Jan Schapper Scholarship Winners
The Inaugural Jan Schapper Scholarship was awarded to Dr Dhammika Jayawardena (University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka) during the Annual ABEN Conference, Sydney, 8 December 2015. [...]
The Jan Schapper Scholarship for Emerging Critical Business Ethics Scholars
The Jan Schapper Scholarship in Critical Business Ethics was founded in 2015 to provide encouragement and support for a PhD student, earlier career researcher, or other worthy recipient, to participate and present research that develops a critical approach to business ethics at the ABEN annual meeting. The initiative is being supported by Michelle Greenwood (Monash University), Campbell Jones (University of Auckland) and Carl Rhodes (University of Technology Sydney). We acknowledge the generous and thoughtful contribution from the Critical Management Studies division of the Academy of Management and several individual donors.
The Scholarship honours the memory of Dr Jan Schapper, co-founder of the Australasian Business Ethics Network (ABEN) in 2010. Jan was born in 1951 in rural Victoria, Australia. She studied her Bachelor of Arts and Diploma of Education at La Trobe University in Melbourne. After a career in teaching and trade unions, she joined Monash University as an academic in the mid-1990s, gaining her PhD in 2004. She worked at Monash’s Department of Management for 15 years before returning to La Trobe in 2010. Jan retired in 2013. Deeply immersed in feminist, Marxist and psychoanalytic scholarship, Jan’s research interests included higher education, critical approaches to business ethics and CSR, and workplace equality and diversity.
Jan wanted to make a contribution, and to get to the things that mattered, especially teaching and learning. She was especially keen that as a scholarly community we pay attention to questions of critical pedagogy, teaching and learning, and to ensure that we provide supportive and friendly environments in which future scholars can develop their work. Jan died surrounded by her family and friends on September 24, 2014. It is deeply fitting that this award is named in Jan’s honour.
If you would like to acknowledge Jan’s contribution, any donation to support this important endeavour, no matter how large or small, would be greatly appreciated.
Criteria for Submission
Please review the eligibility, research focus and paper requirements before submitting.
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Eligibility
You must be an early career researcher or research student.
- A research student may be a PhD, Masters or Honours student.
- An early career researcher is often considered someone within 7–8 years of being awarded their PhD.
- This may include researchers who do not yet hold a full-time academic position.
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Critical Business Ethics Focus
Your research should take a critical approach to business ethics.
A critical focus may include alternative perspectives or critiques of social, political and power relations.
This approach draws on traditions such as Critical Theory, structuralism, post-structuralism and postmodernism. See Cortez (2015) for a useful discussion of critical business ethics.
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Paper Requirements
Your submission paper should be approximately 8,000–10,000 words.
- This word count includes references, tables and figures.
- Please include an abstract of 150–250 words.
- Formatting should be professional and consistent.
- APA 7 referencing is recommended.
Questions?
Any questions about the JS Scholarship can be directed to the ABEN Chair.
Contact the ABEN ChairCongratulations to the recipients of the 2025 Jan Schapper Scholarships
- Integrating Emotional Labor, Organizational Practices, and Electronic Identity by Wenxuan Wang
- Gender and Management in the Asia-Pacific by (Fiona) Ruidi Wang
2025 Recipients
Ruidi and Wenxuan being presented the Jan Schapper 2025 by Tracy Wilcox
Previous Recipients
