Bristol Leadership and Change Centre (BLCC)

In this seminar which took place online on 12 May 2022, Professor Samantha Parsley (University of Portsmouth) and Dr Marjana Johansson (University of Glasgow) presented their recent paper which explores gender-based discrimination in the electronic music industry. Based on data collected for a larger project on women DJ producers, the paper takes as its starting … Continue reading "Ameliorative work: Women electronic music artists’ responses to gender-based discrimination"

Last week Bristol Leadership & Change Centre was delighted to host an online seminar with Richard Watermeyer, Professor of Higher Education and Co-Director of the Centre for Higher Education Transformations at the University of Bristol. He is by training and orientation, a sociologist of higher education with expertise related especially to academic praxis; institutional and … Continue reading "Is Higher Education Broken? An online seminar with Professor Richard Watermeyer"

Bristol Leadership and Change Centre‘s Professor Peter Case recently returned from Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, where he helped run a series of workshops linked to a project funded by a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grant and being delivered in collaboration with researchers from the University of California, San Francisco. The project, which Peter co-leads, is entitled … Continue reading "HIV Programme Management and Service Delivery in Zimbabwe"

Written by Professor Richard Bolden, UWE Bristol, 23/03/2022 for the International Leadership Association It is now over two years since the arrival of Covid-19, which plunged much of the world into lockdown and caused immense social and economic disruption and loss. On 11th March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak a pandemic and … Continue reading "Build Back Better….With Care and Compassion"

The Unleadership Movement is a growing collaboration of practitioners and scholars from public, private and voluntary sectors. The movement seeks to reflect upon leaderly practices that have been illuminated during the Covid-19 pandemic. Its mission is to establish how this learning can be taken forward by participants to make an impact in their organisations and … Continue reading "The Unleadership Movement: Confident Connecting and Collaborating"

We are pleased to announce the 12th Developing Leadership Capacity Conference (DLCC) will be taking place online from 12th-13th July 2022, hosted by Bristol Leadership and Change Centre at the Bristol Business School, UWE. ** Extended Deadline for Call for Contributions – 3rd May 2022 ** Theme: Leading to Care – Foregrounding Health and Well-being … Continue reading "Developing Leadership Capacity Conference 2022"

The following blog includes excerpts taken from a recent journal article written Professor Peter Case recently published an article (co-authored with Michal Izak and Sierk Ybema) entitled ‘Monologue and Organization Studies’, in the reputable journal Organization Studies. The article offers a critique of the dominant dialogical view of organizational communication and argues that instances of … Continue reading "Monologue and Organization Studies"

Written by Professor Richard Bolden, UWE, Bristol, 14/01/2022 for the International Leadership Association “In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs.” Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence, 1920 Over the past … Continue reading "End of the Age of Arrogance?"