Reading Club for Sustainability and Business Research

Dr Mohamed Saeudy, Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Finance, delivered a workshop on critical academic writing skills, which was open to all staff members and students in the business school and in the whole university (12^th June 2017). This session was part of the regular reading club activities on sustainability and business research, which is led by Dr Saeudy.

The workshop focussed on:

• (i) crafting academic argument claims and warrants,
• (ii) writing up waves and how to move between theoretical themes and actual practices,
• (iii) producing theory from empirical data (grounded theory),
• (iv) developing productive and practical approaches to academic writing,
• (v) understanding the triangulation between reliability, validity and generalisability,
• (vi) other skills in the academic writing such as academic reflection.

The session was well attended by 24 BMRI PGR students and a staff member. Feedback from the audience highlighted that they benefited from the workshop as it encouraged them to develop productive and practical approaches to their writing up process.

A previous reading club session was held on 23rd May 2017  and was titled 'Introduction to sustainable accounting and finance'.