell, Jane Davison, Bill Lee, Harriet Shortt, Caroline Scarles and Jonathan Schroeder the inVisio inspire steering group.