With Professor Stephanie Decker Friday 2nd May 2025 (09.30-16.00) Leeds University Business School We are pleased to welcome Professor Stephanie Decker who will deliver a workshop on behalf of the network on ‘Using Historical Approaches in Management Research’. Summary: The workshop introduces the different ways in which historical approaches are being employed to advance understanding and theory in management and business research. It expands on the different approaches to the past in management research from the perspective of history as an empirical setting, history as an explanation for legacy effects in the present, history as a cognitive resource, and historiography as a theoretical resource. The workshop will provide methodological toolkits on aspects of historical approaches that are not commonly part of social science research training, such as archival research (including digital), historical triangulation, critical source interpretation and historical imagination, and consider different avenue for publishing historical work in management and business history. Schedule: 09.00-09.30 Arrival, refreshments and registration 09.30-10.00 Welcome and introduction 10.00-11.00 Why history and management? And what do we mean by history? 11.00-11.10 Comfort break 11.10-12.10 Varieties of organisational history (group work) 12.10-13.10 Lunch break 13.10-14.10 Historical methods toolkits (group work) 14.10-14.30 Tea/coffee break 14.30-15.30 Publishing historical research in management and business history journals 15.30-16.00 Group discussion and close Biography: Stephanie is a Professor of Strategy at the University of Birmingham and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) and the British Academy of Management (FBAM), where she also served as Co-Vice Chair for Research & Publications (2022-2025). Over the years, she has held several roles, including editor-in-chief of the journal Business History (2019-2024), one of the Deputy Deans for Birmingham Business School (2023-2024) and Associate Dean Research for Aston Business School (2017-2019). Her research spans several areas, including historical methods in organizational studies, international strategy, and business development in Africa. She is best known for her innovative approaches to theorizing from historical research and developing archival methods to study organizations. She has also promoted interdisciplinary approaches to bridging the gap between social sciences and history. Her work has been published in prestigious journals such as the Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management Studies, Human Relations, Journal of World Business, Business & Society, and Business History. If you are a doctoral or early-career researcher and have an interest in historical methods and you are able to commit to attending the full day, in-person, at Leeds, please register using the link at the top of this email. Places are limited so please only register your interest if you are fully committed to participating. You're currently a free subscriber to Organizational History Network. For the full experience, upgrade your subscription.
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Monday, 31 March 2025
Using Historical Methods in Management Research
Sunday, 30 March 2025
Autistic Masking And How To Stop Doing It
Autistic Masking And How To Stop Doing ItHow the idea of "unmasking" became just as harmful as the masking itself
Autistic people develop an instinct for when it is and isn't safe to be openly Autistic. Unfortunately, this instinct often results in us concealing our Autistic nature to a degree that it becomes harmful to our wellbeing. Because of this, a topic of much discussion in community spaces centres around the concept of “unmasking” and being more authentically Autistic. What has become clear to me, however, is that the discourse surrounding unmasking has itself become somewhat detrimental, and in order to fully unpack what I means, we have to dig a little deeper into the nature of masking itself. The video below briefly explores my own experience with masking.  Continue reading this post for free in the Substack app
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Saturday, 29 March 2025
Autistic Burnout Course and Mental Health Conference!
April and August mark some really exciting times for people with an interest in Autistic wellbeing and mental health. Not only is there a brand new course being co-delivered by myself, Kelly Mahler, and Tanya Adkin, there is also a hybrid mental health event in August. For more information on these events please read on. Both of these events will be relevant to anyone with an interest in the wellbeing of Autistic people. Autistic Burnout Course (Starting in April)
Running over three live sessions on April 28th, April 30th, and May 2nd, this course will cover a whole breadth of information on the topic of Autistic burnout.
Don’t miss your chance to be a part of this course! Autistic Mental Health Conference 2025Following on from our incredibly successful online mental health conference in 2021, we are now offering a hybrid conference in Brighton,UK with the option to attend online or in person. Confirmed Speakers Are:
We will be exploring the impact of systemic failures on the mental health of Autistic people using a range of lived experience, professional insight, and academic expertise. This event promises to be really in depth, and we look forward to seeing you either in-person or on zoom on the day! Please spread the news on these events, and please reach out with any questions you may have. Remember, paying subscribers to my substack get access to exclusive discounts on selected events and more, so if you want to support my work while also getting some cool stuff, click the button below. I am currently offering 75% off the first year, meaning you can get a whole year of access for £12.50. This offer lasts until April 30th. You're currently a free subscriber to David Gray-Hammond. For the full experience, upgrade your subscription.
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