Interdisciplinary Research Leadership
- Date: Thursday 6 February 2025, 10:00 – 11:30
- Location: Online
- Type: Online
- Cost: Free of charge
We would like to invite you to the next session in the Research Leadership Development Cconsortium (RLDC) series that will be delivered online via Zoom.
The session will enable us to share ideas around interdisciplinary research leadership and will explore the following key themes:
- Multi-disciplinary vs inter-disciplinary research
- Publishing interdisciplinary research
Breakout sessions will focus on the following topics:
- Inter-disciplinary research needed for external grant funding
- Impact of inter-disciplinary research including impact case preparation
Schedule
The session will include a mixture of short talks, small group exchange and (numbers permitting) whole group discussion.
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 10:00 | Welcome/introductions (Professor Annie Wei) |
| 10:05 | Presentations from Drs Xiaoxian Zhu and Nikolay Mehandjiev |
| 10:30 | Break-out rooms addressing key themes and facilitated by Xiaoxian and Nikolay (25 minutes) |
| 10:55 | Comfort break |
| 11:00 | Whole group discussion and Q&A |
| 11:30 | Close |
Speakers
Dr Xiaoxian Zhu specialises in talent management and international HRM in high-tech industries. She is a Principal Lecturer (Research and Innovation) and is leading doctoral programmes at Teesside University Business School. Dr Zhu is the Chair of CIPD Tees Valley (2023) and a subject examiner of international examining bodies. For her academic performance in this field, she has a good record of high quality public presentations in the UK and internationally, publications and research funding. She is a Distinguished Professor at Xi'an International University since April 2018 and a Visiting Professor at Zhejiang University of Technology, China.
Dr Nikolay Mehandjiev is a Professor of Enterprise Information Systems at the Alliance Manchester Business School. He has initiated and managed projects worth €8m of which € 5.3m to the University of Manchester. The most recent project in which he participates is DIGICOR, a €10m project involving Airbus and Comau. Before joining The University of Manchester, he was a lecturer in Information Systems in the School of Management at the University of Hull, from 1995 to 1998.