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Upcoming events: Internal
Research Institute for the Built Environment (RIBE) seminar series 2010/11 Working Paper Discussions
4-5pm, last Wednesday of the month, URS building 2N10 (unless otherwise specified)
Papers are circulated in advance. Attendees are expected to have read the paper and be ready to join the discussion.
Oct 27: Senseshaping in Organizations: A Video Ethnography of Strategy Work. [Richard Whittington, University of Oxford]
Nov 24: The Management and Organisation of High Reliability, Resilience and Change in Extreme Contexts. [David Denyer, Cranfield University / AIM Management Practices Fellow]
Jan 26: Cultural Interventions in the Collaboration between Public and Private Partners in Megaprojects: an Anthropological Perspective. [Alfons van Marrewijk, Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands]
Feb 23: Towards Studio 21: Experiments in Design Education using BIM. [Mark Clayton, Texas A&M University, USA]
Mar 30: Reflexive versus Intuitive Collaboration: Exploring Communicative Strategies in Virtual Knowledge Sharing. [Daniel Geiger, Technical University Kaiserslautern, Germany] 2N12
May 25: Making Low Carbon Britain. [Simon Marvin, Salford University]
Jun 29: The Doing of Managing and Leading [Annie Pye, Essex University - title etc to be confirmed]
RIBE 2010/2011 'Meet the Editor'
1-2pm, middle Wednesday (of Nov, Feb, May), URS building 2N10.
An opportunity to meet the Editor of an international journal and discuss their publication process. Please look at papers from the journal, and read the 'instructions for authors' for the journal before attending.
Autumn - Nov 10: Construction Management and Economics, Will Hughes, Editor.
Spring - Feb 16: International Journal of Management Reviews, Allan Macpherson, Co-Editor.
Summer - May 11: Management Learning, Davide Nicolini, Editor.
The RIBE seminar series is organized by Jennifer Whyte [University of Reading / AIM Management Practices Fellow]. Attendance is open to all UK academics with interests in management practices in complex industries. To reserve a place please contact Linda Holland (l.a.holland@reading.ac.uk).
Design Innovation Research Centre
DIRC run a series of webinars and other events throughout the year. To encourage participation in science, engineering and technology research, there are activities for industrial partners, international associates, and public groups.
For a full ist of events held within DIRC, please see the DIRC newsletter.