{"id":6683,"date":"2017-11-29T12:06:35","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T12:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cel\/?p=6683"},"modified":"2017-11-28T12:08:33","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T12:08:33","slug":"fusion-success-for-bus-esrc-project-management-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/2017\/11\/29\/fusion-success-for-bus-esrc-project-management-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Fusion Success for BU\u2019s ESRC Project Management Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Posted on behalf of Dr Karen Thompson &#8211; CEL Learning and Teaching Fellow<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/the-business-school-staff-blog\/files\/2017\/11\/KT-Intro.jpg\" width=\"356\" height=\"318\" \/>The national ESRC Festival of Social Science included ten events organised by BU this year.\u00a0 One of these was \u2018Putting Social Science into Project Management\u2019, held in London and organised by Dr Karen Thompson and Paul Summers, from the Department of Leadership, Strategy and Organisation.\u00a0 Karen and Paul collaborated with UCL and the Association for Project Management (APM), which is the Chartered Body for the Project Profession in the UK, to put on the event.\u00a0 Feedback from participants shows the event was success in all three dimensions of Fusion: education, professional practice and research.<\/p>\n<p>Project management is often viewed as a technical activity, but recent research highlights the human aspects.\u00a0 Our event was designed to bring together practitioners and researchers, to showcase and discuss research on the social side of project management.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CKPzm94qPQE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Bartlett School of Construction &amp; Project Management at UCL kindly provided the venue in a brand new building on the site of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.\u00a0 Professional practitioners and researchers came from as far afield as Liverpool and Sussex, quite an achievement as there was a rail strike on the day.<\/p>\n<p>The full day event was in four parts. \u00a0Karen began by framing the day with a presentation that encouraged participants to think \u2018outside the box\u2019 about project management. \u00a0Six researchers, including Karen and Paul, presented their research findings, and APM Research Manager Daniel Nicholls introduced APM research. \u00a0A poster exhibition was open for viewing during a networking lunch, with contributions from undergraduate and postgraduate students and researchers.\u00a0 A winner was selected for a poster prize.\u00a0 To conclude the day, there was a debate on questions from the audience in the style of the BBC\u2019s \u2018Question Time\u2019 with a diverse panel of experts. \u00a0Question topics included Brexit, mis-use of social media and the rail strike.<\/p>\n<p>For the educational dimension, students were engaged in co-production and found the discussions intellectually stimulating.\u00a0 They heard about the latest research and had opportunities to network with researchers and practitioners.\u00a0 One student commented \u201cmy mind is overflowing with ideas \u2026 that I will be able to use in my assignments\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Professional practice in the field of project management remains largely uninformed by research because practitioners do not generally read academic journals.\u00a0 One objective of the day was to make research accessible to practitioners and good attendance by both researchers and practitioners meant this was achieved.\u00a0 One outcome was that Rob Leslie-Carter, a Director of Arup who presented the results of research on \u2018The Future of Project Management\u2019, offered to come and deliver a longer presentation at BU.\u00a0 An invitation we will certainly be accepting.<\/p>\n<p>Research on project management has been criticised for lack of relevance to practice.\u00a0 One aim of this event was to provide an opportunity for researchers and practitioners from across the UK to begin a meaningful dialogue, with emphasis on qualitative research.\u00a0 An outcome from the day was that the APM Research Manager will be coming to talk at BU and we will invite academics from across the region to attend. \u00a0Another outcome was an invitation for Karen to share her research at a \u2018reverse workshop\u2019 organised by the APM\u2019s People SIG.\u00a0 Naturally she was delighted to accept the invitation and the ideas discussed may well go on to be used to revise the APM\u2019s Body of Knowledge that is increasingly\u00a0influential in shaping the practice of project management in the UK and abroad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted on behalf of Dr Karen Thompson &#8211; CEL Learning and Teaching Fellow The national ESRC Festival of Social Science included ten events organised by BU this year.\u00a0 One of these was \u2018Putting Social Science into Project Management\u2019, held in London and organised by Dr Karen Thompson and Paul Summers, from the Department of Leadership,&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/2017\/11\/29\/fusion-success-for-bus-esrc-project-management-event\/\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"sr-only\"> about Fusion Success for BU\u2019s ESRC Project Management Event<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1081,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,225],"tags":[757,758],"class_list":["post-6683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-public-engagement","tag-project-management","tag-teaching-and-learning-fellow"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1081"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6683"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6691,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6683\/revisions\/6691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}