We are proud to announce our summer seminars coming up on 24th June 2024, between 12 and 1pm, Lunchtime session “What Analytics Tools do Companies Use and What Skills do They Require” 14th August 4.30 to 5.30pm, Early evening session “Motivations and Challenges of Embedding and Delivering Business Analytics in an Accounting Postgraduate Programme”   We do hope you will be able to join us for these highly informative and useful events.   First up our Chair, Dr Christina J Phillips and Ms Zhuoyi Deng MSc 24th June 2024, between 12 and 1pm Brief Description of the Session   Back in 2018 Jia Woh, a student at University of Leeds Business School began a QSteps funded project with Christina. The project was designed to look at  ‘What Analytics Tools do Companies Use and What Skills do They Require’   and Jia began this by interviewing 7 company leaders and covering the current literature to develop a questionnaire.   Zoom forward 5 years and the project wa...

Our recent BAEF webinar featured Dr S M A Moin who is a Senior Lecturer in Marketing at Queen Mary University of London.  Dr Moin researches and publishes in brand storytelling, strategy, leadership and creativity & innovation.  For this webinar, Moin describes his experiences of using storytelling as a pedagogy to create an inclusive classroom that empowers both academics and students to foster intellectual engagement/exploration and teacher-student/student-student co-creation.    Moin has had a varied career and came to education with the purpose of creating the leaders of tomorrow with knowledge, skill, and character.   Over time he has developed a teaching approach that uses storified and creative teaching to reach the students rational mind by tapping into their emotions.   Moin highlights the teaching practices that can switch students off and reduce engagement, and how using a creative narrative can help to foster engagement and hold the stud...

 On 12th February we hosted SMA Moin who gave a fascinating talk about the use of storytelling in the classroom. Thanks to our media wizard, Allen Higgins (University College Dublin), we can now link to a video of the event and the stimulating discussion that it prompted. I hope you find it as enjoyable and interesting as we did :)  Please like/share/comment on the video in YouTube to help us gain reach and publicise this great work by Moin.

  We are proud to announce our next seminar coming up on 12th February 2024, between 5 and 6pm: ‘Ancient Art in the Modern-day Classroom: Creating Inclusive Classrooms and Fostering Student Engagement through Storytelling’ with Dr S M A Moin Abstract/ Brief Description of the Session In today's attention economy, getting and holding students’ attention is a big challenge many academics face. However, storified and creative teaching can break the clutter and connect with students’ rational brains by tapping into their emotions. Reflecting on his publications on narrative art, in this session, Dr S M A Moin will share his experience on the art of storytelling as a pedagogical device, empowering academics to create inclusive classrooms and trigger intellectual engagement and teacher-student and student-student co-creation. Profile: Dr S M A Moin is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Marketing at Queen Mary University of London, and Director of Teaching Associates at the Scho...