*NEW* PRME UK & Ireland Competition:
Responsible Business and Management Student Writing Competition 2024-25
Closing date: 28th February 2025
The 9th round of the PRME UK & Ireland's annual Student Writing Competion is now live.
Whether you are assessing student work currently and have found submissions that deserve further recognition, or perhaps you have just completed this task, the Responsible Business and Management and Student Writing Competition presents a great opportunity for student's work to be spotlighted.
Competition details:
The competition has three categories - undergraduate essays and reports, postgraduate taught Master's level essays and reports, and an Alternative Media category open to both PG Taught and UG students.
The competition is open to a wide variety of disciplines - marketing, economics, accounting, leadership and management etc. In all cases there needs to be a clear link to the Sustainable Development Goals and/or responsible business, management and leadership themes.
Entries will normally be work already written and submitted by students at their home institution i.e. the competition does not require specially written essays or other artefacts. Students can also choose to develop work on a topic of their choice related to the SDGs/responsible business and management.
There are three prizes in every category, jointly sponsored by the Chapter and Oxford Brookes University: first prize (£500), second prize (£250) and third prize (£100). Finalists in all categories also receive a certificate of achievement.
Entrants can be from PRME and non PRME signatory business schools - this competition is part of the Chapter's outreach to the wider sector.
We explicitly permit work that has utilised AI tools. But we require all entrants to declare whether (and, if so, how) AI tools have been used in their work.
Please share the relevant details with your students.
Students can enter their work directly or you can do it on their behalf.
If you have any questions about the competition, direct them via email to the organiser, Jonathan Louw on prme@brookes.ac.uk
We look forward to your entries !
The deadline for entries (via email to prme@brookes.ac.uk) is 28th February 2025.
*NEW * Webinar: Climate Coaching for Shaping Tomorrow by The Climate Coaching Alliance
When: 11th March 2025, 11:00am - 12:00pm
The PRME Working Group on Climate Change and Environment will host the Climate Coaching Alliance for a webinar on 'Climate Coaching for Shaping Tomorrow'.
The Climate Coaching Alliance is a global network of individuals committed to embedding sustainable practices into the coaching profession.
During this session, attendees will hear from experienced coaches including:
Key topics will include:
Connecting with personal feelings
Helping students to become effective change-makers (knowing how to use their power)
Learning how to influence leaders
Helping policy-makers to create environmentally conscious policies
This webinar will equip educators with practical tools and approaches that can be embedded into their future work.
Register here to secure your spot.
Responsible Management Education as Socialisation Workshop: a longitudinal study on the impact of undergraduate curriculum on students' values, attitudes, and intentions
When: 27 January, 10am - 3pm
Where: William Morris Building, room WM442
Coventry University, Priory Street, Coventry, CV1 5FB, United Kingdom
Hosted by Professor Jenna Ward and Dr Jaliyyah Bello, this workshop will share an impact focused evaluation of a responsible management education curriculum, as part of PRME UK & Ireland Chapter's research funded project.
This workshop aims to bring together academics from the PRME UK and Ireland Chapter to evaluate the effectiveness of Business Schools' undergraduate curriculum in nurturing prosocial values among students. Students awareness and understanding of responsible management and their decision making tendencies, are examples of topics of discussion.
Attendees can expect to learn from Professor Jenna Ward and Dr Jaliyyah Bello's approach and learnings, as well as sharing their own initiatives and exploring future collaborations opportunities.
Read more and register to attend this engaging workshop here.
PRME UK & Ireland Working Group Tour: Business and Human Rights
When: 7 February, 1pm - 2:15pm
Where: On Zoom, access the registration link here
The next session of PRME UK & Ireland Chapter's Working Group tour will explore the topic of Business and Human Rights.
Are human rights the business of business schools?
For a long time, human rights education was exclusive to law schools.
Today, a growing number of business schools have begun to educate future business leaders on human rights risks in business and possible remediation strategies.
This discussion will be led by:
Dorothée Baumann-Pauly is a Professor at Geneva University's School of Economics and Management. She directs the Geneva Center for Business and Human Rights, the first human rights center at a business school in Europe. Since 2013, she is also the Research Director at the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights at New York University. In 2016, she co-founded a business school network to integrate human rights in business education as well as the BHR Young Researchers Summit for emerging scholars.
Lara Bianchi is an Associate Professor in Business and Society at Nottingham University Business School, where she is currently the Research Director of the Strategy and International Business Department. She is also an expert at the RightsLab Beacon of Excellence of the University of Nottingham - the world’s largest group of modern slavery researchers. Her latest research project, funded by Research England Policy Funding, aims at assessing migrant workers’ access to remedy for human rights abuses in the UK agricultural sector.
More info and publication list available here.
What can attendees expect?
This session will outline the work of a global network of business schools that support each other to broaden their educational mandate in order to prepare leaders that serve business and society.
In the first part of the session, Dr Dorothée Baumann-Pauly will present the work of the PRME Working Group on Business and Human Rights, highlighting open-access teaching resources and network events that any business school with an interest in human rights can join.
In the second part, Dr Lara Bianchi will share her insights on teaching human rights at a UK business school, offering a reflection on the challenges and opportunities of engaging undergraduate students with this critical topic.
Register here to join us on 7 February 2025 for this impactful discussion.
PRME UK & Ireland Interest Group on Employability, Sustainability and Jobs of the Future presents:
Climate Change Coaching: Equipping students as leaders with soft skills for sustainability
When: 14 February, 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Where: On Zoom, access the registration link here
What are the soft skills future graduates will need, and how can we provide graduates with a grounding now, given the uncertainty of what the future will bring in terms of climate disruption, AI and increased global insecurity?
The discussion will be led by Charly Cox, the Executive Director of the Climate Change Coaches, a B Corporation based in the UK. She is an award-winning climate change coach and co-author of the first book on this subject, published in 2022 by Open University Press. She is a seasoned public speaker, and has given keynote speeches to Ex-Cos and conferences around the world, including speaking at COP27 in Egypt.
In this session, Charly will consider the significance of soft skills in collaborating and overcoming resistance to change, and the need for students to operate in line with their values, to enable them to influence better and navigate complexity. Charly will provide insight into practical tools in coaching and coaching skills that can equip leaders and teams with the soft skills needed to deliver on change for sustainability action.
Register here to join the conversation on 14 February.
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