Learned Society Involvement

Professor Stuart Barnes:

Founding programme committee member of the International Conference on Mobile Business.

Board of the Mobile Research Group at the Brand Sciences Institute (based in Hamburg, Germany).
Track chair of "Mobile payments and financial services" for M-business 2007, Toronto, Canada.
Track chair of "eBusiness: adding value" for European Academy of Management Conference 2007, Paris, France.
Elected a Member of the Royal Society of New Zealand (MRSNZ) and the New Zealand Computer Society (MNZCS), equivalent to the British Computer Society.

Dr Hing Kai Chan:

International Technical Program Committee Member, The 5th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics, Vienna, Austria, July 23-27, 2007.
Organizing Committee Member, IEEE Region 10 Technical Conference, Hong Kong, November 14-17, 2006.
International Technical Program Committee Member, The 4th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics, Singapore, August 16-18, 2006.
Executive Committee Member, IEEE HK Engineering Management Chapter, 2004-2007.

Dr Fiona Lettice:

Elected member of the EPSRC College of Peers.
External Evaluator for EC Research.
Member of the Advisory Committee for the EPSRC/AHRC Design 21 Initiative.
Steering group member of the British Academy of Management Special Interest Group in Inter-Organisational Relationships.
Scientific Advisory Committee for the International Conference in Engineering Design (ICED).
Session Chair: British Academy of Management Conference (BAM) 2002, session on Organisational Learning and Knowledge Management.
Session Chair: International Concurrent Enterprising Conference (ICE) 2003, session on Knowledge Management.
Session Chair: Multi-Organisational Partnerships, Alliances and Networks Conference (MOPAN) 2003.
Session Chair: International Manufacturing Research Conference (ICMR) 2005, session on Knowledge Management.

Professor Naresh R. Pandit:

Session Chair: High Technology Small Firms Conference, Manchester Business School, 2001.
Session Chair: International Business Track at the 2005 British Academy of Management conference.
Referee for ESRC E-Society Programme, 2004.

Professor Nikolaos Tzokas:

Relationship Marketing SIG leader in the British Academy of Marketing.
Holder of the first ever Seminar Series from ESRC to be given in the Academy of Marketing for a series on relationship marketing.

Track Co-Chair for the Relationship Marketing Track in the European Academy of Marketing Conference, 2006.
Track Chair for the Relationship Marketing Track in the British Academy of Marketing Conference, 2007.

Professor Catherine Waddams:

Chaired the Management and Business Studies Panel for the ESRC's major recognition exercise for post graduate training in 2005.
Member of Review panel for Leverhulme Trust funded Centre, 2001.
Member of the UK Energy Research Centre mid term review, 2006.
Member of review panel for SUPERGEN projects, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, 2002-2007; & Research Councils Energy Programme Scientific Advisory Committee, 2005 -, advising on the allocation of 40 million pounds per annum.
Member of the ESRC Energy Policy Research Group (University of Cambridge) Advisory Board.
Member of Advisory Committee of the Second International Conference on Business, Management and Economics organized by Yasar University in Cesme, Turkey June 2006.
Elected to the Programme Committee for the 34th European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE) Conference, Valencia, Spain, 6-9 September 2007.

Dr Barry Witcher:

Chair of the Hoshin Kanri Practitioners Network.
Participated with five other universities within the British Academy of Management's Subject Interest Group in Performance Management to win an ESRC sponsored series of research seminars on performance management.