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2012 Qualitative Research in Business: A Research Colloquium

6 and 7 June 2012

Bradley Forum, Level 5, Hawke Building, City West Campus, North Terrace, University of South Australia

Professor Lee Parker University of South Australia	Professor Samantha Warren University of Essex	Professor John Burns University of Exeter	Dr Gillies Ambler Uniting Church in Australia

 

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We are pleased to announce the 5th annual Colloquium in Qualitative Research in Business. This intensive colloquium for academics and postgraduate students in business and commerce-related disciplines will combine presentations from experienced qualitative researchers with interactive forums covering a range of methodological issues and research methods. The Colloquium is designed to support interaction and discussions between researchers already engaged in qualitative research, academics and postgraduates considering or embarking on a qualitative research project, and those researchers, postgraduates and honours degree students wishing to familiarise themselves with these research traditions.

Professor Lee Parker is Professor of Accounting and Deputy Director of the Centre for Accounting, Governance and Sustainability in the School of Commerce at the University of South Australia, Honorary Professor of Management & Accounting Control the University of St Andrews, Scotland, Adjunct Professor of Accounting in the Auckland University of Technology School of Business and Adjunct Professor of Accounting at RMIT University. With over 150 published articles and books on management and accounting, he is joint founding editor of Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal and serves on over 25 other journal editorial boards. Lee specialises in qualitative research and is widely published in this area.

Professor Sam Warren is a critical management Professor, at Essex Business School, UK and previously spent ten years in the sales and marketing industry. Samantha is at the forefront of developing sensory methodologies in business and management studies and has been using photography to critically research organizational life for over a decade. She is also co-founder of the International Network for Visual Studies in Organizations (www.in-visio.org<http://www.in-visio.org>) and has written on workplace fun, aesthetics, accountants' identities, drugs, flash-mobbing, pregnancy and virtuality. Her most recent research explores the social role of smell in office workplaces.

Professor John Burns is Head of Accounting at Exeter Business School and has held previous academic positions at the Universities of Colorado, Dundee and Manchester. He has published extensively in the areas of management accounting, organisational change, and sustainable development, for both academic and professional outlets. John is Associate Editor for Management Accounting Research; a member of the Research Board for the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA); and co-founder of the European Network for Research of Organisational and Accounting Change (ENROAC). He is also Visiting Professor at WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management (Germany) and the Swedish Business School, Örebro (Sweden).

Dr Gillies Ambler is a minister in the Uniting Church in South Australia with an honours degree in mathematics and a master’s degree in theology. His doctorate [2008] was unique in its field, applying the qualitative research methodology of autoethnography to the narration and analysis of the personal grief process. His book, based on the doctorate, has been used by both counsellors and people facing major grief events. Dr Ambler has been an adjunct faculty member the University of Adelaide in the areas of grief, palliative care and spirituality and he has supervised postgraduate theses employing qualitative methodologies to explore significant personal and corporate grief issues in our contemporary society.

Participants will attend keynote presentations by the professors convening the Colloquium and engage in interactive demonstrations and discussions. Flyer (PDF 348Kb)

Registration is $95 and includes morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea on Wednesday 6th and Thursday 7th June, 2012. Program (PDF 362kb)