ESRC Seminar Series on CSR: When Worlds Collide
Published 13 October 2008
Lancaster University Management School is part of a consortium of universities that has been successful in a £21,000 bid for a high-profile seminar series funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW).
The series of six seminars, 'Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): When Worlds Collide - Contested Paradigms of Corporate Responsibility', will begin in the Autumn of 2008 at the British Library in London and run for 18 months, with further seminars at Lancaster, York, St Andrews, the ICAEW and City University.
Dr Martin Brigham, from the Department of Organisation, Work and Technology and the co-applicant from Lancaster, says that "this seminar will attempts to go beyond the often stale debates that surround much of the debate about corporate responsibility ... and focus issues such as governance and risk that are becoming central to the future of management practice".
The seminar series is being archived by the British library. Podcasts and slides from events are available at: http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelpsubject/busmanlaw/mbs/csr/csrseminars.html
Other consortium applicants were Professor Paul Palmer, CASS business school, City University; Alan Murray, Sheffield University Management School; Dr Rob Melville, CASS business school, City University; Dr Kathryn Haynes, York Management School; and Richard Spencer, Corporate Responsibility Manager of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
For further information about the seminar series, contact Dr Martin Brigham.
