Online doctoral event: Reimagining business as a force for good

This doctoral event is aimed at early career researchers. It focuses on a 2024 article of the same name which was published in the British Journal of Management special issue.

On the 2nd of April 2025, Professor Nelarine Cornelius, University of Manchester alumnus and Professor of Organisation Studies, Queen Mary, University of London, will be giving a prestigious lecture on behalf of the British Academy: 'Reimagining business as a force for good'.

This doctoral event focuses on the implications for doctoral researchers, especially in a climate of increasing scrutiny of the value of equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI)/ diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).

Professor Cornelius will share some of the personal challenges she has faced, and overcome, in her social justice research, highlighting the impact on organisations generally.

She will also discuss building research impact into research design, using illustrations from previous doctoral projects in the UK, Tunisia, China and Nigeria.

Professor Nelarine Cornelius

Nelarine Cornelius holds a range of research interests including inequalities and social justice.

Her work includes:

• Formerly co-Vice Chair and Board Member of the British Academy of Management
• Vice-President and Companion of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
• Currently a trustee of National Life Stories, an oral history charity at the British Library
• Fellow of several institutions in the UK, including the Academy of Social Sciences

As well as her academic work, she has acted as a consultant and adviser to a range of organisations in the public, private and social sectors. Currently she is an advisor to both Business in the Community, the King's Responsible Business Network, and the Government of Wales.

Her lecture, 'Reimagining business and management as a force for good' is being held at AMBS - you can sign up to attend.