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Essex Business School Research Conference 2025

Thu 25 - Fri 26 Sep 25

13:00
Online

Zoom (link to be emailed)
Event type

Conferences
Event organiser

Essex Business School

The Essex Business School research conference will be held online on 25 and 26 September 2025.

Call for papers

We are pleased to invite paper submissions to the 2025 Essex Business School research conference.

We welcome full papers in any EBS research areas (as identified below) from EBS colleagues and PhD students, the wider University of Essex, and other institutions.

Submissions start: 1 June 2025
Deadline for submission: 11 August 2025
Notification of acceptance: 31 August 2025

Please select the relevant research centre or group in which to submit your paper. The papers need to be submitted to the relevant centre or group using the contact email addresses listed.

Incomplete papers will not be accepted.

Centres and contacts

Accounting

Centre	Contact
Essex Accounting Centre (EAC)	Henry Agyei-Boapeah (h.agyei-boapeah@essex.ac.uk)
Centre for Accountability and Global Development	Shahzad Uddin (snuddin@essex.ac.uk) Junaid Ashraf (m.j.ashraf@essex.ac.uk)

Finance

Centre	Contact
Essex Finance Centre	Anna Sarkisyan (asarkisyan@essex.ac.uk)
FinTex - Financial Technology Centre EsseX	Franco Fiordelisi (franco.fiordelisi@essex.ac.uk)
Essex Centre for Macro and Financial Econometrics	Ilias Chronopoulos (ilias.chronopoulos@essex.ac.uk)

Organisation Studies and Human Resource Management (OSHRM)

Centre	Contact
Centre for Work, Organisation and Society	Melissa Tyler (mjtyler@essex.ac.uk)

Strategy, Operations and Entrepreneurship

Centre	Contact
Centre for Research on Entrepreneurship, Innovation Management and Internationalisation (REIMI)	Palitha Konara (pk22596@essex.ac.uk)

Management and Marketing

Group/Centre	Contact
Management & Marketing Group	Camila Vergara (camila.vergara@essex.ac.uk)
Centre for Commons Organising, Values Equalities and Resilience (COVER)	Peter Bloom (pbloom@essex.ac.uk) Stevphen Shukaitis (sshuka@essex.ac.uk)

Preliminary programme overview

The conference will take place online with the following tentative schedule:

25 September 13:00 - 16:00

Plenary Session
Parallel sessions

26 September 10:00 - 13:00

Parallel sessions

Organising Committee

Pawan Adhikari, Junaid Ashraf, Peter Bloom, Henry Agyei Boapeah, Ilias Chronopolous, Franco Fiordelisi, Philip Hancock, Paul Kelly, Palitha Konara, Junyi Liao, Anna Sarkisyan, Stevphen Shukaitis, Ileana Steccolini, Anne Steinhoff, Rob Taylor, Melissa Tyler, Shahzad Uddin, Camila Vergara, Wenjuan Zeng, Olimpia Burchiellaro, Jose Linares Zegarra, Raysa Rocha, Young-Ah Kim, Maria Ishaque, Andre Lino, Chaminda Wijethilake.