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UKAIS Doctoral/Early Career Consortium
22nd March – Zoom links
| 09.00/09.15 | Opening session |
| 09.15/10.30 | Keynote: Prof Emma Bell In this talk Prof Bell will consider how COVID has changed management and business research and how it may continue to change in the future. She approaches this as a researcher who has tried to make spaces for, and enhance the legitimacy of, qualitative methods of inquiry. Previously, she have argued for the importance of qualitative research in cultivating sites of enchantment (Bell, Winchester and Wray-Bliss, 2020). This approach to research encourages an ethical sensibility through sensory receptivity and affect-laden entanglements with lively matter. But how can we have affective encounters, including with non-human and non-living things, when much research is disembodied/virtual? And, what role is played by the senses when doing research post-COVID? Emma will approach these dilemmas via a series of stories that offer hope for researchers who are committed to messy, imaginative, and improvisational research practice. Through this, she will try to explore possibilities for more empowering research in a post-COVID era. Bell, E., Winchester, N. and Wray-Bliss, E. (2020) Enchantment in business ethics research. Journal of Business Ethics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-020-04592-4 |
| 10.30/10.45 | Break |
| 10.45/12.15 | Parallel paper sessions – Click for more information about the papers and zoom links |
| 12.15/12.45 | Lunch Break |
| 12:45/13.30 | Meet the Editor: Ciara Heavin, Co-Editor in Chief, Journal of Decision Systems |
| 13.30/14.45 | Dr Nisreen Ameen & Dr Konstantina Spanaki Academic careers in Information Systems What does it take to secure your first academic post? How can you successfully take your first academic career steps? What are the opportunities and challenges when starting? Our guest speakers will share their experiences which will help participants put their own experience to perspective. |
| 14.45/15.00 | Break |
| 15.00/16.00 | Prof Savvas Papagiannidis Social Media for Academics Prof Papagiannidis talk will present the important opportunities and challenges academics are faced when engaging users on social media. In turn, he will discuss the potential implications online engagement can have for research, teaching and academic practice. The talk will feature numerous examples that participants could relate to and in turn contextualise by applying to their own circumstances. |
| 16.00/16.15 | Closing session |
UKAIS Conference (Day 1)
23 March – Zoom links
| 09.00/09.15 | Opening session |
| 09.15/10.30 | Keynote: Prof Michael D Myers: What is the new normal? Some thoughts about the future role of IS scholars. The coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has changed our world forever. Thousands of people are dying, millions of people are in lockdown, and many businesses will not survive. What will the world look like after the pandemic is over? Michael will suggest that the seamless integration of our digital and physical worlds will revolutionise society and transform the human condition. Digital transformation will challenge current conceptions of national boundaries, personal and group identity, privacy, security, democracy, and the rule of law. These changes will affect both or personal and professional lives, businesses, and governments. What is the future role IS scholars in this new normal? That is the question. |
| 10.30/10.45 | Break |
| 10.45/12.15 | Parallel paper sessions 1 – Click for more information about the papers and zoom links |
| 12.15/13.00 | Lunch Break |
| 13.00/14.30 | Parallel paper sessions 2 – Click for more information about the papers and zoom links |
| 14.30/14.45 | Break |
| 14.45/15.45 | UKAIS Annual General Meeting For more information please see: https://www.ukais.org/event/ukais-annual-general-meeting-agm/ |
UKAIS Conference (Day 2)
24th March – Zoom links
| 09.00/09.15 | Opening session |
| 09.15/10.15 | Keynote: Devinder Singh Devinder is the Head of Delivery within NatWest’s Core Banking Domain team. Devinder will be talking about how the team’s experience during the pandemic has taught them a number of things, including how we can engage better with our family, friends, colleagues and wider stakeholders whilst working remotely, how we look to understand changing customer behaviours and continue to look to exceed expectations, and how thinking differently can help deliver value more efficiently to our customers under challenging circumstances. As a result of the Covid pandemic, workplace availability challenges looked to initially constrain our capacity, creativity and productivity. To respond to the bank’s customers’ needs, the Core Banking Domain team had to manage an increased workstack due to multiple technology changes needing to be made to support the bank’s customers through the crisis. How did the team respond to the need to deliver value more quickly? They demonstrated an agile mindset, thought differently, and leveraged Agile & DevOps practices to respond to the challenges. The result was that more value was delivered in a shorter timeframe, despite the challenges thrown by the pandemic, including a 40% improvement in cycle time to deliver value for our customer and an improved service availability of ~ 99.99%. |
| 10.15/10.30 | Break |
| 10.30/12.00 | Parallel paper sessions 3 – Click for more information about the papers and zoom links |
| 12.00/12.15 | Break |
| 12.15/13.15 | Keynote: Professor Ravishankar Making the world a better place with fintech research Financial technology (fintech) is seen as possessing significant potential to provide the poor access to financial services and help them escape the clutches of poverty. In a turbulent and troubled post-COVID world, can fintech deliver on its potential? So far, information systems research has engaged little with fintech’s promise of fostering financial inclusion for the poor. In this talk, Prof Ravishankar will advance a framework for guiding IS research on fintech-led financial inclusion. Drawing on the IS literature and Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) scholarship, he will propose five areas of research that can better illuminate fintech’s contributions to financial inclusion: (1) business strategies for fintech-led financial inclusion; (2) digital artifacts of fintech-led financial inclusion; (3) business environment of fintech-led financial inclusion; (4) microfoundations of fintech for financial inclusion; (5) developmental impacts of fintech. |
| 13.15/13.30 | Break |
| 13.30/15.00 | Parallel paper sessions 4 – Click for more information about the papers and zoom links |
| 15.00/15.15 | Closing session |