HDR Workshop

Watch the Critical Writing Workshop facilitated by Professor Edward Wray-Bliss.

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This session will help sharpen your critical thinking and writing skills, with a particular focus on critical business ethics—a theme aligned with the ABEN Jan Schapper Scholarship.This annual scholarship supports emerging scholars engaging in thoughtful, critical approaches to business ethics. The winning paper receives an opportunity to present at the ABEN Conference in 2025 and a $1000 bursary and the waiving of the ABEN conference registration fee. For further information see https://aben.org.au/jan-schapper-scholarships/

Whether you’re early in your candidature, an early career researcher, or deep into writing, this workshop will offer practical strategies and inspiration for high-impact academic work.

Professor Edward Wray-Bliss

Professor Edward Wray-Bliss has pursued a fascination with ethics – with the deepest values that make us who we are and with questions of how these sit in tension with our professional and organisational lives – over an academic career spanning more than 25 years. Since receiving his Doctorate from the University of Manchester in 1998, Edward has held academic positions at universities across Australia and the UK, including those of Macquarie University, Deakin University, University of Technology Sydney, Essex University, Nottingham University, Salford University, Stirling University, and Edge Hill University. He was appointed the Stan Perron Professorial Chair of Business Ethics at Edith Cowan University in 2023.

Edward’s business ethics research is explicitly Critical. It is strongly informed by the intellectual traditions of Critical Theory and Twentieth Century Continental Philosophy, is methodologically reflexive and qualitative, and is concerned with denaturalising ethically problematic business and academic practices, discourses, and debates. He has written upon a range of topics including modern slavery, workplace sex discrimination, leadership practice, the legacies of religion for business, drug testing and drug and alcohol policy in the workplace, research ethics, evil and organisational practice, and the intersections of love and capitalism. He has been closely involved with the ABEN conference and community since 2010.

Who can participate in the conversation?

We welcome new members to join our ABEN community, and share their ideas about ethical business practices.

Membership in ABEN is free

To join, please contact our Secretary Melissa Wheeler

ABEN 2025 Executive Committee

Chair: Alessandro Bressan

Deputy Chair: Alice Gibson

Secretary: Melissa Wheeler

HDR Coordinator: Saaed Loghman, Charee Toppler

Marketing: Felicity Small and Jonathan McKay

ABEN 2025 Advisory Committee

Dr Saima Ahmad

Dr Duncan Brown

Associate Professor Tim Butcher

Dr Melissa Wheeler

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