Creative Open Studios

  • Dates: 26 January - 16 February 2026, 15:00 - 16:00
  • Venue:
Book via Business World

Welcome to the Open Studios in this new academic year. This is a space for discussing ideas, sharing creative practice, developing scholarship and designing interventions for problem solving.  it is friendly, safe and experimental. This year we will have a combination of community enhancement, designing ideas to aid creatively in the education strategy, CPDs and guest speakers.

If you are curious, please register on Business World or contact [email protected].

Monday 26 January, 3-4pm

Open Studio 4: We will start the year with an amazing presentation by Emily Tannert Patterson. Emily is a learning designer and artist.

Monday 16 February, 3-4pm

The second Open Studio of the year welcomes a special guest: Professor Ilaria Boncori (University of Essex). She will be sharing her ideas and practice of Writing Differently, welcoming diversity and inclusivity.  This is based on her book Writing Differently, and her long standing activism to challenge normative narratives in academia, research and teaching. 
Published by Bristol University Press, the description is an appetiser for this presentation:
In a neoliberal academia dominated by masculine ideals of measurement and performance, it is becoming more important than ever to develop alternative ways of researching and writing. 
This powerful new book gives voice to non-conforming narratives, suggesting innovative, messy and nuanced ways of organizing the reading and writing of scholarship in management and organization studies. In doing so it spotlights how different methods and approaches can represent voices of inequality and reveal previously silenced topics. 
Informed by feminist and critical perspectives, this will be an invaluable resource for current and future scholars in management and organization studies and other social sciences.

  • Dates: 26 January - 16 February 2026, 15:00 - 16:00
  • Venue:
Book via Business World