Hello Scossers!

Look at that lovely dreich weather outside the door. The water streams down the window in rivulets reflecting the lamps of the offices in sheets of sparkling light. Where we are all working very hard and not being distracted by the weather at all! Four significant items for you in today's member's digest.

1) Culture & Organization CfP: Professor Heather Höpfl, 1948-2014: Eine Gedenkschrift

2) Creating ethical and inclusive spaces in CMS

3) GWO Stream Women & High-growth entrepreneurship (deadline extended to 10th November)

4) AHRC PhD Funding Midlands3Cities Doctoral Training Partnership 2016

Best Wishes ☔

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A great edition of the SCOS update today: 7 sensational items, including:

1) SCOS 2014 conference details!
2) Two lovely jobs at the University of Bristol
3) Student grant available for the Rethinking Management conference
4) Special Issue Call for Papers: The Politics of Projects in Technology-Intensive Work
5) Dilemmas for Human Services 2014: Leadership in Public Services – Bridging the Management Gap? 17th International Research Conference, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. 10th-12th September 2014
6) An experiment in critical friendship. Call for workshop papers – Rethinking Sisterhood: The Affective Politics of Women’s Relationships. Feminist and Women Studies’ Association interim conference, University of Bristol, Saturday 13th September 2014. Organizers: VIDA, the Critical Management Studies Women’s Association
7) Share your own stories of volunteering as part of an interactive documentary drama!Read more…

We have four items this month, including:

1) SCOS 2014 Call for Papers – Sport, Play and Game
2) Seven Full-Time Funded Postgraduate Research Opportunities, University Of Leicester, School Of Management
3) Critical Management Studies Division – Academy of Management 2014 Dissertation Award Announcement
4) Rather lovely job up for grabs at the University of York!

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We have a super huge sensational bumper issue of the SCOS newsletter this month! We have nine knock-out items…including fab workshops, great jobs and generally fantastic stuff that’s going on in our community all over the world!

1) Professor Barbara Czarniawska at ARCIO, Bristol, UK
2) ARCIO workshop: Creative Engagements for Sustainability: Art, Writing and Imagination, Bristol, UK
3) CFP – LAEMOS 2014, Havana, Cuba, 2-5 April – SUBTHEME 02: Alternatives to corruption and anti-corruption? Rethinking theory, practice, and context.
4) GENDER, WORK & ORGANIZATION - 8th Biennial International Interdisciplinary conference, 24th – 26th June, 2014 - Keele University, UK. Call for abstracts: Gendering environmental sustainability: the cultural politics of nature
5) CFP – LAEMOS 2014, Havana, Cuba, 2-5 April – Subtheme 01: Alternative Spaces/Places of Organizing: Communities, Collective Agency and Social Change
6) 30th EGOS Colloquium Rotterdam, The Netherlands July 3–5, 2014 - Sub-theme 33: Re-organizing Work, Sociality and Citizenship in Crisis
7) 1-2 postdoc positions open for applicants at USBE and the TripleED project, Sweden
8) University of Toronto – Assistant/Associate Professor – Organizational Learning, Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education
9) ‘Can the Public Intellectual Save the University?’, 26 September 2013 in Cardiff – Invitation to a one-day event to discuss the role of the university today and its responsibility to the public.Read more…

We have two tantalising items today:

1) A note from our SCOSBOSS!

2) Applications welcome for Lecturer/ Senior Lecturer in Organisation Studies at The University of the West of England

3) A new version of Notework, out now!Read more…

Eleven items for April:
1) SCOS in Warsaw 2013 – visit http://scos2013.wz.uw.edu.pl/home
2) Work, Employment and Society Conference, Warwick, UK 2013
3) Jobs: Karlshochschule International University in Karlsruhe, Germany – Professor of International Business
4) Jobs: Karlshochschule International University in Karlsruhe, Germany – Professor of International Finance
5) Jobs: Karlshochschule International University in Karlsruhe, Germany – Professor of International Marketing
6) Jobs: University of York – Lecturer in Organisation Behaviour
7) Touring Consumption Conference 2013 – an invitation to all SCOS members
8) The AIDEA – Italian Academy of Business Administration and Management, Summer school on research methods in management studies, Villa Orlandi, Capri, Italy, 23rd - 27th September 2013
9) An ESRC Collaborative Studentship 2013. Project Title: Up, Out or Sideways? Comparing Career Patterns of Male and Female Executives in Accounting and Finance
10) Deadline for abstracts May 6th 2013 for the 8th Colloquium on organisational change & development: Inspiration desperately needed! Tackling the hidden assumptions of change. Ghent (Belgium), September 12-13, 2013
11) Deadline for applications June 28th 2013 for the University of Leicester School of Management, Graduate Teaching Assistantship September 2013Read more…

Ten items for February:
1) SCOS in Warsaw 2013 – visit http://scos2013.wz.uw.edu.pl/home
2) Call for Papers for Subtheme at the 8th International Critical Management Studies Conference: Stream 29: ‘Biting the hand that feeds’: Reflections on Power, Politics, Identity and Managerialism at Work in Academia – deadline soon!
3) Call for Papers for Subtheme at the 8th International Critical Management Studies Conference: Stream 22: Tradition, Revision, Critique – deadline soon!
4) Critical Management Studies Division – Academy of Management, 2013 Dissertation Award Announcement
5) ARCIO at the University of Bristol – Research centre for Action Research and Critical Inquiry in Organisations. Conducting participatory action research: Ethical challenges and issues. A one-day workshop to be held on the 11th April 2013
6) Gender Work and Organization Call for Papers - Problematizing Gendered Ageing in the New Economy: Deadline 30th November 2013
7) Appointment: The University of Bristol – The Department of Management – appointments at Lecturer level
8) Appointment: The University of Bristol: Chair in Management – The Department of Management – appointments at Professor level
9) Appointment: The University of Bristol: Teaching Fellow (or Associate) in The Department of Management
10) Call for papers: Dilemmas for Human Services 2013. Beyond the Public Sector: Cooperation & Competition with the Private & Third sectors. 16th International Research Conference. To be hosted by Staffordshire University. 5th-6th September 2013Read more…

As the year is coming to an end, we have four items for you:
1) A call for papers to the 8th Annual Liverpool Symposium on Current Developments in Ethnographic Research in the Social and Management Sciences
2) A call for papers to the CMS subtheme “Extending critiques of ‘international development’: The limits of post-colonial and neo-liberal paradigms”
3) Graduate Teaching Assistantships at the University of Leicester School of Management for September 2013
4) Up to 20 Advanced Research Fellowships in Strategy, at the University of Exeter, UKRead more…

We have six items for you this week:
1) Information on the next SCOS conference in wonderful Warsaw!
2) Four fab full-time fully-funded p/g research opportunities at the University of Leicester, School of Management
3) Call for papers for the Special issue of Culture and Organization Volume 20, issue 3, 2014: Organizing Through Displacement, Travel and Movement
4) Workshop on Diversity and Difference in the Contemporary Workplace, January 31- February 1, 2013 at Copenhagen Business School
5) Call for papers for the Special issue of Scripta Nova Volume 17, issue 420, 2014: Nomadism and Organising
6) Call for papers for the Critical Entrepreneurship Studies, at The 8th International Conference in Critical Management StudiesRead more…