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How to be a Professor : Building an Excellent Research Career (Pre-, Intra- and Post-PhD)

5:00pm - 6:30pm / Wednesday 2nd October 2024 / Venue: ground floor, event space School of Law & Social Justice
Type: Seminar / Category: Research
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Professor Emmanuel Adegbite  - University of Nottingham

This talk will cover aspects such as the importance of scholarship to academia, practice and policy; the PhD journey; the importance of a publishable thesis; Preparing for your viva - For students in the later stages of their doctorate studies. How to get your first job. Promotion process. How to be a professor. Essentially, Emmanuel Adegbite will share from his own experiences and challenges, as a ‘global majority scholar’ on how to build a research career, including international careers and publication strategy.

Biography
Emmanuel Adegbite is ranked top 0.2% in the world in governance research, top 0.3% in the world in corporate governance research and top 1% in the world in accounting research by ScholarGPS life-time 2024 rankings, which also ranked him 36th (lifetime) and 26th (prior five years) in the world in terms of corporate governance research quality. He is also placed in the top 0.5% of all scholars (in all fields) worldwide. Emmanuel is professor of accounting and corporate governance at Nottingham University, UK and a visiting professor in management and governance at James Cook University, Singapore. He has relatable experiences with EDI challenges in the HE sector, and has helped to address these at the departmental, school, faculty and university levels. At the University of Nottingham, he has chaired the university’s Gender and Ethnicity Pay Gaps Task Group as well as led on the successful Bronze Race Equality Charter submission for the university, and subsequently chaired its Implementation Group.