Our Work

Special Interest Groups (SIGs)

SIGs are a new venture for BMAF and in time each SIG will have a web page with activities and details of how you can be involved.

Accounting Education - joint with the British Accounting Association, together with the Committee for Heads of Accounting
Main Objectives - Conference sponsorship; support for new conference attendees; bursaries for new researchers
Contact: Neil Marriott, Neil.Marriott@winchester.ac.uk

eLearning - hosted by Bournemouth University
Main Objectives: To respond to an increasing adoption of technology to facilitate Business and Management education
Contact: Gelareh Roushan, groushan@bournemouth.ac.uk 

Employability - hosted by the University of Central Lancashire
Main Objectives - Identify/develop and share resources; engagement with employers, recruiters and careers service; on-line discussions about key issues; delivery of workshops
Contact: Beverly Leeds, bleeds@uclan.ac.uk  

Entrepreneurial Learning - hosted by Swansea Metropolitan University
Main Objectives: - Focus on and enhance the delivery of teaching, learning and assessment relating to entrepreneurship, intrepreneurship and enterprise related pedagogies.
Contact: Andy Penaluna, andy.penaluna@sihe.ac.uk

Human Resource Development - joint with the University Forum for HRD
Main Objectives - Literature review, survey of HR lecturers, delivery of workshops
Contact: Claire Valentin claire.valentin@ed.ac.uk

Internationalisation hosted by De Montfort University
Purpose- act as a focus of debate for the complex issues surrounding increasing numbers of International Students in the areas of Business, Management, Accountancy and Finance.
Contact: Julia Pointon
Main Objectives - Develop a network of interested individuals; engagement with stakeholders (employers, business schools, lecturers, students), delivery of workshops and a conference, on-line discussions and resources,
Contact: Julia Pointon, JPointon@dmu.ac.uk or Eleanor Lloyd Jones at bmaf.sig@brookes.ac.uk
 

Marketing Education, joint with the Academy of Marketing
Main Objectives:Grants to staff involved in the teaching, learning and assessment of marketing; exchange of ideas, responding to issues faced by marketing educators
Contact: Monica GibsonSweet, mgibsons@glam.ac.uk

Project Management - hosted by Bournemouth University
Main Objectives - Identify good practice; identify network individuals and community; identify/develop and share resources; delivery of workshops
Contact: Roger Atkinson, rogeratkinson@bournemouth.ac.uk

If you are interested in these topics and wish to be connected to any of the SIG activities please advise the contact.