A
Northumbria University academic is one of this year’s recipients of the
prestigious British Academy of Management (BAM) 2019 Grant Schemes.
Dr. Kate
Black, working with her co-researcher Dr. Russell Warhurst, both from Newcastle
Business School at Northumbria, have won significant grant funding for their
research project: Inter-generational
knowledge creation, curation and circulation. Starting from the assumption
that knowledge is the life-blood of developed economies, Drs. Black and
Warhurst’s research explores the management challenges of both creating
knowledge and then sharing it across increasingly age-diverse workforces.
BAM is
a recognised authority on the academic field of management in the UK,
supporting and representing scholars and engaging with international peers. Its
grant schemes are part of the Academy’s mission to build a thriving, pluralistic
research community by supporting relevant, ethical and innovative management
and business research. This year just 13 research grants were awarded across
the UK.
Dr Black
said: “To be named as one of the award winners by BAM is significant and highly
rewarding. Our research seeks to examine how knowledge is created,
circulated and curated between generations within knowledge-intensive
organisations. With the
extension of working lives, organisations are increasingly age diverse and
established research points to intergenerational power dynamics and barriers
that potentially prevent the optimal creation and exchange of organisational
knowledge. However, research has yet to
examine knowledge creation or circulation between generations.”
Professor
John Wilson, Pro Vice-Chancellor for the Faculty of Business and Law at
Northumbria, added: “Securing this funding from BAM is richly deserved and I am
delighted for Dr Black. It is also a recognition of the quality and depth of
business management research and teaching at Newcastle Business School.”
The 2019
round of the British Academy of Management Grants Scheme included the inaugural
BAM-ANZAM Collaborative Research Award, offered jointly with the Australian and
New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM) to support and advance international
research collaborations between management researchers in Australia, New
Zealand and UK.
